[Cousin It writes] Your mention of marketing gave me an instant “ick, sleazy” reaction. Does Alicorn feel the same way every time she sees mentions of PUA? If so, I can finally understand where she’s coming from!
Huh?!? Seriously, marketing seems sleezy to you but PUA doesn’t? To each his own I guess.
Cousin It lives in Moscow, where people tend to have a different take on free-market institutions such as speculators, middlemen and (as now appears likely) marketing.
Cousin It lives in Moscow, where people tend to have a different take on free-market institutions such as speculators, middlemen and (as now appears likely) marketing.
Nah, I like free markets. My negative impression is more of an intellectual aversion to the output of Western marketing gurus like Seth Godin.
Cousin It has “an intellectual aversion to the output of Western marketing gurus like Seth Godin”.
Godin seems pretty icky to me too. Paul Hawken’s book Growing a Business had some nice insights into marketing.
I recently unsubsribed from Godin’s feed after a sequence of particularly atrocious posts.
clientk writes about marketing, but in a pleasant and often insightful manner.