Quotes About Communication

3. The unconscious mind controls the internal dialogue.

If they send you an e-mail, respond within twenty-four hours, though two hours is far better, and two minutes is best.

What Is Personal Branding?  Personal branding is the process of identifying the unique and differentiating value that you can bring to an organization, team, and/or project and communicating it in a professionally memorable and consistent manner in all of your actions and outputs, both online and offline, to all current and prospective stakeholders in your career.

reason, guerrilla marketing preaches fervent follow-up —continually staying in touch with customers—and listening to them.

Avoid the worst months for direct mail: March, May, and June; the best months are January, February, and October. The period January through March is best for business direct mail.

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4. The unconscious mind can understand and link multiple messages.

75-25 rule: 75 percent of your newsletter should give solid information of worth and value; 25 percent can give selling information.

P.S. is read with regularity (more often than is body copy).

Traditional marketing identifies the heavy weapons of marketing: radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, direct mail, and the Internet.

You are your own marketing weapon—not only the things you say and do but also the things you are and believe. According to studies reported in Time magazine, the best five personality traits for you to possess are extroversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. It also helps immensely if you like and are fascinated by people.

It's one thing to relay a fact to a person. It's a whole different thing when you tell a story.

Don't delude yourself: You cannot succeed without media advertising.

You must do the thinking for the reader of your resume.

Direct marketing refers to direct-mail, e-mail, Web site, mail-order, or coupon advertising, as well as to telephone marketing, direct-response TV, postcard decks, door-to-door salespeople, home shopping TV shows, or any method of marketing that attempts to make a sale right then and there.

the purest form of public relations is human relations.

Which brings us back to the definition of guerrilla networking: becoming the type of person other people want to meet. It

For various ideological reasons, the business world, the entertainment industry, and most users of the World Wide Web have shown little interest in a serious critique of digital media, but they are all eager to use digital technology to extend and remake forms of representation and communication.

that the Web allows individuals not only to represent themselves in words and images, but also to publish these representations to an audience of millions at almost no expense.

THE UNANNOUNCED EMOTION: Don't advertise a mood. Invoke it

When you want to change someone's mood, tell a story.

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Euphemism. A form of irony that makes bad things sound good—or at least not as bad. Personification. Pretending things are human: another role-playing trope. Kindergarten Imperative. Issues a command in terms of a personal need. Yogism. A foolishly wise expression.

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