Riddle me this — why do people buy quarter-inch drill bits?
While there are a million possible answers to this question, Leo McGinneva offers perhaps the most interesting explanation.
“They don’t want quarter-inch bits. They want quarter-inch holes,” he explains.
This notion suggests that as consumers, we aren’t after all the bells and whistles as much as the solutions they provide. In other words, we don’t want to know what brands are selling, we want to know what’s in it for us.
Not only has this mentality lead to the demise of traditional marketing efforts, but it’s also set the stage for more human interactions between brands and consumers. Interactions that don’tfeel like marketing…
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