The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026What 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? 010
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The 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 111
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I wonder if I'm living life or remembering it as I go. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I wonder whether happiness melts faster when you notice it. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I wonder if comfort is 'settling' with better branding. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I wonder if the future knows how unprepared I am. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I wonder if that banana feels like time is running out. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I wonder if my bologna sandwich gets mad when I bite it. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I wonder if shoes feel sad when they don't fit me anymore. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Pandering to any foreign president by buying his merch and standing in front of a Ford is just uniquely terrible comms strategy from Toyota. 010
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Silicon Valley: Where some startups are born, some eaten, and most starve and die. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Being 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 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025This 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.comWhy Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic PartyKarine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent. 010
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Construction is the unofficial soundtrack of sleep deprivation. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025If states follow the will of the people and put Trump on ballots a 3rd time he can rewrite the Constitution. Boom. Legal! 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Trump's new gold ballroom isn't about the economy or healthcare cuts. It's about doing what's right. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025I think Trump was really brave for bailing out Argentina with our tax dollars. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Humans 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? 020
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025If you can get your ego, worth and self esteem crushed slowly, you can get your ego, worth and self esteem crushed quickly. 010
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The 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. 000
Reposted by The Marketing GuyVanessa Franz @vfranzy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I 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 👇🏼 111
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025cybersecurity will capture more revenue than all the big AI companies over the next decade. 010
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Great 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. 1/3 110
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 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Look 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... 1/3 100
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025You 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." 110
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Is 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) 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Is 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.comKenzo WorldYouTube video by Sephora Brasil 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The only thing that trumps antipathy is a possible profit. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025It is possible that the only reason humans will stop killing each other is because we will accidentally kill our planet first. 000
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. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025We 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 030
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025A 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. 010
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025"...and so fellow kids, that's how Vine became Musical,ly which became TikTok." 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I 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. 000
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025In 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... 021
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025journals.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.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 100
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Countdown 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. 110
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I 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. 100
The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Listening 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. 010