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Welcome to Office Hours with Prof G. Today we're finishing off our special three-part series, Prof G on Marketing, where we answer questions from business leaders about the biggest marketing challenges and opportunities companies face today. What a thrill! Question number one. Our first question comes from Dan Weil on Instagram.
They ask, What lessons from marketing can the average person use in their day-to-day life? So the basis of marketing is most people think, okay, how do I find consumers for my product? The basis of marketing is, all right, how do I create a product after identifying a market and a need? And so I think essentially my most popular session in my course is the brand you, and that is
Trying to think of yourself as a brand, it just shocks me how many people spend their entire lives in brand management thinking about every component and touchpoint of a product or service to create intangible associations or a brand. Brand is emotion. Brand are intangibles such that you get kind of unfair advantage, right? And then they don't think about what their brand is.
So think about what is your market, right? Are you in the market to find a job in accounting? And then think, okay, how do I create a product, me, that attracts or is very attractive to people? to the market of potential employers in accounting. Is it certification? Is it a CFA? Is it the way I dress, looking very orderly?
Is it having knowledge, specific knowledge about a very deep niche in accounting? Is it beginning to create content around accounting such that people notice me? It's figuring out what is your market, like in the mating market, in the professional market, across the world. What do you want to achieve? What's the market for getting that level of achievement?
And then reverse engineering to what certification, character attributes, physical appearance, activities and behaviors will in fact make you most attractive to your potential market. And being really strategic about it, right? Being really kind of thoughtful about it. I want to appeal to thought leaders. I want to have a lot of influence, and I want to appeal to young men.
But I did a little bit more analysis. What I really want to appeal to is I want to appeal to young men, and I want to appeal to their moms. And the way I appeal to young men is I start thinking about, okay, young men are very focused on finance and economic security. They also, I think, they're the white space for young men.
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