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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
You don't have ideas because you don't read. You can't articulate ideas because you don't write. You can't leverage ideas because you don't build. You feel bored, anxious, or overwhelmed because your mind wants ideas to flow but you won't let them. — Dan Koe
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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 · 15/12/2025
what's both your safest and wildest predictions between now and the trade deadline?
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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.
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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
*cue Vin Scully voice* Take a bow!
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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
I think the best business model is to be a good person. Not put the tease in striptease.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
She certainly introduced sizzle. A century later, shameless promoters like Elon would be proud. Her sister, June Havoc, brought the steak. While she made less money over her career, she was a great actor and supported small theaters, non-white artists, 1st amendment rights, and animal welfare.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
He isnt perfect but his net effect is more positive than almost any human that's ever lived. Why don't more billionaires create massive foundations and spend their own money to eradicate disease in africa or place moonshot bets in planet-altering companies?! Because lames expect them to fly coach.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
love it. we already had that though. For too long we had bloviating 'experts' on every topic that mattered and many that didn't, we had racism and half-truths and propaganda and misinfo... and all that was generated by meatware. Why should we expect software to be a massive improvement?
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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
And that’s the opportunity. A GM doesn’t just sign players—he defines what the team stands for to the owners and fans. Until that statement is made and lived out, we’re going to keep getting a brand of baseball that feels tepid. Minnesota and this stadium deserve more than that.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
What’s missing is what the Twins are trying to do on the field. Swing for the fences? Play a modern, analytics-driven game of high % decisions? Deliver a grit-and-grind, hustle-first squad that plays with fire and risks it all, especially when losing? Right now they are none of those things. 2/3
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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
After all that -- after turning it over a hundred times in my head, going back and forth on whether I should even share this at all, I've come to the only conclusion that feels remotely safe, fair, and true: I would like to say that I have absolutely nothing to say on this. So I’ll leave it at that.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
But after looking at every perspective, asking experts I'm connected to, going back into the research and peer reviewed sources, studying the nuances & implications of decades of controversy -- how this could be insult or be misinterpreted, just completely land wrong no matter how I say it... 2/3
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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 · 20/07/2025
Ppl saying he's washed, but defense like his takes a lot of heart. He had nothing to play for until now. Chip incoming, Rondo-style.
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The Marketing Guy @mktguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Huh? What a weird take. The Eiffel tower has been photographed 10 million times *this month* but 100 years from now people are still going to take travel photos of their kids on the grass at this exact spot. You might be saying something about influencer marketing, but I have no idea what it is.
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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!
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「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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