Needs vs Wants - Marketings Biggest Trick

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Maslow's five levels separate what's required from what's just preferred, then three ad campaigns get retraced, an invented halitosis scare in the 1920s, a 1947 diamond slogan, and a water bottle's jump from $74 million in 2019 to $750 million in 2023.

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