marketing terms needed??

joseph brand · 08-10-2003 12:47PM #1

Hi all,

just want to know if anyone has any marketing terms that annoy them, such as:

REVAMP

STREAMLINE

BALL IS IN YOUR COURT (heard just the other day in normal speech, AAAARRRGGGGHHH)

Tanx.

anthonymcg · 08-10-2003 12:52PM

Anything to do with envelopes or boxes.

Jaden · 08-10-2003 12:52PM

My personal favourite (read:AAAGGGGHHH!).

"GOING FORWARD".

also:

"Park that issue".
"Take this discussion off-line".

Yavvy · 08-10-2003 01:12PM

i Fùcking hate " just touching base with you"

"Centralisation"

Occidental · 08-10-2003 01:35PM

Dilbert

sceptre · 08-10-2003 09:33PM

proactive

More the people who use it over and over again than the word

And synergy (even though real people use that one now)

Epitaph · 08-10-2003 10:09PM

CONFLICT ARENA re. industrial disputes.

OK, I made it up. Did you notice, kids?

Spunog UIE · 08-10-2003 10:32PM

on products:

New & Improved, I mean its either one or the other :S

woosaysdan · 09-10-2003 08:04AM

Originally posted by Gideon
on products:

New & Improved, I mean its either one or the other :S

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never both:(

star gazer · 09-10-2003 05:02PM

Mark-up
in the context of pricing it's wonderful to think how much companies make on mineral water or perfume or CDs. Of course they will justify it by saying that that price is what the 'market' dictates.

dod · 09-10-2003 05:17PM

"Let's ensure we're all singing from the same hymnsheet"

(Time to call in the Boards Ninjas to kick the shit out of whoever spews this sort of verbal sewage)

Peace · 09-10-2003 05:50PM

Originally posted by Jaden

"Take this discussion off-line".

<run screaming through the streets beating random people>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGG
</run screaming through the streets beating random people>

Sarky · 09-10-2003 05:56PM

Paradigm.

Please, kill me.

BigEejit · 09-10-2003 06:23PM

how about "Picking the low hanging fruit" ...yep it was said in a meeting ... Mad Eye Mike (a director where I work) has a whole heap of these strange ones ... we all reckoned that he had a special Business Lingo book and he pored over it for hours learning these obtuse, stupid sayings

mike65 · 09-10-2003 06:25PM

Think "in the box"

Mike.

jd · 09-10-2003 06:28PM

Clairol

Victor · 09-10-2003 07:39PM

"maximum performance".

Shinji · 09-10-2003 09:48PM

Hey look, it's an "I'm a peon in the workplace and I shall vent my anger at people more successful than me by mocking the language they use" thread...

(Some management phrases are ridiculous and simpler words could be used more effectively. Others are incredibly useful - a phrase set that has evolved to provide for the needs of a modern business environment effectively. Of course, it also makes something for the peons to moan about - since if they poke fun at how much more their bosses are paid and how much nicer the cars they drive are, they'll just depress themselves...)

herbie747 · 09-10-2003 11:51PM

"Kitekat - Krammed with Katitude"

It's doesn't get much lamer.

marketing terms needed??

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