IF CONSUMERS DON’T SEE YOUR BRAND AS BOLD, AMBITIOUS,
SURPRISING & RELEVANT IT’S PROBABLY DEAD TIRED.
AND CONSUMERS DON’T BUY TIRED BRANDS IF THEY HAVE A
BETTER OPTION.
PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FROM AMBITIOUS BRANDS…
ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE YOUNGER CONSUMERS.
Ambitious brands lead the agenda, stand out from the competition, and inspire copycats. They don’t follow trends, they create them.
There are so many brands to choose from today that consumers have got better at filtering out the old, boring ones. Old, boring brands feel like an average version of their nearest competitors, as they wither away trying to be all things to all people – and, instead, end up meaning nothing to anyone.
If you’re failing to land with consumers, especially the youth, maybe you aren’t making enough effort to lead? In which case, quit watching the competition, and start doing something truly new…
Tired Brands get stuck in a focus-groups / consumer-testing rut, unable to make decisions or come to a shared conclusion.
Exciting brands do real things in the real world.
If you don’t think about ways to evolve and surprise consumers, you’ll lose them.
One thing we often hear from tired brands is “oh, that won’t work in my category”. But out-of-category thinking is precisely what consumers are now demanding to see, in exchange for their time. They want to see things that they haven’t seen before, and to want things they don’t know they want yet.
BEING A TIRED BRAND IS A COSTLY BUSINESS.
Overcoming brand tiredness isn’t just important in winning-over the new high-earners and Gen-Z consumers that are becoming so important to brands; it also offers significant potential to bring lapsed shoppers back into the fold.
