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Five tips to market your services better

Tuesday, April 8 2008
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Denise Wakeman

No matter how much you think you know, there's always more to learn. When it comes to marketing your business it's an ongoing learning process that's never finished. If you want to be successful in business, you've got to continually learn new and better marketing tactics.

Adam Urbanski, The Marketing Mentor, says you're in two businesses: your niche AND marketing.

That's why we attend workshops and teleseminars. Last week we were guests at Adam's Info Profits Success Intensive for 3 days. Adam didn't hold back on the tools and resources he uses in his own seven-figure coaching and mentoring business.

Here are 5 important tips you need to know:

1. Be sure to focus on your core strengths and core business. Don't get distracted by opportunities that take you away from your brand.

2. It's not enough to market in one channel; you've got to have multiple streams of information: blogs, articles, special reports, podcasts, videos, teleseminars.

3. Be clear and specific about your targeted audience of prospects.

4. Offer an immediate solution to an urgent problem.

5. Make your offer irresistibly simple.

We discovered gaps in our business systems, got new ideas about how to position our business, and got new ideas for products we can create to support our core business.

I think it's OK to feel a bit overwhelmed with all there is to do with marketing. It's an ongoing process of learning and doing, then doing over again.

In the words of the racing driver Mario Andretti, "If you are having everything under control, you're not moving fast enough!"
 

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