SCENE 1Plan in Analog
Marketing is really theater. It’s like staging a performance.
—JOHN SCULLEY
Steve Jobs has built a reputation in the digital world of bits and bytes, but he creates stories in the very old-world tradition of pen and paper. His presentations are theatrical events intended to generate maximum publicity, buzz, and awe. They contain all of the elements of great plays or movies: conflict, resolution, villains, and heroes. And, in line with all great movie directors, Jobs storyboards the plot before picking up a “camera” (i.e., opening the presentation software). It’s marketing theater unlike any other.
Jobs is closely involved in every detail of a presentation: writing descriptive taglines, creating slides, practicing demos, ...
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