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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

you laugh until your STEM-only software engineer tries to write marketing copy, he circumnavigated the marketing department and sent the ads at a conference straight to the contact without getting it approved.

I can’t post the text as it’ll dox me but here’s an approximation, about running, but instead imagine it’s a software product

#NO RUNNING

or exercise

^just ^running ^ability ^improvement

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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah I made the mistake of learning to write well in high school then majoring in engineering and being good at it. Unfortunately that meant I was the designated person in group projects for both doing the thing and writing it up

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GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No one needs marketing copy.

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- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  yeah but we all, unfortunately, need jobs, and jobs are at companies, and companies make money from sales, sales happen on a market, and you need marketing so people know it exists.
  
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  - match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    God, if only
    
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  - Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Marketing these days goes far beyond putting out awareness of existence (that step I’m aware of and support - it’s great when a YouTube ad shows something interesting I actually need). These days it’s all psychological reinforcement of an invented need.
    
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    funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    🌏👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 always has been
    
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  - GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Just working utilities. Send text files as marketing copy. If everyone did that it’d be fine.
    
    “This is what we make, at this price. Reply to inquire. Goodbye”.txt
    
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    funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    that is precisely what SERP and sales prospecting marketing is. Except paid SERP placement and plaintext email displayed in a browser or email client rather than a text editor.
    
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elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Circumnavigated? Like, sent it around to everyone in marketing, one after another?

That…doesn’t make much sense in the context you provided. Autocorrupt strikes again?

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- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  navigated around, to mean avoid, definition 2 here: www.merriam-webster.com/…/circumnavigate
  
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  - elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That still doesn’t make a lick of sense in this context. It has the feel of someone picking the wrong word entirely.
    
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    funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    just agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)
    
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