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"Why isn't my audience buying?"
I used to believe in the conventional marketing idea that if the audience isn’t buying, it’s because they haven’t seen your offer enough times.
The rule of 7 is that a prospective buyer needs to see your marketing message at least 7 times before they truly decide whether to buy.
From my decade of marketing experience — especially the past 5 years of consistent rhythm of offers — I haven’t found this idea to be true...
Most buyers see my offer 1–3 times before signing up, if they s…
5 Factors for Successful Content
To reach more people and make a deeper impact with your message, work on improving these 5 factors in your content.
Use this list as an audit of your content marketing. Make gradual improvements and you’ll see better results over time.
Care
How do we get our audience to care about our content?
By showing that we care about them.
How do we do this?
By getting to know them more deeply, and thus, actually caring!
In the first couple of years of my audience-building, I did an audienc…
How do we get our audience to care about our content?
By showing that we care about them.
How do we do this?
By getting to know them more deeply, and thus, actually caring!
In the first couple of years of my audience-building, I did an audienc…
Creating Content as Generous Service vs. Manipulative Strategy
“Where is the line between strategy and manipulation?” asked a dear client. “Doesn’t it make sense to post about a certain topic in advance if I want to sell a course about it? Some bloggers have a whole schedule of content and events leading up to their launch… is that manipulation, or just good strategy?”
What is strategy anyway?
“Strategy” is a series of planned steps intended to cause a calculated change. When that careful calculation is to influence other people for our own ben…
Create Quality via Quantity
This principle has been essential to my success.
How do I make great content?
By making more content, and observing what spreads.
How do I improve my skills?
By working with more clients, and noticing who grows the most.
True learning comes from action — we build muscles by doing things, not just reading about them.
It takes quantity of action to develop quality of results.
Yet, if you feel you’re not taking enough action, self-compassion is needed.
Remind yourself that action c…
Remind yourself that action c…
You don’t need to prove yourself as an “expert”
It’s ridiculous when someone says they’re “#1” in their field.
“Oh really, by whose standards?” I wonder.
The more we puff our chest, the more imposter syndrome strikes.
The need to prove our worth is part of the fixed mindset (ala Carol Dweck) — when our ego is attached to a fixed identity that we should always be excellent, and one of the best. It sometimes makes us feel like a fraud, because nobody is perfect. We feel pain (or avoidance) whenever we don’t live up to that shining…