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So, to recap, in summary, for the sake of clarity, because it’s a little hard to get your head around, you buy this product without being able to personally discern its stated core benefit on the promise that other people will.
That is some marketing there.
This is audacious.
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Customers don’t see functions. They have no idea which group of people within an organisation have done what when they come into contact with you. Finance? Nah. Marketing? Nope. Operations? Nada. They don’t exist from the most important perspective in any business, from the perspective of the customer. So why do these false divisions matter so much to those inside an organisation and is it helpful to think like that?
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I’ve written before about the importance of understanding your customer and the fact that a startling number of people run businesses and organisations without taking the time to do so. The reality is that humans in general often prefer to focus on the broadcasting side of communication rather than the listening side. We could share this time considering the woes human kind suffers as as result but lets focus on the positive instead. Invest time in understanding those you seek to serve and you will, if it is the first time you have tried it, find yourself suffused with confidence when making choices, illuminated by the light of understanding when working out what to do next and enriched by the results of your new found appreciation. Honestly questions that you’ve pondered (and guessed at before) will almost answer themselves.
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Too much to fit into an excerpt. Suffice to say that this is raw. A shrouded but raw look at brand and trying to say something without saying it.
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No, not that creation story or in fact anything related to religious belief systems and the origins of our existence. We are going to look at the story of creativity in marketing. Think about an advert that you have seen at some point in your life, think about a brand that you actually like – what is driving that memory and that affection? It’s almost certain that, in the case of the advert, it isn’t the particular place or time that you saw it, say the TV or a bus stop at 10pm. Nor, in the case of the brand, is it likely to be the core benefit of the product the brand provides, after all the commodity provides that too. It’s something else. Something less tangible, more difficult to quantify but no less powerful for it.
Search your soul and you will find that the reason you remember these specific things is creativity.