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On behalf of our President 
and CEO, Greg Case,

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and chief marketing officer,
Phil Clement,

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it's a real honor for Aon to be 
the sponsor of this event today.

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And for many of you, 
you might know that Aon

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is now a UK-based company,
but it's also important for you to know

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that the Aon Foundation, 
for the past 25 years,

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has made it a priority to support
educational activities and

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cultural institutions like 
the Chicago Humanities Festival

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and the Charter Humanist Circle,
that does so much to enrich

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the lives of all of us in this room
and everybody in Chicago.

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And even though we're now in the UK,
I want everybody in this room to know

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that we intend to continue 
this commitment,

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and it will remain high on our
priority list for the things we do

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to support the community of 
Chicago for many years to come.

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[applause]

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On behalf of my colleagues 
at Aon, I want to thank

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the Charter Humanist Circle
and its members

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for their very valuable support,
and I also want to thank

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Northwestern University Law 
School for allowing us to use

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the auditorium today.

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At Aon, we believe in the mantra
"If we can't measure it,

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we don't do it."

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And because of that, 
it's a real honor for us

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to be here supporting and
introducing Dr. Philip Kotler.

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Dr. Kotler has defined marketing
as "the science and art

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of exploring, creating, and 
delivering value to satisfy

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the needs of a target 
market at a profit."

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He is recognized around the world
as one of the foremost experts

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on business, of marketing,
and for his insights on

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how exemplary marketing has
the creativity and the power

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to influence global 
consumers every day.

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In that spirit, I hope you'll join 
me in welcoming Dr. Philip Kotler.

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[applause]

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Now before I turn the
microphone over to Dr. Kotler,

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in the spirit of marketing, maybe
many of you in this room know

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that Aon does a great many
things globally, but one of the things

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that we've done that has created 
tremendous brand awareness

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for our firm is our sponsorship
of Manchester United football team,

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which by today won 2 to 1 
versus Arsenal

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[applause]

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We're at--
Right now we're

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at the top of the 
premiere league.

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So in that spirit,
I would like to present

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Dr. Kotler with his very own,
personalized Manchester United shirt.

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[Kolter]: Thank you.

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David, thank you very much.

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And I will wear this,
in a fantasy way.

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[laughter]

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May I say, I really appreciate
your introduction.

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Of all the introductions I've received,
yours is the most recent.

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[laughter]

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Nation, nation...

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Oh, you may know of
Steven Colbert,

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so I can't pull it off the same way.

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There will be two groups, 
with respect to marketing.

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There will be a group that
doesn't like marketing,

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and I'm going to give you
why they don't like marketing

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and the justifications.
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there's another group who loves
marketing, so before we're through,

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you will be totally confused,
or at least opinionated.

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So, what I want to do is
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These are called 
confessions of a marketer.

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That's, by the way, borrowed
from David Ogilvy,

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who wrote a wonderful book called
"Confessions of an Advertising Man."

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And let me move on and say
why is marketing a topic

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for the humanities?

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And we would say that
there's a couple of reasons.

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One: I regard marketing
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because marketing has 
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has created, not only affected
a lifestyle, but created lifestyles,

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and we should be, from a point
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interested in that.

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I want to say that marketing
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that it's beginnings are 
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That doesn't mean there weren't
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and as a matter of fact, I'd like
to give you a very short history

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of marketing, so that you understand
what we mean by the word.

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As a matter of fact, if you took a
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in the year 1900, and looked up
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you would not find it in the dictionary.

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Yes, you would find the word market,
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If you then picked a dictionary...
1910. You would find the word

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marketing in it, because marketing
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And it's much more than selling.
So let me show you...

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Let's start...
Let's start biblically.

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Let's start biblically.

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Who is the marketer
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This is the biblical narrative.
Who was the first marketer in the world?

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I hear Eve...
The snake.

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I hate to admit it, because snake 
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and so forth.

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on getting Adam to eat an apple.
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At least selling goes way back.
Now let's go further.

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Here is the father of marketing.

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What an insult to him!
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I mean, that's Aristotle.

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Recently I was at a group,
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who we would like to meet most
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and it boiled down to Plato,
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That's a hard one.

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It turns out that my vote 
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Aristotle was Google, at the time.
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than anyone in the world.
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economics, rhetoric, art,
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Let me read the definition of rhetoric.
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by the way. The founders were 
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They were a group who wanted to use
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for their own devious ends.
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the discipline of rhetoric on its feet.

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Rhetoric is the art that aims to improve
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who attempt to inform, persuade, 
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in specific situations.
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in any given case, the available 
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So, in a sense, he could be
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The idea of getting someone 
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not have done otherwise.
So, let's move on,

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about other manifestations of marketing.
I know many of you cannot necessarily

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read this, so I will read it,
but the first department store

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opened when, and in what country?
Normally if you're in France

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and you ask the question,
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we invented the department store.
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But it turns out that the first 
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Mitsui company, which is still
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So that's where one of our 
retailing forms started.

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The next one is the first 
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There were newspapers early,
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in 1652, and it advertised coffee.
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started a little later.
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N.W. Ayer, which is still a 
prosperous advertising agency.

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First time a brand was put on a 
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and finally we had a marketing
research department formed.

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So, now the word markets
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people would come on a particular 
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The word marketing wasn't there.
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So all that is there, and it was
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that marketing books first appeared.
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who wrote those first marketing books.
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What was the discipline of the people
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They weren't physicists or chemists.

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So why would economists start
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They couldn't find any mention
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of economists. In other words,
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Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo,
even Alfred Marshall, and so on,

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they rarely talked about other
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The only force that shaped demand
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You know the famous curve.
Raise the price, demand will go down,

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lower the price, you can sell more.
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that affected demand.
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or institutional economists, said "Hey,
you've got to factor in advertising."

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You've got to factor in retail stores,
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to not really texture the marketplace
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that led to marketing.
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a branch of economics.

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Now who helped developed 
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Now, probably you don't 
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There's one person you 
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I don't know if you can see
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but someone recognize anyone there?

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Dale Carnegie.
Dale Carnegie is here,

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and his book was "How to 
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because in doing this, 
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who was the exemplar 
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"How to Win Friends
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But let me give you the whole picture.

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Ernest Dichter. Some of 
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He was a motivational psychologist,
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didn't like to eat prunes, why cigars 
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"The Study of Desire."
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Sigmund Freud, and he brought 
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But he had an opponent named
Alfred Pollitz, who was not

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a head shrinker--We call 
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The expressions we would use if
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you were a head shrinker, and
otherwise, you were a nose counter.

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Namely, a surveyor. You surveyed--
You found out what percentage

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of people were of a certain age and 
why did they buy a particular product.

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Julius Rosenwald was very much 
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the Sears company, which was
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the development of our retail chains.

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Lester Wunderman deserves 
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of direct mail and catalogs.
That you can sell more directly.

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You don't have to be in the store.
You can get people to order goods

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by mail and phone.

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David Ogilvy is the exemplar
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then Stanley Marcus,
of Neiman Marcus,

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was a fella who could walk into
any retail store and give them

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100 suggestions on how to improve 
the layout, the size of the aisles,

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and make a difference in the 
voulme of business.

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Edward Bernays is the father of
public relations in the United States.

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His name has sort of become 
obscure, but he really was

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a very important person.
The word propaganda

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was often used in connection with his 
work, because people thought it was

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a model to motivate you to feel 
a certain way about anything,

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regardless of the standards involved.
And then there's Dale Carnegie.

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In any case, how did 
marketing get its start?

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Marketing got its start 
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Every company has a sales group.
And the sales people really want

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to be in the office of a customer,
because that's the only way

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something happens. So they don't
want to do a lot of homework.

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For example, three things they
didn't want to do.

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They didn't want to do consumer
research in a systematic way,

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because that's taking their time
away from selling to customers.

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Secondly, they would've liked 
someone else to find leads.

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Now a lead means a prospect.
In fact, we distinguish between

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a hot lead: "Oh boy, he's ready
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a warm lead, a cold lead, so on.
Someone else should do that

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for the sales people, so they don't
waste their time making calls.

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And the third thing was 
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brochures and ads. And the 
salesman is not skilled.

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The salesperson isn't skilled at
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and brochures. So sales departments
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from time to time.
Later on, it exploded

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to the day today, when we have
multinationals running--

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with marketing--
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its own department.
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in the audience here may be 
a chief marketing officer.

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The old name was Vice President
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chief marketing officer because
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the chief officers. Chief information
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chief innovation officer, 
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Some of you may be brand managers,
may have been in your past experience.

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Category managers, market 
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managing distribution channels,
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pricing manager, communication
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direct marketers, internet
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So, marketing is well-established.

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on what the CEO thinks of marketing.

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So, the 1P CEO is a person
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and he says, "I don't like 
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and all I want from marketing is
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I just want someone to broadcast
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made up by other CEOs,
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Now a 4P CEO says,
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And the plan has to mention 
product--that's the first P.

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What about our product? What's good
about it? What are the features?

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Price: what should it be priced at?
Place: where should it be

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made accessible? Online,
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So that's a more educated view
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But there's even a better view,
and that's called the CEO who says,

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"No! I don't want to start with 4 Ps,
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the market is complex." 
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Each segment deserves its own plan.
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that if you just have one value
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it really doesn't trigger anything
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So that CEO says, "What
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What should we say about ourselves,
in how we can satisfy their needs?"

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Now there's even a higher type CEO,
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who ran Procter & Gamble,
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When you ask A.G. Lafley what's
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he says, "Well, what do you mean?
Marketing is everything."

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Now, marketing is everything.
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everything starts with the customer.
No customers, no business.

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Now, moving on, there's a lot of things 
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and I won't go into any detail,
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and the sad fact is that sometimes
the chief marketing officer only lasts

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on the average of two years.
In other words, does a job,

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and maybe the CEO is not feeling that 
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that the cost of the CMO exceeds 
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There's a lot to go into about
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hold on to their job for two years.
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get a better job after two years.
They become something higher

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than the chief marketing officer.
Some of them actually are pirated away

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because they're so good, they go 
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But in any case, marketing--
commercial marketing,

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which I've been talking about,
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and then I got involved in--
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We started the idea of 
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because the set of tools that we use
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in other areas.
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called place marketing.
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and a city says, "We're not getting
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any attractions for them to come 
and see. I would like to get a factory

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located here. We would like some digital
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We want to start a Silicon Valley."
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The marketing of a place. How do you
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Against all of the other 
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There's an agency called William Morris,
and a young singer might go to

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William Morris and say, "look, I want 
to get ahead. I want to appear

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on Jay Leno's show. I want to--
I want to move up to being noticed.

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I want high visibility."
I wrote a book with the title

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"High Visibility." How do you 
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So, William Morris will look
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and maybe say, "You know,
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Don't be offended, but we can 
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That's sort of the language.
You know, do your hair differently,

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walk a little-- dress differently.
Actually, we're going to use you to

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reignite the archetype of Joan Baez.
You know, Joan Baez, the folk singer.

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Well, we need a new Joan Baez.
And so, we can recast you

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and form you into the kind of 
person we all miss, and so on.

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Now, social marketing is
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Today there are 2,000 social marketers
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eat better, exercise more, say no
to drugs, stop smoking cigar--

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get off of tobacco, say no to
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Positive behaviors and 
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By the way, my memory is that
Sweden was one of the first countries

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to want to raise a nation of nonsmokers,
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And it starts at the primary school level,
that you could technically raise people

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to avoid those vices, if that was 
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we're saturated with. 
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but that's another thing.
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I mean, fundraising is an odd form,
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Everything else is sort of an exchange
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a one-way transfer.
Here's some money

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for the museum. 
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there's something that should come
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and supporter of a museum,
and working that way is important.

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So these are offshoots. 
Now all of us do marketing.

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If you read the list, we all do marketing.
Did you ever compete for a job when

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you knew there were other applicants?
Didn't you dress up as well as you could

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and even prepare what you're 
going to say, and so on?

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Did you compete for a desirable
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Or a member of the opposite sex,
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So, in a sense, we're human animals
who know how to make an impression

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and market ourselves, to some extent.

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What do we dislike about marketing?

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Well, there's a long list.
It's a rather long list.

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Intrusion, interruption, exaggeration,
and so on and so forth.

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And I really made a list that's 
a little separate from that.

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Here are some of the criticisms.
Marketers get consumers to want

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and spend more than they can afford.

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And we know that from the financial
disaster that people were buying homes

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with maybe nothing down.
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creating grand differentiation 
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Like with commodities, you know, a
chicken is a chicken, cement is cement.

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So they spend a lot of time trying to
tell you their cement is really better,

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their salt is really better, and so on.
Marketers want to produce and sell

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more goods without considering
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of producing the goods.
The planet Earth is affected

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by the amount of production
and the care with which it's done.

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Marketers had not paid enough
attention to product safety.

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We know that because Ralph Nader
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the unsafety in cars, and then 
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we got asbestos problems,
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Here's a serious criticism. Marketers--
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these are some particular 
companies, and so on.

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Marketers favor giving the public what it
wants, whether its good or not for them.

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Sure, I'll sell you cigarettes. I'll sell 
you anything that will make money.

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Therefore marketing promotes 
a materialistic mindset,

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that-- we get turned on to
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a world of ever-changing products and
services and keeping up with the Jones

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and some of that.

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Marketers rarely talk about
sane consumption.

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Yeah, some beer companies say,
"Please enjoy our beer, but don't

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drink too much." That's nice that they--
No one listens to that, and you still

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have binge-drinking, but they're
trying to do what they can

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and so on and so forth.
Now, let me just say

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there's another side.
This is important too,

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because it's not a simple picture.
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Marketing has undoubtedly 
raised the standard of living

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in the United States.
People don't naturally

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buy new things. In other words,
do you know, people used to keep

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their refrigerators, which
weren't refrigerators at the time,

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they were ice boxes and they would
keep going out and getting some ice

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and putting it in the box, and so on.
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were very slow to take--
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It would be very expensive to
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but marketers persisted in saying
your life will be better with

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new appliances, and 
that's one of its jobs.

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I would even go so far as to say
that marketing is so connected

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to the idea of the middle class.
We're talking about preserving

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and building the middle class,
and the lifestyle that goes with it,

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and marketing is an essential
definer of what it is to be--and want--

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what it is to want, as a member
of the middle class.

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Marketing in the form of social
marketing has helped improve

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a lot of things. You know,
one of the first causes

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that marketing turned to was 
the environment and waste

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and the ill-effects of some 
products, and so on.

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Preserving the environment
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social marketers got into.

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Now they're into obesity as a problem,
littering as a problem,

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and other problems.

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Marketing is very important
to the cultural world.

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Museums, performing arts,
and one of the big problems

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that cultural institutions are facing,
especially in the performing arts,

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is the aging of audiences.
How do you get people

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who are in their forties to go to opera,
to go to ballet, and so on.

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It's called the graying of the audiences,
and maybe that problem has

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been with us for a long time,
but marketers are at work

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doing segmentation, targeting,
positioning, in order to

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make sure that all seats are filled
in the theater, and also the museums

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are very busy, as marketing institutions,
because they have to get visitors,

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they have to get donors, they have to
get government grants,

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so marketing is almost an intrinsic
function today that's going on.

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But let me--

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This is not time to take a vote.
Do you like marketing

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or you don't like marketing. 
But let me show you that

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the feeling-- the negative feelings about
marketing came up from these people.

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The attackers. They attacked marketing.
Do you recognize anyone?

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You see Ralph Nader? I don't...
There he is. Yeah.

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Who else?

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Well, it is Ralph Nader.
"Unsafe at Any Speed."

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Rachel Carson, by the way,
deserves so much more credit

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than we've given to her for her book
on the Silent Spring, which was about

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the chemical pollution, the pesticides
that were getting into our spring water,

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and so on. Vance Packard,
who popularized the idea

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that we are hidden persuaders. 
That when you go into a movie theater,

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you don't know this but an ad is sort of
flashing to go and get some popcorn

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before you sit down. 
Subliminal advertising,

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which never did happen, 
but the hidden persuaders.

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And then John Kenneth Galbraith,
who pointed out that while we spend

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so much money in making enough
deodorants for any type of interest

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you have in deodorants,
in the public sector--

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In the public sector, you've got
streets that are littered,

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and there's some garbage, 
and there's slow traffic, and--

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And so we have a good private sector,
but we can't enjoy it because

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the public sector doesn't have the
public good that would facilitate things.

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You've got Naomi Klein,
who's probably the prototype

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person now for attacking branding.
Brands, brands, they're awful.

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You're paying more than 
you need to pay.

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The book is called "No Logo,"
logo being another name for brand.

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And Michael Sandel is-- has this 
new book out, which is really interesting

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and worth reading. He's the fella
who ran a course on justice,

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and would ask groups about this size
at Harvard, "What is the just thing to do

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in each situation?" 
But his new book is called

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"What Money Can't Buy: 
The Moral Limits of Marketing"

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where he points out that 
if you're in jail in California

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and you don't like the cell,
you can pay for a better cell.

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You know, maybe one with a computer
if you want a computer, and so on.

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But he's also-- he thinks today
our culture divides people

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in social classes more clearly.
We used to go to ball games;

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I would sit next to someone who was
rich and someone who was poor.

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We'd all stand in the 
same line for hot dogs.

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Today, the guys who are rich
are up in the sky box,

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and he calls it the sky box-ification of 
the United States. The sky box-ification.

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They're eating filet mignon and
we peasants are down there having--

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standing in line for our hot dog.
So we are not meeting each other

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as we used to, in the older days.
It's a very interesting treatment.

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I like to quote Will Rogers with this
remark: "If advertisers spent

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the same amount of money that they--
on improving the product

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as they do on advertising, they wouldn't
have to advertise it. And that's--

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By the way, that's a very profound 
observation, because in the age

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of the internet, it's so much easier
to talk about a product you like

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to others and also about
a product you don't like.

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And in a sense, if this goes far enough,
there will be no bad companies

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anymore. It would be not possible
for a company to be a bad company,

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because the word 
of mouth will sink it.

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So he's sort of touching on that point.
Make-- Do a good job, and don't--

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and others will advertise 
the good job you did.

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Now, I want to add another group,
and this is a group of visionaries,

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and I'd like to call them 
our best marketers.

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But they're not necessarily the 
chief marketing officer,

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they're CEOs. But what--
Their contribution has been

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the kind you want from your 
chief marketing officers.

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So who do you see here? 
Do you know any of those people?

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[audience murmuring]

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Yeah. You've got to know some of 
them. But you probably don't know

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the first one. Ingvar Kamprad.
It's very even hard to remember

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his name, but he's that Swedish 
person who invented IKEA,

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who said, "I must bring down the cost
of furniture, and I can do that by

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taking the air out of it and just 
selling knocked down furniture,

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and now people can afford to have
some nice things in their home.

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Richard Branson is phenomenal.