The June 2026 Marketing Playbook | Bathroom Break #108

0:07Welcome to a new special series called The Bathroom Break. That extra 10 minutes you either have to listen to marketing tips or use the bathroom or both. But I don't recommend both, but that's your choice. This collab is going to be super fun. We have Daniel Murray from the Marketing Millennials and me, Jay Schwetelson, from the Do This Not That podcast and subjectline.com. each episode in the series, we are going to go over quick tips about different marketing topics. And if you want to be in the bathroom, fine, just don't tell us about it. Thanks for checking it out. We are back for another bathroom break.

0:41I'm Jay Schwedelson from Do This, Not That, and I'm here with Daniel Murray from The Marketing Millennials. Before we get into why June is a wild month for business to business and consumer and whatever category you're in, Daniel, I had a question for you. I want to know if I'm a horrible person. So I was at Publix, which is a supermarket where we all live. And I was there with my daughter and there were these, you know, we're going to check out and I couldn't decide which line was going to be faster. So I told my daughter to go wait on this other line. And I waited on the other line and then her line started to move up faster than mine.

1:16So I pushed the cart over there to her line because she was like, had a spot, but then the person behind her thought that that wasn't cool and gave us like a really bad stare for kind of like doing that move. Do you think that that is an unacceptable move to like divide and conquer when you're in a supermarket? No, it's strategic. I think it's a strategic move. Like my parents grew up in South Africa. And in South Africa, like they have a huge problem of just like cutting the line. So my mom will always want to cut lines. And my mom, that is not cool. she would literally go up and cut the line and like i can't handle that but if you just strategically like standing at two lines wait you're in line for something there's like 20 people and your mom would just walk up into the front she'll like figure out a way to like go or she's like i'm not standing in this line if if it's long so it's like two of them both wow yeah she won't wait a night you're lucky that you didn't grow up with like no patience or like what if you go at disney world there's a line and you're like no i'm not oh my goodness me and my brothers get so embarrassed because she will go into a restaurant and they'll have one person in line and she's like it's too busy we have to go we have to go and it takes longer to go to the next restaurant than just wait for that table but since there's one person in line she'll gotta go we're done oh wow i gotta hang out with your mom she seems to like handle these situations better than me um all right so let's talk about what's coming i don't think some of this stuff is not on people's radar.

2:45The month of June is going to be unlike any other month of June that we've seen recently, and there's a lot going on. So I'll drop the first one that's a big deal, and I know you got some others. So what's off people's radar is the second half of June all the way through until the second week of July, it's actually one of the worst performing times for different types of things. So for example, the second half of June through the second week of July is the third worst period besides for Thanksgiving and the Christmastime end of year for webinar show up rates, for B2B content downloads, and for high ticket consumer products.

3:28That period of time does worse than almost any other time of the year. Because look, you got summer travel, kids out of school, You got all this other stuff going on. So if you're not baking that time period, that kind of three-week period into your calendar, you need to factor it in because you don't stink as a marketer. It's just a very difficult time to market. What other stuff goes on in June, Daniel, that you see? Yeah. So there's an event that's happening that happens every four years, but it's not going to happen in the US for a long period of time. And the way it's doing in the US is different than most countries because every city is a host city.

4:05So New York, New Jersey is a host city. Miami is a host city. Seattle is a host city. And they have different things going on in every city and different fan events and all this stuff. But it's a perfect time. We talk about this before. What's the event? You didn't say what the event was. He's getting ahead of himself. He's so anxious. He's cutting the line like my mom. The FIFA World Cup. The U.S. is in the FIFA. They're in a good pool this year. so they have a good chance of getting it but like doing emails with i'm pretty sure this will work but we haven't we've done it's not tested but having goal or having offer that says usa 10 or um having offers around the game and having emails themed like that people are watching this it's in new york it's in miami people are going to it um they're hyped up about it so get And if it's the worst time of the year, play into one of the best events that is happening in the U.S.

5:03and one of the best happening worldwide. It's even better if you're a worldwide company because people from Brazil are watching, people from England are watching, people from the Middle East are watching. So this is a great time to frame your offers, frame your emails, frame your subject lines, frame your headers with soccer or football themed copy. Yeah, in general, and that's for every market, every category. The first games that are going to be in the U.S. are going to start on June 12th. So this is something everyone needs to be thinking about now, but how are you going to incorporate it in?

5:37And before I go to the last one, Daniel, do you say football or do you say soccer? Well, it's hard to debate. I have to say soccer because we live here and nobody, everybody, and I play football. But I grew up in South Africa, so everybody calls it football. And my cousins live in London. They make fun of me that I call it soccer. It's like soccer, soccer. But it is football everywhere but the U.S., but the U.S. is soccer. Arrogance. Yes. And also, we want to take on the metric system. All right, the last one is Amazon Prime Day. And you're like, what? I don't even care about Prime Day. listen, first of all, Amazon Prime Day is usually in July.

6:23This year, though, they're moving it to the second week of June. They haven't announced the firm date yet, but it's like rising tides lifts all boats. Prime Day lifts all marketing, business to business marketing. I don't care if you're in a regulated industry, consumer marketing, nonprofit. When it's Prime Day, everybody's more focused on the deals that they're getting. They're in their inbox more. Believe it or not, during Prime Day, people spend about 15 % more time in all of their inboxes, business and consumer. So thinking about your marketing around those Prime Day dates are really important.

6:59I think also something that I've looked at is if you're not on Amazon and you're like an e-commerce product or a D2C product, if you just go in and search your product and see if people are searching, it will come up in the search queries and see if people are searching your product a lot. And if you're not on Amazon, it might be a good time doing offers around Prime Day because people are already interested in your brand and the search volume on your brand. And it might be a good way to capitalize on the rising tide. Because Shopify also has one of the biggest days on Prime Day too. All right.

7:37So before we wrap up here, so do you take advantage of Prime Day? Like, do you go on there? Are you buying? Like, oh, my God, I can't wait for Prime Day. I'm going to buy a new pair of socks. No, but I think now that I have a kid, there's so many things that you can stock up on as a kid. And every milestone, there's a new toy or a new thing. Yeah. No, not cloth diapers. I'm all cloth diapers. Do you think, I want to know something. If you come across somebody and they use cloth diapers on their kid, what level of judgment do you have on that person? i it's just so it's like you really are either like you better be cleaning that very well though cloth diapers you know there's like services to like pick up cloth poopy diapers and bring no i don't know that it's it's crazy yeah i get i get it saving the world that's a bad job i don't know cloth diapers are uh a very interesting choice and i respect people who were trying to save the planet, but it's a very interesting choice to go claw diapers.

8:43Look at you trying to be all like, you know, not say anything offensive. No, I am judging you for claw diapers because I would never do that. It's disgusting. I know what my child's diaper looked like without claw diapers. And he gets it on his clothes and I have to clean his clothes. Imagine cleaning like, I don't know. How do you even clean a claw diaper? Do you know? I have no idea. Why do they exist? It seems like something that doesn't need to happen. but we're going to get so many comments from people. Jay, when he had his first kid, he was alone with the kid, and the kid pooped and didn't know what to do, so he drove all the way to his wife to go change the diaper.

9:20Yeah, I did. I didn't know what to do. That's actually fully accurate. I was a doofus. I just wonder if we will get comments like, and be like, I can't believe you shamed cloth diapers, which we probably will. We probably will. But it is bathroom break. It is bathroom break. I mean, that's a big debate. Are you like a regular toilet paper person or are you like a dude wipes type person? No, I should incorporate dude wipes. I haven't. I'm not against it. I just don't. I have no. I just don't care. Most of the world doesn't use toilet paper, which is crazy. They use bidets and cloth stuff. It's weird.

9:59I don't know. This is going down a different path and we need to stop talking. Yeah. All right. Everybody keep following the show, subscribe, do something. I don't know later. Daniel, come on, man. I got to get back to work. Get out of there. All right. While he's still in there, this is Jay. Check out my podcast. Do this, not that for marketers. Each week we share really quick tips on stuff that can improve your marketing and hope you give it a try. Oh, here's Daniel. He's finally out. Back from my bathroom break. This is Daniel. Go follow the Mark and Millet podcast, but also tune into this series.

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