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"The product graveyard is filled with great products that were never marketed!"

Idiots say this.

Can anyone show me said graveyard?

With all the marketing secrets of the person saying the phrase, armed with "freelance secrets," armed with proven methods of persuasion...
Why aren't they going to this graveyard - a literal goldmine - and making bank? Why aren't they using those "freelance secrets" and "lethal persuasion secrets" to convince the owners to sell these great products?

They can't. Someone saying this can't see beyond a sales mantra..
Give it a few minutes of research, and you can find a graveyard full of products marketed "right" now dead and gone. E.G., look up Clickbank's 1st-page marketplace history from 2010-2019, 99% of those companies are bust. And they marketed "right."

The saying also ignores...
Chance. But a GOOD product rides out the wave of chance longer than the marketing. Sure, marketing helps, but we remember the product. Even OxiClean, while the marketing was bombastic, we still grasp the product. It works well enough.

Aggressive marketing tactics work like a...
Guy getting really good at getting phone numbers from girls. Run every trick in the book, sleight of hand, scripts, parlor tricks - get phone numbers. That guy never goes beyond that.

So when someone says that phrase, they marked themselves as soon heading to the graveyard.
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