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How to Generate Sales Without a Marketing Team
- Whatarethese 7y agoTesla might be the best example ever of this practice.
- marketingfool 7y agoIn the future we are going to find out Tesla had a social media team that "maintained Tesla's reputation". They did this by astroturfing and paying for upvotes/likes. Tesla claims to not spend money on marketing, but I consider that a dubious claim.
- beckingz 7y agoIt's not marketing it's evangelizing.
- spookthesunset 7y agoAlso a form of marketing...
- notahacker 7y agoSomeone should tell all the people with marketing manager roles at Tesla that their employer isn't spending any money on them...
- xyzzy_plugh 7y agoA family member recently left a role in marketing at Tesla due to... well, Tesla not spending any money on them.
- chrisfrantz 7y agoNot sure people think Tesla doesn’t have a marketing team. They’re currently hiring [1] dozens of marketers all over the world. 1 - https://www.tesla.com/careers/search https://www.tesla.com/careers/search (sort by marketing)
- pryelluw 7y agoSomething similar to the greatest trick the devil ever pulled.
- cm2012 7y agoLol, this is such a low value blog post for the front page of HN. Probably the lowest ever? There's 10,000,000 articles like this out there. And I say that as a non-repentant marketer.
- thisisnico 7y agoAgreed, reading this, I'm like, wow really?
- dang 7y agoPlease flag an article if you feel that way.
- cm2012 7y agoGot it!
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