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.
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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
Don’t build a brand, deserve one.
Today’s newsletter is a shortened and focused version of last week’s rather lengthy article. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, or you just want a version that’s stripped down to the major points, this one’s for you!
“Make Me Laugh”: How to build a brand based on values
Darwin said that he “followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once.”
“Tell the truth and make it interesting.”
“Tell the truth and make it interesting.” — David Ogilvy Describing his own writing style as “a silk glove with a brick inside it,” Ogvily believed that the best way to make an impression was with facts and information, well stated.
“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.
But what should you DO?
What are you actually supposed to do to get the clients you really want?
Flailing for attention
The job of a marketer is not to make marketing assets, or to implement tactics. Or to just get attention. The job is to get customers. Nobody cares about our ads, our social media posts, our videos, or even our newsletters. They care about their own problems, their own lives, their own jobs.
The game of wasting money
Knowing ourselves—what we like, what we’re best at, what we value above everything else—is what makes us different.
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