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It will only help to draw a line between tactics you’re performing that are marketing and promotions tactics and what are communication tactics.

Marketing and promotions might be a way to get someone in the door, buy more or come back again. It can be good design, a cozy atmosphere, exceptional service and surprise and delighting. It might be a Buy One Get One deal or it might be a free gift bag with each purchase.

All can be effective marketing tactics if(!) the message is heard.

The challenge here then is to draw a line between what’s marketing and what’s communications.

Pitching your business deals to the city and neighborhood papers is a communication tactic. So is using social media, sending out a weekly newsletter and direct mail. Getting involved in trade groups is another great communication tactic.

By all means, you’re meant to blend communication tactics with marketing tactics, but know the formula you’re trying to use. Too many businesses have a well designed product at a discount and wonder why no one is coming in to buy it.

 

Stay Positive & If A Promotion Happens In The Forest And No One Is There To Hear It …

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There are about two dozen food trucks downtown from where I live. They are all within walking distance. The majority have great food and drinks and are reasonably priced. But, only a quarter of them accept cards; most are cash only.

At any organization or business, there’s likely only to be a few developers or they outsource the work. So when it comes to designing a website or recreating a contact form, who do you think gets to make the decisions?

Not every technology will give you a profit or permission to lead, but we know that a tech will.

If 2% of Americans is the real number of those who know how to code, we have a problem.

If 1/3 of food trucks have card readers, the other 2/3 will suffer and wonder why.

Seeing the next device as a struggle and refusing to adopt and adapt is a race to the bottom.

If you could create any Alexa skill for your business, what would it be?

 

Stay Positive & Welcome To The Avant-Garde

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The answer of who you can focus your marketing at isn’t everyone.

Nor is it a geographical territory or groups of people who have a shared interest.

Quite plainly, start marketing to those who have given you permission.

Marketing becomes more about caring, mattering, and giving than it does about getting attention when you focus on those who have given you permission to interact with them.

What no one tells you is that the more you market to those who have given you permission, the more people show up to give you permission.

Surely you can find 10 people who have given you permission, right? Start there.

 

Stay Positive & Permission Is Earned, Not Bought

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Chances are likely that someone has had the same idea as you.

They may have even tried to execute it.

They may have exceeded.

But that shouldn’t stop you from pursuing it still. From finding a way to matter, but differently.

Chances are likely no one will support your idea if it’s not one they’ve heard or thought of before.

Turns out people love familiarity.

Use it to your advantage.

 

Stay Positive & Steal, Originally

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You need to go down an original path.

 

Stay Positive & It Might Be More Difficult (It’s Likely)

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No one’s going to care about your project as much as you.

Your job isn’t to get them to care as much.

Your job is to matter.

 

Stay Positive & Focus Your Attention There

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The work you do will significantly change when viewed through the lens of doing it so someone else is happy.

The work you do to make your boss happy is different work than you’d do to be proud of it yourself.

The work you do to win a client by making them happy is different work than you’d do to align with your values.

The work you do to make family happy is different work than you’d do because you’re passionate about it.

If you’re in the Happy-Making business, then maybe it works for you. But most of us aren’t.

Most of us are in the Change-Making business.

 

Stay Positive & We Make Change When We Do Things For The Right Reason

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