Zero Plan Part 1: Honest Assessment
What will go wrong if you get zero results?
What will go wrong if you get zero results?
Planning for a zero, so you don’t have to feel like one.
How to plan for the worst marketing outcomes.
Change changes things.
Permission to prepare.
Do the writing part last.
Change isn’t on its way. It never left.
Fear loses focus.
It’s never too late to improve your launch.
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.
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.
Worrying can paralyze us. It can keep us from getting our marketing work done, from stretching ourselves beyond our current capabilities, and from experimenting with new strategies and techniques.