Your Marketing Sucks
Blunt as a slap and sharp as a scalpel, Your Marketing Sucks tears through the comfortable illusions that drain budgets and deliver nothing. With ruthless clarity, it exposes how most marketing is little more than noise—expensive, aimless, and self-indulgent. This is a wake-up call masquerading as a manifesto, urging you to abandon vanity metrics and demand results that matter: sales, impact, growth. What if the problem isn’t your product—but the story you’re failing to tell? In a world drowning in messages, only those who cut through with purpose will survive.
- Originally Published: 2003
- Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 2005
- Genre: Marketing
- Pages: 240
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1400081691
- Access: Members
Description
“I love Mark Stevens’s Your Marketing Sucks. . . . Clear language. Strong point of view. Actionable as the dickens. And . . . extreme. (My favorite word.)” —Tom Peters
“Your marketing may suck, but this book doesn’t. Every single page has a story, an example, or a concept you’ll find yourself repeating to colleagues within days. Powerful stuff, not for amateurs or anyone too lazy to succeed.” —Seth Godin, author of Free Prize Inside and The Purple Cow
- Stop throwing thousand-dollar bills out the window and camouflaging spending as marketing—demand that the money spent on marketing bring in more money in return.
- Cut through the myths that claim marketing is about advertising, public relations, or direct mail—learn that it is about growing the revenue, profit, and valuation of the business.
- Fire your advertising agency if it even thinks about applying for a Clio or other creative award.
- Implement the marketing moratorium—stop all marketing until you know how each component of your program justifies itself in dollars and cents.
“Clear, sensible suggestions for making money through marketing.” —Time
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