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Let's see...some of the greatest "marketers" of all time didn't have any "training" either.
Fact is, some people are just damn good at it.
Neither Don King nor P.T. Barnum had degrees in "marketing". Barnum would have laughed that anybody could be conned into paying for a degree in "marketing" and probably would have opened a college for it himself to take even more money from the "marks".
Just sayin', knowledge is great. Education is great.
Some things can't be taught. If they could...then I guess we would have thousands of brand new "marketing" geniuses every year coming out of college blowing everybody away.
Nope, that doesn't happen.
Only a few have the select instinct and natural ability to present a product to other people and sell it.
Not talking about porn by the way...it was an easy sell (before it was free).
But I have seen guys who could literally "Sell ice cream to an eskimo" as the old saying goes.
They aren't common. And they didn't "learn" it in college.
I have no idea who the top "marketers" in the world are. You know the ones who are making millions of dollars off of successfully marketing products.
But I'd bet that the majority of them didn't go to school for "marketing".
Schools turn out little clones, all with the same exact idea and approach. True innovation doesn't come from that. And I'd say history bears that out.
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