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Open Question: Please help my site and get staff?

Hey guys can you please join my site and i need staff It is a gaming site I need coders, gfx ppl, a few mods, advertisers, etc So yeah please register if your reading this youll help a ton Aurichax.freeforums.org more

Open Question: Is talk radio just a big scam?

Let's face it, people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity get paid to whip people into a frenzy. They have 2 or 3 hour talks shows that they must fill up by talking about something every day. They must constantly come up with new things to talk about (i.e. new problems to solve). The only way to get people to listen is to say outlandish things and to get people riled up about supposed 'outrages' that are happening. The best way to do that is to create a bogey man, blow the whole thing out of proportion, and convince people that it is worth worrying about. If they didn't do these things they wouldn't get the ratings or get the big advertisers. They have to generate controversy in order to keep the money coming in. And in order to keep up the charade up, they must silence any opposition that calls in. Have you ever noticed that people with a contrary opinion can never get a word in edge-wise? They are talked over, yelled at, berated and then hung up on, usually followed by a condescending remark about how that person is clueless or an idiot. Of course, that person cannot defend themselves after the fact. The magician has total control over his act. For the record, I've never called in to one of these shows. It's just observation.It would be better if politics and entertainment remained separate. more

Open Question: Strategies to promoting yourself as an Illustrator/Artist?

Okay, so I graduated in Illustration back in July 09, and yet I've only had like 2 commissions (given to me from close friends) ... those projects were'nt even worth the money because I've spent it all already (about 2 weeks pay) similarly in the real world ... How else can I promote myself to clients and the market ? I mean its weird because even though my market is probably likely to be magazines, publishers, councils, advertisers etc - I'm probably just going to be one of THOUSANDS of other graduates who are spamming these potential companies' Inboxes with portfolio links, cover letters etc. So how exactly can I market myself without simply looking like the rest of these graduate artists ? Also, I HATE networking ... honestly, I just dont see the point of it - Like what exactly is the point in mingling with "fellow artists" when I KNOW we're all competing for clients and work ?? Believe me I've done this before and everyone just seems so fake like we have to keep constantly critiquing each other aimlessly. The art community here in the UK is a joke ... more

Open Question: Do you think that advertisers pay to be on the "Trending Topics" section on youtube?

I saw that "The new iPhone has" was like #1 on twitter and it got me wondering.... more

Open Question: why would a person not see the obvious or see things differently then they actually are?

ex: a business has a commercial where the advertiser has tons of kids in the commercial looking happy. The advertiser says I love kids. It is a popular commercial in the city. But the person who has the understanding/perception problem says I wonder why that advertiser hates kids. Even though the commercial states opposite.I probably didn't give the best scenario but it is about a person whose mind distorts obvious facts like if I say abc the person would say no I didn't see the gorilla more

Resolved Question: Is points2shop a good website?

I really don't want to give my info to the website. Is it a real website? Is it selling my info to advertisers? more

Resolved Question: How many of Limbaugh's advertisers will pull out because of his Haiti remarks?

And how many SHOULD pull out?His comments do two things. First, they criticize the reaction to Haiti, saying that Obama is moving too quickly to help Haiti compared to the reaction to the underwear bomber. Second, Limibaugh is trying to convince people that Obama is using the disaster in Haiti to gain standing with black people in the U.S. Both are sickening. We are sending help because help needs to be sent. To think there is any other motive is perverted.Gone Galt: I have already sent more money than I can really spare to the Red Cross to help in Haiti. Have you done the same? more

Open Question: Help my with my site get staff?

Hey guys i need some staff and help with my site I need moderators, gfx, coders, advertisers, and any other things you can be So yeah its a gaming site Aurichax.freeforums.org Please sign up and help me =] more

Open Question: how can i start making money by helping companies advertise online?

i saw an infomercial for anthony morrisons book, but it looks like a scam. however, i know advertisers are paying people to send them customers and buy their products. I just need help getting started. how do you contact these companies? any tips will help. i dont expect to get rich, i just need to pay the heating bill. thanks in advance more

Open Question: Internet Advertisements?

For my final english project we need to make a scrapbook with advertisements, explaining their "claims" (techniques advertisers use to persuade peopleto buy their product) So, we need to get 16 ads, all from different sources: magazine, internet, newspaper, and tv/radio And I cant seem to find any internet ads Please, any help would be appreciated Here are the following claims Facts and Figures :Using statistics that might not be real "|Four out of 5 doctors recommend.." Magic Ingredients: Using scientific words "New hyperton with gluxinat mixture.." Testimonal: Using famous to endorse the product There are more, but it doesnt really matter, as long as I get ads from the internet giving me the site, I'll figure out what claim would be best , THANKYOU! more

Resolved Question: Can you please help the ASPCA,(LITERALLY ONE SECOND!!!!!)?

Hi, all you animal lovers! This is pretty simple... Please ask ten friends to each ask a further ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily so they can meet their quota of getting FREE FOOD donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (about 15 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals for free'. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site! Please pass it along to people you know. http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ Help spread the word, copy and paste this to your email, send this to your friends. Spread the word, it's so easy to do, so please help out, ok. Make sure to come to this website every day ( I think you can only do it once a day) for as often as you can. more

Open Question: Please visit my gaming site and get a staff position?

Hey guys i made a brand new site It is a gaming site and doesnt have alot of members atm =[ It is aurichax.freeforums.org I need moderators, gfx, coders, advertisers and stuff So yeah please sign up Aurichax.freeforums.org I cant pay in cash but ill give you respect for helping me =] more

Open Question: how do i contact yahoo advertiser to boycott to let them know i will boycott yahoo?

Open Question: Need staff members at my site! and members?

Hey guys i need some people to help me with my site I need moderators, gfx people, advertisers, coders, and other things you can do It is a gaming site Aurichax.freeforums.org Also if your reading this can you please register? Thanks more

Resolved Question: What is the best counter argument to "everyone profiles," so it's OK to profile terrorist suspects?

Argument: "Oh no, one of the ways to stop terrorists is to profile the people that are bombing us. Profiling: Those free scooter commercials are profiling old people. Cosmetic companies profile women. Beer commercials profile men. Saturday cartoons are paid for by advertisers that profile children. And if you don't think companies profile by race you are grossly mistaken." -- Guns& Patriots. more

Open Question: How is it that some outside advertiser can access & send email thru my Yahoo address book?

How is it that some outside advertiser can access & send email thru my Yahoo address book? My friends are emailing me wonder what the heck I am doing. Here is part of what was contained in an email, proportedly for some Viagra type herbal substance. Friends have replied back asking what the heck. "The universal dream of all men finally realized by herbal remedies!" Is anyone else having this issue and if so, anyone know what can be done about it. I am about to cease and desist using Yahoo for anything, and its such a drag because it does have some nice features like Yahoo Answers. more

Resolved Question: Would God forgive me for murder?

... if the person I murdered was an advertiser? more

Open Question: What's that site where advertisers pay for your music downloads?

My mum heard about a site where all the music is free and legal to download. The advertisers pay for it instead. Does anyone know of this?It's not a file sharing site. All the music is downloaded directly and is legal. more

Open Question: Celebrities in advertisements?

Here's the prompt: "Advertisers frequently use the testimony of a celebrity to support a claim: a football star touts a deodorant soap, an actress starts every day with Brand A coffee, a tennis pro gets stamina from Brand X cereal, a talk-show host drives a certain kind of car. The audience is expected to transfer approval of the celebrity of the product. This kind of marketing is misleading and insults the intelligence of the audience. Am I going to buy the newest SUV because an attractive talk-show host gets paid to pretend he drives one? I don't think so. We should boycott this kind of advertising and legislate rules and guidelines for advertisers." I do not agree with the narrator. The only reason i came up with so far was it is subconsciously done. People find themselves in situations buying or doing things b/c they see someone else do it. What other reasons are there? more

Open Question: could somebody tell me key for this short article?

hi i am English student and i want make summary in 50 words and give the thesis in one sentence could somebody give me key for it Hyundai tells us that their cars make sense, Apple Computer offers us the power to be our best, and most of us don't believe a word of it. The fact is, when all is said and done, most people don't believe, don't remember, don't even notice, most advertising. This has always been so and always will be so. The vast majority of advertising is ineffective and inefficient. And yet, there is a direct connection between a society's (or individual's) levels of exposure to advertising and the levels of consumption. How can this be? If advertising is inefficient, if 90 percent of all advertising is neither seen nor remembered by most people (according to surveys), if two minutes after being exposed to a particular message or brand I can no longer remember either the brand or the message, then where's the connection? How does something so banal and benign impact my consumption patterns and habits? The message cited above for Hyundai automobiles ("Cars That Make Sense") has little or no effect either upon our personal lives or even Hyundai's sales overall. And we could say the same thing about thousands of other individual and isolated advertiser efforts. But the Hyundai advertising, combined with Apple Computer's advertising, combined with advertising for Tide detergent and Chivas Regal and RCA and Johnson's Floor Wax and the limited -time specials at your local department store or supermarket, has a very powerful collective effect indeed: it instructs us to Buy! And it gives us, via lighthearted entertainment, permission to ignore the long-term consequences of our purchasing decisions by suggesting to us that we should not take any of this too seriously. (We shouldn't take a spilled glass of water too seriously, either. But a flood is a totally different matter.) Advertising's real message, to buy and to buy ever more, to replace what we have rather than repair what we have, at one time served us well. When we were smaller in numbers, when we were still growing, still searching for a collective identity, when personal prosperity was touted as the primary reason for being alive, private property the only form of wealth, and when we were naive enough to believe it all, consumption and the ability to consume (choosing our livelihoods on the basis of whether or not it provided us with that ability!) was not only a way of life, it was a respectable one at that. But we are no longer small in numbers. And we are no longer that naive. We can plainly see that advertising's collective power and our collective response to it has had, and continues to have, a profound and adverse effect upon our personal lives and upon the planet we share. High consumption has far more impact upon our environment than type of consumption. Buying much less and driving much less is better than just switching from plastic to paper or from "normal" unleaded to "super" unleaded. One of the first steps we must take towards consuming fewer goods is to consume less advertising. more

Open Question: I Just Saw an For "Glymetrol", Is this Yet Another Scam?

I Have Previously Asked a Q, Very Similar to This. A Response Posted Then: In my Mind. Insulin is the Last Resort In a Type II Diabetic (your Father and Perhaps you Mother), the First Choice In a Type I Diabetic. All (Non-Prescription) Items that You Have Mentioned Are Useless, Ultimately, Only Costing him Money and Making him Feel Better that he is Doing Something (Perhaps, the Placebo Effect). These people Are Thieves, and the Media Bears a Great Deal of the Responsibility, for Being Complicit. I Think Many people Expect These "Supplements" to Have Great Effect, Advertisers Are Aware of this. While Some May Well Have a Statistical Significance, By Some Criteria, it Will Not Be Large When Compared With Placebo. Again, Statistical Significance, does Not Mean Large.Thanks Dadd, What a Shock. It's too bad that These people (and Many Others) Feel So Free to Deceive.Thanks Very Much Sun, Good Link. People don't Have to Take Words Only On this Site that it is a Scam. more

Resolved Question: 2012 - How much was made?

So all of us already know that some of us believed 2012 will be the end of the world. How much have the advertisers and marketers made to promote the event? more

Voting Question: Can a Chevrolet Astro fly in space?

Apparently, Chevy shows here that their Astro van can actually fly through space. Here is the commercial:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsFg0wAg28g After watching that, NOW I WANT ONE!!!11 I'm real enthusiastic about space and I believe that we can find life forms up there, but NASA is too stupid and makes their rockets so huge and clunky and slow. When Chevy already makes a personal van/spaceship. OH DEAR GOD, I NEED ONE! I want to go to the Jardrax system and go to Jartona and meet aliens from the Baroon empire I created in Spore. I don't give a fucking shit if they execute me, AT LEAST I'M SMARTER THAN THE NASA ASSHOLES!! In heaven I'll remember how good my Astro was. And if the Chevy Astro is NOT a spaceship as advertised. GODDAMN THOSE FALSE ADVERTISERSthis is a joke question. Sorry, I'm just too bored. more

Voting Question: affiliate programs like commission junction?

does anyone have URL's of good online affiliate websites like commission junction please. I don't mean affiliate for just 1 website I meen sites exactly like CJ where they have 1000000's of advertisers more

Resolved Question: I live in Italy, I'm studying English helps me to put in order the following items?

does not - knowledge - the advertiser- if the reader - share - this- with- the cultural- he will- implication- miss is very very urgent !!!! 10 points more

Resolved Question: Why does the media only show the "good" side of sex?

How does this help advertisers sell their product? more

Resolved Question: Can you differentiate "climate" from "weather"?

This is an issue that comes up a lot in this forum's debates about global warming, so I thought I'd drop the definitions in here... Climate is the description of average weather over a period of time, most commonly 30 years. Weather is the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, varying over short periods of time. The most common error made in posts on this site are those that fail to recognize that climate is weather averaged over a period of 30 years. There are many comments suggesting that a cold winter indicates a climatic trend. It doesn't. Climate trends require decades to be revealed and verified. When summer arrives, we'll surely see GW advocates pointing to record highs as evidence. They will be just as wrong as those currently using the opposing argument. There is also an assumption on the part of many that local and regional weather correlates to global weather conditions. If you're experiencing record-breaking weather of any kind, it's not relevant to what's happening in other parts of the world, nor does it mean anything with respect to climate trends. As advertisers like to say, "Your results may vary." more

Voting Question: Marketing Strategy for Magazine on Career?

Friends...i m coming out with a magazine on career and education....this will be a monthly magazine similar to supplement magazines of Times of India or Hindustan Times.....I m planning career guidance, jobs and opportunities and other such stuff useful for competitive exams....now my question is ...how i can convince advertisers to get advertisemnets? and what should be my marketing strategy....Explain....SHould my team visit to schools, colleges and teaching institutes for advertisement collection...? WHat should be marketing stratgety to make this magazine profitable and popular? more

Voting Question: Should we have a "throw advertisers off the building" holiday?

just for fun more

Resolved Question: Is points2shop a scam?

I'm don't like the idea of giving out my personal information to advertisers. Can anybody prove that the site is legit? more

Resolved Question: A question for advertisers and the opinionated?

What do you think of the advertising world? I've always loved writing (especially coming up with names and catchy attention getters), graphic design, and psychology. I'm also a media junkie-- I'm obsessed with technology and pop culture. At first glance, advertising seems like the perfect career. But liking a subject isn't the same thing as liking a PROFESSION. I'm scared of the lack of ethics in that industry, as well as the cutthroat people. I know there's going to be good and bad (especially in terms of people) at every workplace, but I feel like advertising is one of those careers, like law, that come to mind when you think "shady, snake in the grass types". I feel like in order to be successful in a corrupt industry, you have to be corrupt yourself. Even if I could maintain my own morals, I cannot STAND that type of environment or those types of people. It's draining. So, what do you say? Is it worth it for me to pursue a career in advertising? I know it's competitive too, but i've already been accepted into a top ad school and plan on interning, interning, interning! Ha All advice about advertising is welcome, but obviously ethics is my main concern. Thanks! more

Voting Question: Trying to watch movies online?

At movies-opening.com you can watch the first half of a movie for free, then to 'unlock' the second half you have to go to one of their advertisers websites and do a survey or other questionaire. It worked a few weeks back, some stupid freelotto site.. All you have to do is fill out some fake names for 5 minutes, then the movie unlocks. But now you have to register, and pay money, and subscribe and all this other bollocks.. Question is, does anyone know how to get the damn thing working without paying money like before? Slash know another online site to watch movies? more

Voting Question: I really need help with english 10 points?

1)Which of the items is an example of a graphic organizer you can use to help you study? -flash cards -KWL chart -memorization 2)Which of the following will inform readers of your essay’s purpose? -research -thesis -body paragraphs 3)Directions: Read the excerpt from the sample non-fiction essay and use it to answer the question. The excerpt is the introductory paragraph of the essay. Excerpt- With standardized testing becoming more widespread, students throughout the nation are concerned with how they can achieve higher scores. Scientific evidence tells us that eating a healthy breakfast can increase student's brain function, focus, and, therefore, their academic performance. Students who eat a wholesome, nourishing breakfast that is low in fat and sugar, and high in vitamins, minerals, and protein, are more likely to perform well on standardized exams. In this case, the proof isn’t in the pudding. When writing a non-fiction essay, how should paragraphs be formatted? -with indentation -with alignment -with two spaces from margins 4)Read the following excerpt describing one student’s process in completing a rhetorical analysis. Then, respond to the statement below. “All right, so three key points of my thesis are "beauty and self-image as illusions," "advertisers create beauty and self-image, they don't reflect it," and "pathos is used the most for advertising beauty." This means all of my evidence needs to relate to one of these points. Okay… I have my three topics at the top of my page… I just need to list the evidence that fits into each column. Afterwards, I'll put checkmarks by the ones that match the logos appeal which I'm going to use.” This student is incorrect when she says that all of her evidence needs to relate to one of the key points she identifies. -True -False 5)“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” -Letter from a Birmingham Jail -Brown vs. the Board of Education -Commonwealth Club Address 6)Citing a newspaper article in a print publication is the same as citing a newspaper article that you find online. -True -False more

Resolved Question: What would be the minimum number of hits/visits for a blog to generate advertisers?

I'm currently with a free blog site that does not permit advertising, but I've grown a pretty steady following. I've been thinking of switching to a pay-site that allows for advertising, but wouldn't want the costs to be greater than the revenue. Do advertisers find you, or do you have to seek them out? I've heard some mention of Google Adsense (sp?). How do they work, and are there similar services? Thanks! more

Resolved Question: Starting 2010 how do we make the BBC TV channels stop playing the 'Ratings' game?

and to spend our licence money on programmes that fulfil their mission i.e. programmes that inform, educate and entertain? Being fully funded and the Nation's flagship broadcaster, the BBC has no reason to compete with the commercial broadcasters who must try to attract huge audiences for their advertisers. more

Resolved Question: Tracking number of clicks on each ad link?

I have a website and have Google Analytics for it. Can I track the number of click throughs from each link back to the advertiser’s site? Please answer asap. Thanks!!! more

Voting Question: Is centsports.com a scam, and will I get a virus off of it?

Someone has shown me this website and I absolutly love it, but latley I have noticed that when my interent has been acting up a little and when i get onto espn360.com..and mostly just other random sites I have up, that my interenet has an error report and i have to end the program which takes a few mintues and open a new web browser page. Is this from some sort of virus i possibly got from centsports? and is there anyway i can avoid it, like not taking the bonus offered by advertisers? Also is the payout a scam..and if not how likley are you to get paid more

Resolved Question: Is it annoying to you that Advertisers steal culture?

...by using the pool of collective culture for their advertisements, which they then use to sell us products (regardless of whether or not we need them). Does it irritate you that you may see an advertisement that uses a culture that was born (in its inception) out of the youth culture? What does it say about Laissez-Faire Capitalism that every cultural statemement we make is in the end made hollow by someone who is determined to make a profit from us? Doesn't this spoil our culture? *I am not a communist I just hate Capitalists more

Resolved Question: Do internet advertisers somehow know what we're looking at on our computers? (details..)?

Here's a couple examples: 1) on faceboook, I have a bible quote from corinthians. On the side of the page, it has Bible advertisements with Corinthians located in the advertisement. 2) And old manager of mine was talking to me online (facebook again) and told me I should read Rich Dad Poor Dad since I'm in college. Well this was yesterday. Today, there was an advertisement on the side of my facebook page for that book... Is this a coincidence??? more

Resolved Question: If I quit looking at advertisers' ads,will the 999 error go away?

Resolved Question: Is Glenn Beck insane?

Ok he is a Libertarian and when at cNN he had no problem researching and bringing out critical facts about the Bush administration, but you really never heard the uproar you hear now. He goes to Fox and does the same thing to the Obama Administration and he is targeted. He must have know he would be targeted by the Obama administration, but he keeps plowing ahead. He lost advertisers and has been attacked more than the rest of the conservative media. my point is he must have known how this administration acted and that he was going to "catch it" but didn't care. At first i did think it was nuts but he held on and even put in a direct line for the White House to call him if any of the information he mentioned on his show is false. He may win a Peabody for his body of work. now it seems he made the right choice. it was like it was a question of free speech. Your thoughts?I considered him the torch carrier fo free speech nad his advertizers are back, but he did take a chance. more

Resolved Question: Should I boycott by canceling Time Warner cable and not watching Fox?

Fox is being an idiot, demanding Time Warner to pay them to air their chanel, just because American Idol will be starting it's season soon and they think Time Warner will want to have their chanel in order to air it. In return Time Warner will charge customers more to cover the cost of giving money to Fox and soon all the networks will want to charge too. By boycotting Fox, Fox will have fewer viewers and get less income from advertisers as punishment. By boycotting Time Warner, they'll get the message that giving in to Fox was not the best thing to do. I am tempted to call Time Warner and after being a customer of theirs for years, saying I want to cancel and switch to Dish Netork - the only other alternative I have where I live in LA.Time Warner Cable, Fox Deal May Cost Cable $5 Billion Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Cable Inc.’s agreement to pay News Corp. for over-the-air television programming opens the door for broadcasters to demand as much as $5 billion a year from pay-TV providers and their subscribers, analysts said. The companies agreed on a distribution deal Jan. 1, without disclosing terms. Other broadcasters, such as CBS Corp., also have said they may seek payment for programming that’s now free. CBS has a deal with Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable operator, that ends next year, and already collects fees from Time Warner Cable and Dish Network Corp. News Corp. sought as much as $1 a month per Time Warner Cable subscriber for rights to Fox, home of “The Simpsons” and “American Idol,” two people with knowledge of the matter had said. If other networks seek similar terms, cable operators may have to fork over as much as $5 billion a year -- and would likely pass the cost on to subscribers, said C more

Resolved Question: When did Mombassa become part of Hawaii?

Commentator Drew Zahn comments today: Hawaii's state legislators are lining up a string of new holidays, parks and memorials to honor Barack Obama, the first American president to claim the state as his home – though commemorating his birthplace may prove difficult. Senate President Coleen Hanabusa wants Aug. 4 to be a state holiday commemorating Obama's birthday, reports the Honolulu Advertiser; and State Rep. Della Au Belatti is pressing for Obama's inauguration day, Jan. 20, to be memorialized in Hawaii as Barack Obama II Ohana Day. And though Hanabusa and Belatti are Obama's fellow Democrats, even Republican state Rep. Gene Ward is hoping to add to the honors list. "We're all Americans first and then we're Republicans and then we're Democrats," Ward told the Advertiser. Ward is proposing Hawaii establish a President Barack Obama Birthplace State Park. Only, the president has yet to reveal exactly where his birthplace is.http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120893 http://www.thecommentary.net/mombasa-imam-who-confirmed-obama%E2%80%99s-birth-place-arrives-in-the-uk/ http://digg.com/politics/Was_Obama_born_at_Coast_Hospital_in_Mombasa_Kenya more

Resolved Question: How do you view of this survey on getting advertisements/sponsoreships for new/old Tamil Film songs?

The Indian Television Groups, particularly the Tamil TV Channel owners are having a seperate channel for ""Music"". In these channels, a survey says, getting advertisements as well as sponsorships for new songs is only 30% whereas 70% of the advertisers/sponsors prefer the programmes containing old film songs/sequences since public view of these old songs is more comparing to the new ones. How do you view this trend??? more

Resolved Question: How many people like the new Reebok easytone shoe ads?

I just love them. Attention advertisers. This is how to get us to watch your advertising! Damn she is hot! more

Resolved Question: Will magazines be FREE in the future?

I haven't bought a single magazine for years. On the internet, we pay to remove the ads from some websites. On magazines we pay them for... Ads? I have a hard time wrapping my finger around PAYING for spam infested propaganda that's ALREADY PAID FOR by advertisers. I think when more people realize that it just doesn't make sense to pay for magazines to spam us- they'll stop buying and that will force magazines to give them away for free or just stop printing. There's no reason we should give them more money, they're already paid for. more

Resolved Question: self storage manager jobs in florida?

How in the world does a person find a job when all the listings just want a person to sign up with advertisers? more

Voting Question: Need some Freelancing Advice...?

I am a Graphic Design doing my first big freelance project for my parent’s campground. Working one on one with my mom on the project, and I realize that we should have discussed the positions we each would take and the amount of my payment before we started. However, at the time I believed that I would be doing 100% of what needed to be done for the two brochures. When it came time to contact other companies to ask about advertising in the brochure, my mom decided she would like to help with that part. So in the end she has called and contacted everyone that is advertising on her brochure. Brochure A) is the bigger of the two and the one with all the advertising on it. So the printing price would be paid with the money made from the advertisers. Brochure B) has no advertising on it, but includes most of the campgrounds info and prices. And the printing price came out of the campground advertising found. My mom wants to pay me by the hour for brochure B, which I’m okay with since we didn’t make any profit off of it with advertising. She would also like to pay me by the hour for brochure A, which I’m not exactly okay with. I feel like we should at least split the profit 60/40. I built and designed the brochure, had to redo the campground map for her. Had to build a map so that the customer can find the campground. Also, had to build most of the ads on the brochure. I contact the printer to get price for printing and to send the file in to get printed. And if anything is wrong with the file, I’m the one that has to fix it. I could split it in to 5 sections, to explain it to my mom a little better so that she sees how much work goes into building and designing the brochure. 1) 20% - The Design and Layout (me) 2) 20% - Two Maps (me) 3) 20% - Contacting companies for advertising. (Mom) 4) 20% - The ads on the brochure (me) 5) 20% - Contacting the printer, sending files, fixing file if needed. (Mom and me) And on top of it, I was working on both brochures at the same time… I don’t know…any advice??? ThanksI did have a set price when I started out...I was suposed to do all the work, therefore I would get 100% of the profit. And at the beginning I had told her that I would like to split it 60/40, but she's being stuburn... more