Marketing Quotes

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something.

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Ray and I do not draw salaries, Any profits will be re-invested into marketing the music we believe in.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

Other than that one year, Salon has been very cautious about the way it spends money. For instance, since last year, we've had virtually no marketing budget. It's just word of mouth. And our circulation continues to grow that way by breaking news stories.

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.