MAL682025 The Dearth In Modern Marketing | Page 60

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The Dearth In Modern Marketing

By Dr. Sylvia Ng ' ang ' a

Modern marketing is drowning in abundance yet starving in depth. Brands have more tools, more data, and more platforms than ever before- but less meaning. What was once an art of persuasion, vision, and human connection has too often collapsed into vanity metrics, algorithm-chasing, and campaigns designed to be scrolled past rather than remembered.

If modern marketing is suffering from a famine of strategy, then recovery demands more than tweaks- it demands a return to timeless principles, sharpened for a new age. This isn’ t about nostalgia or resisting technology. It’ s about rebalancing: using the abundance of tools without letting them hollow out the discipline.

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