What You Need To Know About Marketing

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‘Organizations filled with people who take the time to understand the needs of buyers they wish to reach, and then develop information to educate and inform those buyers, are more successful than organizations that just make stuff up.’

‘Marketing needs to be the buyer expert, not just the product expert.’

Marketing generates attention of the many people who make up a buyer persona, whereas sales communicates with one potential customer at a time, putting the buying process into context.’

‘Educate and inform instead of interrupt and sell.’

‘Smart companies understand that people have choices of whom to do business with, and they are transforming the way they sell and service to customers.’

Great service means more repeat sales and happy customers sharing their experience, which results in faster growth for your company.’

Customer service is how an organization helps customers before, during, and after a purchase and can range from customer support and handling complaints to professional services that enhance a product experience.’

When a company delivers a fantastic experience to the market, it serves as the best sales strategy there is.’

Each time you email a customer, you should be providing content of value. You should always be giving more than you are taking in a relationship with a customer.’

Your salespeople should assume that they are the last place a buyer goes, not the first. They must assume that very little of their knowledge is proprietary. They need to facilitate the sale, not control the information.’

‘While marketing is the provision of content to many potential customers, sales and service are now about the provision of content to buyers one at a time based on their needs.’

Source:

David Meerman Scott (2014). The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business

‘Creating Something Significant’

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‘Work is the expression of our energy and our dreams.’

Significance requires trust, and trust comes from consistently keeping promises.’

Agency gives us control over our time, and it encourages us to choose what our contribution looks like.’

‘Dignity flows from agency, allowing us to be treated as humans, not cogs.’

Seth Godin

‘Tools can create efficiency, but value can only come from change, from humanity, and from the rare form of connection that comes with significance.’

‘What you look like is far less important than the ability to involve others in your journey.’

‘The people you lure to follow instructions are rarely the people who will help you build something of innovation and substance.’

Leadership is the art of creating something significant.’-

Seth Godin

If we care enough to build the best job you ever had, the team notices. And if people who care build something that they’re proud of, the market notices.’

Leaders don’t need authority, but they must coordinate the trust, focus, and connection of people who are enrolled in a journey to do work that matters.’

Source:

Seth Godin (2023). The Song of Significance