Dunking on common marketing tactics is popular — and yes there's a lot of silliness out there. But sometimes people get so excited about the dunking they forget the reason these tactics persist is that they *work*
Benyamin Elias whenever I see someone dunking on this or that marketing tactic, I usually think: - The tactic doesn't apply to their immediate situation - They didn't get the results they wanted Either way, tactics are tools. They are neither good nor bad. It's all about the context and how you use them.
Much of marketing is lindy for a reason.
Every time you post I feel subtweeted. I should talk to my therapist about this.
Yes to this! I'm all for creativity in marketing, but I'm also a strong believer in the fact that the "boring" foundational stuff works. I try to think about it as a 60/40 approach (60% foundations, 40% creativity).
When the dunk is the alley-oop 👌
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4moI’m actually curious which tactics you think score highest on both scales: “actually effective for driving revenue” and “easy/common LI dunk target” 👀