Your litmus test to marketing success

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Your Litmus Test to Marketing Success www.simplystatedbusiness.com

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Check your business marketing material for these 5 elements.

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Put yourself in

your prospect’s

shoes

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Would you give money away?

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For no good

reason?

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We’re a skeptical species

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How do you get your marketing efforts

past those barriers?

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Give it the litmus test

Before it goes out the door

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Put on those

prospect’s shoes

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Imagine the skeptic’s questions

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Then apply the litmus test 1. Who are you?

2. Why should I care?

3. What problems are you going to solve for me?

4. What makes your product or service different from any other?

5. Prove it.

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Who are you? –Think elevator pitch

• Keep it simple • Keep it clear • Keep it uniquely yours

–Keep it brief –Right now THEY

don’t care about you

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Why should I care? –You understand

their challenges –You have solutions –Your prospect will

save time & money

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What problems? –Describe specific

problems/frustrations –Show you

understand them –Reveal shared

experiences

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What’s different? –Present your unique

offering –Describe what’s

different –Focus on benefits to

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Prove it –Provide a solution –Disclose your

experience –Offer success

stories –Stand behind your offer www.simplystatedbusiness.com

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The points may be in a different order

and probably will be

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Starting with your prospect’s

challenge

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your prospect should have all five answers

After reading your marketing

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1. Who are you? 2. Why should I care? 3. What problems will

you solve? 4. What’s different

about you? 5. Prove it.

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