If no one is marketing a product, then nobody knows about it.
But then, I don't exist to do business. Acquiring profit isn't my goal. Acquiring status, rank, or advantage over my fellows isn't my goal. Its the goal of those we let run roughshod over the rest of us justified by phrases like "well its just human nature to be greedy; nothing to be done!" or "If I don't do it someone else will!"
This is how low we've sunk: lying is so normalized that we can't envison a world without it.
Not necessarily. First, you somehow need to reach the initial batch of customers - whether by free samples or talking to power users, you're already engaging in marketing. Then, even when they like your product, they have no obligation to do the advertising for you, for free.
And it's possible the company folds before the product reaches the critical mass to rely just on word-of-mouth.
But at the same time I think only relying on word of mouth is a bit biased against people who aren't starting with an advantage of a pre-existing network for whatever worthwhile service they could be offering.
That being said, plenty of successful service based freelancers will tell you most of their business is from referrals at a certain point. It's just hard to get to that point. (I say this as someone who only gets business from referrals right now, but wants that to not be the case.)
Yea idk, I totally agree with you in spirit. But I care about practicality and I have found worthwhile services from solo-freelancers via marketing.
Good marketing doesn't have to equal garbage. But I feel ya. Most marketing is mind numbing.
You are the product, how do you suggest to sell yourself?
Companies aren't going to waste time looking into Github, if that is your take.
Why are you getting suckered into buying something you don't need because a commercials says so?
How is one to defend one's self against the constant onslaught of bullshit meant to part fools with their money? How is an individual supposed to have any defenses against that? When they're raised in an endless din of lying noise?
Yours is the classic _abusers take_. "If only you were a better person you could stand up for yourself"
My take would be that one does indeed lack the agency to be able to evaluate ads that way. The environment itself makes it impossible. SNR is way too low to find valid signals to evaluate. The number being purely honest and informative with zero spin must be close to zero.
Was that a lie when Apple said it about the iPod?
