Monday, November 26, 2012

What Twilight (the movie) and Marketing have in common.


Let’s admit it ...Drama enhances likability.

 Those who have seen the last of the twilight saga and have even managed to get through the last of the book series will have to admit that the movie is much more likable. Had the drama - the slight embellishments, the nicely shot fight sequence towards the end of the movie - been missing we would have been watching a picturised version of a very bland, boring, no-content book.         

Translate this thought to your day-to-day marketing. When one sits to design a new campaign for what is in reality a boring product with too many functionalities...say an IT product for the financial industry....you must look at it from different perspectives and if required, change the good ole sales story . If we were to focus on how would the product affect the end consumer and then create a story-line around it we are adding drama to an otherwise boring pitch.

The 1 min elevator pitch is actually all about tweaking the long story and bringing the dramatic bits to the front ....not changing it so it becomes totally out of context.

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