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		Schiphol on July 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Probably not for hackers The question is not whether you can do good marketing (you surely can) but what counts as good marketing: identifying and exploiting dispositions to behave irrationally in your target. A very good and very smart marketer will do this very well. It will still be sleaze.

davidw on July 15, 2013 [–]

> what counts as good marketing: identifying and exploiting dispositions to behave irrationally in your target.

It sounds like you don't know much about marketing.

Schiphol on July 15, 2013 | [–]

You probably believe it's all about leveraging deep consumer insights in the creation of Unique Selling Propositions?

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