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Welcome to a new special series called the Bathroom break. That extra 10 minutes, you either have to listen to marketing tips or use the bathroom. Or both. But I don't recommend both. But that's your choice.
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This collab is going to be super fun. We have Daniel Murray from the Marketing Millennials and me, Jay Schwetelson from the do this, not that podcast and subjectline.com each episode in the series, we are going to go over quick tips about different marketing top topics. And if you want to be in the bathroom, fine. Just don't tell us about it. Thanks for checking it out. We are back for another bathroom break. I'm Jay Schwedelson from Do this, not that. And I'm here with Daniel Murray from the Marking Millennials. And before we get into why June is a wild month for business. To business and consumer and whatever category you're in, Daniel, I had a question for you. I want to know if I'm a horrible person. So I was at Publix, which is a supermarket where we all live, and I was there with my daughter. And there were these, you know, we were going to check out, and I couldn't decide which line was going to be faster, so I told my daughter to go wait on this other line. And I waited on the other line. And then her line started to move up faster than mine. So I pushed the cart over there to her line because she was like, had a spot. But then the person behind her thought that that wasn't cool and gave us, like, a really bad stare for kind of like, doing that move. Do you think that that is an unacceptable move to, like, divide and conquer when you're a supermarket?
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No, it's strategic. I think it's a strategic. I grew, like, my parents grew up in South Africa, and in South Africa, like, they have a huge problem of just, like, cutting the line. So my mom will always want to cut lines. And my mom, that is not cool. She, like, she would literally go up and cut the line. And I'm like, I can't handle that. But if you just strategically, like, standing
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at 2, wait, you're in line for something. There's like 20 people, and your mom
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would just walk up and talk to the front. You're like, figure out a way to, like. Or she's like, I'm not standing in this line if. If it's long. So it's like to have both. Yeah, she won't wait.
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You're lucky that you didn't grow up with, like, no patience or, like, what if you had Disney World? There's a line and you're like, no, I'm not.
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Oh my goodness me. My brothers get so embarrassed because she will go into a restaurant and they'll have one person in line and she's like, it's too busy, we have to go, we have to go. And it takes longer to go to the next restaurant than just wait for that. But since there's one person in line, she'll gotta go. We're done.
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Oh, wow. I gotta hang out with your mom. She seems to like handle these situations better than me. All right, so let's talk about what's coming. I don't think some of this stuff is not on people's radar. The month of June is going to be unlike any other month of June that we've seen recently. And there's a lot going on, so I'll drop the first one. That's a big deal. And I know you got some others. What's off people's radar is the second half of June all the way through until the second week of July. It's actually one of the worst performing times for different types of things. So for example, the second half of June through the second week of July is the third worst period besides for Thanksgiving and the Christmas time, end of year for webinar show up rates, for B2B content downloads, and for high ticket consumer products. That period of time does worse than almost any other time of the year. Because look, you got summer travel, kids out of school, you got all this other stuff going on. If you're not baking that time period, that kind of three week period into your calendar, you need to factor it in because you don't stink as a marketer. It's just a very difficult time to market. What other stuff goes on in June, Daniel, that you see?
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Yeah. So there's an event that's happening that happens every four years, but it's like it's not going to happen in the US for a long period of time. And the way it's doing in the US is different than most countries because there's. Every city is a host city. So New York, New Jersey is a host city, Miami is a host city, Seattle's a host city. And they have different things going on in every city and different fan events and all this stuff. But it's a perfect time. We talk about this before.
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What's the event? You didn't say what the event was.
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He's getting ahead of himself. He's so anxious, like he's cutting the line like my mom, the FIFA World cup, the US Is in the fee, but they're in a good pool this year, so they have a good chance of getting it. But like doing emails with. I'm pretty sure this will work, but we haven't done. It's not tested. But having go or having offer that says USA 10 or having offers around the game and having emails themed like that, people are watching this. It's in New York, it's in Miami. People are going to it, they're hyped up about it. So get your email and if it's the worst time of the year, play into like the bet. One of the best events that is happening in the US and one of the best happening worldwide. It's even better if you're a worldwide company because people from Brazil are watching, people from England are watching, people from the Middle east are watching. So this is a great time to frame your offers, frame your emails, frame your subject lines, frame your headers with soccer or football themed copy.
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Yeah, in general. And that's for every market, every category. The first games that are going to be in the US are going to start on June 12th. So this is something everyone needs to be thinking about now about how you're going to incorporate it in. And before I go to the last one, Daniel, do you say football or do you say soccer?
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Well, it's hard to bait. I have to say soccer because we live here and nobody, everybody and I played football, so. But I grew up in South Africa, so everybody calls it football. And they. And my cousins live in London. They make fun of me that I call soccer. It's like soccer soccer. But it is football. Everywhere but the US but the US is soccer.
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Arrogance. Yes, we want, and also we want to, we want to take on the metric system. All right, the last one is Amazon Prime Day. And you're like, what? I don't even care about Prime Day. Listen, first of all, Amazon Prime Day is usually in July. This year, though, they're moving it to the second week of June. They haven't announced the firm date yet. But it's like rising tides lifts all boats. Prime Day lifts all marketing business to business marketing. I don't care if you're in a regulated industry, consumer marketing, nonprofit. When it's Prime Day, everybody's more focused on the deals that they're getting. They're in their inbox more. Believe it or not, during Prime Day, people spend about 15% more time in all of their inboxes, business and consumer. So thinking about your Marketing around those Prime Day dates are really important.
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I think also something that I. I've looked at is if you're not an Amazon and you're like an E Commerce product or a D2C product, if you just go in and search your product and see if people are searching, it will come up in the search queries and see, like, if people are searching your product a lot. And if you're not on Amazon, it might be a good. Not. I'm not saying go on Amazon, but I say that it might be a good time doing offers around Prime Day because people are already interested in your brand and the search volume on your brand. And it might be a good way to capitalize on the rising ties because Shopify also has one of the biggest days on Prime Day, too. So.
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All right, so before we wrap up here. So do you take advantage of Prime Day? Like, do you go on there? Are you buying, like, oh, my God, I can't wait for Prime Day. I'm gonna buy a new pair of socks?
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No, but I think now that I have a kid, there's so many things that you can, like, stock up on as a kid or. And every milestone, there's a. A new toy or a new diapers. Yeah, new. No, not cloth diapers. I'm not a cloth diaper.
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Do you think I want to know something? If you come across somebody and they use cloth diapers on their kid, what level of judgment do you have on that person?
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I. It's just so. It's like you really are either, like, you better be cleaning that very well, though. Cloth diapers. You know, there's like, services to, like, pick up cloth poopy diapers and bring.
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No, I don't know that. It's.
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It's crazy. Yeah, I get. I get it. Saving the world job. I don't know.
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Cloth diapers.
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Cloth diapers are a very interesting choice, and I respect people who are trying to save the planet, but it's a very interesting choice to go cloth.
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Look at you trying to be all like, you know, not say anything offensive.
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No, you're allowed to judge. I am judging you for cloth diapers. I would never do that. It's disgusting. I know what my child's diaper look like without cloth diapers. And he gets it on his clothes and had to clean his clothes. So imagine cleaning, like, I don't know. How do you even clean a cloth diaper? Do you know?
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I have no idea. Why do they exist? It seems like something that doesn't need to happen. We're going to get so many.
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Jay, when he had his first, first kid, he, he was alone with the, the kid, and the kid pooped and didn't know what to do, so she, he drove all the way to his wife to go change the diaper.
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Yeah, I did. I didn't know what to. That's actually fully accurate. I was a doofus. I just wonder if we will get comments like, and be like, I can't believe you shamed cloth diapers, which we probably will, but it is bathroom break.
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It is bathroom break. I mean, that's a big debate. Like, like, are you like a regular toilet paper person or you're like a, like a dude wipes type person?
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No, I, I, I should incorporate dude wipes. I haven't, I'm not against it. I just, I just don't, I, I have no idea.
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Like, most of the world doesn't use toilet paper, which is crazy. They use, like, bidets and, like, cloth, like, stuff. It's weird. I don't know.
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Hello?
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This is going down a different path, and we need to stop talking. Yeah.
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All right, everybody, keep following the show. Subscribe. Do something. I don't know. Later, Daniel. Come on, man. I gotta get back to work. Get out of there. All right, while he's still in there. This is Jay. Check out my podcast, do this, not that for Marketers. Each week we share really quick tips on stuff that can improve your marketing and hope you give it a try. Oh, here's Daniel. He's finally out.
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Back from my bathroom break. This is Daniel. Go follow the market Millennial podcast, but also tune into this series. It's once a week, the Bathroom Break. We talk about marketing tips that we just spew out. And it could be anything from email subject line to any marketing tips in the world. We'll talk about it. Just give us a, a shout on LinkedIn and tell us what you want to hear. Peace out.
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Later.