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Meatball Sundae

Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

By Seth Godin

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| Hardcover | 9781591841746

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“Gotta get me some of that New Marketing. Bring me blogs, e-mail, YouTube videos, MySpace pages, Google AdWords . . . I don’t care, as long as it’s shiny and new.”

Wait. According to bestselling author Seth Godin, all these tactics are like the toppings at an ice cream parlor. If you start Continue

“Gotta get me some of that New Marketing. Bring me blogs, e-mail, YouTube videos, MySpace pages, Google AdWords . . . I don’t care, as long as it’s shiny and new.”

Wait. According to bestselling author Seth Godin, all these tactics are like the toppings at an ice cream parlor. If you start with ice cream, adding cherries and hot fudge and whipped cream will make it taste great. But if you start with a bowl of meatballs . . . yuck!

As traditional marketing fades away, the new tools seem irresistible. But they don’t work as well for boring brands (“meatballs”) that might still be profitable but don’t attract word of mouth, such as Cheerios, Ford trucks, Barbie dolls, or Budweiser. When Anheuser-Busch spends $40 million on an online network called BudTV, that’s a meatball sundae. It leads to no new Bud drinkers, just a bad case of indigestion.

Meatball Sundae is the definitive guide to the fourteen trends no marketer can afford to ignore. It explains what to do about the increasing power of stories, not facts; about shorter and shorter attention spans; and about the new math that says five thousand people who want to hear your message are more valuable than five million who don’t.

The winners aren’t just annoying start-ups run by three teenagers who never had a real job. You’ll also meet older companies that have adapted brilliantly, such as Blendtec, a thirty-year-old blender maker. It now produces “Will it blend?” videos that demolish golf balls, Coke cans, iPhones, and much more. For a few hundred dollars, Blendtec reached more than ten million eager viewers on YouTube.

Godin doesn’t pretend that it’s easy to get your products, marketing messages, and internal systems in sync. But he’ll convince you that it’s worth the effort.

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  • Seth’s books are hard to walk past, the packaging is just too inviting. And this one even came with a bookmark. I read this book in a day, this is where a long train commute comes in handy.

    New Marketing seeks to interact to the max, by telling stories and sending messages only with permission of t ... (continue)

    Seth’s books are hard to walk past, the packaging is just too inviting. And this one even came with a bookmark. I read this book in a day, this is where a long train commute comes in handy.

    New Marketing seeks to interact to the max, by telling stories and sending messages only with permission of the receiver. Meatball sundae challenges you to compare old and new marketing in relations to 14 trends. Some of these trends: the extreme short attention span, the Long Tail (and the Short Head), the triumph of great ideas. The book then challenges you (your organization) to get going and change (and become that organization which can profit most from New Marketing).

    Read this if you want to know more about Josiah Wedgwood (Darwin’s grandfather btw), a great marketeer, advertising on toilets and the 1% rule. And why blogs matter (great to get a confirmation from the master himself).

    A Godin truism: some organizations seems to watch the world change, in disbelieve. And others, adapt and act! Oddity for me: “Book readers and newspaper readers”. I hardly ever read newspapers, I read books. Pls read the book as well if you want to figure out the title. Don’t worry, meatballs are still fine, they just won’t get you any growth.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 256 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1591841747
  • ISBN-13: 9781591841746
  • Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
  • Pub date: Dec 27, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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