Quotes About Marketing

The Internet has allowed even more growth possible than in the bricks and mortar industries that I dealt with years ago. It is easier to get a business to a million dollars/pounds in revenue on the net! It is not easy! But it is easier when compared to construction, etc., though all businesses use the Internet to enhance marketing.

Netflix isn't spending movie-level marketing money - they want people to find this stuff through word of mouth.

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.

I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country.

As an actor, there is so much more than just acting in the film. A lot of other things like networking and marketing is involved.

I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day.

I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling us what the next hit will be, the next style, the next cool.

Apple does a very good job of not letting its competitors know what it is working on, and Apple does a very good job of not confusing customers by causing them to anticipate what the next new thing is going to be and then causing those customers not to buy the products that are on the shelves now.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

My books didn't fit a marketing niche.

If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.

I am, in fact, a candle salesperson's worst nightmare - or dream come true, depending on the salesperson.

Electronic music is the first genre to realize how to use the music for marketing something else, which is playing festivals and club nights where they really make money.

When I joined the family business, our clients were mostly on the marketing side, from Morris the Nine Lives Cat to KFC's Colonel Sanders.

5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.

I have no idea how to ever sell myself in a snazzy way.

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

Head & Shoulders (a repulsive name for a shampoo, when you think of it, but you never do)

So, think about the enormous effort, the enormous, strenuous, and continuous effort to persuade people that things that they merely want are really things that they must have, that they need. And this is the business of marketing and advertising. And as Noam pointed out previously, this completely distorts the notion of the so-called free market in which rational people make rational choices based on real needs.