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What Obama has to do with ‘attraction’.

January 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Imagine you sat on a damp chair.
And the water seeped through your jeans.
Right through your underwear.
Enough so you could feel the dampness on your bum.

What would you want to do next?
You know the answer. You’d want to change those jeans. And the underwear as soon as possible.

Obama knows this damp feeling. And he’s hitting one note: Change.

Because yeah, yeah, everyone on the planet wants health insurance, and a great economy and yada, yada. All that stuff is nice. But when your jeans and underwear is wet, all you want to do is change. You don’t care what you change into, as long as you change.

Obama seems to know the real attractor.
He seems to know below all the yada, yada, is the desperate need for change.
And he’s in the unique position to be a complete newcomer. Someone that stands for change.

As a marketer, if you understand what your public wants (despite the yada), then you can give them that word. And you’ll increase your results based on that one word alone. Of course, once they buy into you, you’ve got to deliver. But we’re not talking consumption. Just attraction.

And Obama has attraction down pat.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mark Silver // Jan 10, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    Actually, change isn’t the number one big thing, Sean. All the candidates are talking change. And, actually a lot of people -do- care about what they change into.

    It’s -how- he’s talking about change. It’s not the change as much as the empathy. The magic of Obama is that he’s one of the only candidates who leaves you feeling as you’ve actually been listened to. Empathy.

    You may be interested in this article:
    http://www.alternet.org/stories/73014/

    The feeling I have here in the US is not that people want -change- (although they do) but it’s more that so many people feel powerless… things have gotten really, really bad in many ways, and people have been screaming, but feeling completely unheard.

    Empathy and identity are what’s carrying him and the groundswell of support, not needs and wants.

  • 2 Sean D'Souza // Jan 10, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    Reminds me of Bob the Builder. He’s always asked: Bob the Builder, can we fix it?

    And like Obama, he says: Yes we can!

    Thanks Mark. :)

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