Most people, when starting a relationship, tend to be all about themselves. Here is what I do, here is what I think, here is where I go, here is what I like. The hope, in this case, is to have someone on the other side of the table that finds what we have to offer … Continue reading Keys and locks
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Off the road
If you play on trite stereotypes, and execute poorly, marketing can easily backfire. When you take it off the road, on the other hand, you can have fun with it and entertain people. It's mainly a matter of personality.
The emperor has no clothes
A good portion of traffic on the internet is made up. Voice search optimization is not as important as we thought it was. The importance of videos for marketing has been inflated. In the first three months of 2019, Facebook has removed nearly as many fake accounts as there are real ones (2.2 billion to … Continue reading The emperor has no clothes
Only if you kill it
A couple of examples of how to make advertisement in the shape of content, or content in the shape of advertisement. Anticipated. Personal. Relevant. Both are from the last episode of the podcast Pivot, with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. First, around minute 19:10, during the break for commercials, Kara interviews Gavin Belson, the fictional … Continue reading Only if you kill it
Shout
What is it that you have that others don't? What can you offer that is unique, difficult to replicate and of value? What do you have to say that we have not heard a thousand times before? If you try to get the attention with something that is in abundance, the only chance you'll have … Continue reading Shout
DID marketers
Marketers (but to be honest, this is valid for most business people) suffer from a clear case of dissociative identity disorder, what was once called multiple personality disorder. On one hand, they are customers. And as such, they are for the most part frustrated and unsatisfied with companies and their services (and I mean services … Continue reading DID marketers
Get to their point
The more words you use to describe what you do, the less the chances it's going to be relevant for the person you are introducing it to. We got used to jargon, adverbs, adjectives, buzz words, complex sentences, convoluted paragraphs, confusing language tricks and zero substance. Our brain is trained to disconnect as soon as … Continue reading Get to their point
