Posts Tagged ‘Seth Godin’

This week, I’ve been writing about marketing during a recession – about how recessions are opportunities to gain market share, the illusion of stability in marketing, and the role of risk.
But what if you take that risk and fail? I was interested to hear how marketing gurus framed failure and what we could all learn [...]

This week, I have been discussing marketing during a recession. Yesterday, I wrote about the illusion of stability and that post ended by leading into a discussion of risk.
Most dictionaries (including this one, this one, and this one) talk about risk from a negative point of view. Risk is a chance to suffer harm, possibility [...]

Yesterday, I outlined how a recession can provide marketing opportunities. In thinking about the ever shifting economic markets, I wonder how marketers in particular should approach the idea of stability in the first place.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a college senior majoring in marketing or a small business owner or a brand manager at [...]

Are you outsourcing the most valuable aspect of your business? Or worse yet, not paying attention to it at all?
Technology has been replacing humans at work for many years. And recently the remaining humans in American and elsewhere have been replaced by other humans in areas that pay lower wages. The result has been a [...]

Is the concept of the Big Idea dead in advertising? How much has the internet and Web 2.0 specifically altered the fundamentals of the industry?
In his 1983 book, On Advertising, master David Ogilvy held forth on the central tenet to sell products:
“You can do homework from now until doomsday, but you will never win fame [...]