Marvel's 2 Marketing Secrets That Skyrocket Sales

26 Aug 2025 • 18 min • EN
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🐬 Join the Sprint Club: https://www.strategysprints.com ⚡️ Receive our newsletter: https://thesalesshow.beehiiv.com/ 💎 Free Sales Tools: https://www.strategysprints.com/tools We are going to steal from MARVEL for you today. The two marketing secrets we’ll steal for you will be things you can immediately implement. And you’ll learn them in less time than it actually takes you to watch the Fantastic Four. Join Michael The Referrability Master Roderick and Simon The Sales Booster Severino. Marvel's $20 Billion Marketing Secrets: How to Recycle Content & Trigger Childhood Nostalgia Discover the counterintuitive strategies Marvel uses to generate massive profits from existing assets and emotional time travel - plus how to apply these psychological triggers to any business. Secret #1: The Character Backlog Strategy - Repackage existing assets into new revenue streams Secret #2: Emotional Time Travel - Tap into childhood nostalgia and inner wonder Transform old webinars into micro-courses and bonus modules Turn blog series into lead magnet ebooks Convert case studies into social proof carousels Repurpose SOPs into sellable templates ($40-70 each) Use B-roll footage for short-form social content Create mascots and characters that trigger emotional connections Design websites/workbooks that reconnect people to their superpowers THE DEEPER PSYCHOLOGY: People don't just buy products - they buy the person they believe they can become or the person they used to be before real life got in the way. BONUS INSIGHTS: How a simple cheetah mascot generated more engagement than business tools, plus the "gimmick" strategy that makes everything memorable. Perfect for entrepreneurs, marketers, content creators, and business owners who want to maximize existing assets while creating deeper emotional connections with customers. Chapter Markers: 00:44 - Secret #1: Marvel's Character Backlog Strategy 01:15 - Your Hidden Goldmine: Unused Content Assets 02:07 - Repurposing Examples: Blogs to E-books, Webinars to Courses 04:00 - Internal SOPs as Sellable Templates ($40-70 Products) 04:36 - Secret #2: Fear of Becoming Numb (Simon's Personal Story) 05:43 - Marvel's Real Genius: Emotional Time Travel 06:45 - Reconnecting to Childhood Wonder and Long Summers 07:25 - Why We Buy Marvel Memorabilia (Michael's Wall) 08:31 - Application: Beyond Surface Needs to Deep Longings 09:20 - Website Design: Colors, Textures, Emotional Feel 10:24 - Brainstorming: Nostalgic References in Content 11:20 - Shock & Awe Packages: Yo-yo Thank You Gifts 12:16 - Sprint Club Cheetah: Creating Emotional Mascots 13:39 - The Power of Gimmicks: Simple but Different 14:24 - Blue Man Group Example: Fake Club with Brick Wall 16:41 - "Steal It" Format as Marketing Gimmick 🐬 Join the Sprint Club: https://www.strategysprints.com ⚡️ Free Tools: https://www.strategysprints.com/tools CONNECT WITH ME 🐦 X: https://x.com/simonseverino 👋 LinkedIn: https://at.linkedin.com/in/simonseverino 🎉 Free Community: strategysprints.com ACCELERATE YOUR SALES 🐬 Business Coaching: https://www.strategysprints.com 🌴 Sales Show: https://www.youtube.com/@simonseverinosales 💪 Investing Show: https://www.youtube.com/@InvestingShow SIMON SEVERINO Simon Severino is the CEO of Strategy Sprints. He has created +2B in additional sales for his clients over the last 21 years. As an advisor who became CEO, he had to learn the importance of working ON the business more than IN it. Now, he shares his proven templates with high-ticket entrepreneurs. They reclaim 14 hours per week using the Strategy Sprints™ Method and enjoy sales that soar. Author of "Strategy Sprints", Podcast Host Ranking Top 2,5%, TEDx speaker, Forbes contributor, Triathlete. Has appeared on over 1300 podcasts. When he is not supercharging sales, you'll find him swimming, biking, running and tricking his 3 kids into outdoor activities so they can't escape his annoying shrinky questions.

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