Veyrall posted:

Marketing is important, but quality keeps people coming back. There are products that Wal-mart has stopped carrying because they were too unreliable and were hurting the company's reputation. A couple of months ago I know my old store in FL dropped a local vendor because his fruit was always unpresentable and went rancid too quickly.

So, what I'm saying is, marketing is absolutely essential, like your thumb, but your reputation and your quality are like your wrist. This is pretty applicable to jobs too. I had a lovely resume for an embarrassingly long time, but my reputation with people who hired me as someone who gets their job done and plays well with others made that less of an issue. Another way to think of it is this; reputation is a kind of advertising, and one that is at least three times more effective than ad space on a website or a shiny resume.

Come to think of it, can anyone recommend a good resume service? Getting a good position is a great first step on the road to wealth.