There's a reason you're not writing your client proposal on a slice of birch bark with a quill. Well, maybe you are because you're quirky like that, but I assume most of us use a computer.
Maybe traditional advertising isn’t dead, but the traditional concept of marketing is.
Take Social Media. To many it’s a vice. But to many it’s intimidating. Allowing the consumer to have full control over what's said about your company - and spreading it all over the internet - is scary. The control is gone. But if you’re not online, you’re not part of the conversation.
Say you write a news release today. How will you get it out? You’ll email it to a few hundred people on your list, expect that they forward it to a few hundred on their lists, someone will retweet it, someone will write a blog about it, and a couple dozen will make their Facebook status. Done. And it’s 9:15am.
Now try faxing it. A couple dozen pieces of paper creep out into the world and into the hands of an intern who says “What do I do with this?”
Darwin was right. Lesson learned.
A sweet read: “The Fall of Advertising and The Rise of PR” by Al and Laura Ries.
Maybe traditional advertising isn’t dead, but the traditional concept of marketing is.
Take Social Media. To many it’s a vice. But to many it’s intimidating. Allowing the consumer to have full control over what's said about your company - and spreading it all over the internet - is scary. The control is gone. But if you’re not online, you’re not part of the conversation.
Say you write a news release today. How will you get it out? You’ll email it to a few hundred people on your list, expect that they forward it to a few hundred on their lists, someone will retweet it, someone will write a blog about it, and a couple dozen will make their Facebook status. Done. And it’s 9:15am.
Now try faxing it. A couple dozen pieces of paper creep out into the world and into the hands of an intern who says “What do I do with this?”
Darwin was right. Lesson learned.
A sweet read: “The Fall of Advertising and The Rise of PR” by Al and Laura Ries.
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