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The Army’s Be All You Can Be

The Army’s Be All You Can Be ads don’t really work all that well, despite being the 25th largest advertiser in the US. Recruiting is actually correlated more closely with the economy…the economy goes bad and the number of recruits goes up. Here’s a better way to spend that ad money: give it to incoming recruits as bonuses…the same strategy Amazon uses in offering free shipping to customers rather than spending that money on TV ads. (thx garrick)