Marketers, stop the hate! Customers are not the enemy
Guest editorial by Susan EtlingerBack in the seventeenth century, soldiers would spend the cold winter months in towns and garrisons until the weather cleared enough for them to venture back into the field (in Italian, nella campagna) to resume fighting. And that’s the origin of the modern word campaign, a term much beloved by marketing and sales people to signify an organized series of events designed to sell products and services.