Make Your Marketing Effortless
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What is Marketing?
Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for
creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that
have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.
(Approved October 2007)



American Marketing Association Board of Directors.
Who Am I?
Entrepreneur
Failed 3 times
Quality Assurance Engineer
Business Consultant
Marketing is not a Game of Darts
Is it Hard?
Not if you know the secret
Adwords
Facebook
Direct Mail
Telemarketing
Faxes
Networking
Adwords
Public
Speaking
Email
Newsletters
Forum
Advertising
There's Only
Understanding the customers
To create a set of processes
To add value to the customers
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Why Bother?
Create products people want to buy
Stop wasting Money on channels that don't work
Sell more to existing customers
Know exactly where to find your customers
Make more money
Make a difference
Who is Your Customer?
Think of Key Descriptors
Senior Bank Executive?
College student?
Single Mom?
DJ?
Newly Married?
Customers are Complex
They don't just fit into one
"bucket"
But, they fill each bucket
slightly differently
College student might spend
more time on humor sites
while a mom might spend
more time on recipe sites
Your Product May Have
Different Types of Customers
Exercise
Create a Customer Avatar
Who am I?
What do I spend most of my time doing?
Where do I hang out?
Name:
Role:
3 Key Descriptors

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What keeps me up at night?
This is the most important question
you need to ask yourself
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We are mostly wrong
The key is to not waste
too much time or
money being wrong
Your Hypothesis
I think ______________
I will ____________
I will measure __________
• I think:

• I need to:


• I will measure:
Compete on Value
Produce Value that
Customers Want
• Solve
• Save
• Provide
• Deliver
• Supply
• De-stress
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• Only the work that adds value to ___________ is
actually productive work
Selecting the Right
Advertising Medium
Where does _________
hang out?
How do they currently
buy things they need?
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Exercise
Where would you advertise if you
wanted to market to you?
Now, Make your
Marketing Effortless
Use what you have created today to put
together your marketing plan
Execute your marketing plan
Marketing Plan
Mastermind
Save time
Get feedback
Use my experience
Use your peers' expertise
Stay accountable
Achieve your results
Marketing Plan
Mastermind
7 one hour training sessions
Assignments and feedback
Peer assistance and networking
Strategic marketing plan
Execution help and
accountability
Marketing plan
implementation
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