If you’re struggling with your marketing, it’s likely because of things that have nothing to do with marketing. If you can’t seem to make the tactics you’re using to promote yourself work, it’s likely not about the tactics. In order for your marketing to work, there are things that need to be done first. If […]
As I get ready for my next Point of View Lab, I’ve been reflecting on some recent examples I’ve been uncovering with clients. Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a lot of people around their point of view and I keep being amazed at the power that this has in our marketing. Whereas
This is a blog post I’ve wanted to write for a while. It’s about the incredible costs to you and others of being fuzzy in your marketing and sales communications. I’m writing this to share the other side of the story of marketing – how it’s received. We spend so much time working on our
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I want to offer up the opportunity to participate in a bold experiment. It’s going to ask you to be vulnerable and honest. It’s going to ask you to use a tool that not many people even think of as a tool (indeed, I didn’t until a few days ago when a number of things
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Don’t market yourself, market your message. This is a theme I’ve been exploring over the past week. If you’re reading this, then you may have already read my post about what a message is and why it’s so important to have one. So, I thought it might be good to explore the different kinds of
In my last post, I spoke about what it means to have a message in your business. The core idea of that post? Don’t market yourself, market your message. In this post, I want to lay out eight reasons I think it’s increasingly vital. REASON #1: Speaking about your message is more comfortable and inspiring
Don’t market yourself, market your message. This is the theme I want to explore in what promises to an epic post. I’ve been wanting to write this post for at least half a year and have been slowly collecting ideas and inspirations for it. At this point, I need to put out what I’ve got