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It breeds the opposite remark of people thinking that they aren't good at marketing, as well.
ET is a marketing piece which helps in closing the pitch to the tainted masses. Now, what's the pitch?
NATO, thanks, we wish you well. It is unprecedented in an organization such as you are, to go against the natural instinct of 'fighting the last war' and instead, do what you are doing, looking for the best way to prevent the next war from happening.
Our view is that you do this by developing low cost and light-weight hydroponic and cheese-making tools. Getting them into the hands of people will sprout a thousand projects to get the raw materials that make such things valuable. Write a good instruction manual, not one of those that needs a physicist to tell me what I don't understand to figure it out.
Thank you for this opportunity to help in your cause of a better future for us all.
Now go away. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
In ET's case, we are only slightly nearer a decision on that ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
I remember a great lesson for me when I used to keep a radio going in the workplace. I had noticed an ad for the joke they had in it, but it took more than a few times before I realized that it was promoting something that I was actively searching for. Which is a whole different point on a major "everyone knows" in the business, that you have to keep repeating the message before anyone listens, before you get a result...that running with an a message once or twice is a waste of time.
The playout of this is that people who say they don't do marketing well are often people who think they have tried but who don't try often enough and get discourage when really they just need to find the things that allow a penetration of the message and keep working it. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
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