September 8, 2007
the trick to marketing
Hugh MacLeod
I'm a cartoonist.
I sell limited-edition prints.
I wrote a book.
I'm CEO of Stormhoek USA, which markets South African wine in the States.
I also draw private commissions.
Prints |
Opening | Current |
|---|---|---|
Bluetrain |
$900 | |
We Need to Talk |
$650 | |
Portfolio #2 |
$300 | |
NY NY |
$275 |
what if i work for a guy who THINKS he has something that cool, yet it actually sucks and repeat attempts to tell him this have failed. Its not that the angle he is coming from is rubbish or that the whole idea is rubbish. I think its just the fact that he beats us all in the office round the head beacuase we haven’t put out enough newsletters etc. in a nutshell what i am getting at is that whenever his comapny fails to achieve something he puts that on us because we are not doing our job. even though there is not enough people om the company to get the copying done let alone do anything else. anyway i’m rambling for the sake of rambling.
what im really trying to get at here is he thinks that his product/brand/idea is so fucking cool off the wall fucking trendy that it is selling itself , which means that i am doing something major wrong if i can’t sell one idea.
bearing in mind this is all deluded and is best descibed through an episode of the twighlight zone I do enjoy the fact that i have just managed to get that spelling so wrong and be the first to integrate thigh with twilight.
i really need to sleep before i realise that i have just s written bearing like BEARing like i am going out to some teenage party where you all dress as various differnt bearwitz’z
enough is enough
i must apologisige for my last post it was just stream of conciousness (thats not how yu spell that) god now i really look like a
How true! How simple! How Complex!
Adrienne Zurub
author
‘Notes From the Mothership ~ The Naked Invisibles’ due out 11/2007
http://meWeltanschauung.blogspot.com
I’M A INVENTOR AND I HAVE JUST INVENTED A TSUNAMI PROTECTOR= IT DESTROYS ALL TSUNAMI’S AND HURRICANES WAVES AND PROTECTS EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY IN BACK OF IT. YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT OTHERS WANT AND PATENTED IT, THEN TAKE IT TO TRADE SHOWS SO MARKETING BUYERS SEE IT, THEN IF INTERESTED YOU PAY THEM UP TO $40,000 TO BUILD A PROTO– TYPE AND SHOW IT AT SHOWS FOR 5 TO 8 MONTHS, IF IT DOES’NT SELL, YOU PUT IT ON THE WEB IF IT SELLS YOU MAKE YOUR DEAL WITH THE BUYER. I DONT WASTE MY MONEY ON MARKETING MY INVENTIONS, http://www.patentpages.net/6913248 is on web.
Exactly. And what makes it fun besides.
@ chumpwitz: Have you thought about maybe quitting this gig and looking for something else?