🤯 How much should I be investing in brand?
Brand and performance marketing are not opposite sides of extremes. While they have important distinctions, brand and performance marketing are best utilized in harmony to achieve 1+1>2: their combined impact is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
A Founder’s Framework for Understanding Performance vs. Brand Marketing for Your Startup
The difference is about what happens after the ad runs: Direct marketing is action oriented. And it is measured. Brand marketing is culturally oriented. And it can’t be measured. If you run an ad on Facebook and count your clicks, and then measure how many of them convert, you’re doing direct marketing. If you put a billboard by the side of the hig
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Brand marketing makes magic; direct marketing makes the phone ring
Seth Godin • This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
The second assumption is just as dangerous: it is the dangerously linear assumption that the best way to build a brand is to set out to build a brand. I really don’t believe this. I think if you set out to build a great business, you’ll stand a fair chance of building a great brand. I am not equally confident that someone aspiring to build a great
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