@carnage4life I'm conflicted...
I don't like it when corporations cut jobs to save their executives' skin.
But I also think the world needs fewer marketers.
@LouisIngenthron @carnage4life easy there. not all marketing is evil. We create everything necessary to sell a product. without it, products ship in a plain cardboard box. the products are also void of any design or story. Sure a digital product is different, but marketing is vital for any business, even the ones pretending like they don't use it.
@dominicvfx @carnage4life If a product is good enough, it sells itself. Marketing exists to convince us to buy the stuff that's not good enough to sell itself. And in the information age, many terrible products proliferate *entirely* on marketing while many great products can't even break into the market because the upstarts can't compete with the big boys' multi-million-dollar marketing campaigns, even when their product is objectively better.
Modern marketing is little more than a thumb on the scale of a well-functioning free market.
@LouisIngenthron @carnage4life respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about.
There are no pictures, stories, descriptions, press releases, videos, anything without a marketing department. You're conflating different things. Most people think of marketing as some description made up in a boardroom to sell an otherwise mediocre product. While true, that's only a sliver of what a marketing department does
@dominicvfx @carnage4life I *am* the marketing department for my self-published video games and my consulting company.
Before that, I was an executive in a boardroom weighing in on marketing matters.
I'm certainly far from an expert, but I do have some experience here.
