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COACHILLIN' :: LIFE AT THE RESQHOUSE

COACHILLIN' :: LIFE AT THE RESQHOUSE

This isn’t a write-up about Coachella. This isn’t an offsite pool party recap.  This is a story about Marketing.  How to shape and sculpt it to fit your product, how to best speak to your community, and how efficiently to communicate your message.

A few years back, Troy Michels continued on from his prior Lifestyle Marketing position at Target, and co-Founded RESQWATER, the anti-hangover drink.  Now automatically, that’ll raise an eyebrow – it sounds weird, it sounds gimmicky – so Troy and his team realized that the best way to actually evangelize the RESQ gospel was by word of mouth, through the voices and personalities of people you trust.

In my opinion, there are two things going on in marketing a drink like RESQWATER.  First, there’s the education process.  The bottle is filled with ingredients to help metabolize acetaldehyde, “the compound that makes you feel lousy after drinking.”  And secondly, there’s the doubt barrier.  Sounds like voodoo or a medicine man roadshow.  But all it takes is a friend of yours to say, “That shit actually works” (which should be RESQWATER’s tagline at this point) for you to clear that hurdle.

So what would be better, hard-selling through TV campaigns and billboards or building a trustful community amongst friends and family – with their own sizable niche audiences – to tell the RESQWATER story organically?

Every year, Troy’s crew organizes a comfortable retreat literally down the street from Coachella.  He invites his friends who just so happen to dominate all cultural corners: Street, Skate, Sport, Nightlife, Music, Entertainment, Fashion, etc. to relax, bond, and put RESQWATER to the test (if ya know what I mean) with the objective that they would then become true brand ambassadors and spread the word amongst their communities.  As far as I know, RESQWATER does very scant marketing beyond this – this is one of their biggest pushes of the year.

The point of the story is that your Marketing must fit your product. It must reflect the ethos of your brand.  How you tell your story, and how you sell your idea, are just as important as the product itself.  It can be argued that it’s even greater.

Today, most larger corporations – or brands that just don’t get it – think the blanket marketing solution is social media.  Or the Internet. Or celebrities.  Whatever.  But the brands that win are the ones who consider their customer first, and proceed to speak their language.

This was my weekend:

Zach Neminsky (RVCA) and surfer Luke Davis welcome you to the house:

ResQHouse, Luke Davis, Surfer Luke Davis, RVCA, coachella, RESQ

What happens in the ResQHouse?  Lots of this.  Pow-wowwing, building, whatever you wanna call it.  Good conversation amongst friends you trust, greased by gourmet food, drinks, and music.  And bikinis.

She went to bed at 4am, was back at the house by 8!  Ashley is always my favorite bartender.

Chef Wen is my top housemate.  She gives me the hardest time but also feeds me, so…

Chef Wen, delicious ribs,

There is fresh food 24 hours a day, and snacks at every turn. I ate 6 times on Friday.  Saturday I scaled it back to 5. Feel fantastic.

Lots to see and do around these parts.

The world’s easiest and most insanely difficult game.

As played by Alyssa.

Alyssa Ramos, MyLifesAtravelmovie,

Barside.

Friendly fire.

RESQWATER had its work cut out for it.  Passed with flying colors.

RESQWATER, RESQ, Resqwater,

The Freedom Artists : Tack and Pascal!

The Freedom Artists, tack, pascal

Pro NFL-er Brandon Lloyd is all smiles lately about something

Then again, THIS GUY IS ALWAYS SMILING.

San Francisco 49ers, Brandon Lloyd, NFL All Star Brandon,

Lots of bodacious half-naked dudes around these parts as well!

Atiba, Shaun White, and Danny Way, dude!

Atiba, Shaun White, Danny Way,

My man Mark Sperling of GroupY and Tim Cadiente, co-Founder of Barton Perreira.

Mark Sperling, GroupY, Tim Cadiente, Barton Perreira

Andrew Freston of VICE and Chad Penry:

Andrew Freston, VICE, Chad Penry,

And only the finest of my lady friends, like Janae and Jax:

Lady Naes, Janae Twisselman, jaxtranchida, Jax

Rare selfie with another fan favorite, Leland Drummond of Azione PR:

Bobby Hundreds Selfie, Leland Drummond, Azione PR

Always looking forward to seeing Adam 12 every year.  I gotta get this guy in the rotation for Best. T-shirt. Ever.

Adam 12, RESQ, RESQWATER

The entire Of Mice and Men band shacked up at the ResQHouse.

Of Mice and Men, RESQHouse, RESQWATER,

And here’s the man of the weekend, such a rad dude always, Troy Michels.  Selfing with Luke.

Troy Michels,

Man of the weekend? This is man of the year!  Tal Cooperman (CRSL) playing on this year’s ultimate Coachella accessory: the Can-Am Spyder.

Tal Cooperman, CRSL, Can-Am Spider

Austin Carlile to the ResQ, with Kristi McKnight.

Krisit McKnight, Austin Carlile,
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