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The Parody Paradox Seth Godin J. Peterman is back. His oblong white catalog—filled with lengthy descriptions of Mata Hari, duster coats from cowboys on the prairie, and irreplaceable white silk scarves– was solidly entrenched in the zeitgeist a decade ago. The writing was so over the top that a fictional J. Peterman even became a character on Seinfeld. A tiny ad in The New Yorker launched this duster coat and the idiosyncratic voice behind the J. Peterman catalog. It was so remarkable that it spread, and as it spread, it became ripe for parody. Imagine for a second the same thing happening to L.L. Bean or Lands’ End. Inconceivable. Those catalogs are safe and steady and boring. The original J. Peterman catalog, on the other hand, was so ridiculous that it was delightful to parody. We feel the same way about Martha Stewart’s obsessive calendar in the front of her magazine or the two “cheeseburgah” guys at that diner in Chicago, as parodied by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. In each of these cases, the very uniqueness that led to a parody results in a huge increase in attention, in sales, and in profits. If you can show up in a parody, it means you’ve 70
Purple Cow got something unique, something worth poking fun at. It means there’s a Purple Cow at work. The paradox is this: The same word of mouth that can make your product a huge hit can also lead to someone’s snickering at you. Most companies are so afraid of offending or appearing ridiculous that they steer far away from any path that might lead them to this result. They make boring products because they don’t want to be interesting. When a committee gets involved, each well-meaning participant sands off the rough edges, speaking up for how their constituency might not like the product. The result is something boring and safe. How could you modify your product or service so that you’d show up on the next episode of Saturday Night Live or in a spoof of your industry’s trade journal 71
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