#advertising

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them? ↗

— Dick Wolf

#air #department #early #focus #focus groups

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#book #business #good #hard #kind

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. ↗

— Steven Wright

#executive #i #only #saw #second

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#common #hard #impress #most #people

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#advertising #beauty #because #designers #forget

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#continuous #earnest #effort #exhortation #exploitation

Advertising is the life of trade. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#life #trade

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#backs #companies #feel #film #i

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#aside #audience #because #blog #buying

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#half #i #know #money #spend