by Eddie Pipkin

Image by mastrminda from Pixabay

I was checking off email a couple of weeks ago, and I clicked on an “IKEA Family” message, because I signed up a while back to be a part of the IKEA family, app and all, for the sole purpose of gaining access to a great discount on a major purchase.  I’ll be honest, when I opened the email, I was thinking about how I needed scroll to the bottom to unsubscribe from their marketing blurbs, but the reason I hadn’t done this before was that IKEA’s marketing emails are gorgeous; also compelling.  This one really hooked me.  It was titled “What’s Your Reason?” and it invited me to click through to a beautifully curated exploration of just what they could do in partnership with ME for the purpose of empowering ME to be a better ME.  I laughed