{"id":1076,"date":"2016-04-18T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2016-04-18T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:10:44","slug":"marketing-cant-be-replaced-by-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2016\/04\/18\/marketing-cant-be-replaced-by-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing can&#8217;t be replaced by software &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but some tech companies have tried. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s part of the message in this fantastic article: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/12\/everything-the-tech-world-says-about-marketing-is-wrong\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Everything the tech world says about marketing is wrong.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve explored the same general theme before, but Samuel Scott has gone wide and deep with it, explaining that analytics and algorithms can&#8217;t replace creativity and basic marketing know-how, and that marketing has suffered as a result. <\/p>\n<p>The quest to <i>measure everything<\/i> &#8212; and the fact that computers are, as my brother likes to say, glorified adding machines &#8212; has caused an influx of technical people into marketing, and they don&#8217;t know the basics of marketing. Rather, they&#8217;ve &#8220;fallen into an echo chamber of meaningless buzzwords.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Among these &#8220;meaningless buzzwords&#8221; is a very trendy one: &#8220;Content marketing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The use of these and other buzzwords has caused a new generation of marketers to enter the field without knowing even the basic terms and practices that underpin our industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But there&#8217;s no point in me rehashing it all. Just <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/12\/everything-the-tech-world-says-about-marketing-is-wrong\/\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">go read the article.<\/a> It&#8217;s long, but it&#8217;s worth it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but some tech companies have tried. That&#8217;s part of the message in this fantastic article: Everything the tech world says about marketing is wrong. I&#8217;ve explored the same general theme before, but Samuel Scott has gone wide and deep with it, explaining that analytics and algorithms can&#8217;t replace creativity and basic marketing know-how, and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2016\/04\/18\/marketing-cant-be-replaced-by-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Marketing can&#8217;t be replaced by software &#8230;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}