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7. “It’s no longer ‘Run an ad on Tuesday, watch
sales go up on Wednesday.’
Advertisers don’t have the power to
interrupt enough consumers to make
[advertising] pay the way it used to.”
– Seth Godin
8. “Fixed screens will simply be places that we
toss our cloud-based content, marketing,
and advertising for convenience when we’re
sitting on a couch. [Smartphones and other
mobile devices] will be the source of our
ever-growing connectivity...”
– Mitch Joel
9. “Stop looking at your business as physical,
Web, and Mobile.
It’s about consumers, and the only thing
that matters to consumers is the one
screen that is in front of them.”
– Mitch Joel
10. “Our best evidence of what people truly feel
and believe comes less from their words
than from their deeds.”
– Robert B. Cialdini
11. “[Like animals], we too have our
preprogrammed tapes; and, although they
usually work out to our advantage, the
trigger features can be used to dupe us into
playing them at the wrong times.”
– Robert B. Cialdini
12. “Naturally sticky ideas are full of concrete
images -- ice-filled bathtubs, apples with
razors -- because our brains are wired to
remember concrete data.”
– Chip Heath & Dan Heath
13. “When we’re trying to build a case for
something, most of us instinctively grasp
for hard numbers. But in many cases this is
exactly the wrong approach.”
– Chip Heath & Dan Heath
14. “In order to create one contagious
movement, you often have to create many
small movements first.”
– Malcolm Gladwell
15. “If we want groups to serve as incubators
for contagious messages, then we have to
keep groups below the 150 [member]
Tipping Point.”
– Malcolm Gladwell