Everything Is Marketing

Jul 25, 2011

This has been doing the rounds for the last decade or so: the idea that marketing is not just some appendage to be bolted on externally, but something more central and baked-in.

But of course, you can take that idea too far.

You can make it a silly idea.

No idea is so good that it can’t be made silly, with just a little application. Heh.

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Michael E. Gruen

13 years ago

I think if you replace “marketing” with “New York” the comic still works.

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