Ever wondered why I don’t write about how or where to spend your marketing money?
Well, today I spill the beans.
There are a lot of ways you can spend money on marketing. Advertising and promotion is available via thousands of providers. It’s so easy.
- You pay them the money.
- They say they’ll get your message in front of X number of prospective clients [or customers].
- Hopefully, a percentage of these will contact you.
- And a percentage of that percentage, could spend money with you.
So far so good, right?
It would be, if your competitors didn’t have the exact same options.
But they do.
Buying attention is overrated
And as you know, competing businesses advertise to the same marketplace.
Here’s why this matters: Your ads will always be competing against their ads. Whoever spends most *should* get most of the attention. This is equally true when you advertise on different platforms, as digital advertising reaches the same target groups regardless of where they are.
Buying attention via ads and promotions is also extremely precocious! Your reach will always depend on the marketing money your competitors choose to spend. It’s out of your control. It’s also impossible to plan the future growth of your business with confidence.
Why?
A well-funded competitor can, quickly and easily, wipe your visibility out before you even know what’s happening.
Thankfully there’s an effective alternative.
Marketing creativity over marketing money
I choose to focus 100% on a very different marketing model. It’s a model that is impossible for your competitors to copy, as they can’t see what you’re doing, unlike paid ads / promotion.
- They’ll know that you get talked about a lot more often.
- They’ll also sense there’s a real buzz around your products or services.
- They’ll notice their existing clients or customers switching to you.
BUT they won’t know why.
That’s because my marketing model is entirely based around creativity, not money.
It’s about attracting attention, not buying attention. It’s about giving your prospective clients something to talk about. It’s exceptionally effective. In fact, The Wall Street Journal came to me for an example of how I achieved massive marketing success for small businesses, using creative marketing strategies – – and NOT A PENNY spent on advertising or promotion.
In short, I don’t write about how to buy attention because it’s a risky, lazy and exceptionally limited way to grow a business. And there are hundreds of better options.
So now you know.