Marketing Jinn
Posted by Mike Volpe on Mon, Jan 14, 2008
On the HubSpot marketing blog today someone called me a "Marketing Jinn" because in the Muslim culture there are three types of entities: humans, angels and jinns, which have special powers and are made of a smoke-like substance. He said he really enjoyed reading my blog articles and all the marketing insights and therefore called me a "Marketing Jinn".
I forwarded the comment to one of our software developers who lives in Egypt, and he confirmed that Jinn "is an Arabian world, its means ghost in English, in Arab worlds we use this to describe a person who has a great talent in some field - since a Jinn isn't a human they have special talents and are able to do things humans can not do." "Since you have the greatest talent in marketing I have ever seen, I would join him in calling you a Marketing Jinn."
Needless to say I am flattered by the compliments! I will need to change the title on my business card to Marketing Jinn.