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Comment author: Lumifer 16 November 2015 09:35:53PM *  3 points [-]

I would probably characterise International Insights as cargo cult marketing, blindly following the Three-Ring Binder[1]. It says "advertise on the social networks" so, by golly, we'll advertise on the social networks! etc.

They built the sticks-and-mud control tower and are doing the parade ground drill. The airplanes with cargo should arrive any time now.

[1] "You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder - its DNA - xerox it, and embed it in the fertile lining of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left-turn lane." -- Neil Stephenson, Snow Crash.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 17 November 2015 01:04:20PM 3 points [-]

Yeeeup.

I was giving him too much credit. He's not intentionally bad at this, he's -oblivious- to how bad he is at this.