{"id":351,"date":"2007-07-09T21:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=351"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:25","slug":"four-of-the-nine-best-story-lines-for-marketing-apply-to-biestmilchcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/four-of-the-nine-best-story-lines-for-marketing-apply-to-biestmilchcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Four of the Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing apply to biestmilch.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I want to refer back to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\/2007\/07\/what-people-tal.html\">Guy Kawaski&#8217;s<\/a> post about \u00bbThe Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing\u00ab from which I think the first four match up the unique history of biestmilch.<\/p>\n<p>When we started out in the beginning of 2000 one thing was very clear to us: the product story we were going to tell over the years yet to come must be excellent, exciting, unique and sustaining. Otherwise a company with so little capital and human resources like ours won&#8217;t be able to launch this product.<br \/>In those days we were not aware of the fact that biestmilch is asking for pioneer work at its best. Now, after all these years of very hard work where mistakes, failures and success were and are still so closely related to each other, it seems to me that we belong exactly to those small businesses that are so typical theses days: small and flexible, self-exploiting putting a lot of efforts into building up trust and quality relations with the customers, and in the same time always on the edge of falling on either side of the ridge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspirations and beliefs<\/strong><br \/><em>\u00bbMore than any other topic,<br \/> people like to hear about aspirations and beliefs. This may be why<br \/> religion is the most popular word-of-mouth topic, ever. Aspirations are<br \/> helpful because they help us connect emotionally to the speaker, the<br \/> company, and the issues. They help us see into a person or company\u2019s<br \/> soul.\u00ab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, applying this quote to the biestmilch business: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biestmilch.de\/biestmilch.html\">Biestmilch<\/a> in<br \/> the beginning was only an idea, later it became a vision, and, today it<br \/> is our life experiment. We put everything into it, from the view-point<br \/> of hardware, software and wet-ware. It is our belief &#8211; and the more we<br \/> work with it the more it is based on solid grounds of science and<br \/> experience -, that biestmilch is one of the most effective substances<br \/> produced by nature. It is a therapeutic option for the treatment of chronic diseases far<br \/> ahead before any conventional diagnostic tool catches hold of the<br \/> disease&#8217;s pathological substrate. It is our aspiration to make this<br \/> complex outstanding substance a matter of lifestyle. Honestly, you<br \/> need a great deal of belief and aspiration to survive all drawbacks and<br \/> frustrations on this way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David vs. Goliath<\/strong><br \/><em>\u00bbSharing stories about how a small<br \/> organization is taking on a big company is great business sport.<br \/> Rooting for the underdog grabs our emotions, creates meaning, and<br \/> invokes passion. We like to listen to the little guy talk about how<br \/> he\u2019s going to win and why the world\u2014or the industry\u2014will be a better<br \/> place for it\u00ab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biestmilch.com is definitely a small company. Three owners and at<br \/> max. 2 employees, two freelancers cooperating on a more or less<br \/> permanent basis. When we started, no market existed for biestmilch<br \/> (first milk\/colostrum), no product history, no figures, no positioning<br \/> of the substance, no scientific backing etc. etc. &#8230; We still work on<br \/> these major issues ;-)&#8230; Even though, I think by now our understanding<br \/> and subsequently the positioning of this amazing substance is very<br \/> precise, thoroughly thought through and it meets modern scientific<br \/> standards in biological complexity research. But we are still David not<br \/> really knowing our Goliath. Our Goliath resembles more the Golem, who is a<br \/> very unpredictable creature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Avalanche about to roll<\/strong><br \/><em>\u00bbThe mountain is rumbling, the<br \/> sun is getting stronger, but the rocks and snow are yet to fall. You<br \/> want to tune in and listen to the \u201cavalanche about to roll\u201d topic<br \/> because you know that there\u2019s a chance that you will be killed if<br \/> caught unaware. This theme taps into our desire to get the inside story<br \/> before it\u2019s widely known. It\u2019s not only interesting to hear someone<br \/> speak about these ideas, they have the ingredients for optimal viral<br \/> and pass-along effect.\u00ab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biestmilch has the potential to develop into an avalanche that is<br \/> about to revolutionize the health market and the therapeutic approach<br \/> to chronic diseases. If I talk about Biestmilch, I mean the substance,<br \/> not our brand. It may not be the case that we succeed. But somebody<br \/> will achieve this goal. Sometimes, when I&#8217;m caught by overwhelming<br \/> feelings of doubt, I may say it is not us. Anyhow, we did pioneer work<br \/> and left the beaten path to achieve this goal which means to take a very high risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contrarian\/counterintuitive\/challenging assumptions<\/strong><br \/><em><strong>Contrarian perspectives<\/strong> defy conventional wisdom; they are<br \/> positions that often are not in line with\u2014or may even be directly<br \/> opposite to\u2014the wisdom of the crowd. The boldness of contrarian views<br \/> grabs attention; the more original and less arrogant they are, the more<br \/> useful they will be in provoking meaningful conversations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biestmilch challenges state of the art medical science and practice. It defies classical diagnosis and treatment. Biestmilch treats disease states not the pathological diagnosis. Biestmilch turns classical medical epistemology upside-down. Just to cut a long story short. Biestmilch for us is a milieu modulator, and this applies to infections as well as to genetic diseases&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00bb<strong>Counterintuitive<br \/> ideas<\/strong> fight with what our intuition (as opposed to a majority of the<br \/> public) says is true. When you introduce counterintuitive ideas, it<br \/> takes people a minute to reconcile the objective truth with their gut<br \/> assumption about the topic. Framing views counter to how we intuitively<br \/> think about topics\u2014going against natural \u201cgut instincts\u201d\u2014pauses and<br \/> then resets how we think and talk about concepts.\u00ab<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To choose the name biestmilch was clearly counterintuitive. But against all odds and senior advices it turned out to be exactly the right thing to do. The name is accepted and well received despite its oscillating meaning between positive and negative connotations.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Challenging<br \/> widely-held assumptions<\/strong> means that when everyone else says the reason<br \/> for an event is X, you show that it\u2019s actually Y. Challenging<br \/> assumptions is good for debate and discussion, and especially important<br \/> in protecting corporate reputation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our assumptions are challenging. Biestmilch is not following the mainstream comprehension of medicine. For us (=biestmilch) \ud83d\ude09 everything within the body is about regulation not about supplementation or substitution respectively. Biestmilch to our opinion modulates regulatory processes.<\/p>\n<p>Writing this post I&#8217;m well aware of the fact that this is a very rough and superficial outline of an extremely complex story that may be difficult to be understood because of its shortcuts. Anyhow, I felt tempted to comment Guy&#8217;s post, so I did. One should not care too much. This is what hesitant Austrian-Germans can learn from an American ;-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2000 we try to build up a market for biestmilch, the first milk or colostrum respectively. Biestmilch asks for a unique marketing approach because the substance is unique, and these are no empty words. Many tried and a lot failed the challenges of this substance that does not meet mainstream. Why? Is it perhaps the did not have some product story? Here I comment the Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing with respect to our biestmilch business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}