
Sure you’ve been marketing for a long time—and probably getting good results. But that doesn’t mean there’s not a better way that will produce ever better results.
"Everything You've Ever Learned About Marketing is Wrong"
The average business is, well... average. Innovation is the first step to achieving stellar marketing results—after all, if you’ve got something great to talk about in your marketing, you’re already ahead of the game. Forget paying lip service to innovation. In this section, you’ll learn how to actually do it.
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understand- ing like water off a duck’s back. They make no impres- sion whatsoever. So why is your marketing loaded down with them? Find out why—and what to do about it as you learn how to use the Marketing Equation to create powerful marketing.
So you’ve eliminated the platitudes and are communicating like a pro. Success is ensured, right? WRONG. depending on where a prospect is on the ‘Educational Spectrum’ you could be saying things your prospects don’t give a hoot about— at least, not at the moment. Learn how to get it right every time.
Do you run out and make purchases the instant you get the idea that you might want something? Of course you don’t—and either do your prospects. Yet most marketing only focuses on NOW buyers, and completely ignores those who are just considering their options. Learn how to capture future buyers and watch sales soar.
So far, we have discussed how businesses fail in their mar- keting by not having something good to say and not saying it well. The fifth marketing mistake, Stopping Short, deals with not getting the message out there... or essentially, not saying it often enough.
Learn the difference between a marketing campaign that delivers average results, and one that boosts profits and changes your bottom line
Many marketing strategies are an absolute failure because they fail to deliver what really matters: results. How many ads do you see each day that you don’t even notice? How many ads do you completely ignore?
In this course, Rich Harshaw explains his famous statement, "Everything You Know About Marketing Is Wrong", and gives in-depth suggestions for businesses to revamp their marketing strategies in order to achieve superior results.
You can avoid the same old, platitude-filled, futile marketing tactics that completely waste the marketing budgets of businesses across the country. That's the premise of Bigger Brains' Marketing 101: The Top Five Marketing Mistakes Businesses Make. In this course, Rich shares the keys to effective marketing with Chip Reaves – including common mistakes that can ruin your marketing investment. Rich identifies five common problems that he has named "Average Joe", "The Platitude Trap", "Right Message, Wrong Time", "Ignoring Future Buyers", and "Stopping Short". He goes in-depth on each of these with dozens of examples, case studies, examples, and recommendations on how you can avoid these mistakes in your business.
Topics covered include:
Avoiding “Average Joe” mistakes
Recognizing hot buttons and activators
Defining the Educational Spectrum and its role in the “Right Place – Wrong Time” mistake
Discussing methods to reach future buyers
Identifying ways to use Accelerated Discontentment in marketing
Over three hours of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!
Course Goal: By the end of this course, you will recognize and avoid the top marketing mistakes businesses make