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Rory Sutherland on Lenny’s Podcast:
Products like Meta Portal TV, Google Glass, Japanese toilets, and wine boxes were amazing products but something about the timing or the marketing was wrong and the consumer never bit
Rory on Japanese toilets: “I think it’s barbaric that the Western Hemisphere dry wipes.”
The reason most people adopt new technology
Brand sustainability comes down to two things: relevance and differentiation. Something either affects a brand's relevance; is it meaningful to my life today? And its differentiation; is it unique and can I identify that uniqueness? Everything falls into one of those two buckets as it relates to brand. The goal is to be high
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Your CAC doesn’t matter: Brands of the next decade will win with loyalty, not acquisition
Jason Bornsteinforerunnerventures.com
ompanies are focused on building products rather than brands. A product is something made in a factory. A brand is something made in the mind. To be successful today, you have to build brands, not products. And you build brands by using positioning strategies, starting with a good name.
Al Ries • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
True loyalty is emotional and irrational, and often at odds with our survival instinct. To achieve it, brands are better off with membership programs than the point schemes. Figuring out a good membership scenario is even more important today with a proliferation of subscription models, private chat rooms, and an ever-increasing costs of paid socia... See more