Don’t follow the crowd, they’re lost
The average day trader loses money over the course of a year. In fact, according to one study, “only about 4.5 percent of day traders are successful.”
“Ring the bell.”
Marketers especially, but really any type of expert, often have to get our ideas approved by committees, groups, or boards. In any of these cases, we run into the usual problem: Everyone on a committee or in a group has their own opinion and their own mark they want to make.
“Genius hesitates”
When we have a new idea, a new business concept, or a new product or service, we’re motivated to move fast. We see everyone else out in the market, seemingly crushing it, and we strive to get in on the action. We think that speed is the key to success. When the opposite is true.
“There’s no such thing as a marketing emergency”
I thought the best way I could be helpful to you today is to just make your marketing a little easier. A little bit less stressful or overwhelming, so you can focus on other things.
“Stop the willpower madness”
Marketing efforts don’t fail. They stop. Like New Year’s Resolutions, our marketing efforts simply peter out and fade away over time.
But what should you DO?
What are you actually supposed to do to get the clients you really want?
Your marketing won’t work
Your marketing isn’t going to work. At least, not at first. It’s something I call “The Principle of Expected Failure”.
Best practices are the floor
It’s frustrating when potential clients balk at your prices, even though you’re great at what you do. Even though you know and follow all the industry best practices.
You’re not being paid to suffer
A lot of us were raised to believe that, if we’re having fun or doing something we find easy, we’re not really working. And that feeling can stick with us even as business owners, consultants, or creators.
You’re writing it, not reading it
“I can’t write about that, everyone in my industry already knows it.” A friend recently said that to me. They were worried that the marketing content they were working on was too rudimentary, too basic to be impressive. Have you ever worried about that?
How I’ll get what I want this year
I used to think the secret to getting what I wanted was to have an ambitious goal, to state it publicly, and to exert as much effort as I could in that direction, as fast as I could. But I was wrong. That doesn’t actually work.
Start as close to the end as possible
For anyone who struggles with coming up with topics for their content marketing, I can relate.