THE post-election dust has almost settled and new national leaders will soon be proclaimed. As a marketing practitioner and teacher, I can't help but synthesize what marketing practices can be learned from the election campaigns. The concepts are, in general, the same. Candidates are "products" who need to be marketed in order to be "bought" by the people through votes.

Here are some of the salient lessons that can be gleaned.

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