Taken literally marketing is the practice of getting a product to market.
In the context of corn in the 1700s that would include:
- Digging
- Carts
- Oxen
- Yelling
- Dealmaking
- Growing things people want
Today most of those activities would be product, sales and operations.
Maybe they shouldn’t be?
Take a drink…
- Whenever anyone uses ridiculous British slang (double if it’s Jim Broadbent)
- Whenever you hear a section of the ‘We are bound to others’ speech
- Whenever you hear a part of the Cloud Atlas Sextet being played
- Whenever you see Old Georgie on screen
- Whenever an actor appears in a role as a different race, gender or sexuality than their own
- Whenever you see a reference to a different storyline
- Whenever there’s a heavy handed message about slavery
- Whenever you see a birthmark
- Any time the voiceover gets philosophical
- Any time you want to say “yaaaas” to Bae Doona
There’s something interesting in the idea that we refer to “a train” as an independent entity, when it’s really a collective noun (a set of things formed into a line).
By extension: when you board a carriage, you’re not just riding the train, you’re in the line. You’ve become the train.
