Daily Lab: Lead with How
If you don’t know How, Why doesn’t matter.
messaging
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Daily Lab: Don’t promise benefits
Demonstrate them.
Daily Lab: Make your words count
The magic’s not in writing paragraph after paragraph and attempting to capture every element all at once.
Daily Lab: Don’t try to convince
Marketing gets into trouble when it tries to convince people of things. When it papers over flaws or embellishes facts.
Daily Lab: Say it to someone
It’s a little silly to make such a basic point, but groups don’t really buy things—people do.
Video: Marketing Message Maker
In this month's video, Leah walks you through the Marketing Message Maker framework and demonstrates the utility of the "Always Know What to Say" mental model.
Commentary: Always Know What to Say
Welcome to the background commentary and recommended reading for the “Always Know What to Say” mental model and the “Making Marketing Messages” framework exercise.
Framework: Marketing Message Maker
Today, we’re going to combine a little bit of science with a little bit of art to help you figure out what to say when you’re asked what you do.
Model: Always Know What to Say
All the social media posts, paid ads, press releases, and website redesigns in the world won’t get you profitable customers if you’re not talking to the right person, about the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, in the right place.
Telling is repelling, proving is moving
If I have to tell you something, you unconsciously assume there’s a reason I can’t show you.
Don’t persuade, permit.
As a business owner, your job isn’t to talk people into buying from you. You’re not trying to persuade. Instead, your job is to permit.
5 Reasons Not to Work with Me
1. I provide very little documentation The strategy we’ll create together is ultimately yours, so formal documentation needs to be created on your end (with help and support) so that it doesn’t get rejected by your organization’s immune system. And I’m confident you know exactly what
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