Bigger than the Widget

This presentation is 45 slides long.

At the end of the presentation I am asking for your help.

Help in supporting cancer research by supporting me in telling a

Bigger Than The Widget story.

What does being Bigger Than The Widget mean?

Read on!

Thank You!

Bigger Than The Widget

Are you bigger?

Do you remember your first time?

The first time you made a connection?

One that got to your emotional core?

Not to a person…

…but to a thing?

I remember my first time…

Baseball is bigger than the widget

to me.

I am a fan

I am a fanatic

I love the San Francisco Giants

Did you know they are the 2010 World Series Champs?

It is more than a game to me

I am emotionally invested

My relationship to baseball is very sticky

Maybe for you it was…

the grace of the ballet

the wonders of your first computer

experiencing your first Dead show

or driving in your first car

But I am also a fan of…

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Quentin Tarantino films

and

Unfortunately, not all things are created equal

My emotional connection with the Giants

It is much more sticky

is much greater than with Reese’s

The switching costs are very different…

What about you?

What are your customers switching costs?

Are your customers fanatical about your company?

Are your relationships sticky?

Do they have an emotional connection to you?

Are you Bigger Than The Widget?

Or do they just like your widget?

The world has changed

The “good enough” is no longer good enough

The ubiquity of the internet

has created the Long Tail

Customers

Demand more…and they can get it

Your customers

“Good enough” is no longer good enough

and connect on an emotional level

You have to be bigger

I have written a book

Yet my book is only a widget

about how to be bigger than the widget

It is not “bigger”

It is just a book

Hopefully people will find the book useful

It needs to be bigger

But it needs to be more than the words

What if the book did more than

What if we could help others along the way?

discuss how to be Bigger Than The Widget?

What if?

I have decided

to a “bigger than the widget” charity

to donate all of the books profits

We can all help

You can help!

Here’s how…

1. Buy the book2. If you like it, tell your friends3. If you like the idea of raising money

for The V Foundation, tell your friends

4. Share this presentation• Twitter• LinkedIn• Facebook• Your blog• email• Everywhere

My goal…

$10,000 by May, 2012

That’s 2,000 books in the next six months

Seems reasonable

If I can get 200 of my friends to buy it

and they can each get 10 of their friends

2,000 books

6 months

$10,000

Can my widget be bigger than a book?

Yes!

And you can help

One widget at a time

And we can help find a cure

You can support the project and get the book at:

http://www.biggerthanthewidget.com/buy

Interested in helping? Go to

http://www.biggerthanthewidget.com/help

You can learn more about the project at:

www.biggerthanthewidget.com

You can learn more about The V Foundation at:

www.jimmyv.org

Thank You!