Personality, Entertainment, Fun (that doesn't sound like most marketing communications, does it?)

Formulas

Templates

Frameworks

Done for you communications

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That kind of short cutting, the hack-the-communication and marketing system process, is gathering mucho online pace and momentum.

But why is that the case?

Because there are way too few creative marketing minds having the originality and brains to make their business, or that of their clients, be filled with personality and authentic ideas... to come up with interesting, fun and entertaining ways to present, promote and offer what's being offered.   

And that's super important. 

Because in today's business environment, if you plan to be like everyone else... to speak and communicate like they do... to use the same ideas and thinking they do... to give the same reasons and rationales they do for their products and services...    

Then no surprises here...your ideas and your copy won't stand out and get attention. It'll blend in and look like everyone else’s on the block. 

That'll of course mean you're not going to create any kind of unique difference and positioning in the marketplace. 

And yet, that's exactly what you have to strive for if you want that unique positioning.   

It comes as no surprise that we live in an attention deficit world where there's an obvious impatience in that most people want things, and they want them, now. 

They're easily bored. Easily distracted. Happy to flip onto something else in a heartbeat.

And that's why you need work diligently and differently, in order to not only capture attention, but to keep it and to continually keep it in an ongoing way.

Now that can't happen by guesswork, or by wishing and praying.

It takes a deliberate shift of thinking and a deliberate shift of perspective.

The problem with that?   

Many marketing 'Pros' and Owners suffering with 24/7 lazy-brain-itis.

The result of that?  

It's far more convenient and far too easy to reach for a canned, ready made, off-the-shelf solution when it comes to thinking, creating ideas, coming up with different unique angles to sell and promote. 

And when they do that...

They're not really realising that by employing that lazy recliner way of doing things, they instantly destroy using their / the businesses'... own personality in their communications. 

That's what happens when abdicating out to the wooden, off-the-shelf, solution -- you suffocate the core asset of the business -- its character, its essence, its personality.  

And if that wasn't enough... 

By sticking with being a commodity based communication business, the business destroys the whole communications and selling process from being fun and entertaining -- both for the Owner / Marketing Pro, and, more importantly... for the customer or recipient of the communications, promotions and presentations.

And look...

In today's marketing and communications world, we're all being starved from having communications being fun and entertaining.

Let's change that.

Want a clear cut example of how to bring the entertainment and fun factor into your communications? Then let me show you how I brought a yawnful presentation letter, back to life. (In fact, look at the whole communication piece here and ask yourself this core question - were you entertained, or not, would you buy the products, or not!?)  

(Important: it does not matter what business category you are in, or what you sell and promote - you can take the ideas you find in the communication piece above and see how you can apply them to your communications and promotions because I guarantee you that there IS a way to make your communications fun, interesting, entertaining.)    

  FREE BOOK shows you how to write entertaining emails that get opened, read and bought from.

       

The money-making marketing wheel gets another spin (pointer 8)

Before we get to spin the money marketing wheel once again...

There's something I've got to shout about.

It's this:

There are certain principles and fundamentals to everything that almost ALL bypass and ignore.

You'll find the flagrant ignoring and detesting of the fundamentals in anything and everything... is something akin to a mass mantra of kinds. 

A collective messing of the Pink Floyd chant.

"We don't need no... f-u-n-d-a-m-e-n-t-a-l-s" 

Want to be, and stay fit and healthy?

Exercise. Eat good food. Take your nutrition and vitamins. Live happily and healthily. Daily

The Fundamentals.

Want to be a good human?

Do good things. Say please and thank you. Be Kind. Help others. Excel in what you do. Tell the truth.

The Fundamentals.

And in the world of marketing, there's more deletion, destruction and non-profitable businesses around... all because of disregarding, discarding and dismissing the fundamentals. 

So what are some of the marketing fundamentals?

Have irresistible offers. Continually Put them in front of people most likely to buy. Have entertaining copy and communications. Have a series of back end products and services. Create astonishing after care and follow up. Stay committed to being unique and different to any other business out there doing something similar to what you do.

Those are core.

Yet like I say...

Most toss the fundamentals out into the cold. 

And instead, want to dive into the unchartered and insane, all in the name of being different and pioneering. 

Shiny object syndrome does that.

It messes with the brain. It creates chaos and confusion.

End of Sermon.

Let's spin that wheel.

And, as we do that, we see that the marketing wheel's pointer pointer, points at....

SLACK ADJUSTER.

Um... whassattt!?

That, my dear uninitiated, is what's also referred to as a beefy whopping product or service that'll top the profit numbers barometer and will bring in and boost the cashflow numbers... significantly. 

Now I've heard Dan Kennedy speak about the Slack Adjuster, and it's something that EVERY business ought to have because the thing is, most of your customers won't buy it, but... all it takes is one or two buyers a month and you'll see the money numbers will ramp up significantly for you.

Examples:

A coffee shop can sell a mammoth sized, all bells and whistles coffee machine for hundreds, or thousands of pounds. Like I say, most customers won't buy it. They'll come in, buy their coffee and croissant, maybe a sandwich, a pastry, they'll do their normal shop. Yet, day in day out they'll see this new gleaming coffee machine for sale. Some WILL get tempted to buy. And you don't need to manufacture your own - you can create a deal/arrangement with the tons of coffee machine manufacturers who would no doubt love to sell a few extra machines a month, and where you receive a 50% commission for your displaying of the machine in your shop, and selling and promoting it.                         

An online or offline place selling cooking items, pots and pans, blenders, etc. They could team up with a cooking class provider in some far off place like Bali, or Barcelona, or Brazil, or Bermuda, or Brisbane, and create a luxury experience out of it for the customer, whilst attaching a nice value price tag to it. Again, all it takes are a few people to raise their hands and the cash flow and profits that come in, can in some instances, trump sales of the normal monthly takings from the normal sales of the regular products!

One more... (actually, I've squeezed in two for you!)

A bookseller or sports equipment seller can sell 'an audience with an author', or a 'week long training bootcamp' with the stores' physical trainers. (And if they don't have any trainers and only sell the equipment, then hire a trainer and split the money!)

Doesn't matter what service or product you sell or promote. 

You can adopt, adapt and apply the examples you see above and customise it to your products and services to create your own beefy slack adjuster version.

You ARE looking to increase the average order amounts every month in your business without having to triple down on your selling to make it happen, aren't you?

Well, then don't skip the fundamental examples and instructions above that'll help you boost your cashflow.

Look out again for the next post because the Marketing wheel is going to be spun again soon. 

  Want the Can't-Throw-Away Fundamentals That'll Get Your Emails Read and Bought From, Nearly Every Single Time? FREE BOOK shows you how. 

      

       raja. hireker @ gmail . com 

         

Join Mr X for drinks on his Superyacht?

An interesting email headline just flopped into my email inbox.

And, probably for the right person, a somewhat intriguing invitation on the face of it. 

Who would that RIGHT person be?

• Most likely someone infatuated with the super yatch person in question -- (Mr X represents a real person) 
• Most likely someone who is infatuated with high value material possessions. 
• Most likely someone who WANTs that type of lifestyle.
• Most likely someone who wants to run with the big dogs, to be linked and associated with them.
• Most likely someone who likes people with big show-off egos.
• Most likely someone who automatically drools and salivates at glossy luxury pictures of the inside of a luxury super yatch. 
  
  

However...

The lead in invitation email does a rather poor and pathetic job of framing the invitation as something other that's private, elite and invaluable. 

All they've lazily done is to think and believe that those on the communication list receiving the communication, will be all googoo and gaagaa about the whole thing, who'll be mesmerised and boggled eyed over the yatch picture interiors and as such, will wrestle and hair pull in order to snap up the invitation for drinks with Mr X.

Let me add something however... 

That the conditional pre-requisite for even being in a position to accept the invitation, is to buy and enrol in one of the courses and training programmes Mr Super Yatch owner promotes and sells.

Nothing wrong in that.

However...

Simply believing that joining Mr X on his super yatch for drinks is a compelling enough reason to want to go, demonstrates you could have the highest value products and services in the world.

And yet...

Without having the proper thought out communications and copywriting, the whole thing can fall flat on its face.     

The BIG Key: (no matter what you sell and promote) 

You want to give people enough compelling reasons as to WHY it is they should buy what you're selling, take you up on the proposition, invest in what you're presenting, request the information you're offering. 

Without doing that, you're asking people to decide on something simply based on thin air.

Join Mr X for drinks

Why?

• Because he'll share some insights and info you won't get in any of his courses. 
• Info and insights that'll make you a lot more money in the next X days than anything he's shared before.  
• You'll get to meet a few of his secret aides who've inspired and helped him become a multi-millionaire, and they'll give you their most prized information that'll help accelerate your thinking and future business activities. 
• You'll get to ask Mr X any questions you want about how he's doing what he's doing, and how you can do the same.

Let's think about the difference here:

Are those reasons why above, more interesting and more compelling than the reason they've given in the PS in their promotional email for the drinks invite - 

PS. You can find more pictures of the boat here:

They've, of course, (ahem!) missed the boat here.

Don't let that be what you do with your communications when selling and promoting your products and services.

Give them REASONS WHY.

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