Daily Lab: Do they need something, or want you?
It’s not enough to merely present ourselves to the market and tell them that we have what they need.
It’s not enough to merely present ourselves to the market and tell them that we have what they need.
Which would you rather do? Increase your effort or your insight?
It takes more than selling to do great marketing.
Grab a pen and paper, or open up a text editor, and write content ideas alongside Leah from Kelford Inc.
“What marketing can I do that would make me even better at what my customers value most?”
Or: “The best is bad, actually.”
People tend to do things they like, and they tend not to do things they don’t like.
The magic’s not in writing paragraph after paragraph and attempting to capture every element all at once.
Before we get to the art or the science, we have to ask ourselves: What’s the value, and what’s the distance?
When you need to get your marketing done, you can get trapped thinking it’s a simple science, or an abstract art.
Marketing gets into trouble when it tries to convince people of things. When it papers over flaws or embellishes facts.
Strategy is simply the structure to work efficiently to get what you want.