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What marketing phrases or words annoy you?

by alistair
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Why do so many people say "think outside the box" or "but here's the thing".

Maybe it's me but these couple of phrases are really starting to bug me.

I also can't stand it anymore when (9 times out of 10 it's a woman) somebody is being interviewed and every question is answered with the first word being "Absolutely".

Is it just me or does anybody else find any words or phrases particularly annoying?
#annoy #marketing #phrases #words
  • Profile picture of the author mediaspree
    Which marketing phrases do you like?
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    • Profile picture of the author RentItNow
      Originally Posted by mediaspree View Post

      Which marketing phrases do you like?
      I'm really liking the phrase "Try it for x days Risk-Free" much better than "My Personal Guarantee"
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    Any sentence beginning with "Look,"

    Ex: "Look, here's the thing..."

    "Listen,..." is just as bad.

    Don't know why, it just gets my BS detector going.

    Had a real estate agent once that ended up ripping me off $5K that used to prefix every second sentence with "Honestly...". I should have known!
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  • Profile picture of the author Amigo
    ""Why do so many people say "think outside the box" ""
    Because at some time there are things to be noted that are over saturated...

    or "but here's the thing".""
    Because at the time who is more experience in the field develops more methods by experimenting ..
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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Boisvert
    Originally Posted by alistair View Post

    Why do so many people say "think outside the box" or "but here's the thing".

    Maybe it's me but these couple of phrases are really starting to bug me.

    I also can't stand it anymore when (9 times out of 10 it's a woman) somebody is being interviewed and every question is answered with the first word being "Absolutely".

    Is it just me or does anybody else find any words or phrases particularly annoying?
    "Absolutely" annoys me as well...not quite as much as questions about stuff that annoys me though.

    ~keith

    ps: just teasing
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