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Brand vs Category Specific

Being the first airline to introduce back-of-the-seat screens doesn’t compare, emotionally, with the fast food brand where the food is ‘finger-licking good’ – and there is a reason for that.

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Logic versus emotion

You can’t draw somebody into really engaging with the logic of your product or service unless you’ve first triggered an emotional response. In this lesson, Bryony Thomas, a consultant and trainer in marketing transformation programmes, explains what she calls, the logic sandwich.

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Audience vs Community

Companies often think in terms of audiences, but it’s actually unhelpful and the wrong way to think. In this Vlog, Grant explains the difference between audience and community and, therefore, how your messages can become more relevant and sticky.

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A Brand Is About Variance Reduction

ALDI’s supermarket proposition isn’t to give its customers a bigger choice of products than any of its competitors, it actually gives them less. In this Vlog, Grant explains that brands like ALDI, Coke, McDonald’s and Heinz enable us to navigate a world where we’re overwhelmed with choice – because a brand is about variance reduction.

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If you do nothing else, do this

How many irrelevant conversations do you have in your business? In this vlog, Grant discusses the real question you need to be asking about your customers – and explains that if you do nothing else, do this.

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You can’t talk to a German in Japanese

If you talk to a German in Japanese, they’re not going to understand you, but people do the equivalent in comms all the time. In this vlog, Grant explains that If you don’t speak to people in a language that they understand and can relate to, you’re going to lose them.