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Thursday, May 7, 2009

THE SHORTEST, BEST ADVERTISING LESSON YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK

According to Inc. magazine, when Gordon Segal founded Crate and Barrel he used to tell his employees:

“You’re selling a candlelit dinner by poolside, not a piece of wax on a stick.”

End of today's lesson.

2 Comments:

Blogger Rod said...

Nice! Similar to (but a lot sexier than) one that comes up every so often: "What your customer really wants is a quarter-inch hole, not a quarter-inch bit."

May 7, 2009 at 7:05 AM  
Anonymous Heather Hogan said...

lol, that's great

May 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM  

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