If you ask someone’s opinion (bad idea #1), more often than not, that person will let you know that things should be done in a particular way in order so you might market yourself or your organization. Generally, that person is wrong. It is sometimes like these if you want to attain into your toolbox and grab the best tool you truly ever need, but rarely use… GOOD SENSE.
Listed below are 3 simple (and free) ways to jump-start your fame.
1. Most people spend lots of time, money, and energy on “branding.” It is possible to literally spend thousands of dollars trying to figure out exactly who you’re and how exactly to then market “you” to the masses. Want a straightforward, free, and quick solution to get a much better answer to that question? Ask people who you’re. Wait… what? Why would you spend an ounce of energy or a moment of your time racking your brains on who you are and why people would employ your services once you could just go ask people why they work with you? See… successful marketing has very little to do with everything you say. Successful marketing has everything to do with what I hear. Your reality could be quite different from my perception. Do you know what… my perception of who you are is more valuable than your reality of who you are. Ask people who you’re… do not try to guess, you can be wrong.
2. Stop marketing solutions and begin marketing problems. People will always pay you to solve a problem. That’s where you need to focus. Reach the pain… this can be a more powerful tool than the fix. If I am in pain, I don’t care what the fix is, I simply want it. Right? This goes right to the WHY someone would benefit from your services, not the WHAT of your services. If I usually do not think I have an issue, you are wasting time and energy speaking with me about your solution.
3. Give consideration! Look at how many other people are doing. Learn from jump start service near me and successes. Could it be working? If so, exactly why is it working? Is it not working? If not, exactly why is it not working? In my financial advising days, whenever I’d have someone tell me that their uncle or sister or parents or friend or boss thought to do this or do that, my first question in their mind was always, “how is that working for them?” The idea? Why would you pay attention to broke people tell you steps to make money? Common sense, roughly we think, yet most of us spend an eternity taking advice from people for no real justification.
Consider this question each day: is what I’m doing making me appear to be everybody else? If the answer is yes, consider if that is clearly a good thing or a bad thing. If the answer is no, consider if that is clearly a good thing or perhaps a bad thing. You have to figure out who YOU are. That is the way to success, but do not spend a lot of time, money, or energy trying to figure it out. Open your eyes, learn from others (both what works and what can not work), and ask people who you are. You may be amazed at how much time, money, and energy you suddenly find.
Business… yep, that's it.