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Podcast: Why all the warfare in marketing?

September 7th, 2009

Terms in marketing have a war-like connotation and there are reasons for that:

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History

  • Pre-rennaissance (Dark Ages)
  • Merchant class
  • Perceived competition from aristocracy
  • Charters were set up for corporations
  • Marriage between kings and corporations began a conquest that has not ended

Terms

  • Targets (extracts value from the people)
  • Forces (sales)
  • Revolutions (astroturfing)
  • Capture (attention)
  • Competition (closed source)

Business is better achieved not by warfare but by diplomatic tactics.