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!!

Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.

“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

Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.

The problem with most marketing parlance is that it's dehumanising. The language causes marketers to think of people not as human beings with real human needs, but as a resource of potential consumers to be manipulated into parting with their money. The task of marketing becomes a left-brain, ‘control and numbers' exercise instead of a human exchan