Advertising's foremost job is to sell the premise of advertising to business management. Selling the business's product is always secondary to that.

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ambicapter 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Always felt suspicious to me that so much of company dynamics are basically about selling yourself to management...and there's one team in the company who's full-time job is selling? Wonder how that will turn out.

	▲	gzread 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		None of my coworkers could figure out why I was laid off, and were shocked because I was important to getting the work done, but management made it clear I hadn't been selling myself to management.