Sara Connell
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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So that's, you know, you know, the seven hours of interactive time, which is why long form unscripted or books or audio books or podcasts are so important. You know, the 11 different touch points and then four different places. So that's interesting, too, because if you're like, I'm always on LinkedIn. you know, being on multiple platforms.
So people feel the sense of you being around you, you know, that omnipresence effect that we hear in marketing. So I think those are some of the things, but the really cool one that I'm obsessed with this year is called user generated content. So some of you may, you know, already, you know, think about this a lot, but Whereas an influencer or in an ad, it's very clear.
Someone's being paid to market something, to promote something. We all know what that is. They can still work. But user generated content is where people who are like using your thing, your method, your book, your product in an organic way in their own lives and and creating content from that. So the big example that happened recently was the Philadelphia Eagles. I think it's the wide receiver.
A.J. Johnson was reading or A.J. Brown was reading a book on the sidelines of the Super Bowl playoff game. And it caught CNN and all the people, what are you bored? Like, why are you reading a book on the sidelines of a Super Bowl? And he said, this book is what I use to get in the game. This book is what I use to get my mind right, to show up and make the key plays and get us to the Superbowl.
So the book, you know, Jim Murphy's book went viral. It came out in like 2018, you know, the revised, but I've been talking with Jim a little bit about this because it's so, it's so cool as a book person, you know, it's what we do help people, you know, write books that help them do this.
And so, so having someone using your thing in their real life to achieve in a result, I think is going to be one of those like Absolutely, it's going to skip the trust recession and build right to trust.
Well, that's so interesting, right? I don't know as much that it's the tribe or the community, but now I'm going to give that a lot of thought because now I actually want to look at that and do some research and data on that. What I'm seeing it more is, you know, before it was really curated, you know, it was sort of like, I'm going to show sort of the dream life.
And I still think you're going to have that. It's like showing people that like what they could be or what they want. I think that's still crucially important. But sort of if we're making a Venn diagram, I think that that Venn diagrams with people like more real talk.
That's what I meant, like sort of the unscripted instead of just the perfectly filtered photographs, like really real, like more unvarnished, like the less like I'm going to show you my beautiful kitchen where nothing's out of place and showing the mess and not in a way that's like distracting.
But it's like, yes, it's the dream and the result that you're going to get from this product program service. But it's also like, is this a real person or is this some kind of BS that someone because I think, again, that trust that trust meter is really high. Like people signed up for things and they kind of sucked, you know? So who is this person?
So I think it's more for me, I think it's less who we're surrounding ourselves with and following and more, do we have integrity and do we, are we the real deal? And what is the real deal for each of us? You know, cause values, some people value, here's my Lamborghini and my jet and my, you know, and like, that can be really like exciting and sexy and cool.
And other people value, like, I want to know you're not going to like sign me up for your thing and then not show up. And you, you know, you have a good, you talk a good game at the front, but the fulfillment's crap.
And so more stories, that's why I think the stories of people using the thing or doing the thing matter a lot more to people because they want like a real peek behind the curtain, not the perfect marketing.
But you see someone, again, we're in the book space, right? And as a way to build the brand and thought leadership and revenue. And there's these younger... Sometimes on YouTube, I've seen a lot at the end of last year, they'd say, just let AI write your book in an hour and make $100,000 a month on book sales. I'm like, that is complete... I'm sorry. No.
First of all, there's nothing in that book anyone wants. It's just not... The internet can only... ChatGPT can only pull what's already been written and by its very nature, then that book is not going to be like, unless it's a super basic how to, you know, manual, of course. But like that, there's no way you're doing a hundred K on book sales. I think I just have real suspicion.
I think a lot of us have our version of suspicion about those things. Now we say, I want to see like the real things. You're going to hear people doing more like what Alex Ramosi calls W's and L's like the wins and losses.
It's like the more vlog style, which is what we're doing a lot more of now, which is like, I'm going to take you on this journey of, you know, here's all the things that didn't work. And I'm going to show you the total fail and the, you know, not in like that boring, like, oh, my weakest, you know, my weakness is that I'm a perfectionist.
Not that crap, but like really going, I'm pulling my hair out. This sucks. I'm embarrassed. this didn't work.
I I'm scared about money because we launched and it didn't work in a way, but you know, like that's actually going to, I think create connection and trust as long as you still, of course can, you know, figured it out and give people the results versus before it was like, it was just fun to watch the show.
Exactly. Entertainment. And would you buy from them is the question. And maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't, but a lot, especially for something like really high ticket, it's like, Ooh, I may not be signing up for that mentor if I don't think it, but I will definitely keep watching. Cause it's candy. It's fun.
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