Quotes About Promotion

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT this statement? "A backyard bird feeder will help take the stress out of your life." A friend of mine uses that line to promote her birding shop in Barnegat, New Jersey. It's warm, appealing, and will, with luck, help her turn a lot of people on to birding. However, with no offense to my friend, stress-free bird feeding falls into the same category as painless dentistry.

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

Tooth and nail they worked. No one jostled for promotion. All this, they knew, was temporary. The point was to win the war and get back to their regularly scheduled lives.

Far too many people accept management promotions because they feel (often rightly so) that they will be dead-ended if they reject the promotion.

Consider the possibility that the more you engage, comment or react to fools and foolishness online, the more those fools and that foolishness are amplified, promoted and seen. Want to reduce their impact? Consider reducing your engagement with both them and their posts.

Your story, shared with authenticity can do more to sell you than any sales pitch, marketing piece or ad.

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

To honor commitment is way to promote self growth with respect.

Book buying studies have proven a reader has to hear about your book multiple times before they reach into their wallet and purchase a book. The number of exposures to your book is somewhere between six and twelve times before you collect a sale. A key part of your platform building process as an author is to give readers multiple exposures to your book and the availability.

You have to consistently work at building your audience or platform.

If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR!

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.

People just jump right to, 'We're going to create this really cool thing and put it out there and people are going to magically find it.' You have to market your marketing.

Protracted self-promotion drains something essential from the soul

as a junior, he graduates with the senior class

Feel-good factor If you want a promotion but come across as aloof or reserved, you'll be overlooked in favor of someone who has warm "people skills"—skills that make others feel good about being around them.

I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.

There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

The wise men and men of noble character in the past who were wealthy and exalted were rare. From time to time there were men who received high rank and large stipends, but they did not pursue such things themselves; because the genius and virtues of these men were not hidden, they were promoted by their superiors, and thus only received these things unavoidably. But because they were not always in tune with the minds of men of little caliber, many of them were slandered and driven away.

A limited offer has unlimited appeal.

Online marketing is not quite as sleazy as Internet porn, but it's not much better, either.

But all of you are likely spending more time than you realize selling in a broader sense—pitching colleagues, persuading funders, cajoling kids. Like it or not, we're all in sales now.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some hire PR officers.