Gonzo Marketing


Abridged Audiobook

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Release Date
October 2001
Duration
2 hours 30 minutes
Summary
Gonzo Marketing is a knuckle-whitening ride to the place where social criticism, biting satire, and serious commerce meet...and where the outdated ideals of mass marketing and broadcast media are being left in the dust. As master of ceremonies at the wake for traditional one-size-fits-all marketing, Locke has assembled a unique guest list, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Hunter S. Thompson, to guide us through the revolution that is rocking business today, as people connect on the Web to form powerful micromarkets. These networked communities, based on candor, trust, passion, and a general disdain for anything that smacks of corporate smugness, reflect much deeper trends in our culture, which Locke illuminates with his characteristic wit.
Gonzo Marketing is not yet-another nostrum for hoodwinking the unwary. It's about market advocacy. It describes how 'the artist formerly known as advertising' must do a 180. It's about transforming the marketing message from 'we want your money' to 'we share your interests.' It's about tapping into, listening to, and even forming alliances with emerging on-line markets, who probably know more about your company than you do. It's a hip-hop cover of boring old best practices played backwards. The paradox is that companies that support and promote these communities can have everything they've always wanted: greater market share, customer loyalty, brand equity.
Irreverent, penetrating, profoundly simple, and on-the-money, Gonzo Marketing is the raucous wake-up that no one interested in any aspect of twenty-first century business -- from the trading floor right up to the board room -- can afford to ignore.
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Anonymous

The whole paradigm of marketing is changing...blah blah blah, what's old is new, I guess. I'm going to write a book that simply claims "what was will never be again...it's a new ballgame, chaos is good, forget everything you learned, etc." However, mine won't pertain to marketing; instead, it'll cover the entire gambit of, hmmmmmm, smoking weed.

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Dave Jackson

Gonzo marketing is marketing without obviously marketing. Kind of a strange concept, and it made for a pretty boring book.

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