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Learn How To Advertise Like Apple

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Millions tuned in today at 10 am PST to watch a nearly 2 hour long Apple commercial. Undoubtedly Apple's marketing team is one of the best (if not the best) in the world. They spend millions of dollars every year on production and advertising, and they must be doing something right since they netted $59 bln last year.

When I watch events, like this keynote, I'll try to pay attention to how Apple markets their products.

Not everyone can spend millions of dollars on promo videos, images, graphics and everything else, but you can definitely do some things following the same principles Apple uses. These are not groundbreaking by any means but still underused by the majority of small business owners advertising online.

Here are some examples:

Products in use
They demonstrated every single product/service they talked about today.

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First Emotions - Then Specs
Apple Watch segment opened with an emotional montage of real-life stories about Apple Watch saving people's life. Features and specs came in later.

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User Testimonials/Social Proof
Apple loves to brag how many hundreds of millions use their products and (especially with Apple Watch) they show a lot of user-generated content.

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Extreme Use Cases.

They positioned the new camera on the new iPhone 11 Pro as good enough to be used by professional photographers and filmmakers. They showed some crazy good images and videos created with this camera. If it's good enough for the pros, it's good enough for a regular user.

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Main Features
They focus most of their attention on a couple of the most important features like a new camera in the iPhone 11 Pro (front and center) or new display on a new Apple Watch

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Give It A Name
Almost all of the features have a name like: Slofies (WTF?!), Liquid Retina, FaceID, Bionic A13, Always-on Retina, Smart Keyboard, etc.

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The release they made afterwards was amazing.


If only their current product line up were as cool as their ads...

Oh well, at least this means older iPhones will be on sale.

And great post.
 

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I was at a Tony Robbins event during the weekend and they discussed Apple's strategy: create RAVING fans who will spread your marketing message for you.

You know who they are - the guys who will queue for HOURS during a new product launch.
 

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I was at a Tony Robbins event during the weekend and they discussed Apple's strategy: create RAVING fans who will spread your marketing message for you.

You know who they are - the guys who will queue for HOURS during a new product launch.
I don't think that's their strategy. Their strategy is to make products they love. When Steve was around he would just make products he himself got a [expletive] for. If it wasn't right, back to the drawing board and start all over.

These great products are what create the raving fans.

 
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I think it's also worth nothing that their employees are also raving fans, their Advertising department are all raving fans, the executives? raving fans... that's part of the reason they can create Ads as great as the one I posted before. There's a team that genuinely believes in the products. They just pour their genuine energy into it.

As well as smart marketing.
 

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Typing this from my new 2019 Macbook Air I picked up today. Fast, smooth, does exactly what I need it to when I need it to.

Guess it worked...
 
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Typing this from my new 2019 Macbook Air I picked up today. Fast, smooth, does exactly what I need it to when I need it to.

Guess it worked...

How's the keyboard? I need to replace my Mac soon. Its 4 years old and too heavy now.
 

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I don't think that's their strategy. Their strategy is to make products they love. When Steve was around he would just make products he himself got a [expletive] for. If it wasn't right, back to the drawing board and start all over.

These great products are what create the raving fans.


I do agree - during the Steve Jobs reign they actually created products that excited me.

Now I'm just...meh. The new iPhones are ugly and if you've read the Steve Jobs bio by Walter Isaacson - he'd be spinning in his grave at the thought of Apple launching cheaper handsets to capture the lower end of the market.
 

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How's the keyboard? I need to replace my Mac soon. Its 4 years old and too heavy now.
I haven’t had it long enough for any problems to surface yet. But so far I’m liking it.

The key travel is a lot less than you’re probably used to but you get used to it. Other than that it’s a great travel laptop.

If you need more power (photo/video editing) then you should probably spring for the base MacBook Pro.
 
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Legit miffed I can't input my thoughts on this.
*watches*
 

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