227: 3 Marketing Lessons the Olympics Just Taught Us
Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners
Stu McLaren
4.9 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Canada vs. USA for hockey gold. The whole country stopped. Schools turned on projectors, churches delayed services, restaurants opened two hours early. And buried inside that moment are three marketing lessons that can change your business.
If your marketing feels flat, if engagement is low, if you're doing tactics that should work but just aren't, this episode breaks down what the Winter Olympics taught us about selling, community, and the surprising power of doing what you actually enjoy.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why the backstory behind your offer matters more than the offer itself
- How community creates momentum (and a real example from inside our program)
- Why Norway -- a country of 5 million -- won more Olympic medals than the US
- The "joy is a strategy" principle and how it applies to your marketing
- A simple exercise to identify which marketing activities you should go all in on
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. It's early morning in Canada. And all that week, schools have been turning on their |
| 0:07.1 | projectors and kids have been focused on one thing. In fact, now churches are pushing back their |
| 0:13.4 | services and welcoming people to come together to watch one thing. Restaurants are opening two |
| 0:20.5 | hours early and filling up fast. Why? Canada is playing |
| 0:26.8 | the U.S. for hockey gold. And when this happened, our whole country stopped together. |
| 0:34.5 | And if your marketing feels flat, if engagement is low, if you're doing tactics that |
| 0:40.3 | you've heard work, but they just don't seem to be working for you, then this episode is for you. |
| 0:45.4 | Because the Olympics just handed us three lessons that can completely change how you think about |
| 0:53.1 | your business. So stick with me because by the end of this, |
| 0:56.0 | you'll have a new lens for your marketing, |
| 0:59.0 | and it all starts with a hockey game. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to Marketing Your Business. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Stu McLaren, co-founder of membership.io, |
| 1:06.0 | and author of Predictable Profits. |
| 1:08.0 | Now here's the truth. |
| 1:09.0 | You are one great marketing idea away from transforming your |
| 1:13.4 | business. One strategy can be the difference between struggling and thriving between a business that |
| 1:18.3 | drains you and one that fuels your life. Every episode, you're going to get specific tactics you need |
| 1:24.3 | to build your audience, attract more customers, and scale your business, |
| 1:28.0 | all without the burnout. These are real strategies, real numbers, real behind the scenes. |
| 1:33.7 | Buckle your seatbelts, my friend. Let's go. So we just wrapped up the Olympics. And what an |
| 1:39.9 | incredible Olympics it was. There were so many stories that came out of that Olympics that were just |
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