Quotes About Marketing

I'm a brand type guy and we want to make sure that 'Gas Monkey' is out there in every arena that we can be. I'm also never short on ideas and I usually try to get them out there at all times.

I had sold products in flea markets before and I thought a cleaning product would be a good idea. So, in 2006, I came up with the ShamWow! I had seen this type of product at fairs, but it wasn't well marketed. And from there, I went to this factory in Germany that made them for me.

I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.

I've started to believe that the agency business is a great ingredient of a much bigger business - more than just what typical advertising agencies have done.

The problem with a lot of marketing advice is that the examples they use are not exactly typical. It's hard for businesses, particularly smaller businesses, to relate to the bold innovations of companies like Apple or Tesla.

Re: Invent is different from the typical technology-industry conference in that it's not a sales and marketing event, but about learning and education.

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

The ultimate goal is to give somebody something that they didn't know they wanted, but once they saw it, they had to have it.

Ultimately, my belief is that the best marketing is creating a product that people are excited to talk about. Period.

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

Your Twitter Profile is your business card.