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How to control your environment

How to control your environment

From the course: Budgeting in Real Life

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How to control your environment

- Just last week, I got an email that everything at Old Navy was 40% off, including sale. Without even thinking, I clicked on the email, I started throwing stuff into my shopping cart for my two boys. Shorts, swim trunks, sunglasses, all the things, and when I went to check out, I realized that they literally didn't need any of the stuff in my cart. They don't need more shorts or more swim trunks or new sunglasses, regardless of whether I can get a killer deal on it or not. You can't remove all of the marketing and advertising you're exposed to each day, but there are some tangible ways to decrease not only the number of ads that you're exposed to each day, but ways to build your immunity to that advertising too. Start with your digital experience. Did you know that email marketing is still one of the most effective forms of marketing for companies, and it performs better than social media marketing? I bet you get…

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