If you pitch a premium offer to a group of strangers, your closing rate will be low. Customers who already know, like, and trust you are easier to convince, because they only need to take one step up your Value Ladder. Have you ever been offered a free sample in a grocery store? Maybe it [...]
Selling asynchronously is something you can do on a sales page. When you pitch someone across the counter in a showroom, you are selling synchronously. You can respond to objections as they come up, and modify your communication to suit the moment. Selling on the Internet is mostly asynchronous. You craft your messaging, field [...]
There are 4 steps in the Marketing Cycle: Know Like Trust Buy Giving a free consultation builds trust, and also gives you valuable intelligence that can help you make the sale. You can position your solution as the way they can achieve the outcome they want, by discovering the details of what they want [...]
Today, I'm going to share a case study of my recent video work. eSpeakers is a SaaS company that provides an online directory for meeting planners and conference organizers who are looking for professional speakers for their events. As one of the most popular and frequently used speaker directories in the United States, eSpeakers [...]
I learned a great acronym from Col Fink recently, during a live workshop at Thought Leaders Business School. He calls these SPEAR emails: Short Personal Expecting A Reply Contrast this with LINEAR emails: Long Impersonal Not Expecting A Reply When we are nervous about making sales outreach, we confuse our communications by complicating it [...]
You set the altitude of your mission statement. 'Have A Nice Day' is a mission statement, but so is 'Shit Happens.' The most profound mission statements are often the most simple. You've seen a great one on every map. 'You Are Here.' That's a mission statement, too. What's great about sharing a powerful mission [...]
The human attention span is less than a goldfish. 8 to 12 seconds. That's how long we have, before we get distracted by something else. This isn't surprising, in a world where we are exposed to an average of 5000 advertisements every day. We have to be selective with our attention, just to handle [...]
Your marketing isn't successful when you like what you've done. You know your marketing is successful when the market likes what you've done. When your share a message that generates new leads, that's when you are winning the game of attention. You can add content all day long to your website. But if it [...]
One of my New Year's Resolutions this year is to publish my new book in 2022, Marketing Yourself. I know I've been talking about it for a long time, but after moving for the 11th time in 11 years, I lost some steam on the project - then, I decided I need to reorganize [...]
Nobody faces the problem of 'not enough information' anymore. Every single day on the internet, there are: 2 million blog posts created 294 billion emails sent 864,000 hours of video uploaded 400 million tweets tweeted The average person on the internet is exposed to upwards of 5000 ads a day, according to the New [...]