The video excerpt introduces the 80/20 rule (Pareto principle) as applicable to marketing activities. The speaker uses their experience with American Express over 10-15 years as a case study. They highlight a specific marketing campaign from the 1970s or 60s, which involved a single sentence in a direct mail piece by Ogilvy. This sentence, "Quite frankly, the American Express card is not for everyone," is presented as a highly effective marketing strategy that generated significant revenue, estimated at a billion dollars.

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The way to look at marketing is the 80/20 rule also applies to your marketing activity. I mean, I worked on American Express for about 10 to 15 years.

And looking back on it, five things we did. One of them, by the way, was Oglev's single sentence in a direct mail acquisition piece for American Express back in the 1970s or 60s which said, "Quite frankly, the American Express card is not for everyone."

Okay, that made them a billion dollars. Easy.

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The way to look at marketing is the
80/20 rule also applies to your
marketing activity. I mean, I worked on
American Express for about 10 to 15
years. And looking back on it, five
things we did. One of them, by the way,
was Oglev's single sentence in a direct
mail acquisition piece for American
Express back in the 1970s or60s which
said, "Quite frankly, the American
Express card is not for everyone." Okay,
that made them a billion dollars. Easy.

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Billion Dollar idea 😳

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