The Digital Agency Growth Podcast Michael F. Schein on the Power of Hype
How can you stand out from the competition in your industry? This is a question we’re all trying to answer through our marketing. We want a dedicated following of people who love our products and services, but how can we achieve that? This week, episode 157 of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast with Michael F. Schein is about the power of creating hype for your business!
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In this episode of The Digital Agency Growth Podcast, Dan Englander and Michael F. Schein share the importance of understanding the mass psychology principle and then playing with it. They also chat about actionable steps you can take right now to stand out in your industry using hype.
Michael F. Schein is the Head Hype Artist at MicroFame Media, a company that specializes in idea-driven businesses famous. Some of his clients have included eBay, Magento, The Medici Group, University of Pennsylvania, Gordon College, University of California Irvine, United Methodist Publishing House, PopUp, Pugpig, LinkedIn, and Citrix. His writing has appeared in Fortune, Forbes, Inc., Psychology Today, and Huffington Post, and he is a speaker for international audiences spanning from the northeastern United States to the southeastern coast of China. His book The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable Success Secrets From the World’s Greatest Propagandists, Self-Promoters, Cult Leaders, Mischief Makers, and Boundary Breakers, published by McGraw Hill, appears where books are sold.
In this episode, Dan and Michael discuss the following:
- Attracting attention from the people that matter on a macro level.
- Ethically harnessing the power of human emotion to create hype and cause people to take action.
- Powerful ideas on how to make war, not love so that you build up the right attention.
- Creating useful content that gets attention and can be replicated to get results.
- How ad fatigue and industry evolution can impact how we use hype.
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