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I believe the act of marketing comes with culture-making social, linguistic, and human responsibilities.
But quick-fix, sell-fast marketing standards persist in a quickly-aging tradition of marketing to problems - not people. And everyone is losing.
Speaking Human is culture-changing. And it works.
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Start With The Words.
Enter One Word - a digital epistolary romance that examines, deconstructs, and reinvents the received language of business and marketing.
The latest "One Word" re-examines the word ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ and takes a look at the arguments for and against using them in sales pages. (Of course, there`s a fun fact about the word and testicles!).
This image shows one of the first product testimonials used in print advertising. A celebrity endorsement for London`s Pears Soap from famed opera singer Lillian Langtry.
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The most recent "One Word" email re-examines what we might mean when we use the word "afford." This word is ANCIENT, y`all. Like Iron Age old. And the ways in which it has evolved have a lot to tell us about how we look at the resources available to us.
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The business world is all a-flutter with what it`s calling "consent-based marketing."
And in general, I`m a fan. As a specialist in what I`ve termed "non-transactional list-building," I champion the cleanest kind of data collection there is - a list of folks that WANT to be on it.
But here`s the thing. Consent is a LEGAL term - which means that it is in constant contention and exists in two distinctly different worlds.
๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ด๐ต๐๐ณ๐๐น ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ`๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐จ๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ.
That`s what I`m tackling in the latest One Word. Wanna join us? Well, come on over! We re-evaluate the vocabulary of business and marketing, one word at a time ๐https://www.laraeastburn.com/oneword/
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๐๐ฝ ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ is both an idiom and a clichรฉ - and its origins are unknown. We see it appear, though, as early as 1770 - around the same time (not uncoincidentally, I`d wager) as the height of the word pickpocket.
Yeah, that tracks.
One word is a free email that re-examines the received vocabulary of business and marketing. Join us and get the FULL story behind the oddest way folks ask for help!
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I suffer from what many would consider a fatal flaw for someone in my line of work. Let`s call me ... hmmm ... video-averse. In the worlds of both marketing and songwriting, it`s not been ideal.
My rather intense disclination toward putting myself on video puts me squarely in the space of having what marketing folk call a "visibility" problem.
But what does visibility mean, anyway? And what does it mean for it to be an issue for me? That`s what I`m thinking about in the latest edition of One Word. Not subscribed yet? Let`s fix that!
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