Benchmarketing is the process of comparing one's business marketing processes to industry bests practices to find the ideal solution.
Steve: How do I know which is the right solution for my business?
Consultant: We can start by benchmarketing your business needs to match you with the best providers in the industry.
The act of promoting software or hardware by publishing bogus benchmarks with cooked up numbers that makes the product look better than its predecessors and the competition.
As an advanced technique, have some blogger push the numbers instead of putting it out in a press release.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)