20 Rules of Marketing
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Unless constantly nurtered, nothing is as short-lived as a good customer.
Hand hold your customers, treat them like royalty, they are keeping you in business.
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Never delay the end of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour
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If the customer buys lunch, you've lost the order.
Always entertain and pick up the tab.
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If the customer wants vanilla, give him vanilla.
Nothing turns off a customer more than trying to give him want he doesn't want.
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A good presentation has as many questions as answers.
Get your audience to think and then answer their questions.
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Secret negotiations are usually neither.
Don't short change the knowledge of your competition.
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The number of competitors never declines.
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If you can't get the whole job, settle for part of it.
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The competition really can have lower prices.
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Umbrella pricing encourages non-competitive costs.
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Low price and long shipment time will win over high price and short shipment time.
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The worth of a thing is what it will bring
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Beware of alleged needs that have no real market
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Strategies develop most easily from big backlogs
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The existencne of a market does not ensure the existence of a customer
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Your share of the market is really lower than you think
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The information we want is not what we need
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The information we have is not what we need
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No matter how good the deal, the customer is always skeptical.
Customers are knowledgeable, threat them that way.
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20.
The combined market position goals of all competitors always totals at least 150%
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