What are the main responsibilities of the marketing department? — Designing an place, promotion, product and price that attracts the target market and ultimately drives sales.

Advertising

Brand

Brand loyalty

Commission

Competitive advantage

Demographics

Elastic demand

focus group

Image

Inelastic demand

Markdown

Market

Market research

Marketing mix

Marketing Plan

Niche

Personal selling

Presale

Psychographics

Public Relations

Publicity

Sales forecast

Sales quota

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what's going on. But it's not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I've written, you're thinking, 'Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.'

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend shows lending me another angle.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

Tell the truth.

Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.

I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.

I try to help my mum as much as I can by not being rebellious.

I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.

What drives me is really just being able to be a blessing to someone, you know. I really enjoy that, and as much as I can do, I will.

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

I'm a patriot of the heart.

I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

My first-ever visit to a cheese factory was in Tillamook Washington... yes, I am that nerdy.

Family always gonna be there.

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.