Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Two quick notes about fascination.
It’s hard to convince others to be fascinated in something if you aren’t. In fact, it’s easy for people to recognize if you are fascinated or not.
Second, being fascinated with everything all at once is a sensory overload for those you’re trying to convince to try something or to market to or to sell to.
That’s not to say don’t be fascinated or express it, but one at a time will do a better job than all at once.
Stay Positive & Piece By Piece
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But it will work if you think through it well enough.
And then, once it works, you can pivot to launching something else.
Over time, you’ll continue to ship new projects, host new events, try new things.
And people will think you are a smashingly remarkable brand.
Not because the one thing you did was insanely successful, but because they saw you show up again and again, living out your brand mission in new ways.
Stay Positive & Swing More Than Harder
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Every brand should aspire to be bigger.
Not in and of itself. No. In that case, bigger isn’t often better.
But a brand that helps someone feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves – that’s the recipe for brand success, brand loyalty, brand growth.
That’s the area that bigger is better.
Stay Positive & Don’t Be Anything But
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There’s a beautiful attribute to trial runs.
And it’s not just that you learn how to make or do something better.
Nope.
It’s actually the additional story you can tell in the future.
Every trial run always results in some funny or interesting story that one can share at the next trial run or launch.
I’d argue that the storytelling additions are almost as important as the tactical updates you can make to the product or service.
Mainly because a wonderful product without any edutainment story is one that will quickly fall to a competitor who brings their story A-game.
Stay Positive & Trial And Error Story
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Isn’t it great to get a gift?
Isn’t it great when someone is nice to you?
Isn’t it great when someone cuts you a break or helps lighten the load?
Now, imagine how great it would feel for them? It’s very much the same.
It’s hard to choose to be the one who receives – but it’s incredibly easy to choose to be the one who gives.
You know how good you would feel about something, now think about it the other way around.
Stay Positive & They’re Waiting For You
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Too often a marketer gets her attention divided.
It’s divided between those who have showed up and those who haven’t.
Most status roles, job descriptions and work incentives are built to broaden the divide and they emphasize putting the marketer’s attention on those who haven’t shown up yet.
Of course, this is counterintuitive.
Far better it is to focus on those who have already showed up, to be more generous with them, to create new ways for them to enroll further in your brand – and so on.
If you build something, you might get some to show up.
But if you prove something, you can turn those interactions into magnets that attract new people.
Stay Positive & Keep Connecting (To Grow)
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If you want something, it’s in you’re best interest to keep following up.
With some caveats, of course.
Keep following up but in different ways.
Keep being generous with who you are following up with outside of your follow ups.
Keep following up with proof that you’re still moving and shaking things rather than sitting on your hands waiting for a reply.
Most of the time, when you do all of these things during your follow up, one of two things happens.
Either the follow up works or something else works out because you kept doing and sharing your work rather than hanging out and waiting for a response.
Stay Positive & Go Ahead, Follow Up Again (But Differently)
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