You Need a Megaphone

You Need a Megaphone

You wouldn’t think tree crickets have a lot to do with marketing, but they do.

You see, female tree crickets like two things in their mates: size and loudness. If you’re big male tree cricket with a really loud song, you’ve got it made. You get all the attention.

But the curious thing is there are a lot of smaller, quieter male tree crickets out there too. You’d think that their stature would have doomed them in the cricket gene pool long ago.

But if you thought that, you’d be wrong.

That’s because these smaller dudes figured out that if you find a cone-shaped leaf, chew a hole in it, stick your body through and sing your cricket song it’s like using a big-ass megaphone.

In fact, scientists have recorded song volume increases of up to 3x.

Which tends to get the attention of their target audience.

So if you’re a small player and you can’t compete with the marketing the big guys are doing what can you do?

You just take a lesson from the crickets. You find the right amplifier.

The good news is that there are plenty to choose from: LinkedIn, Twitter, Clubhouse, Instagram stories, YouTube.

Megaphones just waiting to make you seem bigger and sound louder than you actually are.

You just have to chew a hole and start singing your song.

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Philip VanDusen, is a creative entrepreneur and owner of Verhaal Brand Design a branding agency based in New Jersey, USA. As a thought leader, Philip shares his expertise in marketing, design and entrepreneurship on YouTube to his 224k subscribers, in his Brand?Muse newsletter, on the Brand Design Masters podcast and in his Brand Design Masters Facebook community.

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