Market sophistication
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Market sophistication
Schwartz's other axis: how many similar claims the market has already heard. A fresh market believes the direct claim; a saturated one needs bigger proof, a new mechanism, or identification instead of promises. Explains why copying a competitor's winning claim rarely works - by the time you run it, the market has moved a stage.
Evidence from the library
A famous brand grows at the fringes - new entrants, lapsed users, light buyersPrincipleMessaging a cue your competitors already own is the expensive way to be forgottenWarning9x share, 4x growthHigh demand power comes with nine times the volume share and four times the odds of growingStatSystem1's argument to finance: creative quality with a correlation coefficient behind it is no longer a matter of taste. As the deck puts it, this is the evidence for creative effectiveness that CFOs need to demand of marketers and their agencies.Quote9-27% preference shareUnknown brands can take preference from category leaders on behavioural principles aloneStat
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Source
Marketing Definitions
Eugene Schwartz, Breakthrough Advertising (1966)
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