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Dan Milano
Posted Jan 3, 2017
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11 min read
Strange But True Marketing Stories: Snake Oil and Truth in Advertising - Ceros Inspire: Create, Share, Inspire
"Snake Oil" has come to mean any kind of marketing or sales trickery. But the history of where this term comes from is a strange but true marketing story.
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