Empathy is the key to marketing

March 8th, 2012 by Darragh Kelly No comments »

Business is about creating products and or services to resolve problems, I always rant on about this but I am adamant that it all starts with a problem. So if you want marketing to work the key is being able to understand your markets pain points and to do so you need to do many things but the most important for me is to empathize. Put yourself in their situation, walk a mile in their shoes.

In today’s new reality of unlimited expectations companies need to be connected more than ever with their customers and not just at a superficial level, they need to be able to truly empathize with them.

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Does sex sell?

March 2nd, 2012 by Darragh Kelly No comments »

Sex like anything else is a product, so if it sells or another way of understanding that  is if it is successful, depends on the same fundamentals that rule all products success. For a product to be successful it must comply with 3 simple rules and these three rules define a market driven product Urgent? [...]

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Why mobile is much more than just the same content in a different format

February 9th, 2012 by Darragh Kelly 2 comments »

When you go to a lot of websites today the great majority have a mobile offering and some, unfortunately, do not even have that. But what is this mobile offering? It is basically the exact same information presented in a different way, something easier on the eye and easier to navigate from a mobile device, but it doesn’t take into consideration your (mobile users) problems.

Let’s think about it. If you are using a mobile device and you connect to an airport website what is the most likely problem you are going to have? You are going to want to know when the next arrivals or departures are, if it is a train company you want to know the arrivals and departures times for the nearest train station more than likely.

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