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People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.

A brand should take into account the customer__ total shopping experience__very contact point is important and should be in accord with the customer expectations.

Does your marketing promote the difference between good and bad or better and best?

Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.

Saying, __ don__ have time for CRM._ is like saying, __ don__ have time to look at my GPS app because I am too busy trying to figure out the best way to get from here to there.

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

Let us learn things in the time they will take to learn

you truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, everytransaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there

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

You cannot win everyday, but make sure u win, at-least once in a while.

I wonder how Japan's futuristic robot doctors will treat the worst and most widespread disease humanity already has - artificially lowered IQ. Making people stupider makes them buy more stuff _ so __ow many robots can you afford?_ will be the big question of one of the following decades, unless we go back to Communism and produce everything for the sake of it, for free.

When you employ HUMOR, you create a friendly, relaxed buying atmosphere.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y__ who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.