Blandvertising [https://marketingexperiments.com/copywriting/writing-meaningful-copy]. It’s a word I coined 13 years ago to describe a wishy-washy marketing claim. The type of words that fill a copy block. They look right. And it’s probably sprinkled with words like “scalable,’ ‘ecosystem,’ ‘user-centric,’ ‘best-in-class,’ ‘leading,’ and on and on. But after you read them or hear them you realize – they don’t really say anything at all. So I loved this lesson I read in a podcast guest a...
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Blandvertising [https://marketingexperiments.com/copywriting/writing-meaningful-copy]. It’s a word I coined 13 years ago to describe a wishy-washy marketing claim. The type of words that fill a copy block. They look right. And it’s probably sprinkled with words like “scalable,’ ‘ecosystem,’ ‘user-centric,’ ‘best-in-class,’ ‘leading,’ and on and on. But after you read them or hear them you realize – they don’t really say anything at all. So I loved this lesson I read in a podcast guest a...
Open-Source Start-up Marketing Strategy: Sometimes you need to poke the snake (episode #147)
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Open-Source Start-up Marketing Strategy: Sometimes you need to poke the snake (episode #147)
I love the movie City Slickers. If you’re unfamiliar, Billy Crystal is a Manhattanite, has a midlife crisis, and goes out West on a cattle drive to try to figure life out. Spoiler alert, the crusty old cowboy teaches him that the secret to life is – ‘One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean shhh…” Well, you get the idea. It struck me that this is a great brand lesson as well. You’ve seen the stats – our ideal customer simply gets hammered with messages every...
How I Made it in Marketing
Blandvertising [https://marketingexperiments.com/copywriting/writing-meaningful-copy]. It’s a word I coined 13 years ago to describe a wishy-washy marketing claim. The type of words that fill a copy block. They look right. And it’s probably sprinkled with words like “scalable,’ ‘ecosystem,’ ‘user-centric,’ ‘best-in-class,’ ‘leading,’ and on and on. But after you read them or hear them you realize – they don’t really say anything at all. So I loved this lesson I read in a podcast guest a...
