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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Seminars, Speaking, and Super-Effective Marketing

Seminars, Speaking, and Super-Effective Marketing:

Your marketing plan - is it a true plan, or something you do haphazardly?

There are a number of ways to market yourself, your product, your service: you could do traditional advertising, but that's expensive and becoming less and less effective. You can do Google Ad Words - every business person I know has only lost money doing this (do you know anyone actually making money with ad words??). You can hire someone to do SEO (search engine optimization) for your website - again, expensive and with no guarantees of converting prospects into paying customers and clients. You can send out press releases trying to get publicity - a terrific strategy, but a bit tricky if you don't know how to play the media game.

Seminars and speaking can be done at zero cost (yes, zero - not one dime, not one penny) and because you're "pressing the flesh", people get a feel for you, and you're instantly established as the expert.

No matter what your marketing budget or plan is, you simply must be incorporating seminars and/or speaking, or you might as well just start ripping up $100 bills right now!

Dedicated to your seminar and speaking success,
David
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Seminars, Speaking, and Making Riches in Niches

Seminars, Speaking, and Making Riches in Niches:

The first and most important step in choosing a niche market is... do they want to buy what you're offering?

Most people come at this bass ackwards - completely from the wrong direction. They come up with their product or service, and then go out looking for buyers.

This is a very bad idea, and is a major reason businesses fail. That means you're trying to convince people they need your product or service. You've got an uphill struggle on your hands.

But, by choosing niche markets that already have lots of people eager to buy what you're offering, all you have to do is make them aware of your offer, and your USP.

What's a USP? Glad you asked, we'll talk about that more tomorrow.

See you then!
David

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