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Why All Marketing Is Personal Now - ScentTrail Marketing

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Love Is The Killer App

If Will Dean's, CEO of Tough Mudder, recent statement, "Experience is the new luxury good," is correct then all marketing is personal now. Days when presence was enough are over.

If Will Dean is right and so all marketing is personal Faith Popcorn's famous statement about brands needs modification too. Popcorn, the marketing master and author, famously aid, "People don't BUY brands they JOIN them".

In this post I modified Popcorn's statement to fit our social, mobile and connected marketing revolution times to, "People don't BUY brands they LOVE them". Love, it turns out, is the killer app.

Note, added a great related infogrpahic from the startup @HaggleApp now in beta (http://sco.lt/5Ssikz).

Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, June 9, 2013 10:45 AM
Thanks for the comment Francis. Not sure I agree with the idea of "wasted". Since consumption is so easily within our control those sharing don't have to find an audience. I've done extensive analysis on what kind of information creates an audience and negative doesn't work nearly as well as positive. This doesn't mean there isn't an audience for both just that we prefer stories of HOPE. Increasingly the more personal the story the more support or engagement it creates. Let's amend that to say the more positive and personal the story the more successful. Marty
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, June 10, 2013 8:09 PM
Good comment Francis and you are onto what Popcorn meant. That people join meaning and so a brand with meaning creates itself. Pity the poor brand whose meaning is hollow, perceived as non-relevant or uncaring. Benjamin Moore just launched a perfect example of social branding and joining today with their Main Streets Matter campaign. Aligned to their brand, well executed and a perfect example of how a company can "humanize" itself so thousands (perhaps millions) will "join".
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Experiences Are The New Luxury Goods

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Experiences Are The New Luxury Goods
When Will Dean, CEO of the $100M Tough Mudder obstacle race franchise, made that statement I stopped everything I was…
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

The Maslow Thing
This idea of our movement from hard goods to experiences is beyond important. Think about it. Your car lasts 5x as long as twenty years ago. The recession has us asking hard questions about the circular nature of consumption. 

Most things we buy DEPRECIATE in value. 

Will Dean, the CEO of the suddenly $100M Tough Mudder "experiences" company can teach every marketing team an important idea. Your product or service isn't about features and benefits anymore, or not so simply and only about features and benefits. 

Your product or service, no matter how boring and removed you think it is, turns on the experience it creates the memories. Dean notes how experiences create memories and memories APPRECIATE in value. 

Maslow believed in a "hierarchy of needs". Once base needs were more than satisfied we would work up to the ladder to focus on self-actualization. 

Maslow's Time is NOW.

When people pay $100 to race in mud under barbed wire we've arrived at the moment in time when base needs have receded far enough (for most) that our lives are about THE BIG QUESTIONS. Big Questions such as hope, faith and love produce a wandering spirit looking for a muddy hole, a bunch of barbed wire and a tribe to share it all with. 

The implications of The Experience Economy (need to take Pine's and Gilmore's book off the shelf again) are vast. How does your company, brand, products or services create memories, chronicle memories, share memories? Knowing the answer to these questions will determine what kind of future your enterprise will create, what kind of memories it will shape, form and share. 

Wrote about the big questions issue last week for New Media Leaders:
http://newmedialeaders.com/ideas/why-big-marketing-ideas-rule-343/  

 

Ken Morrison's curator insight, March 8, 2013 9:53 PM

A beautiful look at the value of creating memories.  Most costs and some investments deprectiate with time.  Investing in memories will "appreciate" in value and build bonds between people who you care about.  It ends with some nice questions to ask for how this applies to customers and/or employers.