Comments on: I'm not a marketer http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/10/im-not-a-marketer/ Alex Hillman Writes Here Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:50:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: doing something better http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/10/im-not-a-marketer/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 doing something better Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:26:43 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=658#comment-1055 <p>[...] In my last post (just a few hours ago, I know), I mentioned how I was most fulfilled when I was doing. [...]</p> [...] In my last post (just a few hours ago, I know), I mentioned how I was most fulfilled when I was doing. [...]

]]> By: Alex Hillman http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/10/im-not-a-marketer/comment-page-1/#comment-1054 Alex Hillman Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:04:21 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=658#comment-1054 <p>@<a href="#comment-58850" rel="nofollow">alex awesome</a>: I'm trying to get away from griping about the bad marketers. They're always going to be there, and I can't see putting energy into them anymore.</p> <p>Like I said, no matter how good the police force, people will still commit crimes, be them felonies or social indiscretions.</p> @alex awesome: I’m trying to get away from griping about the bad marketers. They’re always going to be there, and I can’t see putting energy into them anymore.

Like I said, no matter how good the police force, people will still commit crimes, be them felonies or social indiscretions.

]]> By: Alex Hillman http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/10/im-not-a-marketer/comment-page-1/#comment-2268 Alex Hillman Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:04:00 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=658#comment-2268 <p>@<a href="#comment-58850" rel="nofollow">alex awesome</a>: I'm trying to get away from griping about the bad marketers. They're always going to be there, and I can't see putting energy into them anymore.</p> <p>Like I said, no matter how good the police force, people will still commit crimes, be them felonies or social indiscretions.</p> @alex awesome: I’m trying to get away from griping about the bad marketers. They’re always going to be there, and I can’t see putting energy into them anymore.

Like I said, no matter how good the police force, people will still commit crimes, be them felonies or social indiscretions.

]]> By: alex awesome http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/10/im-not-a-marketer/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 alex awesome Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:05:44 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=658#comment-1053 <p>Ugh - it seems like the topic of marketing is coming up a lot lately. I've been inundated with a lot of people following me on twitter - a lot of them marketing people. Now, as a graduate of advertising and an internet geek, as well as freelancer web services guru (wtf is that, anyway?), I'm pretty open to marketing and marketers in general.</p> <p>But seriously - using twitter as a way to spam links to your pyramid schemes is an insult to twitter and to marketing in general. The creative opportunities available as a marketing person and the creative potential of these kinds of tools (as you so aptly call them) are infinite at this point, and where there may be one dead end, you wind up having a brilliant idea for a start up. So marketing itself isn't a soul sucking, creatively empty void that so many marketers seem to think it is (at least, they certainly BEHAVE that way).</p> <p>Ugh, I've been ranting about marketers and pyramid schemes for too long on twitter. People seem to have thought, "hey, I'm a talentless hack. What would be a great career path for me? AHA! Marketing!"</p> <p>Bzzt. Wrong.</p> Ugh – it seems like the topic of marketing is coming up a lot lately. I’ve been inundated with a lot of people following me on twitter – a lot of them marketing people. Now, as a graduate of advertising and an internet geek, as well as freelancer web services guru (wtf is that, anyway?), I’m pretty open to marketing and marketers in general.

But seriously – using twitter as a way to spam links to your pyramid schemes is an insult to twitter and to marketing in general. The creative opportunities available as a marketing person and the creative potential of these kinds of tools (as you so aptly call them) are infinite at this point, and where there may be one dead end, you wind up having a brilliant idea for a start up. So marketing itself isn’t a soul sucking, creatively empty void that so many marketers seem to think it is (at least, they certainly BEHAVE that way).

Ugh, I’ve been ranting about marketers and pyramid schemes for too long on twitter. People seem to have thought, “hey, I’m a talentless hack. What would be a great career path for me? AHA! Marketing!”

Bzzt. Wrong.

]]> By: alex awesome http://dangerouslyawesome.com/2008/10/im-not-a-marketer/comment-page-1/#comment-2267 alex awesome Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:05:00 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/?p=658#comment-2267 <p>Ugh - it seems like the topic of marketing is coming up a lot lately. I've been inundated with a lot of people following me on twitter - a lot of them marketing people. Now, as a graduate of advertising and an internet geek, as well as freelancer web services guru (wtf is that, anyway?), I'm pretty open to marketing and marketers in general.</p> <p>But seriously - using twitter as a way to spam links to your pyramid schemes is an insult to twitter and to marketing in general. The creative opportunities available as a marketing person and the creative potential of these kinds of tools (as you so aptly call them) are infinite at this point, and where there may be one dead end, you wind up having a brilliant idea for a start up. So marketing itself isn't a soul sucking, creatively empty void that so many marketers seem to think it is (at least, they certainly BEHAVE that way).</p> <p>Ugh, I've been ranting about marketers and pyramid schemes for too long on twitter. People seem to have thought, "hey, I'm a talentless hack. What would be a great career path for me? AHA! Marketing!"</p> <p>Bzzt. Wrong.</p> Ugh – it seems like the topic of marketing is coming up a lot lately. I’ve been inundated with a lot of people following me on twitter – a lot of them marketing people. Now, as a graduate of advertising and an internet geek, as well as freelancer web services guru (wtf is that, anyway?), I’m pretty open to marketing and marketers in general.

But seriously – using twitter as a way to spam links to your pyramid schemes is an insult to twitter and to marketing in general. The creative opportunities available as a marketing person and the creative potential of these kinds of tools (as you so aptly call them) are infinite at this point, and where there may be one dead end, you wind up having a brilliant idea for a start up. So marketing itself isn’t a soul sucking, creatively empty void that so many marketers seem to think it is (at least, they certainly BEHAVE that way).

Ugh, I’ve been ranting about marketers and pyramid schemes for too long on twitter. People seem to have thought, “hey, I’m a talentless hack. What would be a great career path for me? AHA! Marketing!”

Bzzt. Wrong.

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