I see a lot of medium size businesses. Im looking for furniture and I’m getting a lot of ads from smaller furniture brands on insta. Some are pretty nice. They are not as small as let’s say some local mattress store, but they are too small to be able to afford untargeted ads like tv commercials and billboards. Perhaps they could do furniture magazines, but many casual furniture buyers don’t buy magazines.

I listened to a podcast about Ramon's story and it certainly had the ring of truth - the guy was an internet marketing specialist who bought the weiner dog ramp business as he sensed it was a good product that was failing to find its potential market. Through the use of highly targeted ads he was able to find potential customers at a cost lower than his profit on the goods - so he turned it into a successful business.

Throwing money at internet marketing without a lot of thought is probably throwing it away for many businesses. Hiring a specialist to do your marketing is often not really any better because the industry is rife with shysters.

So he's actually part of the problem as an internet marketeer. Good riddance.

You don't need to lie to give a false impression. Somebody could find out about it, so it's better to just select whatever facts or examples support your argument. I don't think that Facebook would have trouble finding something useful in their little stash of everything about everyone.

I think that’s the point of dylan604 question?

If you choose 1024 people to give stock tips to, telling half that a random stock will go up and the other half it will go down, then ignore the group you were wrong at and repeat the process, you’ll end up with someone convinced you’re a genius because you gave them 10 accurate stock tips in a row.

Hide this inside a black box labelled “innovative machine learning” and you might even unwittingly fool yourself so it’s not even a lie.