Marketing 5.0 is Fast and Furious 10
Julia's exam covers the numbered marketings, so they read the shoe-example ladder aloud and name the disease: version numbers on common sense, buzzwords that sell books, while the people actually good at marketing run on feeling and case studies, not memorized taxonomy.
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- ↳ video diary @ 18:52 (la escalera de los zapatos)
- ↳ video diary @ 21:37 (memorizarlo no vale nada)
- ↳ video diary @ 23:29 (los cracks no se saben los nombres)
Julia’s exam prep surfaces the specimen: Marketing 1.0 through 5.0, and neither of them can guess what the numbers mean before looking it up ▸ 17:10. The ladder, read aloud: 1.0, we make the best shoes; 2.0, shoes that fit your style; 3.0, eco-friendly shoes that express your individuality while helping the planet ▸ 18:52; 4.0, digital and connected; 5.0, “tecnología para la humanidad” ▸ 22:16. His verdict names the franchise: these are getting fast and furious, sequels of the same thing ▸ 19:35.
The teaching is the distinction between knowing about and knowing how: “literalmente aprenderse esto de memoria… no vale nada” ▸ 21:37. What works is doing: you start executing, you start noticing “esta gente está creando comunidad”, you study cases, and the numbered names never come up ▸ 21:50. In practice, 90 percent of internet marketing is Facebook Ads or Google Ads, where the platform’s own systems do the targeting and you need to know zero about the algorithm ▸ 22:52.
los números de versión venden libros; los casos de estudio enseñan →
Two honest hedges keep the rant from being cheap. On himself: “yo de marketing no soy tan crack”, but he’d bet the people who are run on feeling and sharp analysis of what’s being published, not memorized concepts ▸ 23:29. And on the buzzword he’s closest to: AI-as-synonym-for-everything annoys him too, yet he won’t call it a bubble, “al final sí hay bastante valor que se genera de fondo” ▸ 18:15. The disease is the naming, not the thing named, which is also his standing case against the university that charges tuition to administer the vocabulary ▸ 21:22…
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