All Marketers are liars
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Stopping short of endorsing marketing methods which might kill people, Godin says that
marketers should "give people what they want." The book is telling a story about why
marketers must forsake any attempt to communicate nothing but the facts, and must focus on
what people believe and then work to tell them stories that add their worldview.
HIGHLIGHTS
Before marketing, before shopping carts and long before informercials, people started telling
themselves stories. Stories make it easier to understand the world. Stories are the only way to
spread an idea. Marketers didn´t invent storytelling. They just perfected it.
We tell ourselves stories, because we´re superstitious. Stories are shortcuts we use because we
´re too overwhelmed by data to discover all the details. We tell stories about products,
services, friends, job seekers and sometimes even the weather. We tell ourselves stories that