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(and How Humility is a Rare Bird Indeed These Days)

I’m sensing a common theme. Another great post for the web community at large, this one giving us some perspective on fanaticism, clamoring for controversy, and not allowing humility into the picture.

But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true.

Joshua Blankenship, Creating Controversy for its own Sake

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Hire the right experience.

An interesting thought. Hiring marketing people with experience is a good thing, but people often get impressed by big brands. If you’re not a big brand, or you don’t have a big brand budget, is a shop (or person) used to only dealing with big brands / big budgets be the right person for you?

This is why you should hesitate to hire a marketer or salesperson who comes from a successful big company marketer (like Apple or Microsoft). Sure, they ‘contributed’ to the growth of a great brand, but how much? What did they learn? What will they do when they don’t have a one in a million brand and the wind at their back? Or in the case of P&G alum, what will they do when they don’t have billions of dollars to spend on advertising?

Seth Godin, Hubris vs. Humility

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