They Shouldn’t Not Come

Remember the scene in the movie Poltergeist when the worried parents came home to find their young daughter staring at a TV screen of static? The spooky little girl turned around and announced to her terrified folks, “They’re here.” I felt that way when I saw the...

How To Sell The Dream.

My father was an innovative and very successful real estate developer. The Miami Herald called him “The Father of Florida Condominiums” because he built the first residential condo in the United States and the first office condo in the world. As a kid, I used to walk...

Your Kids Cannot Tell Time.

Your kids cannot tell time. Did you know that? Really, they can’t tell time. Don’t believe me? Test them sometime. Wait until you’re in a room with an analog clock and a teenager or twenty-something. Tell them they can’t look at their phone and then ask them the time....

Can You Imagine A World Without SPAM?

Every day I get emails from salesmen asking me to forward their note to the “proper person in my office” who handles whatever it is that they’re selling. I’ll bet you do too. Do they think we’re going to drop what we’re doing and bird-dog their sales leads for them?...

Is Silk Soy?

Back in 1984, there was a famous marketing case study covered in all the trade rags. The title was “Can Marketing Take the Tofu Out Of Tofutti?” and the question was pretty clear — could good advertising convince soy-averse Americans to try dessert products made with...
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