Direct marketing offered accountability, measurement, and targeting decades before digital — and lost every pitch to TV because it 'wasn't shiny and new.' Digital marketing then re-launched the exact same sales proposition and won, because it wore a new wrapper. Most 'we won because we're better' narratives are actually 'we won because we were new' narratives. The attributes that sell aren't new — only their packaging is.
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