[marketingminute] Shunning the Quacks https://bnarcissisticabuserecovery.runboard.com/t25852 Runboard| [marketingminute] Shunning the Quacks en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:24:31 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:24:31 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 [marketingminute] Shunning the Quackshttps://bnarcissisticabuserecovery.runboard.com/p240663,from=rss#post240663https://bnarcissisticabuserecovery.runboard.com/p240663,from=rss#post240663The Narcissist as Liar and Con-man https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/narcissisticabuse/conversations/messages/4951            The Marketing Minute           by Marcia Yudkin, Marketing Expert and Mentor            http://www.yudkin.com/markmin.htm            ******************* Anyone can claim to be a marketing expert. Since there isn't licensing or overwhelming consensus on who knows what, how do you tell genuinely savvy people from posers and fakes? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "charlatan" originated in the seventeenth century, when it denoted an itinerant seller of supposed remedies. Earlier than that, in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, so many philosophers roamed Europe, North Africa and the Near East that criteria emerged that you could use to separate a true sage from an imposter. Fakes might show hypocrisy, through a discrepancy between public and private behavior or words and actions, according to Emory University professor Luke Timothy Johnson. In addition, three vices were said to be telltale signs of a pretender: * Love of pleasure - putting one's animal appetites first * Love of money - being motivated foremost by profit * Love of glory - inordinate pride in one's fame Of course, marketing knowledge is more grounded in practical affairs than is philosophy. Still, I wonder whether we can still use those ancient guidelines to decide which purported experts deserve to be regarded with suspicion.            ******************* For a free weekly marketing tip, subscribe: http://www.yudkin.com/markmin.htm This email was sent to samvaknin@gmail.com. Creative Ways | PO Box 305 | Goshen, MA, US | 01032 nondisclosed_email@example.com (samvaknin)Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:46:05 +0000