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Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by troughway on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:43AM (#23312535)
So then would it make more sense to call it a windmill?
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Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by danielharan on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:33PM (#23313198)
I'd use a snowball, to convey the growing nature.
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Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by waheoo on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:56PM (#23313500)
Or just say what it is, compounding growth.

You guys always gotta make stuff more complicated than it is.

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Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by gk1 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:12PM (#23313720)
The English language is full of idioms and metaphors; marketers are hardly the only ones using them.

Actually "snowball" probably makes more intuitive sense to people than "compounding growth."

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Re:Why Marketing Flywheels Work by perl4ever on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:53PM (#23319224)
A snowball rolling down hill is a metaphor for compounding growth.
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