--- title: Is Your Content Marketing Like a Box of Chocolates? description: We deliver business objective results to our clients using Inbound Marketing and Integrated Sales Consulting. image: https://www.toddhockenberry.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/postcard-content-marketing-resized-600-1.jpg --- [![Todd Hockenberry, Inc.](https://www.toddhockenberry.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2015_NEW_Site/todd-hockenberry-inc.png?width=188&height=75&name=todd-hockenberry-inc.png "Todd Hockenberry, Inc.")](https://www.toddhockenberry.com) ## Welcome to my Blog [Blog Main Page](https://www.toddhockenberry.com/blog) ###### Posted by [Todd Hockenberry](https://www.toddhockenberry.com/blog/author/todd-hockenberry) ● Feb 09, 2012 # Is Your Content Marketing Like a Box of Chocolates? I recently received this postcard in the mail. ![postcard content marketing resized 600](https://www.toddhockenberry.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/postcard-content-marketing-resized-600-1.jpg?width=705&height=529&name=postcard-content-marketing-resized-600-1.jpg) Seems official, like there is something on the other side of this that I would want to have.  Feels like something of value because it has a package and tracking number. Wrong....this is a scam to get you to call and then you get a pitch for a timeshare or some other pile of junk.  They are hoping that the official-ness of the postcard gets you to obediently call and then they hope that they can keep you on the line long enough after you realize you have been fooled to bait-and-switch into buying something else. 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