How to develop your marketing strategy

There?s a secret formula for developing a winning marketing strategy.

I?m going to share it with you today. But you should be warned?just a handful of your fellow readers will ever take this secret and put it into action.

STEP 1: Study your market and write down the common practices of in the industry in three categories?Marketing, Advertising and Sales Process.

STEP 2: Do the opposite.

STEP 3: There is no Step 3.

I?ll give you a few examples?

First, my own marketing:

Common practice ? email a fancy, graphics heavy email newsletter with bland content once a month.

Opposite ? email short, plain looking, opinionated emails every weekday.

Competitive advantage ? most won?t do it because they believe it won?t work (I?ve got *DATA* to prove otherwise) and they perceive it to be too much effort.

Next from a client:

Common practice ? find prospects through personal networking and cold calling

Opposite ? Use direct mail (this in and of itself flies in the face of the conventional ?wisdom?) lead generation offers to get real prospects to respond and self-identify.

Competitive advantage ? less manual labor, it?s scaleable and my client is better positioned when the prospects seek her out.

And finally,

Common practice ? keep information about your processes and business model under your hat (after all your competitors might steal a good idea!).

Opposite ? share information about what and how you do what you do to position your business as the leader.

Competitive advantage ? transparency builds trust and relationship with prospects?relationship trumps all other factors.

How can you buck the norm and make your business stand out?

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