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6/13/12

KNOW YOUR MARKET!


Marketing. Focus groups. And then there's this. Raise your hand if you'd have liked to have been there for the pitch. Exactly who was their market?
  • Women wearing sweats?
  • Women reading diet books?
  • Women eating chocolates?
  • Women overcome with the fumes from Scotchgard?
  • Women too cheap to pay for a real yoga class?
Oh damn, I'm the market!

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(SOURCE: Sunset, September 1969)

Okay, I actually do own the book she's holding. It had belonged to my mother.