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Marketing - Journalism | | Dutch term or phrase: De return komt echter niet vanzelf | This is an article about e-marketing for a business school's magazine. I'm looking for a good, fluent alternative to my "There's no such thing as a free lunch", which isn't entirely appropriate, I feel.
Interviewee x (the school's web content manager) has just ticked off the advantages of e-marketing. Then:
**De return komt echter niet vanzelf.** Online marketing is een prijzige, tijdsintensieve bezigheid en vergt de nodige voorbereiding. Een van de sleutels tot succes is een goed verhaal. “Een boodschap zonder inhoud brengt niets op,” weet x. |
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| | to generate a return, you need to keep at it | Explanation:
The way I read it, the person is saying that you can't just sit back and watch the return come in. You need to work at it. The following sentences seem to bear this about: it costs a lot of time and money. |
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Chris Hopley
Netherlands
Local time: 07:44
| Grading comment I actually decided to use something completely different (The rewards don't come easily, though) but this is closest in flavour and pointed me in the right direction. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
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12 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1
17 mins confidence: The returns won't come without investment
Explanation:
In het Nls is enkelvoud 'return' gebruikt maar ik zou het zo zeggen: komen niet vanzelf - won't come without investment
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