It deserves a more stylish name because it’s the highly leveraged art of studying and observing all sorts of successful marketing techniques and concepts that companies totally outside your normal sphere are using.
Nothing that’s protected by copyright,of course−but inventive, freely available ideas that,with a twist here and turns there, can be put to work at the task of helping you grow your business.
I’ll give you a real-life example of what I have in mind:
「私の考えを実例とともにご紹介していきましょう。」
・・・この後で“創造的にまねる”ことの具体例が紹介されるようですよ!
さて、どんな内容でしょうか?・・・
A friend of mine in the precious metals business was sitting at home one evening reading his mail,and he saw a solicitation from a large insurance company offering to compare its rates with his current insurance costs.