Transcript to video ... link below Kate Cooper: Im going to give you some of the secrets about how we make you buy what we want you to buy. So, as a marketer, when Im first given a project, whats my job? Well, my job is to make you want it, to crave it, to need it, to think that it is the best innovation in food since sliced bread. How do we do it? Well, Im going to give a really big example later that Im going to break right down for you, but lets just start by looking at a few fun little things. See here we have Shreddies, an old favorite, been around for years. Very popular in the U.K. and Canada. Without changing a single little thing about that product they remarketed them, rebranded them as brand-new diamond-shaped Shreddies. Food marketing genius right there. In the 1950s, there was a very important innovation in food: the instant-mix cake. One of my personal favorites. When they were first brought out all you needed to do was to add a little bit of water. Whos not going to love that? Well, actually, no one loved it. No one bought the bloody thing, so they did a little bit of research. And what they found was that the main consumer, the target consumer, the housewife, felt that it was cheating. They didnt want to pass off such an easy thing as their own baking to their partners, their husbands, their families, whatever. So what did the producers have to do? They had to make it harder. So now you had to add water and an egg, and sales exploded. These examples, these are just chicken feed compared to what I really want to talk about tonight and that is: chickens, and pigs, and cows. So when we think about where chickens, etc. come from, we think about something like that. Thats also our instinctive idea, but we all know if we really think about it deeply, its probably a little bit more like that, but thats a lot nicer. Its a lot more romantic. So how do we give you this impression? Well, there are three techniques that we use, the third of which is our secret weapon, and I am going to blow it for you tonight, so please stay primed for that. Lets look at technique number one. Everybody believes whats on the label. So lets look at some examples, some of my favorite, some of the ones I use all the time. Ill use farm fresh. Ill use 100 percent natural. Ill use butchers choice. But what does that really actually mean? Well, truthfully, it doesnt mean very much. We see that on the label, we feel a bit more confident. But lets have a look at what a farm really looks like. It probably looks like that. Now this is a concentrated animal feeding operation. Im going to run that past you again. Its a concentrated animal feeding operation. Thats not going to look great on a label, hence we use farm fresh. Innovation number two. This is what we use: we focus on progress. Intensive farming was born out of necessity. At the end of the second World War, resources were extremely tight. Farming had to be by necessity very, very economical and weve learnt from that and weve built from that, and were able to now raise more and more animals in smaller and smaller spaces. So we got extremely good at it. If we looked at a room of about this size and this were turned into a chicken barn . . . its a hundred-seat theater. How many chickens could we probably fit in this room now? Im going to say about 4,000. Its pretty impressive, isnt it? Itd probably look a little bit like that. Now, the public arent going to be massively keen on that idea. Its my job to make them feel a little bit better about it. So how do I do it? Well, a basic principle of marketing. We use the right choice of words, and by using the right choice of words we can make the conversation, we can focus the conversation the way we want it to. So well use an example of this. When you look at that picture, where is your eye drawn? Its drawn right to the middle of the page, massive letters. Weve got: strive to optimize. What were looking at in the picture in reverse looks a bit like that. But this looks a lot nicer because were looking at strive to optimize. It makes us feel theres progress. We feel good. So the challenge for the marketers is to make the public feel comfortable about what theyre seeing. One of the side effects of intensive farming, of having so many animals in such a small space, unfortunately, is obviously disease because if you put so many animals into a small space theyre going to get sick. It is no secret that 50 percent of all the antibiotics in the world are used on farmed animals. So how do you make the public feel okay with this? How does that happen? My job. How do I do it? I use the language of innovation. So were going back to our old friends at porkcares.org, and what they do is they say, As farming has . . . become more efficient, veterinarians have incorporated new technologies and methods into practice. This makes us feel good. This is positive. Yeah, this is progress. And then when were marketing to future consumers, we would perhaps use something like this. This is a coloring book. Pigs and pork. Its absolutely gorgeous, and what were doing here is were getting the children to focus on the fact that were using innovation. So by bringing the pig out from the muddy fields and into the clean barns were taking them away from all that nasty, dirty mud and all the diseases that are lurking there within. Positive. So on to our secret weapon. This is what we really need to focus on. So these two techniques alone, they are not going to work. We need a securet weapon, number three. It is actually in this room right now. Secret weapon. It is: you. So how do we do it? When youre in the supermarket, you dont want to think about where those products come from. You dont want to think about how those animals have been reared, how theyve been treated. The power of willful ignorance cannot be overstated. This is systemized cruelty on a massive scale and we only get away with it because everyone is prepared to look the other way. Thank you. There may be small errors in this transcript. :D thank you, Lynda Webb for sharing!
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:36:03 +0000
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