Relativity

You can use your income to assess your relative wealth, but it has no relevance in assessing a product’s value or the development of a marketing strategy.

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Regret vs Retrospect

In February 2010 then Secretary of State General Colin Powell was asked by “Face the Nation” host Bob Schieffer if he had “any regrets” endorsing Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign.

I remember the interview because I didn’t like that question.

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Communication

The challenge with marketing via digital communication is creating content strong enough to overpower everything else beyond our control that contributes to the message.

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¢ontent vs ACCE$$

People will pay for content if it is necessary, irreplaceable and unshareable. Businesses who get excited about the first five words of that sentence don’t understand how constraining the next seven are.

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