Meatball Sundae explains why adding new marketing tools to an outdated business rarely works—and how entrepreneurs can align their products, organization, and customer relationships with modern marketing.
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Seth Godin argues that websites, social media, viral ideas, and permission marketing cannot rescue a conventional organization selling average products to average people. Effective new marketing requires the business itself—its products, structure, promises, and customer interactions—to evolve alongside its promotional methods.
Through fourteen connected trends, the book examines direct producer-customer communication, amplified consumer voices, authentic storytelling, shorter attention spans, the Long Tail, shifting scarcity, abundant communication channels, and the growing importance of reaching the right people rather than the largest audience. Listeners will understand why modern marketing is an organizational strategy, not a collection of digital tactics, and how businesses can avoid combining incompatible products and marketing methods.
Meatball Sundae explains why adding new marketing tools to an outdated business rarely works—and how entrepreneurs can align their products, organization, and customer relationships with modern marketing.
Seth Godin argues that websites, social media, viral ideas, and permission marketing cannot rescue a conventional organization selling average products to average people. Effective new marketing requires the business itself—its products, structure, promises, and customer interactions—to evolve alongside its promotional methods.
Through fourteen connected trends, the book examines direct producer-customer communication, amplified consumer voices, authentic storytelling, shorter attention spans, the Long Tail, shifting scarcity, abundant communication channels, and the growing importance of reaching the right people rather than the largest audience. Listeners will understand why modern marketing is an organizational strategy, not a collection of digital tactics, and how businesses can avoid combining incompatible products and marketing methods.
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