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PUSHING TO THE FRONT<br />

great domain name that was guaranteed to get you traffic. Cars.com,<br />

Pets.com, Lawyer.com…as long as you had something simple and<br />

straight to the point, you were set. Now, it’s a matter of making endless<br />

lists of words that are relevant to your business, until you finally<br />

manage to put a few of them together to create a domain name that’s<br />

available but barely makes sense.<br />

On a larger scale, online marketing is something everyone is now doing<br />

on some level – whether it’s just Facebook posts or full-blown crossplatform<br />

campaigns. Since the great recession hit, there have been<br />

more businesses fighting over less dollars, making it harder and harder<br />

to stand out from the pack – especially when you’re caught between the<br />

giant companies that can crush you with their marketing budgets, and<br />

the one-man bands that are lucky enough to come up with a genius viral<br />

campaign that blows you away.<br />

That means having an awesome product or service just isn’t enough –<br />

you have to have a distinctive and memorable marketing niche to go<br />

along with it, if you truly want to “push to the front.” It’s a challenge<br />

we face every day at our Celebrity Branding ® Agency whenever we go<br />

to work with our clients. In this chapter, we’ll share some of our secrets<br />

of how we meet that challenge and how you can create your own<br />

unique and exclusive marketing platform.<br />

Secret #1:<br />

Make tHeM Join YOUR clUB<br />

When you control the conversation, you’ve put yourself in the driver’s<br />

seat when it comes to success. There’s a reason they say the President<br />

always has “the bully pulpit,” when it comes to setting agendas and<br />

political dialogue; he’s the head of the free world and the person we<br />

expect to set the tone for our country.<br />

How do you build that kind of bully pulpit for yourself in your business<br />

sector? Well, the law itself gives you certain tools you can use<br />

to keep away the competition and to make you and your product or<br />

service more valuable. Yes, two out of three of us are lawyers, so we<br />

understand how to make those tools work both for our own businesses<br />

as well as our clients’ (and there’s a reason you see that little “®” or<br />

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