Features sedate. Benefits awaken.
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Features sedate. Benefits awaken.
Attract prospects to your product marketing materials with Bredemarket content services: https://bredemarket.com/mark/
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Do your technology company’s prospects know about you?
How can your technology company increase product benefit awareness right now?
(“Right Now” is a song. Keep tuned for another song reference.)
Before showing you how to do this, let’s take a closer look at three words in the title: product, benefit, and awareness.
Then we’ll get into the how: have, know, write, and publish.
And one more “how” if blogging is hard.
No apologies for the section heading, but since her dad died, Kelly Osbourne’s best song (albeit with a curious history) has been on my mind.
While Osbourne’s one word breaks the code of silence, the three words that I chose for my post title break the code of indifference. And I chose each of them—product, benefit, and awareness—carefully.
Companies talk about a lot of things. Their “why” story. Their great place to work award. Their social/moral/ethical conscience.
Right now I don’t care about any of that. I care about the company’s products or services: the way they make money.

Because if prospects don’t buy these products and become customers, then their why story and awards and conscience count for zilch. There’s a time to share those stories, but for now let’s focus on the product story.
Now once you look at those products, they have a bunch of features. The ability to capture fingerprints at 1,000 pixels per inch. The ability to complete a third-party risk management analysis in hours, not months. The ability to deliver a completely vetted blog post in days, not weeks.
Right now I don’t care about any of that. I care about the benefits the product brings to the prospect: the things that will make them become a customer.

Because prospects don’t care about you; they only care about themselves. And if your product doesn’t provide tangible benefits to them, they’ll ignore it.
The third word differs from the other two, because there are multiple answers that are equally valid. I’ve just chosen to focus on one. If you subscribe to the notion of an ordered funnel (some marketers instead believe in a messy middle), then all prospects enter at the beginning of the funnel, and a subset of those prospects exit as buying customers at the end of the funnel. Using a simple three-stage funnel model, you can define those three stages as awareness, consideration, and conversion.
Right now I don’t care about consideration or conversion, although they’re obviously important. (If you have no conversions, you have no revenue, and you have no company.) For my purposes I’m focusing on awareness, or the stage in which a prospect discovers that your company has a product or service that benefits them.

So how can you raise awareness of the benefits of your product to your prospects? There are multiple methods: text, images, videos, quizzes, contests, webinars, and podcasts. Bredemarket uses many of these methods via its social media channels. But today I’m going to focus on one particular method: blog posts. But we’ll cover some of the other ones also.
The reason that I’m so gung-ho about blog posts is that they can be created and distributed very quickly. Press releases can take a long time. Videos, even longer. Webinars, even longer still.
Compare that to a blog post. A sole proprietor can generate a blog post in an hour. A company can get an emergency blog post out in the same time, provided the right people are in the room.
But before you can wow the world with your product’s benefits to your prospects, you have to go through several steps. The four steps listed here (have, know, write, and publish) are somewhat, but they paint the broad brush strokes.
This sounds obvious, but if you don’t have a blog site, you can’t post a blog.
Using myself as an example, my Bredemarket website is hosted by WordPress. And the website has an area where I’ve filed over a thousand blog posts, including this one.

What if you don’t have a blog, or even a website? Create a LinkedIn business page or a Facebook business page or something similar and start writing there.
I could spend ten blog posts talking about this step alone. It’s a loaded step encompassing both strategic and tactical elements. Vision. Mission. Positioning and messaging. And finally, the topic that you want to address in this single blog post.
For now I’ll just say that you should take a deep breath before putting pen to paper (or keyboard to file).

I ask. (Here are some good questions to ask before you write something.)
I ask, then I act.
But I act iteratively.
In most cases, I don’t just write and post.
The important thing is to get the piece written, reviewed, and approved. While I’ve drafted pieces and sat on them for months, the true benefits of blogging occur when you publish the piece as soon as possible.
When you’re ready, publish the blog post.
Once you’ve posted, publicize it.
Depending upon your thinking time, your drafting time, and your review cycles, you can get your message out to your prospects within a week…or even within a day.
Not too bad.
For some people, the idea of writing a blog post can be overwhelming.
That’s why Bredemarket is here to help you increase your tech company’s product benefit awareness. (Right now.)
If you have a blog site (or a LinkedIn, Facebook, or other equivalent) and are ready to get your message out, let’s talk about next steps.

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Biometric marketing leaders already know that I’ve talked about reader personas to death. But what about WRITER personas? And what happens when you try to address ALL the reader and writer personas?
While there are drawbacks to using personas, they are useful in both content marketing and proposal work when you want to tailor your words to resonate with particular types of readers (target audiences, or hungry people).
I still love my example from 2021 in which a mythical Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued by my hometown of Ontario, California for an Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). The proposal manager had to bear the following target audiences (hungry people) in mind for different parts of the proposal.
But who is actually writing the text to address these different types of readers?
Now in this case I’m not talking about archetypes (a topic in itself), but about the roles of the subject matter experts who write or help write the content.
I am currently working on some internal content for a Bredemarket biometric client. I can’t reveal what type of content, but it’s a variant of one of the 22 types of content I’ve previously addressed. A 23rd type, I guess.
Anyway, I am writing this content from a product marketing perspective, since I am the self-proclaimed biometric product marketing expert. This means that the internal content fits into a story, focuses on the customer, highlights benefits, and dwells on the product.
But what would happen if someone in a role other than product marketing consultant wrote this content?
So the final content is not only shaped by the reader, but by the writer.
With all the different reader and writer personas, how should you respond?
Do all the things?
Perhaps you can address everyone in a 500 page proposal, but the internal content Bredemarket is creating is less than 10 pages long.
Which is possibly already too long for MY internal target audience.
So I will NOT create the internal content that addresses the needs of EVERY reader and writer persona.
Which is one truth about (reader) personas in general. If you need to address three personas, it’s more effective to create 3 separate pieces than a single one.
Which is what I’m doing in another project for this same Bredemarket biometric client, this one customer-facing.
And the content targeted to latent examiners won’t mention the needs of Paul Leon.
So now I, the biometric product marketing expert writer persona, will re-address you, the biometric marketing leader reader persona.
You need content, or proposal content.
But maybe you’re not getting it because your existing staff is overwhelmed.
So you’re delaying content creation or proposal responses, or just plain not doing it. And letting opportunities slip through your fingers.
Plug the leaks and stop your competitors from stealing from you. Bring Bredemarket on board. Schedule a free exploratory meeting today at https://bredemarket.com/cpa/.
What is the opposite of impostor syndrome?
Etymologically, the opposite of impostor syndrome would be expositor syndrome. I asked my buddy Google Gemini to hallucinate a definition, and this is what I got:
“Expositor Syndrome is a hypothetical, non-clinical psychological pattern characterized by an overwhelming and often compulsive urge to explain, clarify, or elaborate upon concepts, ideas, or events, even when such detailed exposition is unsolicited, unnecessary, or redundant. Individuals exhibiting Expositor Syndrome experience a profound discomfort or anxiety if they perceive a potential for misunderstanding or an unstated implication, feeling an internal pressure to “lay bare” all facets of a topic.
“Note: This is a fictional construct, not a recognized medical or psychological condition.”
Gemini actually said a lot more, but I chose not to elaborate.
This, rather than a delusion of grandeur, is considered the opposite of impostor syndrome because an impostor HIDES their true talented self, whereas an expositor ELABORATES and goes on and on about their knowledge. Until their friends become former friends and stop speaking to them.
But can someone exhibit both expositor syndrome and a delusion of grandeur?
Perhaps such a person—if they exist—can still make positive contributions to society.
Such as the Bredemarket 2800 Medium Writing Service, approximately 2800 to 3200 words that (a) answers the WHY/HOW/WHAT questions about you, (b) advances your GOAL, (c) communicates your BENEFITS, and (d) speaks to your TARGET AUDIENCE.
If you need someone to write roughly 3000 words about your identity/biometric or technology firm, request information at https://bredemarket.com/bredemarket-2800-medium-writing-service/
Between the Upland store grand opening, my musings on Amazon One, and a combination of the two, I have focused on the Amazon Fresh retail chain lately.
But I haven’t touched on the demise of Just Walk Out.
Not because of shrinkage, but because shoppers want control…and Just Walk Out took control away.
It’s masterful, really. You just throw your purchases into your cart, and a battery of cameras record and price everything automatically.
In reality, a battery of cameras and third world workers record and price everything semi-automatically. But I digress.
Anyway, all your purchases are recorded and totaled, and your payment method is charged as you just walk out.
THEN you find out how much you just spent.
Guess what? Customers didn’t like the surprises. They wanted to know how much they were spending BEFORE they were charged.
Customers wanted a better solution:
“Shoppers said they preferred being able to track their spending during a shop, access receipts instantly, and easily find products—all things that are harder with a fully automated system.
“The new solution—smart trolleys known as Dash Carts—lets customers scan items as they shop, view their basket total in real time, and pay using contactless payment at the end.”

The love for Amazon Dash Carts horrifies engineers, who are shocked that customers rejected the technological marvel that was Just Walk Out.
Except that customers don’t want features. They want benefits…such as being able to control their spending.
And if the manual Dash Carts offer better benefits than the automated Just Walk Out…then Just Walk Out does exactly that and leaves the premises.
And if you need to communicate the benefits of your technology solution…
Bredemarket can help:
Book a call: https://bredemarket.com/cpa/
Most product marketing references to artificial intelligence are meaningless. Some companies think that they can simply promote their product by saying “We use AI,” as if this is a sufficient reason for prospects to buy.
I’ve previously observed that saying “we use AI” is the 2020s equivalent to saying “we use Pentium.”
It’s a feature without a benefit.
It’s gotten to the point where meaningless references to AI have jumped the shark.
“(Several organizations) received a three-year, $1.3 million National Science Foundation grant to teach Florida middle school teachers and students how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify fossil shark teeth….Florida teachers learn to use a branch of AI called “machine learning,” to teach computers how to use shape, color, and texture to identify the teeth of the extinct giant shark megalodon.”
(From https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/shark-ai/)
Now I come from the identity/biometrics industry, which uses machine learning extensively. But customers in this industry don’t really care about the “how,” (machine learning). They care about the “why” (identify individuals). For all the customers care, the vendors could use Pentium for identification. Or blockchain. Or Beatrice. As Loren Feldman says, “It doesn’t matter.”
Remember this the next time you want to identify extinct megalodon shark teeth. Now I admit the exercise serves an educational purpose by exposing teachers to the capabilities of machine learning. But if your sole interest is tooth classification, you can simply purchase the non-expurgated version of Olsen’s Standard Book of Extinct Sharks and get the job done.
Marketing executives, AI is no longer a differentiator. Trust me. If you need assistance with a real differentiator, I can help.
If you want to win business, learn more about Bredemarket’s content – proposal – analysis services here.
(Part of the biometric product marketing expert series)
Back in December 2020, I dove into identity assurance levels (IALs) and digital identity, subsequently specifying the difference between identity assurance levels 2 and 3. These IALs are defined in section 4 of NIST Special Publication 800-63A, Digital Identity Guidelines, Enrollment and Identity Proofing Requirements.
It’s past time for me to move ahead to authenticator assurance levels (AALs).
Authenticator assurance levels are defined in section 4 of NIST Special Publication 800-63B, Digital Identity Guidelines, Authentication and Lifecycle Management. As with IALs, the AALs progress to higher levels of assurance.
This is of course a very high overview, and there are a lot of…um…minutiae that go into each of these definitions. If you’re interested in that further detail, please read section 4 of NIST Special Publication 800-63B for yourself.
NIST has provided a handy dandy AAL decision flowchart in section 6.2 of NIST Special Publication 800-63-3, similar to the IAL decision flowchart in section 6.1 that I reproduced earlier. If you go through the flowchart, you can decide whether you need AAL1, AAL2, or the very high AAL3.

One of the key questions is the question flagged as 2, “Are you making personal data accessible?” The answer to this question in the flowchart moves you between AAL2 (if personal data is made accessible) and AAL1 (if it isn’t).
Do the different authenticator assurance levels provide any true benefits, or are they just items in a government agency’s technical check-off list?
Perhaps the better question to ask is this: what happens if the WRONG person obtains access to the data?
If some or all of these are true, then a high authenticator assurance level is VERY beneficial.

Burnout in the healthcare industry is real—but can targeted artificial intelligence solutions reduce burnout?
In a LinkedIn post, healthcare company Artisight references an Advisory Board article with the following statistics:
(T)here were 7,887 nurses who recently ended their healthcare careers between 2018 and 2021….39% of respondents said their decision to leave healthcare was due to a planned retirement. However, 26% of respondents cited burnout or emotional exhaustion, and 21% cited insufficient staffing.
And this is ALL nurses. Not just the forensic nurses who have to deal with upsetting examinations that (literally) probe into sexual assault and child abuse. All nurses have it tough.
But the Artisight LinkedIn post continues with the following assertion:
At Artisight we are committed to reversing this trend through AI-driven technology that is bringing the joy back to medicine!!
Can artificial intelligence bots truly relieve the exhaustion of overworked health professionals? Let’s look at two AI solutions from 3M and Artisight and see whether they truly benefit medical staff.

3M, a former competitor to MorphoTrak until 3M sold its biometric offerings (as did MorphoTrak’s parent Safran), has invested heavily into healthcare artificial intelligence solutions. This includes a solution that addresses the bane of medical professionals everywhere—keeping up with the paperwork (and checking for potentially catastrophic errors).
Our solutions use artificial intelligence (AI) to alleviate administrative burden and proactively identify gaps and inconsistencies within clinical documentation. Supporting completeness and accuracy every step of the way, from capture to code, means rework doesn’t end up on the physician’s plate before or even after discharge. That enables you to keep your focus where it needs to be – on the patient right in front of you.

But what about Artisight, whose assertion inspired this post in the first place?
A recent PYMNTS article interviewed Artisight President Stephanie Lahr to uncover Artight’s approach.
The Artisight platform marries IoT sensors with machine learning and large language models. The overall goal in a hospital setting is to streamline safe patient care, including virtual nursing. Compliance with HIPAA, according to Lahr, has been an important part of the platform’s development, which includes computer vision, voice recognition, vital sign monitoring, indoor positioning capabilities and actionable analytics reports.
In more detail, a hospital patient room is equipped with Al-powered devices such as high-quality, two-way audio and video with multiple participants for virtual care. Ultra-wideband technology tracks the movement and flow of assets throughout the hospital. Remote nurses and observers monitor patient room activity off-site and interact virtually with patients and clinicians.
At a minimum, this reduces the need for nurses to run down the hall just to check things. At a maximum, tracking of asset flows and actionable analytics reports make the job of everyone in the hospital easier.
As Bredemarket blog readers have heard ad nauseum, simply saying that your health solution uses features such as artificial intelligence makes no difference to the medical facility. The facility doesn’t care about your features or your product—it only cares about what benefits them. (Cool feature? So what?)

So how can 3M’s and Artisight’s artificial intelligence offerings benefit medical facilities?

Now I am not a doctor and cannot evaluate whether these artificial intelligence solutions actually work (unlike some other so-called artificial intelligence solutions that were in reality powered manually). But if the solutions truly work, wonderful.
What’s YOUR healthcare story? And who can tell your story?
How can your technology business work with an outsourced content writer?
Perhaps you should first ask WHY your technology business needs an outsourced content writer.
Do your technology business website and social media channels DESPERATELY need written content?


There may be a variety of reasons for this. Perhaps your current employees are too busy doing other things. Or perhaps writing terrifies them so much that they think ChatGPT-generated content is actually a GOOD thing. (Read the content. It isn’t good.)
So you’re thinking about outsourcing the work to a content writer. One who has created content for multiple technology firms, including 9 returning clients. Here are four examples.
But how does outsourced content writing work?
Maybe you need an outsourced content writer because your current textual content is not compelling to your prospects, or perhaps it’s non-existent (for example, a LinkedIn company page with zero posts).
If you approach Bredemarket with your outsourced content writing request, here’s how we will work together:
For this example, let’s assume that you need between 400 to 600 words of text to post to your company blog or to your company LinkedIn account, and therefore are purchasing my Bredemarket 400 Short Writing Service.
This is the most important step in the entire process, and I don’t write a word of text until you and I have some agreement on WHAT I am going to write.
I start by asking seven questions about the content, your product, and your company.

I ask some additional questions which I won’t discuss in detail here. For example, you may specify the subject matter experts or articles I need to consult.
Once we’ve worked through ALL the questions, either in a synchronous meeting or asynchronously via email, I have a good idea of what the written content needs to say.
Now I write the first draft.

I don’t ask a bot to write the first draft; I write it myself.
Why? Because I’m an opinionated, crotchety, temperamental writer, and a “you can pry my keyboard out of my cold dead hands” type.
This benefits you because I love doing this, communicating your benefits to your prospects using the framework upon which we agreed in the kickoff.
Unless we agree on a different schedule, I get that first draft to you in three days for the next important step.
This is where you come in. Your task is to review my draft within three days and provide comments. And if I don’t hear from you within three days, you’ll hear from me. Why?
What happens after the first draft review varies from client to client.
In the end, we have a piece of content that is almost ready for publication.
While the words may be ready, the entire piece is not.
I’m not a graphics person, and usually a written piece needs some accompanying images to drive the message home. I may suggest some images, or I may suggest that the client reuse an image from their website, or I may just ask the client to select an appropriate image.
Once the text and images are ready, you publish the piece. Normally I don’t have access to your website or social media accounts, so I can’t publish the piece for you. Only one client has given me such access, and even for that client I don’t have COMPLETE publishing permission.
For short projects such as a Bredemarket 400 project, I usually bill you when you publish the piece, although in certain circumstances I may bill you once the text is complete.
While other content marketers may work differently, we all have some type of process for our outsourced content writing.
If you’re ready to move forward with Bredemarket for outsourced content writing, contact me.