Marketing is eating itself from the inside
my cheesy oversimplification that i do think is true is that ultimately marketing is simply about publicly being in love with the problem-space that you’re operating in. your product, sure, but why did you make the product? because you cared about the problem, right? show us!!
In a sense marketing is an optimization process. One that’s responsible for bringing about the highest possible outcome out of a marketing mix.
It’s not our sole job to merely grab people’s attention. Look around. We’re living in the the attention economy, where it’s everyone’s job to grab people’s attention! We’re literally outsourcing comms to non
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content marketing vs world-building — kening zhu
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Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread. Marketers offer solutions, opportunities for humans to solve their problems and move forward.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
“To me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very noisy world. And we’re not going to get the chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us.” — Steve Jobs