Comments on: Read This if You Hate Marketing

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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:28:49 +0000

[...] Consultant, Michael Martine of Remarkablogger, had this to say in his article Read This if You Hate Marketing: As a marketing channel, blogging and social media are NOTHING like traditional marketing. They are [...]

By: Gini Grey

Gini Grey — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:15:54 +0000

I’m not big on ’selling’ but I view marketing as different – to me it’s letting people know that there is something available that might be of use to them. If you don’t let them know through various marketing strategies they might not hear about it – one way of viewing it is by seeing it as offering education, information, a gift and so on. It’s up to the recipient if they want to investigate it further.

Even just by being open to marketing your service or product – you increase your visibility energetically through intention and then law of attraction kicks in and you may not need to market as much as you first thought.

By: T-Shirt 4 you

T-Shirt 4 you — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:28:41 +0000

I really enjoyed reading this article. The whole marketing thing is new for me and it is kinda overwhelming sometimes. I wouldn’t say I hate it. There are days I love it and days I don’t.

On the end its work like anything else. Nothing comes from nothing. I will keep learning and I will try to love it more on these days where I hate it.

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:50:05 +0000

@Sonia – Indeed you are! But now the cat is out of the bag.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:13:57 +0000

I love this! I’ll often tell people who “hate marketing” that that’s ok, they can just focus on creating great communication for their customers & helping them solve their problems instead.

Because I’m sneaky that way.

By: Richard Hill

Richard Hill — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:58:30 +0000

I guess the real issues are whether you can write good stuff and whether you have the time to write good stuff. It’s not so easy for some people – even to sound like themselves. And who is Precious Roy?

By: Lisa D

Lisa D — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:03:08 +0000

Great post here. I think I might need more convincing… But I just try to keep thinking of marketing as the mechanism that will allow me to do what I love. Glad to have found your blog.

By: New Media Makes Marketing Less Yucky

New Media Makes Marketing Less Yucky — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:08:38 +0000

[...] or my Email Newsletter. Thanks for visiting!I was reading a post over at Micheal Martine’s Remarkablogger blog called “Read This if You Hate Marketing.”Â In the post he talks about how so many [...]

By: Toma Bonciu - SEO Services

Toma Bonciu - SEO Services — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:19:44 +0000

Hi Michael,

I’ve recently started to read more of Seth Godin’s articles and view some of his videos and I realized that all that I though it was marketing it wasn’t. Usually people are afraid of the unknown. Just like when you are a kid and you are at the math class and there is a problem you don’t know how to solve it : you’re afraid not to get a bad grade. Or just like when you’re afraid of the dark just because you don’t know what’s in there.

I think this is the also thecase with marketing. If you don’t know what to do and how to do it you have two options :
1. you can do the wrong thing and try to avoid marketing and “do things your way”
or
2. you can do the right thing and you can learn marketing.

Another difficult thing is understanding how to apply what you know on marketing and how to adapt it to different products/services.

But the only way to do it is to learn. It’s just like death. You can’t avoid it if you want to stay in business. So better learn how to deal with.

Thanks,
@TomaBonciu

By: Ms. Sanity

Ms. Sanity — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:41:14 +0000

Great points. I too tend to “not like” marketing even though until very recently it was basically my full time job!

I think in addition to the info on Remarkablogger the most helpful “thinking” suggestion I have been given re: marketing is to think of it as ADDING VALUE.

That may be a more comfortable way to think about it for some people including me. When I think about adding value to people’s lives I can get excited about it.

I’ll be watching you!