The comments on "Revealed: How Steve Jobs Turns Customers into Fanatics" show that many Apple fans don't believe marketing has played a role in Apple's success. Other consumers also think they aren't influenced by ads. When a business owner or key executive doesn't believe in marketing, though, it's a different story.

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Marketers gaze in envy at brands like Apple. The firm that built some of the first home computers turned their customers into legions of fanatical…

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If you were asked to judge a policy proposal for addressing a social issue, which would be more important to you, the content of the proposal or the party…

Mistakes Were Made by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson does a deep dive into cognitive dissonance, a key driver of apparently irrational behavior.

What if there were five days every month when your customers were unusually receptive to your product? If you market products or services that make women…

Twitter is a mess. Maybe it's just me, but in the last few weeks the vast majority of my new Twitter followers were bots or people promoting something.…

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Targeting Boomers or seniors with your advertising? Keep it simple. While that's usually good advice for any kind of advertising, brain scans show a…