Every Business School Should Emphasize These 3 Principals

PS - I didn't make these up, Steve Jobs Did.

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Teddy Giard
November 19, 2024

Marketing Shenanigans (#009)

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3 Basic Principles Business School Didn't Teach You

Every great business needs all three to be successful.

1. Great Products

✓ A great product solves a problem by helping you win back time, win back money, or build yourself a desirable community.

⚠️ If your product is not good, you are going to spend a lot of money trying to create a problem worth marketing.

2. Effective Marketing

✓ Effective marketing conveys those values through emotion. Whether this is through effect product positioning, aesthetics, or storytelling.

⚠️ If your marketing is not good, nobody will ever understand the value of your product.

3. Effective Distribution

✓ Effective distribution gets these products with the proper messaging into the right hands.

⚠️ And if your distribution is not good, you'll never achieve mass adoption and be able to operate at desirable margins.

"And no, I didn't make these up. Steve Jobs did. Last time I checked, most professors aren't tenured because they started a $3 Trillion dollar empire."

Pro Tip: If you want to work in product or have a knack for marketing, do yourself a favor and go down the wormhole of Steve Jobs keynote speeches.

Teddy Giard

Teddy Giard, CEO of Giard & Co.

In case you don’t already know, my name is Teddy, and I operate a firm that specializes in marketing strategies for outdoor brands. Our approach is simple: align your product development timeline with your marketing production timeline; by doing so, we can own the distribution of our message and our products.

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