Nothing is more important for your start-up, product, service, or idea.
If you can create awe then you have created something shareable.
We just can’t keep awesome to ourselves.
Nothing is more important for your start-up, product, service, or idea.
If you can create awe then you have created something shareable.
We just can’t keep awesome to ourselves.
We’re supposed to stand and stay in line,
keep our heads down,
stay in the box,
speak when spoken to,
color within the lines,
do it like they did it,
pass some exams,
and get a degree that gets us a job that gets us healthcare and, eventually, gets us retirement.
The problem here is that the grading system that has awarded one’s athleticism to all of this we’re supposed to do is crumbling. The MOMA is full of art that is outside of the lines and the box (and it’s being cheered for). College isn’t finding or getting us THE job it said it would. Free healthcare isn’t providing fulfillment in our jobs. And we’ve thought retirement equaled happiness, but Luby’s five days a week has proven this not to be true.
Shift gears….
…then there is what you’re supposed to do.
That thing inside of you that you can’t shake.
The things that keep you restless on the pillow, but also passionately pulls you from your slumber.
That work that feels like freedom.
That consistent whisper of ‘yes’.
The reason you’re here.
Your music.
Could there be anything worse than looking back at your 30, 40, 50, 60, or 70 plus years of doing what you’re supposed to do and seeing yourself stand in line for the retirement you never really wanted in the first place?
At the heart of marketing is the heart.
And we all have hearts, brands, and businesses that are marketing something…could be a place, a person, a belief, a dream, enthusiasm, an experience, a feeling, an emotion, or even hope.
Marketing isn’t about convincing people to buy things they don’t want or didn’t know they needed. Rather, it’s about the heart pointing at something it resonates with and, sometimes, even pointing back to itself.
I hope our hearts, brands, and businesses will point to such wondrous places.
If so, we’ll become great marketers.
…when doing what you are told to do is no longer effective?
That time is here.
Doing what you tell yourself you should do is where the light is. Our dreams and hopes are found in the “shoulds” we own and tell ourselves.
We tell ourselves a lot of “shoulds.”
We follow through with very few of them.
How can my product make someone’s story better?
How can my service make someone’s story better?
How can my idea make someone’s story better?
How can I make someone’s story better?
This is the one question that creates the business model, the business plan, and is, itself, the culture of a business.
