Repetition is an old saw in the advertising business. Reach and frequency being words we grew up on. Reach is the total target you hit with a message and frequency is the number of times it was seen by said target. If you bonk people on the head enough times with your message, they’ll remember it, the logic goes. “Give us 15 minutes, we’ll save you 15% on your car insurance,” for instance. Repetition.
Education is another way to also gather attention. Tell someone something interesting, something they didn’t know, and they’ll work to retain it. Fill up space in the gray matter cache…it sticks. In brand strategy, I’m a big fan of education. Remember back in the day when you used to defrag your computer? Maximizing space by removing empty spots in the drive? Closing up duplicates? That’s what learning does. Interesting, new information makes the brain work. It makes the brain conclude. That’s how information rises to the top.
If your marketing communications aren’t educating, they’re lazy comms.
Peace.