People have had rotten experiences with other businesses in your industry. You can’t just say, “We do it different.” So, here’s the question: What are the policies, the procedures, processes and the standards that your business holds that ensure your are different? Just one quick example on this, which I just thought of now and […]
For most of us, there’s an incongruency in our business. There’s an inconsistency between how great we are and what people know. In Halifax, Nova Scotia there’s this great restaurant called The Wooden Monkey. The woman who runs it, Lil McPherson, is one of my favorite people in the world. She is a really passionate
The following is an excerpt taken from an interview I did with the brilliant Robert Middleton. A lot of my core marketing philosophy, I got from this man. This material will be compiled into a book called “Pay What You Want” in 2011. Robert: Tad, where does Pay What You Can seem to work best?
Here’s a great example from a company we all know . . . “Throw a Polaroid camera into any social network and you’re guaranteed to get conversations started. The people at Polaroid understand that. When Polaroid decided to renew interest in instant photography among younger people, the company took its cameras on a road tour.
Ignore the drunk young fellow photobombing this picture. Notice what I’m wearing. It’s a kilt made by www.Utilikilts.com It’s a plain black, canvass kilt. It gets lots of comments. In a way the kilt is the pass on material. It generates the conversation and their website is easy enough to remember and every time someone
There are really two goals of WOM marketing. One is to get prospects and their friends talking about you. The second is to get current clients referring business to you. In the long term, both are probably important. The following tactics offer a mix of both – some geared more towards raising the buzz –
People love to spread the word about things they love (and hate). It’s like a gift of ‘information’ they get to give people. They get to be a ‘hook up’ of good things. They get help someone. It’s important to create excuses for people to talk about what YOU do and mechanisms that facilitate that
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“If you build it they will come.” Those are probably the most destructive words an entrepreneur can utter – aside from, “I already know that.” and “the government can pry those taxes from my cold dead hands!” Sure, if you offer a great quality product and service word will spread. Especially if you’re at the
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I used to be really confused about how to tell people who my niche was. It used to take me a whole page to do it. Now I can do it in a sentence. Now, in a single sentence, people I’m talking to know if they’re in my niche or if they know anyone who
1. Unclear or Non-Existent Target Market: I’d say that I see this in about 90% of the cases of resistible, moribund offers. When I ask “who is this for?” I get answer that translates as “everyone. this product/service can help everyone.” But targeting everyone doesn’t work. You can’t do it. When you narrow your focus