Blog No. 10

My mother worked in marketing and procurement. I loved going to work with her when I was younger, hearing her speak with coworkers, clients, and attending important business meetings. I did not really understand what she did at that time; I simply enjoyed going to her office and accompanying her to fancy lunches in Coral Gables. Reading the page on viral marketing only gave me a headache because of how much I (thought) I hated reading common sense. Marketing is just manipulating human nature. After examining this page, I realized that-though annoying and boring- face of marketing has changed and will continue to progress so long as people and technology change along with it. I realized that we (ignore the human trafficking connotation) sell ourselves the most. Through our blogs, our social media we sell ourselves while others- companies- sell images, products. I know people that actually buy into these social media marketers and become their new medium of marketing; those people are attractive so now the product is exponentially attractive. Now I am going off on a tangent but viral marketing has actually been a proponent of America’s hedonic treadmill. With this in mind though, I can keep my pitch and project 3 attuned to the hedonic treadmill of my cohort- seemingly edgy and outspoken while still attractive and not too hard to grasp. Now more than ever, society thrives on instant gratification so conducting a short poll and tweeting allows easy access, easy responses, and easy answers. I say this subtlety implying that the masses do not like to go too out of their way for a problem that only affects more minor sects of society (yet still vital to the foundation of the future).