It’s pretty common for people (and Dilbert) to poke fun at Marketing. The jokes typically come in three flavors:
1. Product Marketing and Public Relations often have amusing conversations as we try to describe products in colorful, but believable, ways.
2. Marketing sometimes has to use a little artistic license to get people interested in products that engineers make.
3. And really good Marketing should definitely be an Olympic sport.
These are good for a laugh but one of the best parts of my current job is that we don’t suffer from these delusions.
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June 5, 2009 at 3:10 pm |
The danger of not suffering from any marketing delusions is that your marketing becomes dry and boring. The idea is to keep the audience awake — or wake them up — not to put them to sleep.
June 6, 2009 at 11:39 pm |
Even Seth Godin agrees with me…
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
November 8, 2009 at 9:59 pm |
[...] } After I poked fun at Marketing earlier this year, several people forwarded me this classic joke about the communication issues [...]