Meatball Sundae
Is Your Marketing out of Sync?
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Publisher Description
Gotta get me some of that New Marketing. Bring me blogs, e-mail, YouTube videos, MySpace pages, Google AdWords. I don't care, as long as it's shiny and new.
Wait. According to bestselling author Seth Godin, all these tactics are like the toppings at an ice cream parlor. If you start with ice cream, adding cherries and hot fudge and whipped cream will make it taste great. But if you start with a bowl of meatballs, yuck!
As traditional marketing fades away, the new tools seem irresistible. But they don't work as well for boring brands (meatballs) that might still be profitable but don't attract word of mouth, such as Cheerios, Ford trucks, Barbie dolls, or Budweiser. When Anheuser-Busch spends $40 million on an online network called BudTV, that's a meatball sundae. It leads to no new Bud drinkers, just a bad case of indigestion.
Meatball Sundae is the definitive guide to the fourteen trends no marketer can afford to ignore. It explains what to do about the increasing power of stories, not facts; about shorter and shorter attention spans; and about the new math that says five thousand people who want to hear your message are more valuable than five million who don?t.
The winners aren't just annoying start-ups run by three teenagers who never had a real job. You'll also meet older companies that have adapted brilliantly, such as Blendtec, a thirty-year-old blender maker. It now produces Will It Blend? videos that demolish golf balls, coke cans, iPhones, and much more. For a few hundred dollars, Blendtec reached more than ten million eager viewers on YouTube.
Godin doesn't pretend that it's easy to get your products, marketing messages, and internal systems in sync. But he'll convince you that it's worth the effort.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Godin's latest business handbook (after Small Is the New Big and The Dip) revisits some of his most popular marketing advice, while emphasizing that it can't just be applied willy-nilly. In past decades, he says, companies were able to get rich by making "average products for average people," but those markets have long since been sewn up; "mass is no longer achievable desirable." Rather than simply rely on mass media to raise product visibility, "New Marketing" treats every aspect of interacting with customers including customer service and the product itself as an opportunity to "grow the organization." In order to be successful with such marketing techniques, a company must change its practices across the board. Otherwise, you're just putting whipped cream on a meatball. Godin has a perspective on everything from blogs (don't bother unless you really have something to say) to the long tail (if it's as valuable to your company as the top sellers are, why aren't you paying more attention?). His arresting conversational style is sure to once again set the business world talking.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic
This book helps you understand that there are so many layers in marketing. Also, that ideas and businesses are emergent, not established or directed by the company. But by the people.
MUST read for the new business owner's!
There is an entire industry dedicated to selling advertising to new businesses. In a world where a really good salesperson can convince someone new in the business world to spend thousands of dollars on a bad advertising decision: People need to see this before they get sold!
Meatball Sundae shows how all these "neat ideas" that people will try to sell re old school and that their resources are more wisely spent on the the new media marketing (and their money will go farther, too!)
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