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Brand Promises

How do you differentiate yourself from your competition? Chances are, there’s at least one other person out there providing the service you do. How do you position yourself as the brand your target market feels congruent with? On Episode 2 of Incremental Progress, I’ll give you some tips on how you can find the ways […]

Marketing vs. Sales

There’s a distinct difference between the marketing and sales functions in your business. The marketing function is all about telling stories which provoke your audience into taking an action to express interest. The sales function is about capturing that interest, qualifying the opportunity, and selling your product or service to the customer.

Help People Decide

When you ask someone who isn’t ready to make a decision to make a decision … they freeze. Decisions carry weight. Don’t put people into fight or flight by inappropriately making offers to them when they aren’t ready to decide. People need bite-sized steps. Help them get to know you first. Any transaction represents a […]

You Don’t Need a List to Joint Venture

One of the most common mistakes entrepreneurs make about joint ventures is assuming that they need a massive e-mail list in order to find people that they can JV with. If you learn nothing else from Jay Fiset, learn this: joint ventures are about relationships. It’s not about leveraging assets for a return. Is that […]

You Don’t Need A Funnel

If we think about the term “funnel” for a moment (in the business sense), it implies a slow but steady descent of a customer from one place to another. It defines success based on taking what exists outside of it and pulling it through, so the customer “falls” out the bottom, so to speak. Unfortunately, […]

Marketingphobia

If you don’t know where to start with your marketing, you need to get back to focusing on what is most meaningful and important to you. Ask the people closest to you for help or hire a really great coach. You need to get clear because it’s your values that bring your business to life. […]

The Paradox of Self-Promotion

Wouldn’t it just be great if everyone in the market already knew what you did and how good you are at it? Yet, that’s the thorniest part of running a business. How do you stand out in the vast sea ? of people and products all vying for the most important resource a business can […]

EVERYONE NEEDS A LANDING PAGE(S)

One thing I find myself recommending to my clients over and over again is the idea of a landing page to capture the traffic they’re buying from ad platforms like Facebook(TM) and Google. If you’re running paid ads, you need to have an idea of where you want to send that traffic and what you […]

The Marriage of Offer and Content

The easiest way to produce content for your business is to base it on your offer. If you sell a Lamborghini, you need to produce very different content than someone who sells photography. And if you sell a coaching program, that’s another different strategy… Essentially, you can break down every offer into one of four […]