#marketing

Dinner conversations with telemarketers are so much livelier than saying you’re not interested and then checking your new message afterwards. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loneliness #phones #telemarketing #funny

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony. ↗

— Eddy Grant

#artists #been #commitment #marketing #music

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#data-mining #humanity #marketing #life

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go. ↗

— Simon Zingerman

#business #creativity #feel-good #good-hearted #goodness

Affiliate Marketing Has Made Businesses Millions And Ordinary People Millionaires. Affiliate Marketing Mybe Your Next Best Career Move. ↗

— Larry Bussey

#network-marketing #social-media #business

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe ↗

— Simon Sinek

#marketing #inspirational

Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century. ↗

— Gavin John Adams

#marketing #pamphleteers #pamphlets #viral-ideas #age

By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher. ↗

— David F. Houston

#consumption #eggs #fresh #glass #higher

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#marketing #philosophy #religion #food