Daily Lab: Plans don’t change minds
Does that mean we accept less from or for ourselves? No, it means we find things we want to do.
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Commentary: The art OR science of marketing?
When you need to get your marketing done, you can get trapped thinking it’s a simple science, or an abstract art.
Framework: Fill-in-the-Blanks Content Writing
We’re going to jump past all the theory and do a content writing fill-in-the-blanks exercise.
Daily Lab: Progress breeds patience
Marketing is a lot easier, a lot more fun, and a lot less stressful when you’re patient.
Video: Small Actions, Big Planner
Welcome to our first video! Each month(ish), we'll be turning one of our mental models—for demonstrating your value at a distance—into a framework you can use and apply. And then we'll create a video walking you through the procedure for using the framework.
Exercise: Small Actions Big Planner
This exercise will help you break big projects into simple tasks that you’ll want to do, instead of overwhelming ourselves into procrastination.
Spinning Your Marketing Wheels
You know the expression: “All roads lead to Rome.” There are lots of ways to get to the same place. It applies to marketing. There are a lot of ways to do marketing, and an awful lot of them will work.
The Perfect Strategy
If you ask anyone how to create a successful business, there’s a good chance they’ll say: “Talk to customers.” And, they’re right. But, if you don’t know what your best customers actually value most about you, you’re likely to optimize for the wrong things.
Don’t make pain the point
Here’s the sneaky secret nobody tells you about the motto, “No pain, no gain.” It works for some people, but not because pain is necessary. But because those people like pain.
How to savour uncertainty
A lot of business owners are putting off working on their marketing strategy. They’re waiting for things to settle down, for the market to become more stable, or to simply have more certainty about the way things are going to go. But the problem is that they’re likely to be waiting forever.
It’s not that it’s wrong
Most of the small business owners and consultants we work with have, at some point, worked with other marketers before. And they’ll often come with some preconceived ideas about what they feel they should be doing.
You can’t bargain over the price
When business owners seek out a new marketing plan, it’s rarely because the last plan didn’t work. It’s because, for one reason or another, the last plan wasn’t worked.
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