Quotes About Marketing

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

My job in the Tour is to get the sponsor's logo in the most prominent place.

I'm basically a marketing director, a CEO and a racing driver all in one, because I have to understand why brands would want to partner with me and sponsor me and give me the support I need to race, because if I don't have the money I don't race.

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

I lost a lot of money with sponsors.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Soccer is Europe's biggest sport and the world's biggest sport, so as we look to go into Europe, soccer is the way to do it because of the sport's size and scale, as well as its athletes who know and understand our brand.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

The NFL and NBA has done a better job than we have in showing the fun side of the sport, having people talk about it whether it's on social media, commercials or the news.

Sports federations must try to be professional in trying to market their sport.

Sports entertainment in general, it's a very competitive business.

The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.

I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.

Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.

From its skillful editing to its out-of-control budget and its relentless marketing, Mr. Obama's team played a different game at a different level than Sen. John McCain and his traditionalist staff.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.