Marketers, take note: the curiosity impulse can lead people to discover and engage with your brand. Curiosity short-circuits the linear funnel from awareness to interest to desire, blah blah. Curiosity leads to purchases that are serendipitous and often spontaneous.
In a long-tail world of choices that are sometimes not very functionally different, perhaps “interesting” is the new “better”.
Baseball has amazing assets to on which to rebuild its brand. In the movie City Slickers, around the campfire one the friends said, “When my father and I had nothing else to talk about, there was always baseball” True dat.
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In a world of the long-tail of choices that are sometimes not very functionally different, use curiosity as a way of getting people to think about your brand. Being interesting might be a new way of being better.
Trust is the easier part of the branding equation. The harder part of branding-building is creating desire for YOUR brand. Brands are delisted by retailers not because of lack of trust but when they are viewed as redundant.
