Sam Blumenthal

The desire for good advice drives Chinese consumers to turn to experts. In China, “even farmers have become influencers,” Weinswig said. “People will buy their groceries from a farmer on a livestream.”

Stories act as the electromagnetic force that puts these collisions in motion. It convinces ideas of different charges to collide instead of repel. It coaxes the stern, unforgiving laws of physics with a sprinkle of alchemy that turns energy into serendipity, fission into magic.

The reality is,  all marketing spend, from PR to Facebook direct response ads, create a context that acquires a consumer.

In eCommerce, there is no such thing as 'direct response'. A user may interact or click on an ad, but more times than not, the transaction happens later. There is also no such thing as organic traffic or revenue.  Somewhere

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