Management, Books and Learning

New era Marketing by being Purple cow The Purple cow Here are 3 lessons from the book: We live in the third era of advertising, where marketing is mainly done through word-of-mouth. Not taking risks is riskier than taking risks. If you want your product to succeed, focus on early adopters as your first customers. Lesson 1: Today marketing is mainly done through word-of-mouth recommendations. Seth walks us through the history of advertising and says there were three distinct periods. Before advertising  was way back in ancient times, when people could only spread the word about great deals with their mouths. For example in ancient Rome, when one of the vendors on the market sold particularly good fish, everyone who bought one would of course tell all their friends and family. Likely, the next time they’d go to the market, they’d visit that same vendor. During advertising  was the time during the 18- ...