Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.
Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
social media isn’t about “marketing” your church or message; it’s about “connecting” with people who want to make your story part of their story.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.
By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity.
Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.
The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.
The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.
At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.
One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.
One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.
Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.
Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.
