More Toll Free Number Hijinks
What's the 1st commandment of marketing boys and girls? Yes, always, always call your phone numbers twice. Take all phone numbers you are printing, posting, tweeting, etc., call them once yourself and then have someone else call the numbers too. Fail to do so and you may find out the hard way that there are limits to P.T. Barnum theories about all
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The charity’s phone number was a phone number for adults to call to make donations to the charity, not for children themselves to call. I don’t think anyone at the adult hotline could have anticipated that their phone number would be printed on a children’s cereal box. And, truly, the fault lies with the cereal company’s marketing department for not checking the phone number.
Just to be clear, I am not indicting the porn industry here. It’s a huge, diverse industry with good guys and bad guys just like any other large industry - besides, the industry puts out all kinds of fun movies and toys for the enjoyment of the rest of us. I could be misinformed, but to my mind many adult hotlines are to the porn industry in general what 1-800-the-law-2 is to the legal profession. Not really evil, just possessed of what many might consider to be sketchy advertising and billing practices.
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