Blaze your own trail

There’s a lesson in here for all marketing communicators… Bill Bernbach’s letter to the owners of Grey Advertising on Fifth Avenue where he was Creative Director. (Via ‘Letters of Note’ and @VikkiRossWrites).

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How content and brands get shared and get big

“To make popular content, it’s not enough to know your friends or your followers. It’s about knowing the friends of your friends and the followers of your followers. For something to go big, it has to be interesting to those beyond your immediate audience – the audience of your audience.”

Jure Leskovec, computer scientist, Stanford University

Content without anything (paid) to draw attention to it, is like building Cathedrals in the desert

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Distribution and marketing… are the subterranean roots that push beautiful things to the surface, where audiences can see them.

Derek Thompson, Senior Editor, The Atlantic