Marketing Expert Rob Scott Discusses Successful List Building Techniques
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My partner, and marketing expert, Rob Scott, talks list building and how to turn prospects into fans.
October 19, 2011 Leave a comment
by: ROB SCOTT
What I’m going to share with you today is something that if you understand the basic idea, you will not have to waste a lot of money on design. In fact, it will be very simple for you to “design” your site.
If you understand this you can focus on the high leveraged act of finding the thing to do that is the most important thing to do instead of making your site “pretty.” If you don’t get this you may end of wasting your time and energy by building a “look” that really won’t get the job done.
What is it? Well, here’s the best design for your site… Are you ready?
It’s the right words.
Whatever you sell there are the “right words” to sell them. The ideas that capture your audiences’ attention and desires… The words that describe their pain and make them feel understood.
Learning to write the headline, the copy, or the conversation that convinces people is what matters most.
It’s capturing the “ideas that sell” with the right words that will change your business. Those words may be in text, in audio, and maybe video. They might be live or recorded but once you find the best ideas, you can put them on black, or white, or yellow and the ideas would still work.
A million colors, any of them touting the right words can sell your stuff. The mistake people make is thinking their site has to be beautiful. It doesn’t.
It can be plain or full, it can be dark or light. It can be blue, green, red or yellow. But it needs the right words. Don’t get me wrong, design is incredibly important and can aid in selling in a huge way. I’m not saying design doesn’t matter. I’m certainly not talking in absolutes, and maybe I’m even being a little bit dramatic. But if you have the wrong words, design isn’t going to help you very much.
So how do you do this? You work on finding the most compelling ideas to convince your prospects to do business with you. You find their pain. You define it. You write about it. Then you find how you solve that pain. You define it. You write about it.
And once you’ve done that, then you add story to the mix. With the right story, you can make them imagine exactly what you want them to imagine. And in that you can also know exactly “where they are.” You can literally move them with your story. With words, you can create the story in their head and you can actually implant ideas into other people.
I’ve always thought that was incredibly important to understand. Through communication, we literallyenter the other person’s mind.
I can tell you a story that will leave you literally changed for the rest of your life. Is that possible with design? With the look of something? Sure. I guess there are paintings that can be life-changing. But what we are talking about is the importance of the selling idea.
It’s paramount.
It outweighs design by a lot. You need the right strategy and you need the right words. And once you have them, then make it pretty. If you can get your prospect to create the image of their outcome in their head instead of the image of your brand, then you have some influence.
So what if you had the perfect message – the perfect story. Not only that but what if you had the perfect automated sequence set up that would walk people through your sales process automatically. How would your business be different?
I definitely want you to make your stuff pretty. And I definitely want you to make it
something that you are proud of. If you are good at design, then go all out. There’s a lot to be gained from good design… But if you don’t have the right words, then you’re probably not going to do very much business.
So work on your words.
If you want to want to work with me on finding the “right words,” you know, the story that will sell your stuff, then grab a complimentary Marketing Breakthrough Session. We’ll find your story, and literally change your business in less than 30 minutes.
October 7, 2011 1 Comment
There is a crucial error businesses and experts make when wanting to find the right brand for themselves, and if we don’t figure this out we will always miss just a little bit with our marketing. If we can figure this one problem out, our message just really lines up directly with what interests our customer and we ultimately grow our business and have much more success.
Branding, in concept, is really about “you” and so as businesses we all want to define “us.” Direct response marketing, in contrast, is actually that shift over to what “they” care about and making your business about the customer and less about defining “you.”
Here’s the hard truth: They don’t care about you.
They don’t care about you, or your company, or your product. They care about them. Don’t be upset, they don’t care about me either. This is a universal response to having a self. We care about ourselves.
OK, back to branding.
You could call branding “distraction marketing.” Brands actually distract us, and end up in places where we do not ask for them, billboards and magazines etc. Direct Response Marketing has to begin with a distraction but ultimately asks the customer to say “Yes, that’s me.” They give a direct response, and choose to connect with your company.
Brands are asking you to “make a decision later.” They want you to remember them and later to make a decision. Like with Tylenol, who is trying to stay in your head so that later on you will think of them when you are making a purchase at the store. But for people online, it’s not as effective to brand them for a later decision, we want them to actually take action now. Direct response is looking for action now as opposed to branding and idea for a later time.
So how do we really get into the head of our customer? How do we get away from caring so much about our own branding, and get over to what they really care about? We need to be the person we are trying to talk to and really craft our marketing towards who they are and not who we are.
There are 3 steps:
Basically learn to LIVE on/in/around these customer issues. Because that’s what THEY most care about.
What if you did this in your business? What if you only spoke to people that are having such a hard time that they are ready to buy right now, instead of getting everyone “out there” to know you? Branding is about getting everyone to know you but it doesn’t matter if everyone knows, it only matters if they know you, and they are going to buy.
If you would like more information on how to begin a Direct Response campaign and ultimately come up with a sequence that sells, or what I call a “Sequence for Strangers” you can check out this video and grab the free report. Have fun!
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September 11, 2011 2 Comments
by: Rob Scott
“Internet Marketing is a misnomer…” - Dan Kennedy
I was recently listening to Dan Kennedy, and he shared the idea that Internet Marketing really isn’t a “thing.” Not really. It’s like calling something “Sign Marketing,” or “Yellow Pages Marketing.” It’s not where you put the message that makes it marketing, it’s the message itself…
He’s exactly right.
The internet is an incredible tool. It amplifies and extends a message like never before. We’ve never been able to reach literally thousands of people (ok, even millions and billions of people) at close to zero cost. That’s a completely new phenomenon. Maybe 10 years old or so…
Not only that, but using auto-responders, and different technologies, we can do some amazing things with the internet to create an incredible marketing message. We can use video, and audio, and speak to groups and have a killer newsletter, etc.
So the internet is powerful, and it’s complex. And maybe that wins it a special category in the marketing world – “Internet Marketing.”
But Dan’s point is this: If your marketing message sucks, then putting on the internet only amplifies that crappy message. Using the tools the internet offers us MUST be based in solid marketing concepts…
Something THEY want.
If you’re trying to do some marketing online, and you’d like to know if it’s solid, or you’re struggling to find your “hook” or your “free gift,” feel free to bounce your idea(s) off me. Go ahead and click this link to grab a “Marketing Breakthrough” session with me. No obligation and we’ll jam on your idea for 20-30 minutes.
Here you go: https://my.timedriver.com/6QZ21
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