Here’s another testimonial that I produced for Red Cap Communications*. Three things to like about this testimonial from Canton Capital’s managing director, Brian Redman: The “$10 to $30+ million” mention shows that Canton Capital is a serious business, which adds instant credibility to their testimonial. Redman shows how Clare is […]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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There is never a good sale for Neiman-Marcus unless it’s a good buy for the customer. –Herbert Marcus, cofounder of Neiman Marcus, speaking to his son in 1926, quoted by Stanley Marcus in Minding the Store (1974), quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. See also Selling is Serving.
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson, in Economist, 19 Nov 1955, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
In this business, you can never wash the dinner dishes and say they are done. You have to keep doing them constantly. — Mary Wells Lawrence, advertising executive, on the need for fresh approaches. Time 3 Oct 66, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
Greetings today from Las Vegas, where I didn’t expect to be. Las Vegas was supposed to be an overnight stop during my road trip from Denver to San Francisco, but that was before I found out that I had a broken windshield and that my insurance company had no idea […]
If the person is over 40 years old, I tell him he should do something because it is first good for Japan, good for the company, good for his family and finally good for him. If the person is under 40, I tell him he should do it because first […]
I got a chuckle when someone referred to today as “September Fool’s Day.” I suspect he repeats this gag every first of the month. We did a big of pranking at my first job — anything from spraying paper-punch holes all over someone’s office, to tweaking computer screens so that […]