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	<title>HEAD BLOG &#187; optimism</title>
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		<title>Positive thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can advertising be more effective if it approaches "problems" from a more positive angle? Can showing us the benefits rather than the costs be, well, more beneficial?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this country we like to focus on the negative.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t speed or you&#8217;ll kill someone.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t try to claim benefits because we&#8217;re always watching you.</p>
<p>Give us £2 a week or children will continue to be hurt.</p>
<p>Ironically, the one ad I saw that was positive was for ID cards which said that if you carried an ID card, you could prove how old you were. Presumably this was the Government&#8217;s way of helping young looking 18 year olds to start binge drinking.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s as though we respond better to the stick than the carrot. And that might be true.</p>
<p>But it might not be.</p>
<p>Because if there is one thing I have learned it&#8217;s never to take other people&#8217;s research or &#8220;facts&#8221; for granted.</p>
<p>Contrast it with this neat <a title="Swedish TV Licence" href="http://en.tackfilm.se/" target="_blank">viral</a> for TV Licences over in in Sweden. I don&#8217;t know how effective it has been but it made me smile. I don&#8217;t know if it would make me change my behaviour because I pay the fee now but I think I&#8217;d feel good about it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s different.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s positive.</p>
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