Be willing

Marketing (folk?)law says you need to ‘touch’ a prospect 7 times before they will respond. By ‘touch’ here be clear that I mean a message touch-point—so an email, Facebook post, a video, a talk, a letter, etc. There are exceptions to every rule as sometimes you can get a response the very first time someone sees you—I know I’ve had this happen when I’ve spoken at an event or met someone at networking. It’s more likely the ‘one touch’ conversions happens in person but it’s not always the case.

I can only help you if YOU want help.

Yes, this seems obvious, but it’s still all-to-often that I’ll have someone ask me for help and then they won’t accept it. Sometimes the acceptance is in the form of me asking for money, but sometimes it’s actual advice I give away for FREE and yet still I get objections.

Yes, this is a slightly ‘woo woo’ post as it’s all about ‘flow’. And if you don’t do ‘woo woo’, let’s call it ‘getting in the zone’ :)

But you know what I’m talking about right? When it’s all working, it’s just going the way you want it to… there are no bumps in the road, there are no objections, no ‘problems’—in fact, you’re on a roll. Yeah, we love that. And it makes our business flow better too.

I am obsessed with you doing your Thing.

I don’t mean ‘any old’ thing either—I mean YOUR Thing! The Thing that you do that’s brilliant. The Thing that makes a difference to you and has you sharing your brilliance with the world.

Yeah, THAT Thing.

So how do you know you’re doing your Thing?

Well here’s some tell tale signs:

We can all climb a mountain if we put our minds to it (and backs into it) BUT sometimes, surely, it makes sense to take the cable car? I mean it’s there… would seem silly not to use it. And sometimes in business (and life!) even though there’s a cable car up our mountain, we either don’t see it OR choose not to use it. Are we mad?

Everyone loves a list, right? So, here’s one you can use as inspiration for your next marketing idea to try out.