As with so many things, marketing is not intrinsically bad, it’s what you do with it and how you use it that matters. If you are positively involved in Clint’s enterprise at any level - I myself am a free subscriber, hoping to build up enough inventory to get a website through him soon - I doubt if you see what he does and what he offers as bad. In fact, you probably see it as downright good!
I think deepash's point was not that marketing is bad, everyone has to market, but that there are a lot of people who call themselves "marketers" who are full of grift. We see those prominently on social media of today. An artist, who is primarily an artist working from the soul who also does some "marketing" is not a bad thing.
Someone chasing trends and posting twitter threads on how to get rick off of AI, who is a "professional marketer" tends to be full of hot air.
His final point being the world needs more artists, thinkers and engineers and less people squawking about nothing online.
I most certainly am not a marketer, though I do market our products, but I spend most of my time on creating.
To my way of thinking, marketing is a creative endeavor in the same sense that painting, writing, engineering, and so many other things are. When it is done for the good in noble ways, it too, can create beauty! It is sad that it is misused SO MUCH that someone like you is unwilling to call himself a marketer among all your other creative outlets.
Yes, that is true. Marketing can be good when done authentically. It just rarely is by those in the field these days. I have had to push back against "marketers" want to do things in our business because "they work" when I know they would degrade the experience for our readers and customers.
It occurs to me that maybe the word has evolved to mean something that no longer includes the noble stuff. Maybe it’s time for folks like you to invent a new word to connote the spirit of your ways and intent!
All things that mankind does, that is in a positive direction, comes from either his brain or his heart (or soul).
All things created do not necessarily ALWAYS include the heart.
Facts, data, details, etc come from the MIND.
Beauty, passion, feelings, delicate things, come from the SOUL.
To create a building takes knowledge of structure, materials, etc. BUT to have a BEAUTIFUL building is created from connecting to things not seen, from the soul.
Writing is the same: mere chatter only requires a brain and mouth that work together. But to write poetry, or stories, or movies, develops from one’s soul, from inner feelings, not mere “facts”.
Painting or the “finer arts” is the same. There are those who want to impress others (or even themselves), and their creations have a shallow existence. Whereas paintings created from observation and delivered with passion and discovery, there is an unspoken energy that goes beyond words.
As with so many things, marketing is not intrinsically bad, it’s what you do with it and how you use it that matters. If you are positively involved in Clint’s enterprise at any level - I myself am a free subscriber, hoping to build up enough inventory to get a website through him soon - I doubt if you see what he does and what he offers as bad. In fact, you probably see it as downright good!
I think deepash's point was not that marketing is bad, everyone has to market, but that there are a lot of people who call themselves "marketers" who are full of grift. We see those prominently on social media of today. An artist, who is primarily an artist working from the soul who also does some "marketing" is not a bad thing.
Someone chasing trends and posting twitter threads on how to get rick off of AI, who is a "professional marketer" tends to be full of hot air.
His final point being the world needs more artists, thinkers and engineers and less people squawking about nothing online.
I most certainly am not a marketer, though I do market our products, but I spend most of my time on creating.
I hope to see your work soon!
To my way of thinking, marketing is a creative endeavor in the same sense that painting, writing, engineering, and so many other things are. When it is done for the good in noble ways, it too, can create beauty! It is sad that it is misused SO MUCH that someone like you is unwilling to call himself a marketer among all your other creative outlets.
Yes, that is true. Marketing can be good when done authentically. It just rarely is by those in the field these days. I have had to push back against "marketers" want to do things in our business because "they work" when I know they would degrade the experience for our readers and customers.
It occurs to me that maybe the word has evolved to mean something that no longer includes the noble stuff. Maybe it’s time for folks like you to invent a new word to connote the spirit of your ways and intent!
All things that mankind does, that is in a positive direction, comes from either his brain or his heart (or soul).
All things created do not necessarily ALWAYS include the heart.
Facts, data, details, etc come from the MIND.
Beauty, passion, feelings, delicate things, come from the SOUL.
To create a building takes knowledge of structure, materials, etc. BUT to have a BEAUTIFUL building is created from connecting to things not seen, from the soul.
Writing is the same: mere chatter only requires a brain and mouth that work together. But to write poetry, or stories, or movies, develops from one’s soul, from inner feelings, not mere “facts”.
Painting or the “finer arts” is the same. There are those who want to impress others (or even themselves), and their creations have a shallow existence. Whereas paintings created from observation and delivered with passion and discovery, there is an unspoken energy that goes beyond words.
This is likely very interesting, but the writing style is so confusing I can't read through it.