{"id":2964,"date":"2025-06-04T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiny.agency\/blog\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:55:03","slug":"product-truth-vs-customer-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiny.agency\/blog\/product-truth-vs-customer-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Truth vs. Customer Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/shiny.agency\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/June-4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2965\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most financial brands think their problem is awareness. It isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can buy awareness. You can\u2019t buy relevance. You earn it by saying the one thing that makes someone stop scrolling, stop comparing, and start thinking, &#8220;This might actually work for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That doesn\u2019t come from your product truth. It comes from your customer truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Product truth is what the team wants to say about the product. The rates, the app features, the cash-back percentages. And don\u2019t get us wrong\u2014those things matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they only matter if they mean something to the customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s an example. In our <a href=\"https:\/\/shiny.agency\/blog\/category\/throughlines\/\">2024 <em>Finsights<\/em> study<\/a> of US financial attitudes, we asked consumers how they evaluate new financial products. 76% said they don\u2019t bother looking into a new option unless it promises a clear advantage over what they already have. That\u2019s not a comparison of rates. 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