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Peter Drucker and The Purpose of Marketing

Peter Drucker and The Purpose of Marketing

I like the idea of marketing making selling unnecessary. If you have to do a lot of personal selling of your product or service, then perhaps your marketing is not very effective. I also like Tom Asacker’s point that marketing should deliver value to people in exchange for their time and attention. Check out Tom …

10 Free Copies Of Marketing Design Blog Book

10 Free Copies Of Marketing Design Blog Book

JKR is a marketing design firm from the UK that has worked with brands like Guinness, Mars, and Molton Brown. They have put together a book of their past year’s blog posts on marketing design titled Is Brad Pitt a fishfinger and approached me to give away some copies. I think it is a smart …

Consumer Psychology in a Recession: Harvard Business School Video

Recession = Time to Build Market Share

Microsoft’s Answer to Apple vs PC

What I Would Have Learned If I Attended New Media Expo

Marketing: Not the Source of Unhappiness

Marketing: Not the Source of Unhappiness

In a recent post Seth Godin wrote a post called Destroying Happiness where he cites marketing as a source for unhappiness in the world. “What you have doesn’t make you unhappy. What you want does. And want is created by us, the marketers. Marketers trying to grow market share will always work to make their non-customers unhappy.” …