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Food for Thought
In this week’s Food for Thought, a few notes about fellow high school classmate Gary Vaynerchuk. A fair number of folks think he’s something of a con man, a guy reciting the obvious (Hustle! Work hard!) and receiving disproportionate attention and compensation for it.
The reality is, the people who dislike Gary’s message for its obviousness aren’t the ones who need it. The Type-A workaholics who excel simply for the sake of excelling find Gary’s message pointless. We’re already winning the game, we already know how to hustle and get stuff done. We don’t especially need his enthusiasm or his example to motivate us.
However, there is an entire legion of people who need Gary’s message desperately. People who need strong external motivators need to be told to work hard. People who expect a trophy just for showing up need someone to dispense some tough love that life isn’t fair. People who wait for the world to hand them success need to hear that they have to get off their butts and hustle.
We have always needed messengers of the obvious in every generation, from Dale Carnegie, to Art Linkletter, to Zig Ziglar, to Tom Hopkins, to Richard Bandler, to Stephen Covey, to Tony Robbins. Each of them has told many of us things we already know: success doesn’t come easy. Gary is the latest incarnation, and his fans need him as much as previous generations’ audiences needed their messengers to give them the lift they needed.
This Week in Marketing
Find New Marketing Strategies with the 2×2 Matrix
11 Top Marketing Podcasts to Tune Into via Campaign Monitor
30 Tech Marketing Leaders Changing The Industry via Synthesio
The Three Cs of Messaging and Positioning in Marketing: Pick Any Two via Jake Sorofman
Social Media Marketing
Do People Share More Than They Read?
Instagram will show ads to the 150 million people viewing Stories daily
Official YouTube Blog: Can we chat? Hello Super Chat!
Why Iceland has replaced celebrities with micro-influencers via Econsultancy
Media and Public Relations
Online Reputation Management and SEO: Dealing With Bad Reviews
What is Data-Driven PR, Part 7: Refinement
It Pays to Get to Know Your Superconsumers
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Tools, Tech, and AI
New Free Software: Extracting Bounced Marketing Emails
Google Accidentally Leaks Major Update Coming to Voice via Digital Trends
Quantum Computing Is Real, and D-Wave Just Open-Sourced It via WIRED
Saving you bandwidth on Google+ through machine learning
The Stunning Elbphilharmonie Is What Happens When Algorithms Design a Concert Hall via WIRED
Analytics, Stats, and Measurement
6 Steps to Effective Data Preparation for Quality Conclusions
Explaining Statistical Goodness of fit Tests with Beer (Statistics)
How to win in the age of analytics via McKinsey & Company
IBM Watson Analytics Mobile on the App Store
SEO, Google, and Advertising
How to Refresh Blog Content for Improved SEO and Traffic
Google confirms rolling out the mobile intrusive interstitials penalty yesterday
How to Find and Fix 14 Technical SEO Problems That Can Be Damaging Your Site Now via Moz
Programmatic 101: What are user scoring and propensity modelling? via Econsultancy
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Good Reads and Interesting Stuff
Language Learning Showdown: Rosetta Stone vs. Duolingo
The End Of Pay and Pray via AVC
The Mind of an Octopus via Scientific American
Fun, Games, and Entertainment
Follow the f/8 Rule to Shoot Excellent Street Photos on the Go
Officers’ Quarters: Raiding in the Legion economy via Blizzard Watch
Transform Any Ordinary Piece Of Paper Into A VR Controller
Economics, Politics, and Society
The Ancient Toy That Could Improve Health Care in the Developing World via The Atlantic
The U.S. Economy in 2017: Why Uncertainty Is the ‘Biggest Risk’ via Knowledge@Wharton
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Upcoming Events
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Events:
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- Social Media Marketing World, March, San Diego
- Demandbase Marketing Innovation Summit, April, San Francisco
- NATIONAL 101, May, Montreal
- MarketingProfs B2B Forum, October, Boston
Conclusion
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