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Masters of Marketing - Lifecycle Performance Pros

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stars, politicians, and comedians.<br />

The second problem has to do with translating that mastery<br />

into words.<br />

I mentioned "a technique you already mastered before you could<br />

even talk." Well, talking is a game parents made up because they<br />

don’t want any more years with you like the first year. Teaching<br />

you to talk returned to your parents some measure <strong>of</strong> control in<br />

their lives. Being the persuasion genius that you are, you<br />

turned it against them. Still, you never quite recovered.<br />

So the coaching I am about to <strong>of</strong>fer is not so much telling you<br />

something you don’t already know. Rather it is to get you to<br />

apply it to something that you --if you’re like most web<br />

marketers-- do not apply it to.<br />

A message is probably any sensory impression you cause anyone<br />

to have. However, because you are interested in the Internet,<br />

because I am using words, and because my favorite TV show is<br />

about to start, we will only consider verbal messages. Words.<br />

As in classified ads, webpages, email, banners, and phrases in<br />

links.<br />

Even if it’s only a yawn, all messages engender some sort <strong>of</strong><br />

reaction.<br />

So any attempt will automatically fulfill the first couple words<br />

<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Marketing</strong> pH, "engendering in you a reasonable belief<br />

that your life will be more-favorably enhanced if you give me<br />

money than if you do not."<br />

So only two considerations remain. 1) Life enhancement and 2)<br />

reasonable belief.<br />

It’s not too much <strong>of</strong> an exaggeration <strong>of</strong> my experience <strong>of</strong><br />

Internet entrepreneurs to claim this: 1 is widely misunderstood<br />

and 2 is totally ignored altogether.<br />

1) Life Enhancement<br />

It’s easier to start with what life enhancement is not.<br />

It’s probably not whatever you’re selling. I’ll get back to<br />

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