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Speaker 3: I have a two part question. But the first part

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Speaker 3: is can you really describe that? Because everybody knows the

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Speaker 3: scarcy model. You just you put less product out right,

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Speaker 3: drive up to demand. But I think there's some more,

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Speaker 3: there's other elements that actually make that. It's not like

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Speaker 3: you can just make ten water bottles and say I

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Speaker 3: only have ten water bottle, I'm a charge one hundred

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Speaker 3: dollars for them, right, Like, from your understanding and working

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Speaker 3: inside of it, what made the scarcity model work when

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Speaker 3: you guys were doing.

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Speaker 4: It, Yeah, it was specifically when Nintendo, or just in general.

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Speaker 3: Just in general, but Inintendo, let's talk about that since

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Speaker 3: you were in it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so we were in experiential marketing. We travel from

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Speaker 4: city to city putting up like these literally bringing the

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Speaker 4: and we were doing that, but the supply in the store,

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Speaker 4: the product wasn't available. So like the hype gets built

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Speaker 4: value gets built up of, like where I will pay

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Speaker 4: above what it's asking for to get this thing because

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Speaker 4: I've experienced it.

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Speaker 1: And so so you.

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Speaker 3: Were promoting a product with no product available. Correct, The

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Speaker 3: promotion was done with no even release date.

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Speaker 4: No, the product was out, you just couldn't find it.

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Speaker 4: But we like our teams, and this was one of

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Speaker 4: game that you could walk into. That is very commonly

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Speaker 4: This is also like social media was just becoming like

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Speaker 4: It's a completely different compelling moment that also makes you

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Speaker 4: Right games were like maybe forty to fifty dollars. At

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Speaker 4: I didn't realize what was happening until I read the

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Speaker 4: book The Psychology of Influence. And so we were traveling

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Speaker 4: all across the country setting up these activations, and no

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Speaker 4: the time Christmas comes around, it's like, hey, hey, fever, like,

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Speaker 4: You're gonna buy something to just wrap and put under

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Speaker 4: that customer. What I learned when I read that book

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Speaker 4: is that's exactly what was happening with that product. At

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Speaker 4: And I just didn't realize that. I only understood the

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Speaker 3: So the whole idea is like to have it not

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So to not have it available when you need

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Speaker 5: I'm going to buy Mario tennis.

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Speaker 4: It's like if you you have a significant other and

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Speaker 4: to the jewelry store. The diamonds are nowhere to be found.

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Speaker 4: You've gone to numerous stores, you cannot find it. You're

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Speaker 4: now when that thing becomes available that she really wanted, well,

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Speaker 4: that want doesn't go away just because you got you

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Speaker 4: buy the thing again.

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Speaker 5: The stinker thing is perfect. It's like every Christmas Join

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Speaker 5: is going to release eleven, right. If the kid doesn't

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Speaker 5: get the eleven, they'll probably buy the kid pair of KDS.

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Speaker 5: Nike sees that, Oh, restock and now everybody gets to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it.

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Speaker 4: And I think one of the things about reading that

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Speaker 4: I felt for all these.

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Speaker 5: Traps as you was saying it, and I'm like, I

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Speaker 4: But then I think as an entrepreneur, you can use

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Speaker 4: that and turn that around, right. And so the difference

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Speaker 4: between the two is, I think on the advertising industry

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Speaker 4: it's there's a little bit of manipulation, and from an

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Speaker 4: entrepreneurship standpoint, you can use that in your favor of

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Speaker 4: thinking like, well, how do I market a product to

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Speaker 4: then there's something else that's equally or close to what

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Speaker 4: one way to look at it, right. The other way

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Speaker 4: to look at it is intention. Is your intention to

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Speaker 4: meaningful way that increases their affinity to who you are

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Speaker 4: and what you're building.

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Speaker 1: I think there's another way to look at that, right.

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Speaker 4: And then when I think of like black businesses, and

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Speaker 4: I see this happen in the food business more than anything.

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Speaker 4: You'll go to a restaurant they don't have like nine

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Speaker 1: You're like, man, I'm never gonna come to this restaurant again.

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Speaker 4: And then I've seen other other menus and other companies

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Speaker 4: who will say, well, first come first, sir, right like

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Speaker 4: if we run out, we run out, And you start

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Speaker 4: getting to that early because they've set a different kind

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Speaker 1: It's how you communicate it.

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Speaker 4: In one instance, I see black businesses being demonized for

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Speaker 4: that they never got what they say they gonna have.

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Speaker 4: They never open when they say they're supposed to open,

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Speaker 4: the barbecue place there is a prime example. You know

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Speaker 4: that if you don't get there at six o'clock in

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Speaker 4: once they run out, they run out. You're not saying, like, man,

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Speaker 4: they don't have anything together. You know what, You wake

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Speaker 4: want that barbecue. Everyone's spoken so highly about it, and

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Speaker 4: you know that it's now a very kind of sacred

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Speaker 4: experience that you have that you wouldn't have anywhere else

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Speaker 4: not try because they've a lot. It's about how we

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Speaker 4: manage expectations in business, and then how we communicate the

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Speaker 4: value of what we're doing. In one end, you never

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Speaker 4: going to go back there because they don't never have

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Speaker 4: anything together. Is literally no difference. The supply is gone.

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Speaker 4: You get there first, You get there first, one instances coveted,

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Speaker 4: and then the other instance is demonized. And that's not fair,

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Speaker 4: but it's a business lesson that people have to learn.

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