by markisman218 | Mar 18, 2019
If you have or want to start successfully selling anything online you must start building your business email list.?
The Facebook/Instagram outage caused many of you some serious concern. And, I wonder what the Guru’s said about those sites going dark?
They said nothing… Many of the so-called, “Online Marketing Guru’s” only want to take your hard earned cash, by selling you a program that seems so easy and simple.
“Just Post 3 times a day to Instagram,” – they say.
“Scale Your Business to Six Figures, in a few Months..” – they say.
Now let’s be clear, Instagram, Facebook, and Linkedin are A HUGE PART OF YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS MARKETING, but, there are just that… “A Part.”
What the Guru’s don’t tell you is that building or growing your business online… is work. It’s not hard…
But it’s work.
When the Guru’s Advice Isn’t Working
The “Guru’s” are selling to your desires and dreams. They are not preparing you for the real work. What do you do when your Facebook ads fail, or your Instagram posts that get zero engagement? What’s your next move?? Oh… buy another Guru’s Facebook Ads program.. that’s it!!
No.. That’s not it. Not at all..
When a business owner is beginning their online journey, most have the wrong expectations of the amount of work involved, or realistically how long it will take to get to success.
It doesn’t matter If you are selling a product or service, or acquiring leads for your coaching business. You have to build trust to build an engage any audience before you can even think about selling them anything. Do you honestly think you can build real trust through social media posts alone? When is the last time you’ve spent your hard earned money with someone you’ve only experienced through social media posts?
Me neither..
The 3 Reasons People Buy From You
The only way to take an audience that does not know you, or normally doesn’t buy from is to do these three things..
- Show up consistently in front of your customer with a solution to one of their problems.
- Stay in contact them directly and frequently after the initial contact with more proof that you are the one that can solve their problem.
- Tell your audience about others that have experienced the same problem, and how YOU helped them with your solution, product, or training.
Now, try doing those three things only with social media posts…
Right.. You can’t.
That is why email is so important. Email is the secret sauce to your online success. Building a business email list will be the difference between being just being visible online and actually making money online with your product or service.
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by Ken Briscoe | Jun 5, 2018
As an entrepreneur ideas come to us all the time. We have a vision of how we can change the world with your product or service. We dream about how our idea will make everything all better, and how our customers will love us for it.
Most business ideas are birthed from a need to solve a problem. The problem solving business idea comes to us in a moment of brilliance. Then the dream begins… We can instantly see happy customers, and piles of money rolling in. But, what we really see is a perfectly created business scenario manufactured in our imaginary world. A world where our product easily finds the customers in need, at the perfect time when they need it.
Our business idea flies in, saves the day, and our customers are more than happy to cough up the cash. Big Money! Big Money! Big Money!
I was once told that “Ideas are shit, without execution.” Honestly, I believe it’s true. Only 4% of the people with great ideas actually do the work to make that idea a reality. Still today, with all of our opportunity and access, 96% of idea holders are not taking action. Although a marketing plan is necessary for success, you better make sure that there is a market for that idea to begin with.
Meaning, if you think it can be a great business, take action after your brilliant idea to begin the real business execution. Be the 4%!
Now, this step is kinda boring, but you will learn to love it after you see how how much time and money it saves you. This step will help you see whether you have a business opportunity, or simply a hobby.
So before you go out and rent the space and start to cash those big ole’ checks, I urge you to ask a few questions about your new idea, or even current business to understand if a market will support your idea.
Answering these questions will do the following;
- Identify if there is a market or markets that can support your business idea
- Uncover ways to market your product or service to your potential customers
- Find blind spots in your idea or business that can expose you to be replaced by competition
- Find markets where competition is the low
- Uncover potential new products or services you can offer that can compliment your original idea to increase revenue
- Price your product or service
Market Opportunity Questions
Take your business ides of current offerings through these few steps;
- How unique is your product or service in that market?
- Does you potential customer have a problem that your particular product or service provide a solution for?
- Is your potential customer currently solving this problem with and alternate product or service? If they are, wha are they paying for it?
- If there is not a current competitor in this market, is your potential customer aware they have a problem that your product or service can solve?
- How ofter does your potential customer have this problem?
- How often will your product or service have the opportunity too provide the solution?
- If there is a competing product in this market how does your product or service compare in price?
Marketing means convincing your target markets to purchase your merchandise, creating a great client connection is an investment for the business. Marketing is the investment that your brings returns in the forms more customers and more revenue from sales.
