How is your marketing working for you? Are you marketing yourself and
your business, or are you selling? Are you selling every day to everyone who
you meet? Are you selling so hard that people don’t want to engage you in
conversation? Are total strangers, and your friends, avoiding you? Maybe you
should stop doing what you are doing and try something new and different.
Perhaps you should try something that may seem even a little
non-productive. Maybe you should stop talking about yourself, what your
business does, what your business offers, or what you can do for someone else.
Maybe you should stop selling all the time.
Why don’t you try marketing instead of selling? You may believe that
marketing and selling are the same; doesn’t everyone know that. You would be
wrong if that is what you believe. Selling and marketing are not the same, and
it is time we all learned that.
Selling is the point where the other person, our prospect, decides to
purchase from you whatever you offer, your product or service, agreeing that it
is what they need for themselves or for their business. Everything else up to
that point, and from that point on, is marketing. If you don’t do the marketing
right, the selling never happens.
You must do your marketing correctly to make the sale, and you must
keep doing it correctly to keep the sales flowing, either from that same
customer, or from the referrals that clients may bring to you. Your marketing
is everything that you do all day long. Every word you speak, every gesture you
make, every nod, motion, movement, smile, frown, handout, flyer, letter, email,
card, everything is your marketing.
You find prospects from your marketing; you develop customers from your
marketing, and you turn those customers into clients. You gain referrals from
your marketing, and you enhance your reputation from your marketing. Your
marketing is everything that you do, and it leads to everything that you have
or gain in the future. It also represents everything that you lose or can lose,
because it can be good or bad marketing.
If you do your marketing correctly, sales will fall into your lap, and
referrals will follow you everywhere you go. Strangers will know you by your
reputation and will want to know you, will want to do business with you, and
will refer business to you. Therefore, what is more important to you, the sale,
or your marketing?
We should all stop being sales people and become marketing consultants.
We should stop trying to sell to everyone we meet and discover what others
need. We should become listeners and hear what others say that they are looking
for, and stop trying to sell them what we have to offer. Then help them find
what they need or what they are searching for, or try to help them find someone
who can help them find someone else to help them. Refer business to others if
we cannot solve the needs of our partners.
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