It’s really that simple

Posted: September 11th, 2009 | Filed under: marketing | Tags: cupcakes, marketing, secret sauce |

Do you want people to notice your business? talk about your product? spread the word on your service?

Make your product/service remarkable, and you will succeed. It’s really that simple. Hard to do, but worth all the effort.

For example, I am not the biggest fan on cupcakes (crazy, I know!), but one look at Hello Naomi’s Super Mario cupcakes and I couldn’t help myself but went straight to her site to see what other amazing-looking cupcakes she also makes. It was almost instinctual. No sales pitch, no one ask me to click on a link, no advertisement brought me there. I was sold on the product because it was remarkable. And I’ll think of Naomi’s cupcakes if I ever need to buy some.

All the marketing campaigns, PR, SEO, online tools can’t help you if your product/service sucks. You can even have a visually-boring website if your product is amazing, people will still use it and keep coming back, look at Craigslist.

Make it remarkable, and you’ve done the hardest part.