On the gap between how people look at you offering and how you’d like them to look at it …
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Objectively your brand may be quite extraordinary.
Speaker:I'm not sure what it is for you, but maybe you're very innovative,
Speaker:years ahead of the competition.
Speaker:Or you adhere to much more ethical work practices.
Speaker:Or you foster sustainable production while at the same time delivering
Speaker:the highest production quality.
Speaker:Someone looking objectively of how you do what you do should come
Speaker:to the same conclusion as you do.
Speaker:This is simply extraordinary.
Speaker:Looking at objectively might not be the point though.
Speaker:In fact, looking subjectively is.
Speaker:People do look subjectively.
They ask things like:how does this fit into how I see the world?
They ask things like:Or is it useful for me?
They ask things like:Or does it make me happy?
They ask things like:Or even what will my peers think?
They ask things like:And they are right with looking through that lens.
They ask things like:I mean, they owe you nothing.
They ask things like:In particular, they don't owe you objectivity.
They ask things like:They didn't ask you to make the product you made it.
They ask things like:And now you're asking them to buy it.
They ask things like:They will do so if they decide it's for them.
They ask things like:But they will always decide from their subjective perspective.
They ask things like:What makes a brand so difficult to grasp and so difficult to communicate
They ask things like:is that everyone looks from their own subjective perspective.
They ask things like:So when you communicate your product and you want people to fall in love
They ask things like:with the product It might not be so much about why that thing that you've
They ask things like:built is objectively better, but how you can address the right people who
They ask things like:are looking from the right perspective so that what you consider to be
They ask things like:objectively better is also and at the same time subjectively better for them.
They ask things like:So how do people look at your brand and what do they see?