Marketing Quotes - Page 7

If you don't do sales and marketing, you'll forever be at mercy to those who do.

I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.

In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Google loves brands - build one.

How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

The most successful network marketers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person's needs ahead of their own.

In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

You can't just place a few "Buy" buttons on your website and expect your visitors to buy.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

The objective is not to "make your links appear natural"; the objective is that your links are natural.

I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.

In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Customer service is the new marketing.

Marketers need to adapt a "members first" approach to content.