Comments on: The Adpaper, Who Needs News? http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/the-adpaper-who-needs-news User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: J Wynia http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/the-adpaper-who-needs-news/comment-page-1#comment-4773 J Wynia Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:34:30 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/the-adpaper-who-needs-news#comment-4773 I've often recommend that, when getting into a new hobby, people buy one issue of all of the relevant trade magazines and read the ads. You get a really good feel for a hobby overall by just reading the ads: what's important to lots of the participants, who the big suppliers are, etc. For a while, we used to get the Sunday paper and pretty much toss the paper part and go through the sales flyers. I’ve often recommend that, when getting into a new hobby, people buy one issue of all of the relevant trade magazines and read the ads. You get a really good feel for a hobby overall by just reading the ads: what’s important to lots of the participants, who the big suppliers are, etc.

For a while, we used to get the Sunday paper and pretty much toss the paper part and go through the sales flyers.

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