Sometimes it’s easiest to put a twist on something and then the marketing happens on its own. Creating something new, something with a twist can give it the pull it needs in the marketplace… Simply because the product is unique – a remix.
It can claim an entirely new space – a blue ocean (as Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim put it).
It’s not new news and you may have seen this product already, but when I think of finding a new category, I think of this.
Here, a clock is flipped – from one day to one year per rotation:
Here is the Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottthrift/thefuture-of-thepresent
No, you don’t want to go out and create a clock like this, you want to borrow the idea, switch something from what we know and understand, one leap past. You may just create something with a shot of marketing itself (or close to).