http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/03/pinko-marketing.html

or you could go to the wiki and add your own!

http://www.pinkomarketing.com

(please do…like pinko, it’s a collaborative, community effort)

@ Jeff…thanks for the hat tip. The link is a little wonky, though.

“The commons…the producers…will decide what makes it ‘to market’, what flourishes, what dies, what is ignored, what is celebrated…whatever”

What does that actually mean, if anything? Are the management not ‘producers’? or are is the code monkey the only ‘common’ here in our digital age? Some of these points make sence (I think) but the only think ‘commie’ about this is the way it murders language and meaning. The guy who wrote this should live in North Korea for a few years before using the word ‘commie’ ever again.

The internet is a means by which the “proletariat” can quickly become the bourgeoisie instead of overthrowing it. Instead of the zero-sum world that Marx imagined, everyone rises. Every efficiency the web creates means a better marketplace as a whole.

Marx wanted to convert capital into common property. If anyone here wants to give their money to me, I’m open to it. But I don’t see it happening.

This manifesto is really a tip of the cap to Ayn Rand, not Karl Marx. He’d be appalled by all the proletariat jobs its has killed.

Marketing is the construction of demand.

Good marketing creates demand for products — it’s easiest when the products are good, and harder when they aren’t. it’s not like anything this guy is saying is wrong — there’s some insight here especially around the idea that the “insiders” are lagging the masses on some things.

In particular his point about marketing budget not changing your advantage is very interesting — however, if you went back and read Al Reis, you’d see little has changed in 30 years (really). First success has to be PR driven (and achieve actual takeoff from usage). After that, advertising, in fact does matter. Sure — great products can take off with little marketing spend – but keeping things going after a certain point takes money and scale.

Also, this idea that we’re all sick of being marketed to is just BS. The iPod’s marketing is slicker than slick. Classic big spend product marketing. And it works. And, it was led by urban “elites” and thought leaders, and has pushed into the mass market.

Friendster took off on the coasts, and bounced around the middle before being one-upped by mySpace and thefacebook (launched at harvard)….again, early adopter moving to mass market.

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