In my last quarter of college, I was part of a group that did an analysis on LiveJournal for our marketing management class. Looking for ways to increase their market share of bloggers, we suggested that they introduce an "Enhanced" free service - supported by banner ads - that would offer more features than the basic free account. One of our deliverables was this ad that LiveJournal would run to advertise the new service.
Remarkably, LiveJournal has introduced a "Sponsored+" service just like our proposed "Enhanced" service.
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