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Marketshare-in-a-Sentence: Don’t Create Your Own Obstacles
Don't create hurdles for yourself in the consumer electronics market; it's already tough enough! Supporting Sentences: So many companies create unnecessary obstacles for themselves. For example: Terrible product names. Terrible press releases. Inexperienced,...
Weekend Quotable: Steve Jobs Holds Court
Some insights from Steve Jobs from this week's All Things Digital. On the shrinking relevance of PCs: "When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that's what you needed on the farms. PCs are going to be like trucks. They are still going to be...
Early Adopters & Mainstream Consumers
If you've succeeded with early adopters, I would argue that you will not succeed with mainstream consumers. So many start-up consumer electronics companies are hurting themselves by marketing to early adopters first: Very few companies succeed in crossing the chasm...
Soothe Consumers
More psychology of technology: Mainstream consumers are still relatively uncomfortable with technology: Technology goes out of date too quickly. Which means: "The model I buy today, after a long shopping process, may be 'old version' tomorrow." "What if I make the...
New Learning Opportunities
These development opportunities are available for consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, consumer Web sites, and their marketing and PR agencies: 60 - 90 Minute Speeches: Five topics are currently available. The Consumer Electronics Marketing...
Changing The Way You Think
Changing the way we think is one of the hardest things we do as human beings. Because our thoughts are automatic -- ingrained in us through genetics, nurture, and experiences. Thing is, the basis of real improvement is changing the way you think. It's damn hard. Which...
Is Social Media Really Selling Consumer Electronics?
Powerful Messaging Starts With Consumers
Engineers create language at most consumer electronics companies. Unintentionally, perhaps even accidentally, but this happens nearly everywhere. Engineers (product developers, product managers, etc.) pass the language down to the marketing department, which passes it...
Google is Tipping Towards Consumer Evangelists
It has been my position all along in this blog that Apple is the only consumer electronics company that has evangelist consumers. People who live and breathe Apple. People who buy anything Apple makes, because Apple makes it (like a favorite author). Well, Google may...
Marketing Success Keywords
If you want to be successful marketing consumer electronics, you have to understand -- and successfully execute upon the following concepts. Call them keywords for consumer electronics marketing success: Consumer insights Simple language Effective communications...