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                                    THE HUGHTRAIN:
                                    “The market for something to believe in is infinite.”




                                    We are here to find meaning. We are here to help other people do the same. Everything else
                                    is secondary.

                                   We humans want to believe in our own species. And we want people, companies and prod-
                                   ucts in our lives that make it easier to do so. That is human nature.
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                                    We have entered an age, the first in history, where self-realization is not just possible for an
                                    elite few, but for everyone.

                                    I believe we are living in the beginning of a new global spiritual awakening.

                                    It is not religion. Itʼs everything and everyone around us. It affects Muslims, Christians,
                                    Atheists, Hindus, Jews, and Buddhists alike.


     It’s not about merit. It’s about faith.
                                                             Belief. Conviction. Courage.
                                    The spiritual implications are staggering.

                                    Itʼs no longer just enough for people to believe that your product does what it says on the
                                    label. They want to believe in you and what you do. And theyʼll go elsewhere if they donʼt.

                                    Itʼs not enough for the customer to love your product. They have to love your process as well.

                                     People are not just getting more demanding as consumers, they are getting more demand-
                                     ing as spiritual entities. Branding is a spiritual exercise. These are The New Realties, this is
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                                    NOTES ON THE HUGHTRAIN: PART ONE
                                    The primary job of an advertiser is not to communicate
                                    benefit, but to communicate conviction.




                                    Benefit is secondary. Benefit is a product of conviction, not vice versa.
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                                    Why is your brand great? Why does your brand matter? Seriously, if you donʼt know, then
                                    nobody else can—no advertiser, no buyer, and certainly no customer.

                                    Itʼs not about merit. Itʼs about faith. Belief. Conviction. Courage.

                                    Itʼs about why youʼre on this planet. To make a dent in the universe.

                                    I donʼt want to know why your brand is good, or very good, or even great. I want to know
                                    why your brand is totally frickinʼ amazing.

                                    Once you tell me, I can tell the world.

                                    And then they will know.


                                    : EXPRESSIVE CAPITAL




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                                    From now on if anyone asks me why, say, Apple or Harley Davidson are such great brands, all
                                    I have to do is show them this “Longing” drawing above.

                                    And of course, if anyone asks me why their brand isnʼt so hot, again, all I have to do is show
                                    them the same drawing.


                                            FIRST WE HAD HUMAN CAPITAL. You, there! Go to the next village and kill
                                      1.
                                            everybody because I’m the Chief of this village and I say so, etc.

                                            THEN CAME PHYSICAL CAPITAL. Land, property, factories, etc.
                                      2.

                                            THEN CAME FINANCIAL CAPITAL. Money, credit, dollars, etc.
                                      3.

                                            THEN CAME INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL. Our widgets are better than your widgets
                                      4.
                                            because our engineers are smarter than your engineers, etc.

                                            THEN CAME EMOTIONAL CAPITAL. People love our product more than they love
                                      5.
                                            our competitor’s product etc. This is the space “Love Marks” play around with so
                                            successfully: “A Love Mark is a brand that is loved by its user beyond reason,” etc.


                                    So naturally, Iʼm thinking, “What next?” How do you out-Love-Mark the Love Mark?
                                    Perhaps:
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                                    : THE KRYPTONITE FACTOR




                                    This “thriving in markets” cartoon above is one of my favorites. Sure, the line sounds good in
                                    a meeting. And yes, the client will invariably ask, “Can you give me a good example of what
                                    you mean, exactly?”

                                    Luckily, we all now have such an example: I call it “The Kryptonite Factor.”

                                   Robert Scoble mentioned it only a day or two ago [from time of writing]. I first came across it
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                                            KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best.
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                                         DAY TWO:

                                         KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best.
                                         THE MARKET: Yes, your bike locks are still the best.


                                         DAY THREE:

                                         KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best.
                                         THE MARKET: Ummm... yeah I’m sure they are, but what’s all this about some recent
                                         video on the net that’s supposed to show how you can crack your locks in 10 seconds
                                         using a simple Bic ballpoint pen?


                                         DAY FOUR:

                                         KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best.
                                         THE MARKET: Hey, I just saw that video on a friend’s website. And I’m kinda ticked off
                                         because I just paid $60 for one of your new locks 3 weeks ago, and I’m wondering if a
                                         Bic pen can crack my lock or not ... does the pen crack all Kryptonite locks or just one or
                                         two models?


                                         DAY FIVE:

                                            KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best.
                                        THE      MARKET: Hey, I just visited your website and saw no mention of the Bic pens. What
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                                    So what was the final outcome? How did Kryptonite address the problem? Did they fix the
                                    lock in the end? I have no idea. Iʼm just assuming their locks continue to suck. I suppose I
                                    could go visit the company website for more info, but... Eh. I canʼt be bothered. Iʼm just as-
                                    suming itʼll have the usual bullshit PR when I get there. Life is short.

                                    One decent, smart, young, credible part-time blogger on $500 a month, writing from the
                                    front lines on their behalf could have saved Kryptonite millions of dollars. Not to mention
                                    decades of slowly-and-painfully built brand equity.

                                    Without warning, Kryptoniteʼs market got smarter and faster than they did. And it only took a
                                    couple of days to unleash the full wrath. Boom. You have been warned.


                                    PART TWO:
                                    There’s only one thing harder than starting a new
                                    business: Re-inventing an old one.

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                                    Start-ups are fine and dandy, most people reading this will know all about them.

                                    But what about Start-agains? Are they an exercise in futility or a tremendous opportunity?

                                    Thought: the future of advertising is clients increasingly asking their agencies to help re-in-
                                    vent not just their brands, but their actual companies. The future is agencies being increas-
                                    ingly unable to deliver on this.

                                    Out of this wreckage a new industry will emerge ...

                                    So how do companies, businesses, brands, etc., re-invent themselves?

                                    Big, big question. Worth a fortune to know the answer.

                                    Actually, the answerʼs pretty simple: The same way humans re-invent themselves.

                                    I know. It shouldnʼt be that simple, but it is.




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                                    : A brand is a place, not a thing: Media is not ʻentertainmentʼ or ʻinformationʼ. Media is an
                                    interface. Interface implies action. For example, I leave Buzzmachine (my favorite website)
                                    more switched on than when I entered. So for me, thereʼs an actual kinetic quality about
                                    visiting there. The same should be true (but mostly isnʼt) for ABC, CBS, The NYT, Nickelodeon,
                                    MTV, etc., etc. I want the benefit of interacting with any given media brand I use to be more
                                    flamingly obvious, less vague and elitist. And this applies to non-media brands, as well. For
                                    example:

                                         By interacting with Gerber Baby Food, she becomes a better-informed mom.
                                    »

                                         By interacting with The Wall Street Journal, she becomes more tuned into the world of
                                    »
                                         capitalism.

                                         By interacting with Apple, she brings her entrepreneurial dreams closer to reality.
                                    »

                                         By interacting with McDonaldʼs, her busy schedule is made slightly easier by avoiding a
                                    »
                                         lot of fuss over lunch.

                                         By interacting with Ralston Purina, she becomes more attached to her canine friend.
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                                         By interacting with your brand, she becomes...??????
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                                    In other words, welcome to The Kinetic Quality.
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                                    : Itʼs all about “smarter conversations.” Business is the art of getting somebody to where
                                    they need to be, faster than they would get there without you.




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                                    The more synapses that are fired off, the more dopamines are released. Dopamines are
                                    seriously addictive. The more dopamines you release, the more the client will come back for
                                    more. Your client thinks he is coming back to you for sane, rational, value-driven reasons. He
                                    is wrong. He is coming back to feed.




                                    : I worked for my current boss for two years before actually meeting him in person. This
                                    is why having a good personal blog is so useful — it allows you to convey a lot of essential
                                    personal schtick over a great distance.

                                      : Big media is currently having the same problems the Detroit car industry was hav-
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                                    distance to Corporation Xʼs Central HQ. Ninety percent of the people you needed to talk to
                                    on a daily basis were within an elevator ride of your desk. Amazing how dated something so
                                    recent can seem. Now e-mail and its spawn are the new elevators.

                                    : Recent Conversation:

                                         ADVERTISING BUDDY: “Procter & Gamble are a pain-in-the-ass client to work for.”
                                         ME: “Clients with no money are an even bigger pain in the ass.”

                                    : Every time a new toy arrives on the scene (internet, new media, blogs, etc. etc.), people
                                    get really excited.

                                    “This new toy will really let us TALK to our target market yak yak yak...”

                                    “This new toy will really let us INTERACT with our target market yak yak yak...”

                                    “If we become REAL EXPERTS in this new toy our jobs will no longer suck and we wonʼt have
                                    to hit the bars so often yak yak yak...”

                                    Everyone knows the maxim, “A bad carpenter blames his tools.”

                                    There should be another maxim: “A bad carpenter thinks his shiny, new tools are going to
                                   save his     sorry ass from oblivion.”
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                                    PART THREE




                                    : Been recently scouring the net and the bookshops and whatnot. Hot marketing word du
                                    jour: “Transparency”.

                                    Yep, weʼre all transparent now. From the guy who cleans your pool to General Frickinʼ Motors.
                                    Rock on.

                                    : “Advertising is Dead.” Yep, bastards like me are no longer going to try to sell you anything.
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                                    their pert, young titties with your companyʼs product and march around the campus a-
                                    giggling. Hopefully “word of mouth” is generated, the media “picks it up” and suddenly youʼre
                                    no longer referred to as “Cube Boy” around the office.

                                    : Weʼre all about “empowerment” these days. We have great need to be constantly reminded
                                                        by the brands we buy into that weʼre not the flaccid nonentities we spent
                                                        most of our lives believing we are. So instead of it saying “Powered by
                                                        Blogger” on your website (a perfectly reasonable and succinct phrase, in my
                                    opinion), you now have “I Power Blogger.” So now people are going to laugh at you less. Right.

                                    : What makes the hi-tech/internet/dotcom client attractive to the ad business isnʼt their
                                    actual products, itʼs their customers.

                                    What is attractive is the idea of selling products made by smart people (computers, iPods,
                                    etc.) to other smart people (techies, entrepreneurs, college profs). As opposed to selling
                                    products made by smart people (baked beans, candy bars, soap powder) to dumb people
                                    (welfare mothers, redneck sports fans), the latter being 90% of what the ad business does to
                                    pay its bills.

                                     Selling to people of your own caliber is generally a far more rewarding way to spend oneʼs
                                     time than selling to people you wouldnʼt want to invite into your own house. Which is why
                                     the best agencies get to work on these hi-tech accounts, and why hi-tech accounts get more
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                                    So if your company cannot come up with its own spiritual schtick, Zen is the easiest “big one”
                                    to appropriate without appearing too tacky.

                                    : I am not in the factory-owning business. If I have something that needs to be made on
                                    a large scale, Iʼll call somebody up in China or Germany (probably the former). Let them
                                    worry about the machine operatorʼs pension fund. I have better things to think about. So do
                                    Coca-Cola and Nike, which is why most of their stuff is outsourced. I have ideas I want to
                                    see expressed. Being paternal on an industrial scale is not one of them. A companyʼs primary
                                    role is not to make or do stuff. A companyʼs primary role is to function as an “idea amplifier.”
                                    Making and doing are mere subsets. Read more here.


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                                    : The hardest part of a CEOʼs job is sharing his enthusiasm with his colleagues, espe-
                                    cially when a lot of them are making one-fiftieth of what he is. Selling the company to the
                                    general public is a piece of cake compared to selling it to the actual people who work for it.
                                    The future of advertising is internal.

                                    : Big Media think theyʼre going down the tubes because of “market changes” or what-
                                    ever. It never occurs to them that maybe, just maybe their own bad manners could have
                                    something to do with their own demise.




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                                    PART FIVE
                                    : Write like you mean the words.




                                    “Being creative” is not the hardest thing in advertising. Thatʼs easy. Being able to write about
                                    the clientʼs product with conviction, with passion, with genuine humanity is far harder. Most
                                    copywriters canʼt do it. If you can do it, thereʼs always going to be a market for it. Be excited.

                                    Most copywriters “canʼt do it” for one of three reasons:

                                            Theyʼre hacks. Hacks cannot write. Not really write. They can futz around, make it look
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                                         Fear. Also commonly known as “practicality.” Itʼs a competitive world out there, so to
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                                         minimize risk and avoid conflict with their paymasters, they pre-emptively rid their work
                                         of any human quality, and replace it with dry, blathering, meaningless corporate-speak
                                         instead. If you do this often enough, it starts to feel normal.

                                    Iʼm kind of hardcore about this. I think if youʼre writing meaningless drivel, itʼs your fault. You
                                    chose to work for this guy, you took his money, you cashed the check. Itʼs not his problem,
                                    itʼs your problem. All writers are responsible for their own experience. “The client wonʼt let
                                    me” doesnʼt cut it.

                                    The thing to do is only work with people whose vision and character excite you. The only way
                                    to do that is to have vision and character yourself.




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                                    PART SIX
                                    : The Madison Avenueʼs Cube Dwellerʼs job is to convince the client that itʼs 1990. Middle
                                    Managementʼs job is to convince the client that that itʼs 1970. Senior Managementʼs job is to
                                    convince the client that itʼs 1950.

                                    : The word “Brand” has so many meanings now (some more whacked-out than others), that
                                    using it has ceased to be useful.

                                    : Ad agencies market themselves as lions; in reality, theyʼre more closely related to the hyena.

                                    : The quickest way to lose that corner office is to come up with an original idea.




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                                    : Itʼs not just the product. People have to love the process as well.

                                    : As long as your marketing remains the domain of your typical suit-wearing marketing
                                    jackoff (“Letʼs call a meeting at 7.30am and talk about nothing for 3 hours!”), your marketing
                                    will be jacked-off accordingly.



     The Customer is a human being.
                         The Consumer is a metaphor.
                                    : The Customer is a human being. The Consumer is a metaphor.

                                    : Cluetrain is basically a wildly uneven, insane rant that makes little sense. Nor does all of it
                                    stand up to intellectual scrutiny. But since when has marketing been sane and rational? Since
                                    when have peopleʼs purchasing habits been sane and rational? If people werenʼt inherently
                                    psychotic, my day job would be a whole lot easier. We need an insane book because insanity
                                    is much closer to the truth.

                                    : The “advertising is an art form” spiel makes for dreary conversation.
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                                    PART SEVEN
                                    : “I believe we are living in the beginning of a new global spiritual awakening.” So why
                                    is this happening? No, I donʼt think weʼre all suddenly taking magic mushrooms, or Jesus
                                    has come back for second helpings etc. There are many reasons, a lot of them simple ones-
                                    technology bringing people closer together: Baby Boomers getting older and less into sex;
                                    materialism; etc., etc.




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                                          Live like you know the difference between remarkable and unremarkable, like it
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                                          matters to you.

                                          The more “remarkable” matters to you, the more likely that it will appear in the product
                                          youʼre selling. The more likely other people will notice it.

                                          Seek out the exceptional minds.
                                     3.

                                          This is my basic mantra. Itʼs a good one to have. Not everybody gets it. Their loss.

                                          Start a blog.
                                     4.

                                          Blogs are funny things. Say something smart, and people pay attention. Say something
                                          dumb, and youʼre ignored. We big media folk just canʼt seem to get our heads around
                                          that concept, for some reason. Regular blogging can help train you to discern between
                                          smart and dumb. It makes it easier to extend this to the rest of oneʼs business

                                          Ruthlessly avoid working for companies that “donʼt get it.”
                                     5.

                                          Yeah, you may have to turn down a few gigs, and that can really hurt when the rent is
                                          due. Still, anything thatʼs easy to get isnʼt worth having.

                                          Ruthlessly avoid working for companies that think they know better than you.
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                                         Be honest.
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                                         Again, smarter conversations are fuelled by goodwill, etc.

                                         Karma is key.
                                    9.

                                         But you already know that. Or youʼre stupid. No middle ground on this one, sorry.

                                    10. Listen.

                                         Tongues are dumber than brains, brains are dumber than ears, etc.

                                    : If a CEO can see his company as primarily an idea amplifier, then he can understand
                                    his “brand” properly. Vision doesnʼt require molecules, it never did. What it requires is
                                    something worth believing in.

                                    This is a work in progress. Keep checking back for tweaks, new thoughts etc. More thoughts here:
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                                    Hugh MacLeod is a brand consultant, copywriter and cartoonist. Born in America but educated in the
                                    UK, he has spent most of his life shuttling between the two countries.

                                    He started out in straight TV advertising writing in the early 90s but with the advent of new media it
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  • 2. ChangeThis THE HUGHTRAIN: “The market for something to believe in is infinite.” We are here to find meaning. We are here to help other people do the same. Everything else is secondary. We humans want to believe in our own species. And we want people, companies and prod- ucts in our lives that make it easier to do so. That is human nature. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the benefit doesnʼt excite us. Belief in humanity and human potential excites us. Product backgrounds wonʼt Think less about what your product does, and think more about human potential. print on paper and are only visible on-screen What statement about humanity does your product make? to aid readability. We recommend The bigger the statement, the bigger the idea, the bigger your brand will become. printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 2/28 X
  • 3. ChangeThis We have entered an age, the first in history, where self-realization is not just possible for an elite few, but for everyone. I believe we are living in the beginning of a new global spiritual awakening. It is not religion. Itʼs everything and everyone around us. It affects Muslims, Christians, Atheists, Hindus, Jews, and Buddhists alike. It’s not about merit. It’s about faith. Belief. Conviction. Courage. The spiritual implications are staggering. Itʼs no longer just enough for people to believe that your product does what it says on the label. They want to believe in you and what you do. And theyʼll go elsewhere if they donʼt. Itʼs not enough for the customer to love your product. They have to love your process as well. People are not just getting more demanding as consumers, they are getting more demand- ing as spiritual entities. Branding is a spiritual exercise. These are The New Realties, this is GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto Republic. Spiritual is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt cannot be outsourced. Either get with the program or hire a consultant in Extinction The soul Management. No vision, no business. Your life from now on pivots squarely on your vision of print on paper and are only visible on-screen human potential. to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 3/28 X
  • 4. ChangeThis NOTES ON THE HUGHTRAIN: PART ONE The primary job of an advertiser is not to communicate benefit, but to communicate conviction. Benefit is secondary. Benefit is a product of conviction, not vice versa. GO AHEAD AND PRINT Whatever you manufacture, somebody can make it better, faster and cheaper than you. THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is backgrounds wonʼt your soul. Nobody can take that away from you. And it is your soul that informs the brand. print on paper and are only visible on-screen soul, and the purpose and beliefs that it embodies, that people will buy into. It is your to aid readability. We recommend Ergo, great branding is a spiritual exercise. printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 4/28 X Want to copy and paste parts of this manifesto? CLICK HERE for instructions.
  • 5. ChangeThis Why is your brand great? Why does your brand matter? Seriously, if you donʼt know, then nobody else can—no advertiser, no buyer, and certainly no customer. Itʼs not about merit. Itʼs about faith. Belief. Conviction. Courage. Itʼs about why youʼre on this planet. To make a dent in the universe. I donʼt want to know why your brand is good, or very good, or even great. I want to know why your brand is totally frickinʼ amazing. Once you tell me, I can tell the world. And then they will know. : EXPRESSIVE CAPITAL GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 5/28 X
  • 6. ChangeThis From now on if anyone asks me why, say, Apple or Harley Davidson are such great brands, all I have to do is show them this “Longing” drawing above. And of course, if anyone asks me why their brand isnʼt so hot, again, all I have to do is show them the same drawing. FIRST WE HAD HUMAN CAPITAL. You, there! Go to the next village and kill 1. everybody because I’m the Chief of this village and I say so, etc. THEN CAME PHYSICAL CAPITAL. Land, property, factories, etc. 2. THEN CAME FINANCIAL CAPITAL. Money, credit, dollars, etc. 3. THEN CAME INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL. Our widgets are better than your widgets 4. because our engineers are smarter than your engineers, etc. THEN CAME EMOTIONAL CAPITAL. People love our product more than they love 5. our competitor’s product etc. This is the space “Love Marks” play around with so successfully: “A Love Mark is a brand that is loved by its user beyond reason,” etc. So naturally, Iʼm thinking, “What next?” How do you out-Love-Mark the Love Mark? Perhaps: GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto CAPITAL. Our products make it easier for the end user to find 6. EXPRESSIVE is toner-friendly: the and/or express meaning, narrative, metaphor, purpose, explanation and relevance backgrounds wonʼt in his/her own life than our competitor’s products. print on paper and are only visible on-screen “Expressive Capital.” Has a nice ring to it. Heh. to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 6/28 X
  • 7. ChangeThis : THE KRYPTONITE FACTOR This “thriving in markets” cartoon above is one of my favorites. Sure, the line sounds good in a meeting. And yes, the client will invariably ask, “Can you give me a good example of what you mean, exactly?” Luckily, we all now have such an example: I call it “The Kryptonite Factor.” Robert Scoble mentioned it only a day or two ago [from time of writing]. I first came across it GO AHEAD AND PRINT it here. reading THIS. This manifesto Hereʼs how the drama unfolded: is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt DAY ONE: print on paper and are only visible on-screen KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best. to aid readability.THE MARKET: Yes, your bike locks are the best. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 7/28 X Want to find the most buzzworthy manifestos? DISCOVER them here.
  • 8. ChangeThis DAY TWO: KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best. THE MARKET: Yes, your bike locks are still the best. DAY THREE: KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best. THE MARKET: Ummm... yeah I’m sure they are, but what’s all this about some recent video on the net that’s supposed to show how you can crack your locks in 10 seconds using a simple Bic ballpoint pen? DAY FOUR: KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best. THE MARKET: Hey, I just saw that video on a friend’s website. And I’m kinda ticked off because I just paid $60 for one of your new locks 3 weeks ago, and I’m wondering if a Bic pen can crack my lock or not ... does the pen crack all Kryptonite locks or just one or two models? DAY FIVE: KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best. THE MARKET: Hey, I just visited your website and saw no mention of the Bic pens. What GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto hell are you doing about it? Are you going to fix the locks? Are you going to give me the is toner-friendly: a refund? the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are DAY SIX: only visible on-screen to aid readability.KRYPTONITE: Our bike locks are the best. We recommend printing aMARKET: No, they’re not. You guys are assholes. THE test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 8/28 X
  • 9. ChangeThis So what was the final outcome? How did Kryptonite address the problem? Did they fix the lock in the end? I have no idea. Iʼm just assuming their locks continue to suck. I suppose I could go visit the company website for more info, but... Eh. I canʼt be bothered. Iʼm just as- suming itʼll have the usual bullshit PR when I get there. Life is short. One decent, smart, young, credible part-time blogger on $500 a month, writing from the front lines on their behalf could have saved Kryptonite millions of dollars. Not to mention decades of slowly-and-painfully built brand equity. Without warning, Kryptoniteʼs market got smarter and faster than they did. And it only took a couple of days to unleash the full wrath. Boom. You have been warned. PART TWO: There’s only one thing harder than starting a new business: Re-inventing an old one. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 9/28 X
  • 10. ChangeThis Start-ups are fine and dandy, most people reading this will know all about them. But what about Start-agains? Are they an exercise in futility or a tremendous opportunity? Thought: the future of advertising is clients increasingly asking their agencies to help re-in- vent not just their brands, but their actual companies. The future is agencies being increas- ingly unable to deliver on this. Out of this wreckage a new industry will emerge ... So how do companies, businesses, brands, etc., re-invent themselves? Big, big question. Worth a fortune to know the answer. Actually, the answerʼs pretty simple: The same way humans re-invent themselves. I know. It shouldnʼt be that simple, but it is. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 10/28 f X Every one of our manifestos is free. SEE THE REST OF THEM.
  • 11. ChangeThis : A brand is a place, not a thing: Media is not ʻentertainmentʼ or ʻinformationʼ. Media is an interface. Interface implies action. For example, I leave Buzzmachine (my favorite website) more switched on than when I entered. So for me, thereʼs an actual kinetic quality about visiting there. The same should be true (but mostly isnʼt) for ABC, CBS, The NYT, Nickelodeon, MTV, etc., etc. I want the benefit of interacting with any given media brand I use to be more flamingly obvious, less vague and elitist. And this applies to non-media brands, as well. For example: By interacting with Gerber Baby Food, she becomes a better-informed mom. » By interacting with The Wall Street Journal, she becomes more tuned into the world of » capitalism. By interacting with Apple, she brings her entrepreneurial dreams closer to reality. » By interacting with McDonaldʼs, her busy schedule is made slightly easier by avoiding a » lot of fuss over lunch. By interacting with Ralston Purina, she becomes more attached to her canine friend. » By interacting with your brand, she becomes...?????? » In other words, welcome to The Kinetic Quality. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h f 11/28 X
  • 12. ChangeThis : Itʼs all about “smarter conversations.” Business is the art of getting somebody to where they need to be, faster than they would get there without you. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We Note to Self: Your job is no longer about selling. Your job is about firing off as many syn- recommend printing a test page asapses older some in your clientʼs brain as possible. printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 12/28 f X
  • 13. ChangeThis The more synapses that are fired off, the more dopamines are released. Dopamines are seriously addictive. The more dopamines you release, the more the client will come back for more. Your client thinks he is coming back to you for sane, rational, value-driven reasons. He is wrong. He is coming back to feed. : I worked for my current boss for two years before actually meeting him in person. This is why having a good personal blog is so useful — it allows you to convey a lot of essential personal schtick over a great distance. : Big media is currently having the same problems the Detroit car industry was hav- GO AHEAD AND PRINT ing in the 70s, but that problem was easy in comparison. All Detroit had to do was start THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the the Japanese until they could finally get with the program. But nowadays, Big Media imitating backgrounds wonʼt one to imitate. has no print on paper and are only visible on-screen city is an anachronism. All those skyscrapers, architecturally impressive as they : The big to aid readability. We built to house large, tightly controlled, centralized bureaucracies within a very small are, were recommend area of land, geographically near the other like-minded bureaucracies with whom they did printing a test page asbusiness. You wanted to work for Corporation X? You had to buy a house within commuting some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 13/28 f X Be first in line to get our newest manifestos. SIGN UP for our newsletter.
  • 14. ChangeThis distance to Corporation Xʼs Central HQ. Ninety percent of the people you needed to talk to on a daily basis were within an elevator ride of your desk. Amazing how dated something so recent can seem. Now e-mail and its spawn are the new elevators. : Recent Conversation: ADVERTISING BUDDY: “Procter & Gamble are a pain-in-the-ass client to work for.” ME: “Clients with no money are an even bigger pain in the ass.” : Every time a new toy arrives on the scene (internet, new media, blogs, etc. etc.), people get really excited. “This new toy will really let us TALK to our target market yak yak yak...” “This new toy will really let us INTERACT with our target market yak yak yak...” “If we become REAL EXPERTS in this new toy our jobs will no longer suck and we wonʼt have to hit the bars so often yak yak yak...” Everyone knows the maxim, “A bad carpenter blames his tools.” There should be another maxim: “A bad carpenter thinks his shiny, new tools are going to save his sorry ass from oblivion.” GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 14/28 f X
  • 15. ChangeThis PART THREE : Been recently scouring the net and the bookshops and whatnot. Hot marketing word du jour: “Transparency”. Yep, weʼre all transparent now. From the guy who cleans your pool to General Frickinʼ Motors. Rock on. : “Advertising is Dead.” Yep, bastards like me are no longer going to try to sell you anything. GO AHEAD AND PRINT You heard it here first. THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the cure cancer.” Yep, so now you can go tell that expensive chemotherapist of yours to : “Blogs backgrounds wonʼt go f--k himself. print on paper and are only visible on-screen : “Alternative Advertising” is really hot right now. So instead of advertising on TV or People to aid readability. We like a normal person, you show your boss youʼre “with it” by hiring one of these Magazine recommend printing a “Alternative” advertising agencies and getting their army of freelance college girls to smear test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 15/28 f X
  • 16. ChangeThis their pert, young titties with your companyʼs product and march around the campus a- giggling. Hopefully “word of mouth” is generated, the media “picks it up” and suddenly youʼre no longer referred to as “Cube Boy” around the office. : Weʼre all about “empowerment” these days. We have great need to be constantly reminded by the brands we buy into that weʼre not the flaccid nonentities we spent most of our lives believing we are. So instead of it saying “Powered by Blogger” on your website (a perfectly reasonable and succinct phrase, in my opinion), you now have “I Power Blogger.” So now people are going to laugh at you less. Right. : What makes the hi-tech/internet/dotcom client attractive to the ad business isnʼt their actual products, itʼs their customers. What is attractive is the idea of selling products made by smart people (computers, iPods, etc.) to other smart people (techies, entrepreneurs, college profs). As opposed to selling products made by smart people (baked beans, candy bars, soap powder) to dumb people (welfare mothers, redneck sports fans), the latter being 90% of what the ad business does to pay its bills. Selling to people of your own caliber is generally a far more rewarding way to spend oneʼs time than selling to people you wouldnʼt want to invite into your own house. Which is why the best agencies get to work on these hi-tech accounts, and why hi-tech accounts get more GO AHEAD AND PRINT than their fair share of advertising and marketing accolades. THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the : We seem overly fond of “Zen” imagery these days. Whenever possible we like to design our backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and arelogos to resemble sumi ink drawings from 17th century Zen Masters and whatnot. company only visible on-screen We like Zen because it has all that comforting, calming, meditative, spiritual schtick with- to aid readability. We recommend out the insistence that we believe in anything too specific or counter-intuitive. Unlike, say, printing a test page asChristianity or Islam. some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 16/28 f X Send this to a friend. CLICK HERE.
  • 17. ChangeThis So if your company cannot come up with its own spiritual schtick, Zen is the easiest “big one” to appropriate without appearing too tacky. : I am not in the factory-owning business. If I have something that needs to be made on a large scale, Iʼll call somebody up in China or Germany (probably the former). Let them worry about the machine operatorʼs pension fund. I have better things to think about. So do Coca-Cola and Nike, which is why most of their stuff is outsourced. I have ideas I want to see expressed. Being paternal on an industrial scale is not one of them. A companyʼs primary role is not to make or do stuff. A companyʼs primary role is to function as an “idea amplifier.” Making and doing are mere subsets. Read more here. PART FOUR GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen : Merit can be bought. Passion canʼt. The only people who can change the world are people to aid readability. We who want to. And not everybody does. recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 17/28 f X
  • 18. ChangeThis : The hardest part of a CEOʼs job is sharing his enthusiasm with his colleagues, espe- cially when a lot of them are making one-fiftieth of what he is. Selling the company to the general public is a piece of cake compared to selling it to the actual people who work for it. The future of advertising is internal. : Big Media think theyʼre going down the tubes because of “market changes” or what- ever. It never occurs to them that maybe, just maybe their own bad manners could have something to do with their own demise. GO AHEAD AND PRINT : Great advertising has far more to do with how great your company is than which ad THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the you hire. agency backgrounds wonʼt : Doc Searls once incisively stated, “There is no market for messages.” Agreed. Which is why print on paper and are TV networks had to create TV programs. So youʼd watch them. Otherwise theyʼd just air the only visible on-screen commercials. to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 18/28 f X
  • 19. ChangeThis PART FIVE : Write like you mean the words. “Being creative” is not the hardest thing in advertising. Thatʼs easy. Being able to write about the clientʼs product with conviction, with passion, with genuine humanity is far harder. Most copywriters canʼt do it. If you can do it, thereʼs always going to be a market for it. Be excited. Most copywriters “canʼt do it” for one of three reasons: Theyʼre hacks. Hacks cannot write. Not really write. They can futz around, make it look 1. GO AHEAD AND PRINT fancy and professional, but they cannot inject it with any resonant human spirit, for they THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: lost all that themselves years ago. the backgrounds wonʼt 2. Their clients are idiots and wonʼt let them write properly. Any time they try to write like a print on paper and are human being (as opposed to a whipping-boy-for-cash) their client kills what they do and only visible on-screen to aid readability.sends him back to his cube for a re-write. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 19/28 f X Want to copy and paste parts of this manifesto? CLICK HERE for instructions.
  • 20. ChangeThis Fear. Also commonly known as “practicality.” Itʼs a competitive world out there, so to 3. minimize risk and avoid conflict with their paymasters, they pre-emptively rid their work of any human quality, and replace it with dry, blathering, meaningless corporate-speak instead. If you do this often enough, it starts to feel normal. Iʼm kind of hardcore about this. I think if youʼre writing meaningless drivel, itʼs your fault. You chose to work for this guy, you took his money, you cashed the check. Itʼs not his problem, itʼs your problem. All writers are responsible for their own experience. “The client wonʼt let me” doesnʼt cut it. The thing to do is only work with people whose vision and character excite you. The only way to do that is to have vision and character yourself. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen Conversations” do not require the input of stupid people. : “Smarter to aid readability.marketers feel the need to emulate them on such a pathological basis is beyond me. Why We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 20/28 f X
  • 21. ChangeThis PART SIX : The Madison Avenueʼs Cube Dwellerʼs job is to convince the client that itʼs 1990. Middle Managementʼs job is to convince the client that that itʼs 1970. Senior Managementʼs job is to convince the client that itʼs 1950. : The word “Brand” has so many meanings now (some more whacked-out than others), that using it has ceased to be useful. : Ad agencies market themselves as lions; in reality, theyʼre more closely related to the hyena. : The quickest way to lose that corner office is to come up with an original idea. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are the big Madison Avenue agencies trying to get with the program is a bit like : Watching only visible on-screen a middle-aged married man hitting on a co-ed in a bar. watching to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 21/28 f X
  • 22. ChangeThis : Itʼs not just the product. People have to love the process as well. : As long as your marketing remains the domain of your typical suit-wearing marketing jackoff (“Letʼs call a meeting at 7.30am and talk about nothing for 3 hours!”), your marketing will be jacked-off accordingly. The Customer is a human being. The Consumer is a metaphor. : The Customer is a human being. The Consumer is a metaphor. : Cluetrain is basically a wildly uneven, insane rant that makes little sense. Nor does all of it stand up to intellectual scrutiny. But since when has marketing been sane and rational? Since when have peopleʼs purchasing habits been sane and rational? If people werenʼt inherently psychotic, my day job would be a whole lot easier. We need an insane book because insanity is much closer to the truth. : The “advertising is an art form” spiel makes for dreary conversation. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 22/28 f X What are the most talked about manifestos? FIND out here.
  • 23. ChangeThis PART SEVEN : “I believe we are living in the beginning of a new global spiritual awakening.” So why is this happening? No, I donʼt think weʼre all suddenly taking magic mushrooms, or Jesus has come back for second helpings etc. There are many reasons, a lot of them simple ones- technology bringing people closer together: Baby Boomers getting older and less into sex; materialism; etc., etc. :HOW TO HAVE SMARTER CONVERSATIONS. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the Understand why what youʼre offering to do for other people is interesting, impor- 1. backgrounds wonʼt tant, meaningful, etc. Then start telling people about it. print on paper and are only visible on-screen about this one. Hard. If you donʼt know, then how will other people know? Exactly. Think to aid readability. We They wonʼt. recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 23/28 f X
  • 24. ChangeThis Live like you know the difference between remarkable and unremarkable, like it 2. matters to you. The more “remarkable” matters to you, the more likely that it will appear in the product youʼre selling. The more likely other people will notice it. Seek out the exceptional minds. 3. This is my basic mantra. Itʼs a good one to have. Not everybody gets it. Their loss. Start a blog. 4. Blogs are funny things. Say something smart, and people pay attention. Say something dumb, and youʼre ignored. We big media folk just canʼt seem to get our heads around that concept, for some reason. Regular blogging can help train you to discern between smart and dumb. It makes it easier to extend this to the rest of oneʼs business Ruthlessly avoid working for companies that “donʼt get it.” 5. Yeah, you may have to turn down a few gigs, and that can really hurt when the rent is due. Still, anything thatʼs easy to get isnʼt worth having. Ruthlessly avoid working for companies that think they know better than you. 6. GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto Luckily, if you get the whole “smarter conversations” thing, their “Yes, buts” will just is toner-friendly: the seem rather empty, making them easier to “toss out like old furniture.” backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are 7. Be nice. only visible on-screen to aid readability.Smarter conversations are fuelled by goodwill. Lose it and die. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 24/28 f X
  • 25. ChangeThis Be honest. 8. Again, smarter conversations are fuelled by goodwill, etc. Karma is key. 9. But you already know that. Or youʼre stupid. No middle ground on this one, sorry. 10. Listen. Tongues are dumber than brains, brains are dumber than ears, etc. : If a CEO can see his company as primarily an idea amplifier, then he can understand his “brand” properly. Vision doesnʼt require molecules, it never did. What it requires is something worth believing in. This is a work in progress. Keep checking back for tweaks, new thoughts etc. More thoughts here: The Kinetic Quality. (NB: This thinking was all inspired by Cluetrain of course, hence the name etc.) GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older printers do not support this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 25/28 f X
  • 26. ChangeThis info ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hugh MacLeod is a brand consultant, copywriter and cartoonist. Born in America but educated in the UK, he has spent most of his life shuttling between the two countries. He started out in straight TV advertising writing in the early 90s but with the advent of new media it evolved into new brand thinking and cultural transformation. His website, http://gapingvoid.com, is widely read in the blogosphere. DOWNLOAD THIS This manifesto is available from http://changethis.com/11.TheHughtrain SEND THIS Click here to pass along a copy of this manifesto to others. http://changethis.com/11.TheHughtrain/email SUBSCRIBE Learn about our latest manifestos as soon as they are available. Sign up for our free newsletter and be notified by email. http://changethis.com/subscribe GO AHEAD AND PRINT THIS. This manifesto is toner-friendly: the backgrounds wonʼt print on paper and are only visible on-screen to aid readability. We recommend printing a test page as some older z | MORE printers do not support f LAST PAGE READ this Acrobat feature. | iss. 11.01 | i | U | |+| h 26/28 f X
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