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Asking For Connections From My Street Team

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I’m asking for a connection favor from the people who read this, my street team.

The ask

Here is the ask:

If you know a technology Chief Marketing Officer or other leader…
…who faces challenges in content, proposals, or analysis…
…and can use consulting help:

Ask your marketing leader to visit https://bredemarket.com/mark/ to learn about Bredemarket’s marketing and writing services:

The why, how, what, and who about Bredemarket’s ability to drive content results.
What I can do for your marketing leader.
Who uses my services; I’ve worked in many technology industries.
My collaborative process with Bredemarket’s clients.

The connection

If they like what they see, they can connect with me by booking a free 30 minute content needs assessment meeting with me, right from the https://bredemarket.com/mark/ page.

The reward

Thank you, street team. No monetary commission, but I can give you a shout out and a personal AI-generated wildebeest picture on Bredemarket’s blog and social media empire. Yes, even TikTok (if it’s still legal).

Actually, I already owe a shout out to Roger Morrison, who has supported Bredemarket for years and has supported me personally for decades. Roger offers extensive experience in multiple biometric modalities (finger, face, Iris, voice), identity credentials, and broadband and other technologies. Despite attending the wrong high school in Arlington, Virginia (should have gone to Wakefield), he is very knowledgeable and very supportive. Warning: Roger is NOT bland or generic.

Why Products With No Competition Actually Have Competition

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I’ve said this before. If a company says it has no competition, run far away.

I’m revisiting the “we have no competition” topic, because I have another point to make. If you claim your firm’s product has no competition because of its robust unmatched feature set, why are you still broke?

Take this example: the Uneek Combination Oven-Microwave.

A young woman left her family home and moved into her own apartment in the city.

Her apartment was a very tiny studio apartment. Because of the lack of space, the woman equipped the apartment’s small kitchen area with a space-saving appliance that was a combination oven and microwave.

This was truly a product that had no competition, because its feature set was unequaled by most cooking appliances on the market. Everything else was either an oven or a microwave, not both.

So by logic this product should have commanded a 99% market share because of its extensive feature set, right?

Yet it didn’t.

Because this product actually had competitors.

Stand-alone ovens.
Stand-alone microwaves.
Takeout food which ensured that you needed neither an oven nor a microwave.
And cold food.

The biggest competitor against ANY product is simply buying nothing at all.

After all, buying nothing at all has by far the lowest price.

At least in the short term.

How Can CMOs Serve Hungry Prospects With Expert Biometric Content?

How can CMOs serve hungry prospects with expert biometric content?

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Biometric product companies offer a tasty mixture of fingerprint, face, iris, voice, DNA, and other biometric hardware and software. These companies employ Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) responsible for their firms’ inbound product marketing. Hungry prospects devour any content the firm can provide, and the CMOs devour any employee or contractor who can provide the necessary content.

The CMO will appreciate this seasoned quote from Lee Densmer:

“Companies are outsourcing the writing at great expense….[I]t is a heavy lift to make sure daily content for the platform is useful, relevant, and align with your business. Outsourcing doesn’t really work unless the writer really knows your business, is in touch with corporate leaders, and stays on top of trends.”

Read Densmer’s article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-linkedin-b2b-growth-hard-right-now-what-youre-doing-lee-densmer-pqvgc

So if you’re a content-devouring CMO at a biometric company, doesn’t it make sense to contract with Bredemarket’s biometric product marketing expert to serve a delicious dinner of your content needs?

Talk to Bredemarket: https://bredemarket.com/mark/

(And yes, it is almost lunchtime. Why do you ask?)

Painting a Picture: The Content Challenges of a Biometric Chief Marketing Officer

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If this reads odd, there’s a reason.

Imagine a Chief Marketing Officer sitting at her desk, wondering how she can overcome her latest challenge within three weeks.

She is a CMO at a biometric software company, and she needs someone to write the first two entries in a projected series of blog posts about the company’s chief software product. The posts need to build awareness, and need to appeal to prospects with some biometric knowledge.

So she contacts the biometric product marketing expert, John E. Bredehoft of Bredemarket, via his meeting request form, and schedules a Google Meet for the following meeting.

At the scheduled time she joins the meeting from her laptop on her office desk and sees John on the screen. John is a middle-aged Caucasian man with graying hair. He is wearing wire-rimmed glasses with a double bridge. He has a broad smile, with visible lines around his eyes and mouth. His eyes are brown and appear to be looking directly at the camera. He is wearing a dark blue collared shirt. While his background is blurred, he appears to be in a room inside his home, with a bookcase and craft materials in the background.

After some pleasantries and some identity industry chit chat, John started asking some questions. Why? How? What? Goal? Benefits? Target audience (which he called hungry people)? Emotions? Plus some other questions.

They discussed some ideas for the first two blog posts, each of which would be about 500 words long and each of which would cost $500 each. John pledged to provide the first draft of the first post within three calendar days.

After the call, the CMO had a good feeling. John knew biometrics, knew blogging, and had some good ideas about how to raise the company’s awareness. She couldn’t wait to read Bredemarket’s first draft.

If you are in the same situation as the CMO is this story, schedule your own meeting with Bredemarket by visiting the https://bredemarket.com/mark/ URL and filling out the Calendly form.

Remember how I warned you that this post was going to read odd? In case you’re wondering about the unusual phrasing—including a detailed description of what I look like—it’s because I fed the entire text of this blog post to Google Gemini. Preceded by the words “Draw a realistic picture of.” And here’s what I got.

Imagen 4. I’m not on the screen, but I like the content ideas.

Imagen 4. With the bookcases. And I’ve never had a beard.

The Source of Bredemarket’s Content Creator Questions 1-3 of 7

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Perhaps you’ve seen Bredemarket’s ebook “Seven Questions Your Content Creator Should Ask You.”

If you didn’t already know this, I took the first three questions, in order, from Simon Sinek.

Regarding Sinek’s three questions, see the HubSpot post “3 Key Marketing Takeaways from Simon Sinek’s ‘Start With Why.’”

These three questions, as well as others—there are more than seven—form the first part of Bredemarket’s engagement with its clients. I ask, then I act.

I ask, then I act.

If you would like to learn more about Bredemarket’s marketing and writing services, visit my “Content for Tech Marketers” page at bredemarket.com/mark.

Is Biometric Authentication Marketing Profitable?

When a company such as Bredemarket promotes itself, often we don’t know who is receiving the marketing messages. Therefore, we have to BROADCAST.

When we do know who is receiving our messaging, we can NARROWCAST.

Hmmm…how could we know this?

Ask TLG Marketing.

“Businesses are rapidly adopting biometric authentication marketing as it serves a dual purpose: enhancing security and providing a customized marketing experience.”

But does it pay? Yes.

“By integrating fingerprint recognition technology, a retail company optimized its app experience, leading to a 20% increase in online sales. In another case, a banking institution used facial recognition for secure and quick authentication, resulting in a customer service rating boost of 25%.”

There are ways other than biometrics to know who your prospects are, but knowledge based authentication (KBA) such as passwords has its weaknesses. With KBA you may not be interacting with your prospects, but with your prospect’s spouse or child.

JOE’S ALCOHOL EMPORIUM: Evelyn, what types of alcohol do you prefer?

EVELYN’S TEENAGE SON WHO KNOWS HER PASSWORD IS HIS BIRTHDATE: 200 proof, man! Let’s get wasted!

Bredemarket has created targeted, segmented content, including individualized content. Let me help you communicate with your individual prospects. Talk to me.

Stop losing prospects! Use Bredemarket content for tech marketers

Tech marketers, are you afraid?

Unable to Uncapsulize

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I just emailed the Bredemarket mailing list and included “capsulizes” in the text.

I subsequently decided that I should have used “encapsulates” instead.

Too late.

But it’s better to send a fair email than not send one at all.

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Animals and Marketing

The experts who do NOT recommend letting ChstGPT run your marketing program DO recommend projecting authenticity in your communications.

But some prospects don’t like authenticity because it is too real and not “professional.”

I’ve alluded to the story of a group of people that knew me well. But of that group, only two felt moved to subscribe to the Bredemarket Instagram account. And one of those two subsequently unsubscribed.

Maybe the wildebeests were the problem.

The problem with people knowing you well is that they know you well…and know the wildebeests more than they want to. And when someone is focused on important business information, one wombat may be one wombat too many.

But not one koala. They have fingerprints, after all.

The lesson learned from this group?

When selecting your target audience, don’t market to satiated people.

Are You Ever Ready For a Bad Review?

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What do you do when you’re just starting out and face an immediate challenge?

Jennifer Zimmerman shared a story about Thomas Keller of the French Laundry:

“When a food critic made a reservation, Keller reportedly reached out and asked them not to write a review. Not because he couldn’t take the heat, but because his young chefs weren’t ready for that kind of scrutiny.

“In short: he stepped in to protect them. He gave them cover.”

Zimmerman classified this as a lesson in team leadership, but I also see a business leadership lesson here. And maybe a thin skin, common to many of us.

Most businesses are not fully formed by day one. Bredemarket certainly wasn’t when I started in 2020; I’ll let you know if it ever gets fully formed.

Chef Thomas Keller realized that it would take time for the French Laundry staff to work together well, so when MacKenzie Chung Fegan arrived at the restaurant, he ensured there wouldn’t be a review that evening. (Fegan hadn’t planned one anyway.)

Then again, Keller has a love-hate relationship with reviewers anyway, so perhaps his motives weren’t that altruistic. From Eater:

“After New York Times critic Pete Wells wrote an unflattering review in 2016 in which he referenced a mushroom soup as appetizing-looking as ‘bong water,’ Keller and his team have taken to giving critics an uncomfortable ‘gotcha’ gift of soup served in a literal weed-ready bong….”

Ceci n’est pas un bang.

But how should business owners and marketers react to a bad review? I admit I’m not that good at this. When someone whom I respect unsubscribed from the Bredemarket Instagram account, I failed to restrain all my disappointment.

But I didn’t serve the person soup in a bong.

Making Case Studies (and Other Content) Specific So Prospects Act

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Tech CMOs want to move their prospects to act and buy world-changing offerings (products or services) from their firms…and I want to move my tech CMO prospects to act and buy marketing and writing services from Bredemarket. So tech CMOs, I definitely feel your pain. But how can you move your prospects…and how can I move you?

Failure of a vague problem, solution, and results

In my recent post about converting an end customer interview into a case study, I discussed a “problem, solution, results” simple case study outline.

Justin Welsh just discussed the same thing, but with better words.

“I copy/pasted a spreadsheet of over 100 posts I’ve written that created real impact for my readers into ChatGPT, and I found a pattern:

“Specific struggle + specific transformation = lasting change

“Not some vague tension. Not a generic transformation. Specific moments where everything shifted.”

My specific solution

Of course the dozen case studies I ghostwrote for my client were implicitly specific. But it’s helpful to make that word “specific” explicit.

Because my client had a specific problem. The client needed its prospects to understand how its offering could solve nagging prospect problems. Riots. Car thefts. Robberies.
And my client had a specific solution. I can’t reveal the solution without giving the client away, but let’s just say the the solution simultaneously addressed the end customers’ dual needs of speed and accuracy, as well as other end customer concerns.
As for specific results, I confess I don’t know. In this case my client never got back to me and said, “John, case study 3 attracted a prospect that ended up buying an annual contract.” And my primary contact at the client subsequently moved to another firm. But the fact that the client stuck with me for a dozen case studies and some subsequent NIST FRTE analysis work indicates that I did something right.

You see what I did there. Well, as much as I could while preserving my ghostwriter status and my client’s anonymity.

What is your specific problem?

This section of the blog post is specifically addressed to tech CMOs and other marketers. The rest of you can skip this part and watch this entertaining video instead.

Bredemarket is targeting tech CMOs with the specific problem of needing help, or a push, to create the marketing content their firms require. Before your competitors steal your prospects from you. You know what you need: perhaps awareness (who you are), perhaps consideration (why your competitors suck). And you will get it through case studies, or blog posts, or white papers, or LinkedIn articles, or proposals, or something else.
Bredemarket has specific solutions depending on whether your needs are short, medium, long, or ongoing. As part of my solution, I begin by asking questions and then iterate the deliverable with you.
The specific results you need? Let’s talk about them.

Now I know I’ve loaded this post with links to previous Bredemarket content that addresses the…um…specific topics in much more detail. Maybe you clicked on the links, or maybe you didn’t. I will find out.

But if you are ready to move forward, this is the one link you need to click. (“Now you tell me, John!”) It lets you set up a meeting with Bredemarket to discuss your specific needs.