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The Marketing Guy

@mktguy.bsky.social
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I'm just a marketing guy. I also may have opinions on tech, sales, the creator economy, sustainability, AI, brand strategy, design, or foreign policy. In that order.

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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What customers are we trying to win? How are we building demand rather than renting it? What value do we create or have permission to capture? Which bets on the future are we making? What does the brand enable the enterprise to do? What should we refuse to become?
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The mind doesn't want to be entertained. It wants to be used. Boredom isn't the absence of stimulation. It's the sound of unused capacity asking for a job. — AËLA
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if this is enough.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if a nap counts as goals.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if pigs have plans.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if I'm living life or remembering it as I go.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder whether happiness melts faster when you notice it.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if comfort is 'settling' with better branding.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if the future knows how unprepared I am.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if that banana feels like time is running out.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if books feel judged by their covers.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if rain will stop falling for me.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if coincidences rehearse.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I wonder if time knows when I'm watching it.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I wonder if my bologna sandwich gets mad when I bite it.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I wonder where all the unicorns are hiding.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I wonder if boy ladybugs are called boybugs.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I wonder if shoes feel sad when they don't fit me anymore.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I wonder how tomorrow knows how to get here.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Pandering to any foreign president by buying his merch and standing in front of a Ford is just uniquely terrible comms strategy from Toyota.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Silicon Valley: Where some startups are born, some eaten, and most starve and die.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Being a cop has never sucked more and never mattered more. Most of the job is dealing with problems they can't solve or fix and shouldn’t have to. The last 1% is @#$! terrifying. That makes coppers hang together, and that causes trouble because they can’t belong to one another—but they inevitably do
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is one of the most shocking interviews with @ichotiner.bsky.social I have read in a while. How can Biden's head of communications be so bad at... communicating? Forming a clear and coherent argument? Fun drinking game, but for every time you visibly cringe reading this @newyorker.com piece.
newyorker.com
Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party
Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Construction is the unofficial soundtrack of sleep deprivation.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If states follow the will of the people and put Trump on ballots a 3rd time he can rewrite the Constitution. Boom. Legal!
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Trump's new gold ballroom isn't about the economy or healthcare cuts. It's about doing what's right.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I think Trump was really brave for bailing out Argentina with our tax dollars.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Humans have walked the earth for 300,000 years and we get to live in the one where Shohei hits three home runs and gives up just two hits on 10Ks in 6 shutout innings. In the playoffs. Is this the greatest game ever played? Did we just watch that?
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If you can get your ego, worth and self esteem crushed slowly, you can get your ego, worth and self esteem crushed quickly.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The UN Security Council is broken. Countries in it are not aligned while countries that should be (India, Japan, Germany) are not allowed in. What's not broken? The UN is a reminder of the things the US used to stand up for after WWII, things that we aren't so sure we are standing up for anymore.
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Vanessa Franz @vfranzy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I started thinking about building CreatorScore in November of 2024 and today have built something I'm especially proud of. And it's just gets better and better with every push. Check out my demo 👇🏼
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
cybersecurity will capture more revenue than all the big AI companies over the next decade.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Great sentiment. Here’s the thing—they could be so much more. When marketers think about building a great brand or product, they start with a statement of what that *thing* is trying to do. It's a singular idea that shapes culture, tone, and every decision that follows. 1/3
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Fascism isn't coming. It is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet." --William Gibson
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Look I want to be honest -- but also careful, because I know everyone’s got a take on this, and the last thing I’m trying to do is offend anyone, seem overly emotional, or act like my view is the only one that matters. Basically, I’ve gone deep & really tried to look at this from all angles... 1/3
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
You know, it's funny, every time I use google I think "Man I wish they would shove more stuff in my face before the actual search results."
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Is the Shiseido ad from Sho Yanagisawa of The Directors Guild one of the greatest cosmetic ads ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TAH... We think so. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
youtube.com
「High School Girl? メーク女子高生のヒミツ」本編
YouTube video by ガジェット通信(GETNEWSJP)
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Is the Spike Jonze feat Margaret Qualley Kenzo World ad one of the greatest fragrance spots ever? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoMq... We think so. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
youtube.com
Kenzo World
YouTube video by Sephora Brasil
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The only thing that trumps antipathy is a possible profit.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It is possible that the only reason humans will stop killing each other is because we will accidentally kill our planet first.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
...It is entirely possible for someone to have a kind heart, in the right place, and a head wedged impossibly far up their own ass.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We completed a lap, and it's time for that time-honored annual reminder that we can all love and celebrate our country even if we disagree with the mendacious @#$! that run it. Patriotism is always distinct from nationalism. Happy birthday, America. Get it the @#$! together, mkay? #independenceday
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A positive note for those who care about the war in Ukraine. Russia's national foreign wealth fund has been depleted by roughly 75%. Inflation is at 9.9%, federal interest rates are at 20% and real wages are increasing by 19% to keep up. Not an economics expert, but that's bad, comrade.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
"...and so fellow kids, that's how Vine became Musical,ly which became TikTok."
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I love Dennis, but $15M a year is insane from a Kings franchise that often makes the Pels look like braniacs. Instantly becomes a nearly untradable contract.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In just the latest Democratic marketing and messaging failure, almost HALF of Americans polled have never heard of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' and only 8% know there is going to be significant Medicare and Medicaid cuts, as it slowly reaches senate approval. Shocking: priorities.org/news-and-pre...
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This JM paper exposes a major flaw in how ad platforms like Meta run our A/B tests. Turns out, variants aren’t really shown to the same people. Different ads go to different subgroups—so results are skewed from the start. Stop doing digital A/B tests, dummy.
journals.sagepub.com
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Countdown to the executive order directing all agencies to purchase these plans and phones. The fact this is seen as "patriotic" is like a bad simulacrum of marketing come to destroy our nation for its sins. Of all the things to foist upon MAGA, gold-painted overpriced MVNO TracFones are the worst.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I think it's clear that makes so AI scary isnt the tech, but the context: It comes as the US worker today is underpaid, non unionized and under-protected, doesn't have great healthcare or benefits, and while the income inequality is already so great and growing. Any disruption presents great risk.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Listening to friends--vet, doctor, lawyer, chef, architect-- explain why they HATE their jobs is eye-opening to me. I love my job. I always have. Sure, there's some not-great parts, and many marketing jobs I have turned down over the years, but I'll forever love the art and craft of marketing.
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