Marketing Without the Marketing
Business:Marketing
When you do someone a favor, it sparks the urge to reciprocate. The favor has to be genuine. It creates a little vacuum that the recipient wants to fill.
This dynamic is at the core of content marketing.
The best thing you can do then is to show up with the genuine intent to serve. This has always been the case in business we serve our customers. But in today’s world, take it one counterintuitive step further. You have to serve people before they’re your customers.
Generosity works. Not only does it make you feel good, but it’s also the key to unlocking business growth. This used to be hard to scale, but not anymore. You can now produce and propagate content to serve thousands of people at once. You can talk to them like it’s one-to-one. You can serve, at scale.
When you serve, you earn the right to serve again. Over time, you earn enough trust to ask for the sale. You can’t ask too often and you can’t ask too much.
But when it comes time to ask your best customers will come through for you.
Episode 94 is about adopting what I call the “service disposition,” in every aspect of your business a lesson that I learned from content marketing. Listen to the episode here or subscribe in iTunes.
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Published May 22, 2017 by Michael Boezi.
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