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I'd suggest listening to this interview with the the CEO of Xhibit for even a few minutes to get a sense of the kind of "value" their team is bringing to the ta

• acchow 13y ago
  His meandering string of banal platitudes and buzzwords is seriously next level: "I personally refer to Xhibit as a multi-dimensional digital ad agency. Our gaol was to build a company with combined strengths of design, development, and distribution, to be a one stop shop for a clients digital marketing and advertising needs. Our synergistic array of software suites, tools, and offerings have been engineered from the ground up to help companies maximize results from digital strategies. I really want to emphasize results, Nick. Since we build our concepts from the ground up to help businesses maximize revenue, I always have the belief that if a client made money from a marketing campaign, they will in turn spend more money. This is why we have integrated some performance result models into our work today. The long term success any business or product relies on monetization."
  • tortilla 13y ago
    Sounds like he's a living bullshit generator: http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
    • acchow 13y ago
      I can't help shake the feeling that Chris Richarde started Xhibit as a parody and accidentally found himself swimming in real money.
      • jordanthoms 13y ago
        AKA the LMFAO effect
  • luke-stanley 13y ago
    This isn't that bad. Joel Spolsky points out how bad Steve Ballmer's recent memo was: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11memo.aspx https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jul13/07-11m...
    • ams6110 13y ago
      Link to Spolsky's critique?
      • taspeotis 13y ago
        This is the best I could find: https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/355358776280363008 https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/355358776280363008
    • throwaway9848 13y ago
      The difference is that that Ballmer is talking about a company with real products that makes billions of dollars, and this guy is talking about a company with no real products and no revenue to speak of.
    • acchow 13y ago
      Microsoft makes everything. Xhibit makes nothing. Their descriptions will be deceptively similar.
  • eigenvector 13y ago
    > Our gaol was to build a company with combined strengths of design, development What an appropriate misspelling - gaol is a British term for prison. https://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3Agaol https://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3Agaol
    • blahedo 13y ago
      More precisely, it's the British spelling of "jail" (and pronounced the same way).
      • timrogers 13y ago
        An archaic British spelling of jail, nevertheless.
  • wwweston 13y ago
    I don't know if it's next level so much as it is more or less standard verbiage from leadership at the agencies I've worked for. I've tried to figure out why it is that some of the jargonized business talk seems more concentrated there than other places I've worked -- and the bigger the brand names involved, the more concentrated it seems to get. My guess when you earn your bread and butter being the third party vendor that management turns to solve their problems, you do better in the marketplace when you speak the language they do.
  • CompelTechnic 13y ago
    So much synergy. So much.
• foobarqux 13y ago
  Even the photographer couldn't point out that he should fix his tie?
• dictum 13y ago
  It's just so charming when an interviewee answers by reading pre-written responses in an style that would never be used in a real (even somewhat formal) conversation.