In undergrad, the most influential class that i took was rhetoric. While that might seem like it is a class that teaches one to wax poetic, it is rather a education on how to learn, process and read messages as well as giving you the basis of how to communicated effectively with others. Anyways, one of our classes was about learning from nature.
It might sound a little odd to think that we can pick up cues from nature and use them within marketing. On the other hand, most consumers are creatures of habit and often fall prey to subconscious cues used within marketing in order for them to choose what products or services that they spend money on.
Today i have been looking at flowers. There are a few outside my window that are striking in their color and density. Strong purples, oranges and yellows are easy to notice from a distance while they seem to just get more striking as you get closer. These flowers are tiny advertisements to passing bees. With the pollen that the bees carry, these flowers must get bees to land there in order for them to continue to exist.
TIP. With all of the marketing "flowers" out there within your market, why would any "bees" come to your company? Looking at the plants outside my window, i would say that catching attention utilizes the idea of being different/unique while have prolific messaging so that is one ad doesn't cause a customer/client to look your directly, another ad will.

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