ethical marketing
“Rough layouts sell the idea better than polished ones. If you show a highly polished computer layout, the client will focus on the execution not the idea. Show a scribble. Explain it. Talk through it. Involve your client. Let them use their imagination.”
Sharing data requires a level of intimacy with a brand. Two main rules of intimacy are: one – it is mutual, two – it takes time to build.
David Mannheim • The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal

“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
blog.intercom.com • So You Want to Build a Brand? Here's What You Need to Understand. - Inside Intercom
It helped me to think of marketing as simply: sharing my work with one person at a time — even if what I do on the internet can be accessed by everyone, anyone, anywhere. (This is the magic of the internet: asynchronous intimacy at scale, across distances.) This intimacy draws me closer. It lets me be more honest, more inspired, more real — like I’... See more
introvert marketing for creative hermits — kening zhu
