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I vividly remember when it happened.  It was not so long ago in a month called July when I was asked at a cocktail party the inevitable fallback question “So, what do you do?”  I immediately begin to brace for their reaction as I say “I am a professional, full-time, made a career out of it, in my blood, marketer.  I am in marketing.  I market. Me = marketing.”  I wait for it . . . the recoil.  The “Oh . . .uhm, how nice for....