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The Dark Tale of Marketing Insights The initial dark tale of marketing insights from that awkward guy (meaning, yes, there’ll be more to come. Watch this space) Lasse Erikssen www.conbrio.es On a serious note, we are either on the brink to a revolution or stuck midway with an eternal information overflow rendering smaller sized business into a state of limbo. Pay and no play. Invest without gain. Only Google exec’s are smiling all the way to the bank (in Panama). My history for more than 2 decades has been outsourcing larger scale IT to clients not keen to either understand or invest. Having a clear insight and vision that long term investments can pay off, that it is not a hype to talk about Return on Investment (ROI), has been the main driver to develop a fairly rudimentary language that oversimplifies stuff while at the same time, hopefully, highlights the reasoning and logics behind it. In other words, for simplicity, there will be the occasional analogy to prove a point. Social media marketing is, in my view, offering a fundamental change to all sales processes going forward. For decades we’ve embraced and condoned both the unlikeable and the likeable salesmen based on the revenue