Empathy: This Year’s Missing Ingredient
“What should I post today?” is a good question but it’s the wrong question. It’s the question that makes marketing feel too self-serving and endlessly complicated.
Today’s guest is client turned good friend, Allie Morris Nute of Verb House Creative. Listen as she talks about the role of empathy in marketing. The fire in her veins she speaks of is something we should all feel when we’re talking about our businesses.
This conversation is one we’ve had many times on our own-why hustling your way through content development will never work and how it feels as a consumer to be shouted as rather than spoken to.
In this episode we cover:
- Why Starbucks’ CMO deserves a raise,
- Getting support from someone does similar work to you,
- Whether or not solitude can make us more empathetic,
- Figuring out which pieces of our story are appropriate to share, and
- Whether you are or aren’t responsible for finding the answers for your clients.
MEET ALLIE MORRIS NUTE
Allie Morris Nute is the lady behind Verb House Creative, an Austin, Texas-based marketing studio driven by radical empathy and fun. Allie provides brand messaging, content creation, & marketing strategy services to incredible ladies she calls her clientfriends.
Walking alongside each clientfriend and making it wildly fun along the way, Allie’s helped numerous businesses find more truth, more freedom, and more sales through their messaging and marketing strategies.
When not happy dancing and working away in her studio, Allie’s usually chasing her two-year-old twins across the house and telling her husband she needs “just five minutes of quiet time on the back porch, please!” Great ideas don’t just appear, after all.
TOP TAKEAWAYS
- Consistency wins, always.
- Empathy means prioritizing what others need to hear over what you want to say.
- The most effective marketing is inspired by our shared human experiences.
- You don’t have to distill all of your expertise into how-to lessons in order to be effective.
- No matter how brilliant you are, you’re always going to have a hard time seeing yourself as others see you.
- Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do is provide a container or vehicle for others to see themselves.
ALLIE QUOTES
“Empathy is truly just being human and thinking about your fellow human.”
“Every day people start off with the thought, ‘What do I want to say?’ They should really be thinking about what Sally needs to hear this morning.”
“You have to go inwards. Everything you want to figure out right now is inwards.”
“My to-do list is dictated by my life.”
“You see things in me and hear me say things I never realized I even said.”
“Things can’t exist just to exist anymore…We have to bring the heart back to business.”
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