The Importance of Prioritizing the Experience

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Growth marketer and the brand marketer are both correct to your point. It's just time differences, time horizons. If you don't have a growth marketer and all you have is a brand marketer, unless you get really fucking lucky, you're probably not going to get the traction that you need. I've seen this in my specific small town of Trotwood, Ohio. There was a little restaurant that was there and they were doing some really cool stuff. But it didn't spread quick enough because the location was terrible for a place like that. He could have been a destination spot, but you have to get the influencers that will convince enough people to come

Today Josh speaks with Sam McNerney about the growing conspiratorial culture in the West, its further detachment from reality, free will, and the implications of us potentially living in a simulation.

Some of the other things we dive into are:

How marketers are like alchemists.
QAnon as a marketing campaign.
The root of cults and religion.
Mental illness and mental viruses.
The differences between marketing, storytelling, and being persuasive.
What is our relationship to brands?
The philosophical differences between chains and small businesses.
Existentialism, secularism, and simulated realities.
Mental health, religion, submission, and control.
The Matrix, free will, and purpose.
Does it matter if we live in a simulation?
And so much more.

Sam McNerney is an applied behavioral scientist, market researcher, and brand strategist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked with brands such as Walmart, Procter & Gamble, and CitiBank.

As a writer, he has interviewed business and academic leaders including Arianna Huffington, Andrew Yang, Jonathan Haidt, and Charles Murray – and his essays have been featured in publications like The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Scientific American.

Now as an independent consumer insights specialist, he specializes in using surveys to help businesses answer questions about their customers that unlock the greatest value.

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