The worst part of adulthood is when you stop seeing "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" as a cute tongue twister and start to see it more as a lesson about an entrepreneur who fails to understand localized market economics
CEO of bookmarking random marketing threads, using none of them in my day job since everything moves so fast and the problems end up being so anecdotal that little of the advice matters, and then bookmarking more anyway
You ever wonder why the sounds you hear from Netflix and HBO starting up are cemented in your head?
It's all part of a fun phenomenon of sound called sonic branding.
I wrote all about sonic branding, why it matters and some musings on its future 🎶
@likaluca
@doliver8
“Passion is never enough; neither is skill. But try. Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
Hidden gem on Netflix is
@TheIndianDet
- great performances by Russell Peters/Anupam Kher and brilliant storylines. Romantic comedy meets crime drama 🕵🏽♂️
@baeenelle
@jaboukie
"He said, whoever has the youth has the future. Fill your children’s minds with what is true and right and noble, and then they can overcome evil with good because they can actually discern between what is evil and what is good.”
The context is still terrible lol
He'll tweet while you are sleeping
He'll tweet when you're awake
He'll tweet when things are bad or good
He'll tweet until things break
#AddTrumpRuinAnXmasSong
Thinking about how owls might be one of the most historically overrated marketing channels. Hogwarts sent Harry 150 letters and he opened none of them. Abysmal conversion rates. Patently negative ROI. Blowing up their CAC for no damn reason smh
@likaluca
@doliver8
From the same speech: “Make up a story. Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. We will not blame you if your reach exceeds your grasp; if love so ignites your words they go down in flames and nothing is left but their scald.”
In personal news , beyond excited to share that I’ll be starting a new life chapter with the PT MBA program at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business this Fall! 🐻🎉
Honestly so excited to see half of you become CMOs in a few years and change nothing about your Twitter personalities lol. We're about to see a generation of C-Suite tweeting shitty puns and fan cams and I'm here for all of it 🥲
@heyalexfriedman
Aww I really like this - I work in tech and my partner is a therapist and we're both so endlessly fascinated by each other's jobs slash recognize how hard they are since it's a foreign domain. Definitely like the balance :)
For anyone in marketing looking for a revelatory doc, the Abercrombie downfall on Netflix is a good watch. Fascinating to look at things traditionally celebrated in brand building (associations, scarcity, seeding aspiration) and how it all blew up 👀🍿
Is anyone just bamboozled by the Facebook notification system these days? Feel like I’m getting friend updates I never subscribed to, page updates for pages I haven’t engaged with in months, nothing actually related to site activity. Complete chaos 😵💫
ME: "When you've worked in marketing for a while, you can't get easily influenced by the ads. You start to notice tricks. You know what their end goal is."
ALSO ME: *Inexplicably on the Kith website after five seconds of seeing a Steve Buschemi fashion ad*