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Most founders and marketers in medtech, healthcare, pharma, and tech are telling the same story right now.

The hero’s journey.
The dramatic origin moment.
The product-as-hero narrative.

It’s become marketing’s default template — especially in technical and regulated markets.

And it’s failing.

It’s overdone.
It’s usually centered on the wrong hero.
And it often doesn’t match the founder’s real lived experience.

When you force every founder, every product, every customer into the same conquest narrative, you lose something critical: truth.

Your product isn’t the hero.
Your customer is.

And for many women founders in life science, medtech, and tech, the traditional hero arc doesn’t even reflect reality.

Then AI accelerates the problem.

More content.
More output.
More sameness.

Less meaning.

The market doesn’t reward volume.
It rewards relevance and truth.

In his latest LinkedIn newsletter, Bill Schick, eMBA, FCMO explains why the hero template is failing — and why discernment, not production, is the real competitive edge now.

If your story feels polished but doesn’t land, the issue isn’t volume.

It’s that you may be telling the wrong story.

Read the full newsletter and rethink the narrative you’re building your brand on.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pushing-beyond-heros-journey-heroine-mastery-machine-bill-kbf0e/

Pushing Beyond the Hero’s Journey: The Heroine, the Mastery, and the Machine This week's article breaks down why the “hero’s journey” has become marketing’s default crutch — and why it fails in technical and regulated markets. Looking at this through the lens of a naming/branding project I conducted a few years back, you’ll learn how to stop making mistakes with ...

Most “value props” aren’t value props. They’re feature dumps wearing a trench coat.

Buttons. Specs. Integrations. Speeds. Feels very… bad Amazon listing.

And the buyer’s left thinking: “Cool. So… what does this do for me?”

Here’s the ugly truth: features don’t persuade — they burden.

They make the customer translate specs into outcomes. And nobody wakes up excited to do math on your website.

So what happens?

- You blend in with every competitor who also has “fast, secure, scalable.”
- Your sales calls turn into product tutorials.
- And your “differentiator” becomes price… because that’s the only thing that’s obvious.

Flip the order: Outcome → Proof → Features.

Make the buyer feel smart in 10 seconds.

Use this structure everywhere (site, deck, ads, landing pages):

- Outcome headline: “Get X without Y” (plain English, no marketing fog)
- Who it’s for: the right buyer should instantly lean in
- 3 benefits: time saved, risk reduced, confidence gained, throughput increased — real-life stuff
- Proof: numbers, stories, screenshots, customer quote — something that isn’t a promise
- Features (last): only the ones that explain how you deliver those benefits

And one rule I live by:
If someone can’t explain what you do after 10 seconds, you’ll lose the sale.