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I recommend that companies move beyond narcissistic marketing to what I call “point-of-view (POV) marketing.” If you start with a POV rather than product features / functions or your own internal news story you’re already a long way down the track of answering the above questions. So how exactly do you break out then?
Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals. He is both.
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Instead, Fizzle offers a peek behind the curtain, often using a first-person POV to establish intimacy and expertise. Theming your content gives it a cohesive POV, and it also signals intentionality in your sends. This kind of example proves that it’s less about conversion and more about building a relationship. Apartment Therapy.
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It’s my POV we learn much more together by sharing honestly and broadly as a community, even if the “why we invested” blog post from a few years ago sounds dumb in hindsight. But as an industry we’ve become experts at content marketing the s**t out of our wins, the shiniest versions of what venture and startups can be.
My goal here is to move the debate forward, add my POV but not inflame things any further. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. Here we go again. Another post on job hopping. This will be my final word on the topic. I promise. Inflaming was never my goal. Let’s see if I can achieve that.
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Examples using second person POV. We could write an entire blog post on survey email copy but you need to actually get subscribers to open the email first. “[NAME], people have questions about [insert product]. Can you help?”. “Hi Can we talk?”. “Hi Hi [NAME], how do your new [brand] sneakers fit?”. Hey [NAME]. Looking for 40% off?”.
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