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Quotes About Promotion

The promotional cycle's this staging area for failure. I hate it! Why bother when everyone's either gonna steal the album or copy it?
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases that bosses have about what makes someone promotable. You're already doing the hard work, so why not frame your effort in such a way that it increases your chances of obtaining the position you want?
~ Travis Bradberry
We should be pointing out people's accomplishments rather than their looks, but if it can promote our band, why not?
~ Alissa White-Gluz
I'd do another Cortana advert, I don't see why not.
~ Grace Chatto
That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.
~ Evander Holyfield
Although we were The Spice Girls of 1984 in Europe, My work has never been widely promoted in the U.S.
~ Holly Johnson
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.
~ David Attenborough
A lot of true Jamaican artists don't understand the importance of radio so tend not to tap into that as a result.
~ Shaggy
Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
~ Leo Burnett
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
~ John Lindsay
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
~ Lin Dan
Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.
~ Joe Meno
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
~ Jane Russell
I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
~ Daniel Starch
Captain Turner, from my two encounters with him and from this present sailing strategy, seemed to me a classic example of military hierarchy: a guy who was mediocre and competent at some lower level but who had inevitably been promoted to a rank and responsibility where he was finally stupid and incompetent.
~ Robert Olen Butler
Marketing is the price you pay for being unremarkable.
~ Robert Stephens
This supports what advertisers have been saying for years: "The more facts you tell, the more you sell., ,7
~ Robert V. Levine
Wallace Laboratories hired Salvador Dalí to help stoke Miltown fever, paying the great artist $35,000 to create an exhibit at an AMA convention that was meant to capture the magic of this new drug.
~ Robert Whitaker
My argument will have to be that the plaintiff, who's dead, wasn't going to earn that much, because, after all, he wasn't good enough to earn a promotion. And as far as pain and suffering, don't pay him for that because he died within a year, so he didn't suffer that long.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Don't promote your troubles beyond your rank.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Ever since Albert was denied promotion to full-professor rank, his articles on Flannery O'Connor ("A Good Man Really Is Hard to Find," "Everything That Rises Must Indeed Converge," and "The Totemic South: The Violent Actually Do Bear It Away!") failing to meet with collegial acclaim, he has become determined to serve others, passing out the notices and memoranda, arranging the punch and cookies at various receptions.
~ Lorrie Moore
Lester Morrow could quite possibly have enough pull with the army to foil Howell's own attempts at promotion.
~ Rosanne Bittner
I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.
~ Emily Browning