The Crow’s Nest
It’s not about giving the smartest answer… it’s about asking the sharpest questions.
More seafood into more kitchens.
Join me on the journey through the blue economy as I explore thoughts, probe questions, and share personal reflections.
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The Human Side of Product Marketing
Product marketing is not about monologuing our way into a one-time purchase, a lustful hunger that can be satisfied by proximity rather than choice. It is about pointing the light ahead on their journey, rather than shining a light on ourselves; proving that our product and all its features help them better navigate through the twists and turns of life towards that sought after end-state.
In a Marketing Week article Mimi Turner, of the B2B Institute, joked that “if B2C marketers thought like B2B marketers, Coca-Cola would market itself as “brown, fizzy, and sweet”. Forget those cuddly polar bears, Coke just needs to let customers know that it’s 98% effective in reducing thirst.”
Peace Was Not Meant to Last, Even in the Marketing World
The tech world is a volatile place, and it needs to be in order to deliver on its promise. It shouldn't surprise us to see it destroy the very pillars that it has constructed or to cannibalize itself for the promise of speed, convenience, precision, and even prediction.
As we watch the tech giants battle it out over dominance of the digital realm, we find ourselves at an inflection point where we can shift and adapt or we can be bystanders of our own demise.
Lessons From the Dark Underworld of Branding
It is just as important to define our brand’s purpose as it is to show who our brand is, that is what our community looks like. While our businesses will most likely not be violently facing off against others, if you’re looking for a bare knuckle street brawl to defend the sanctity of almond milk over whole milk… you should seek some help… professional help, sooner than later; they are standing for a belief: principles and a purpose. And as we can see from the success that re-branding an idea, not changing it, but simply showing a different face, has on its reach; we cannot neglect the power of the human element in branding.
The Rhythm of Lovemarks
Stepping on toes, elbows to the head, awkward looks, and just an overwhelming feeling of being lost. An unearthly flow, a synchronized momentary chaos, an unexpected sway of the hips that leads to an embrace, and a blissful feeling of connection. You experience one or the other but you cannot experience both; either you look out at the dance floor and feel terror or you see an opportunity to improvise and connect.
Drowning Loneliness in a Sea of Cheers
With the ever increasing volume of content flowing through social media, it was beginning to get harder and harder to get your consumer’s attention, and even harder still to retain it. With an average time of a little over one second of viewing time per image, hyperinflation hit the social media currency; and I’m talking about Venezuela type hyperinflation. This invalidated the value of the like as a currency, no longer interchangeable for conversions.
So the question now is: What replaces it? Gold? Seashells? Bartering? That would be neat: give me 33 likes and the ceramic mug is yours, 8 more likes for express shipping. The question that we should be trying to answer is; What is it that consumers are searching for?
The Bleeding Edge of Utilitarian Marketing.
Beauty has no place in a world that only values the utilitarian and rejects all which it does not understand or which requires patience. Pages in magazines, hours of videos on Youtube, photos on social media, and entire websites demonstrate how their products work for us in our daily lives. In his 2009 documentary film, Roger Scruton, a philosopher, questions what the use is for a friendship? What is the use of an engaging conversation? You’re not going to use it for an end, but a certain warmth that radiates from the love, the beauty of empathy and compassion envelops you. What is the use of music? Why do we feel overwhelmed with emotions whenever we hear a piano sonata or a violin suite?
We have lived a life deprived from the freedom to search out beauty, markets are inundated with utilitarian products and services. We find ourselves in a world that lacks compassion, where our channels of communication are saturated with solutions to evermore complex problems that originate from deeper needs. A world without beauty is a world that is ill.
An Oasis of Empathy and Compassion in a Desert of Indifference.
Finding the proper formula in order to attract customers to our businesses’ front door has proven itself a unique challenge. How do we motivate and invite them to leave the relative safety and comfort of their homes without looking tone deaf to the realities that we are all living?
It is true, our clients, and society at large, expect all businesses to participate in caring for people’s health; so, if this is the case then I just want to ask: “Why do you invest your capital resource, which is already stressed, into repeating to your customers that you are taking care of them?” No one is going to give you a standing ovation for it, it’s the least that they expect from you.
