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Needs vs Wants - Marketings Biggest Trick

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One scavenger hunt sends students logging every ad they see for 24 hours, tagging each with a tactic and tallying whether most hit 50 or 100 by the next class. The extension work traces Hallmark's 1910s greeting cards back to the campaign that invented the demand.

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