hey there my friend adam here today i want to share with you seven marketing secrets or marketing hacks or marketing tricks essentially things that nobody's really talking about not even me that often and it's because they're a little more complicated and a little more nuanced than the quick hits that we often get when it comes to social media things like post at this time or adapt your content for this algorithm tweak or use this kind of font or this kind of color or all of those things what i'd rather do is get to the core
of why your marketing may not be working as well as you want and even if it is working okay understanding the seven things i'm going to be walking you through here today will allow you to immediately upgrade all of it get better results more clicks more traffic more sales from everything you do and not only that probably the most important thing that i could ever give you is to show you how to think about your marketing how to process different marketing strategies and and basically the the crazy stuff that goes on inside my head when
i'm evaluating different marketing tactics and tools and resources and all of that so my goal here today is as ambitious as it is is to try to pack seven secrets and seven hacks into a very short period of time so that you're going to be able to watch this and you're going to be able to extract these little golden nuggets and apply them to your business to your clients business to whatever it is that you're doing and it starts right now so the very first thing that we need to talk about is kind of what
ends up happening when someone says hey my marketing's just not working like it's just nothing's happening no one's clicking no one's watching my stuff the algorithm isn't pushing it or promoting it to people nothing's working it's something that i hear all the time i see it in the comments below very common ninety percent of the time it's because they're just not doing enough marketing it's just a question of volume it's a question of quantity not so much quality so let me explain i don't know who's to blame for this one maybe it's the get rich
quick things maybe it's the uh all of the courses and the programs that promise that you can become a millionaire in 30 days with no work or whatever it is but for some reason when people think about marketing they think that all they need to do is make a facebook ad or an instagram ad or post one video on youtube and they'll just blow up and become the next viral sensation and everything will just work out miraculously well and i seriously i wish this was the case that'd be amazing but it's not right it's like
marketing is just a business function i'm gonna make this sound horribly boring but it's like accounting or finance or legal aspects of a business or hr or sales or whatever it is they're all just different business functions which means that they require time they require energy they require money and investment in them in order to get them to work now what ends up happening is most people will make one post on social media it won't get the traction and then they'll swear off that platform so they'll hop over here try out twitter now and make
a couple tweets nobody engages so they say well twitter doesn't work and they'll make a youtube video and and then that won't take off and they get frustrated and they get angry because it's just not working when the reality is they probably just haven't done enough and that's why the first concept the first sort of hack or secret is identifying the marketing sweet spot so in the most rudimentary art drawing class ever let me show you exactly what i mean by marketing sweet spot and you can see where you fall and where the vast majority
of businesses fall and if you find yourself in this position you know that the answer is to keep on pushing through it's not to dial back it's not to pivot it's not to do anything like that it's just to keep going forward so let me show you what that looks like so i want you to imagine for a second a bell curve kind of like the traditional bell curve of course that'll be the there we go we'll get some ink flowing here so this is our bell curve our ugly ugly bell curve and it's going
to have three three different sections now over here on the left this is what you're going to call the minimum effective dose so the med the minimum effective dose essentially what ends up happening here is until you're in this range nothing you do matters it's about sort of making that one post on social media that someone sees one time and then that's it and then you wonder why it's not working it's about spending uh five dollars on facebook ads or instagram ads and not getting immediate sales and then sort of swearing off the entire online
advertising system and and that but the reality is we just haven't hit the minimum effective dose there's not enough momentum there's not enough touch points there's there's not enough exposures and reach and engagement with the audience that you're trying to reach we're going to talk about that one in just a second but this is where 90 percent of businesses fall as they sit around here in this minimum effective dose kind of half committing to different strategies and then wondering why nothing's working and the the answer here the solution is again you've got to push through
you've got to move up here and this is the sweet spot this is where you're going to find sort of the saturation of your market you're going to be hitting the number of touch points that are required again we'll talk about that in just a second you're going to be making sure that the people that you want to reach are actually seeing your content you're going to make sure that you've essentially saturated everything that you can now the reality is this sweet spot is huge massive massively huge like when we're thinking about your business your
market or your industry these are huge huge industries billions and billions of dollars so unless your business is doing a billion dollars a year or more there's more that you can do it's crazy when i hear about someone that thinks that well look i'm already posting once a day on instagram or i'm already making one youtube video a week or i've got a podcast i'm pretty much maxed out there's nothing else i can do and they're sitting at home say say a million bucks a year and they're in let's use health and fitness so if
you're in let's say the health and fitness industry this massive multi-billion dollar industry in your business doing a million year 2 million a year 100 grand a year whatever it is you haven't even scratched the surface for what you're capable of doing and for the amount of people that you could reach so you could go from one post a day to five posts a day you could make one video on youtube to a week to one video on youtube a day you could do two videos a day you could start other channels you could have
other podcasts there's so much that you can do now of course at some point you're going to reach this third area which is diminishing returns diminishing returns there we go d for diminishing diminishing returns there's going to be some point where eventually more money more effort more time isn't going to pay off but i can't even begin to tell you of all of the businesses i've worked with over the last 10 years the tiniest fraction falls in here and typically it's when they're spending like a million dollars a month on ads and they simply can't
get in front of more people with their ads so they're doing blogging they're doing podcasting they're doing seo they're running uh google ads and facebook ads and instagram ads and all that the biggest example here is if you're running some kind of search-based ppc pay-per-click advertising like a google search ad at the end of the day you can't make people search for more stuff so you can max out but again you can make that broader you can go for discovery ad platforms like facebook and instagram or you can put things in front of people that
may potentially be interested there's a lot of ways so the reality is let's find a let's find a bright happy colorful marker this is where we're going for this sweet spot here like everybody is down here in this sort of minimum effective dose they haven't even scratched the surface for what's possible and then they're wondering why their marketing is not working the biggest the best piece of advice of everything that i could give you here is really you just have to do more now of course you need to be strategic you need to think through
it that's what the rest of this is going to be about but more is your answer so on that note how much more and that leads me to the marketing rule of seven now depending on your business or market or your industry depending on if you're selling something for low dollar value or high dollar value it's kind of universally agreed that for somebody to make a purchase decision for someone to take action and actually buy from you they need around seven touch points which means seven engagements seven interactions with your brand you can't simply put
something in front of them one time expect them to buy and then call it a day you're gonna have to do this multiple times seven now if it's expensive it's gonna be seven to fourteen if it's significantly cheaper like you're selling a pack of gum for 99 cents or something you probably don't need seven touch points one one should be sufficient but that rule of seven is important because it forces you to not give up too early it's just like when you're looking at these statistics around sales and you realize that most conversions most closes
for sales happen after like five rejections or five follow-ups five emails five extra calls it's rarely pretty much never the first time same thing goes with marketing a bit of a side note here but marketing is kind of selling one to many sales one-to-one marketing one-to-many so we use the same concepts the same strategies all of that with sales but i like to think of marketing as a little more exciting and a little more challenging even because instead of trying to convince one person at a time and overcome their objections and their fears and their
concerns we have to do this on mass and we have to do it without really getting much feedback from our market so rule of seven that's important now how do we do this well we do this by showing up in front of our ideal target market where they're present and active which means that we need to be selective about what social media platforms we're going to about what kind of content we're creating about where we're putting that we need to make sure that it's in alignment not only with you and your content style and what
you like doing hate doing but also where your people are in fact that's the most important element there's no point on being on twitter or pinterest or tick tock or instagram or youtube if your people aren't there so you've got to find out where they're present and active online and then you've got to make it your mission to follow up and to make sure that you're consistently showing up in front of them with value with content and with offers so that's the marketing rule of seven now the next point is more of a psychological phenomenon
more of a mental hack that you can use i've talked about this a ton on this channel here but it's called the mere exposure act and what the mere exposure effect is is a psychological phenomenon that says we as people as humans we associate frequency with trust so the more often that we show up in front of people the more often that they see us the more they know us the more they like us and the more that they trust us this kind of stems back to caveman days where if we saw something enough times
and it didn't try to kill us or eat us we assumed it was safe well all of that programming all of that evolution is carried forward to today so now when we see things again and again and again we naturally start to like things more because we're familiar with them they're less scary and therefore we're more likely to trust them so this is why that marketing rule of seven is so important this is why following up is so important this is why making sure that you've got a solid email marketing strategy in place is is
paramount it's crucial probably the second most important thing i could offer here if the first one is to make sure that you get out of that minimum effective dose zone and into the sweet spot by doing more the second probably most valuable piece of advice i could give you is to make sure that you're doing some kind of email marketing and you're doing it more than you think so this there for some weird reason there's this um this rule this gospel in the marketing world that you should send one marketing email a week at most
maybe one a month because you don't want to bother people garbage that's absolute garbage there's there's plenty of businesses and industries where you could send one email every three days you could send one email a day there's some businesses and companies that i've consulted for and done work with and own and have stake in that do two emails a day and it works people don't get angry they don't subscribe they you've just got to know who your market is at the very least however i'd say that you should be shooting for three emails a week
kind of at minimum otherwise again you're not going to have the chance to establish yourself and to take advantage of all of those touch points in the marketing rule of seven and the mere exposure effect and that leads me perfectly to the next kind of secret which is that you really want to go deep rather than broad so let me tell you what is probably the my biggest pet peeve when it comes to marketing and that's whenever i ask somebody well who's your target market and they say everyone or people with money and that's amazing
that'd be great but there's like eight billion people on the planet and i promise you you don't want all of them uh even if they all wanted to do business with you some of them are just terrible terrible fits for your business so why don't we rain that in a little bit and even if we were to say separate men and women well now we're down to like 4 billion or then we separate to this country now we're down to like 100 million and then maybe this area now we're down to 30 million i mean
still we're going to want to carve that down to a significantly lower number someone that you're going to be able to connect with on a deeper level so the easiest way to do this is to take a look at yourself and your business now i appreciate you are not your customer you know things that they don't know you have experiences that they don't have however most people when it comes to business they're solving a problem that they had at some point they're solving something that they know about that they care about that they want to
share and help other people so you probably understand a little bit about your situation and what they're going through and therefore you're more likely to attract people similar to you it's another kind of same reason that if you're a personal brand or a coach or consultant or someone like that you tend to attract people give or take 10 years around your age so if you're 30 you'll attract like 20 to 40. if you're 40 you'll attract 30 to 50. whatever it is there's like this 20-year sliding scale 10 years on each side that tends to
work that can balloon out a little bit here and there but on average you'll find most of your people fall in that range again it's just because you relate to them better you know the words that they use you grew up in the similar time you have the same references all of that stuff but the point is you want to go deep here and you want to make better connections with fewer people than these superficial surface level connections with a ton of people the big reason here is because when you go broad when you go
after everybody you're forced to naturally water down your message it becomes more vanilla becomes more bland and it has to because if you were being specific about someone's unique pains and unique problems well it wouldn't be appealing or interesting to like everybody else so therefore you have to make abroad and when you're broad you're boring and everybody just ignores you and you sound like 99 of the other businesses and marketers out there saying the same things like we offer higher quality and we offer better service and all of that stuff that everybody's heard a million
times before and they're completely blind and deaf too so the best way to solve this is to move on to our next point here which is that you need an i see a ica is marketing talk for ideal customer avatar i'm not completely strict on on this exact fictional representation of your ideal customer and you've got to give them a name and a hair color and they've got to wear this kind of shoes and listen to this kind of music i don't think that's necessary it's helpful at times what i think is more important is
that you get really clear around the commonalities the common characteristics that your top customers your top clients your top audience members have in common and we typically divide this into three different categories the first of which being demographic so what's their age their gender their income their occupation their title all of those stereotypical marketing things that we associate number two what are their geographic details what city state province country where do they live number three their psychographic details this is all of the head stuff and this is where the bulk of your ica should really
be formed so what are their values their attitudes their interests their beliefs their organizations their political affiliations their their lifestyles things that make them them after all we often want to group people into these broad buckets like men or women or this age or that age but the reality is depending on what product or service you sell you may have a wide range of that and it may be more problem based on the other hand you may also have multiple different icas ideal customer avatars that's cool too i'm all right if you've got like look
we work well with women who are 20 to 25 and we also work well with men who are 40 to 45 but those two different icas are going to have different pains and problems and fears and frustrations we'll talk about that in just a second so you can serve them both but you need to serve them both with different messages you simply can't appeal to them by using the same generic br broad bland terminology because you're just going to turn the other one off by talking about things that are completely irrelevant to them so you
have an ica but make sure that it's specific and you can have multiple and on that note the way to dive into that is with the psychographic details of their values and attitudes and interests and beliefs and i call that their miracles and misery so let me find my pen and let's talk about that now all right so when it comes to creating your ideal customer avatar when it comes to thinking about your audience your clients or customers the the money is the the value the the real results that you're going to get from your
marketing come down to identifying their miracles and miseries now there's this great expression that i love that says customers don't buy when they understand they buy when they feel understood the way to make them feel understood is with this so they're miracles that's over here that's all the things that they want their needs their desires their dreams all of the things that they wish would happen the desired end state of where they're trying to get and then of course over here we've got their miseries these are their fears their problems their pains their frustrations all
of the things that they're trying to get away from at least in regards to your business and to your offer you need to identify what these are and ideally drill down into which the most important and the most painful ones are and then what the most desirable end states are because then you're going to be able to position your business as the bridge that takes them from miracle there we go memo to self i gotta buy some smaller tip markers but that's it this is your business right there your business's job your offer your product
your service whatever it is that you sell its only mission is to move them away from their current state that they're in right now that they don't want to be in whatever that pain is and towards the desired end state and the better that you're able to communicate that which is essentially the job of marketing it's to communicate the value of what you have to them in regards to your offer your product your service the better you're able to do that the more likely you are to get somebody to take action and to actually buy
from you and move them here and that's this is where the conversions happen it's right here it's moving them away from miseries and towards miracles and on that note let's hit the next point here which is a very cliched thing to say but i want to break it down a little bit more there's this super cliched saying in marketing that says you want to sell the benefits not the features or sell the sizzle not the steak the problem is is that like most cliches there's that element of truth to it that's absolutely the fact here
is like when it comes to marketing and to representing what it is that you're selling and what you're trying to promote it's not about the features it's about what those features are going to deliver through the benefits that's what they're after they don't care about features they care about how those features are going to positively impact them so yes we can make a cursory mention of the features we got to highlight them we'll talk about them and we'll talk about kind of the flip side of that in just a second but the real value is
in the benefit now one of my favorite examples and it kind of stems from like hey sell me this pen well it comes down to this pen doesn't actually have a pen cap but we're gonna use that analogy anyway it's sort of like well why does the pen have a pen cap or fictional pen cap and the reason that this pen has a pen cap and the benefits it provides that's what we want to highlight so the feature is a pen cap the benefits is well it prevents you from getting ink all over yourself and
then of course we could elaborate on that we could explain it a little further and and so on a bit of a side note do you know why pen caps have like those tiny little holes know if you've got a pen around you can find one but like they've got those little holes on the pen lid it's actually so if you swallow it you don't choke to death random hey anyway the reason that benefits work significantly better than features is because benefits are emotionally driven an emotion far more powerful driver than logic doesn't mean we
can't have logic doesn't mean we shouldn't use logic we absolutely should but emotion is the money maker that's what compels somebody to take action when they feel it like deep down in their core this is going to make my life better this is going to help me achieve the goals that i want this is going to increase my status this is going to make me healthier or happier or wealthier or any of those intrinsic drivers that we have as humans when we're able to properly communicate that that's when conversions happen that's when sales happen now
here's the kicker when you're first creating your marketing whether it's through an ad or a sales page or a social media post or an email or anything like that we always want to highlight the benefits and then of course we're going to talk about the features but if for some reason people don't convert we flip it and then the next time we lead with features and we back up the benefits and the reason that we do this is because we know that emotion is a significantly more powerful driver than logic but logic still has a
part not to mention it's not that some people are or it's not just that some people are more emotional than logical we all know those people that fall on one end of the spectrum or another but it's also that we as people we have days where we're more more emotional or more logical and within those days we have hours where we're more emotional and more logical and there are situations and circumstances that you can't always control for which is why we really want to cover our bases we want to of course lead with emotion because
it's the most powerful driver but we want to back it up with logic the next time somebody interacts with us if we tried emotion and it didn't work we'll lead with logic and we'll back it up with emotion and we'll kind of go back and forth we'll sprinkle in social proof we'll sprinkle in other forms of testimonials we'll sprinkle in guarantees and risk reversals we'll use all of the tools in our toolbox as marketers to get somebody to take action knowing full well that we don't have control over where they're at right now in their
current situation and it's funny i didn't actually plan this but this actually kind of leads us full circle back to that beginning statement of minimum effective dose of you're simply probably not doing enough if you're not getting the results that you want i mean you can see here when we look over the rule of seven in the mere exposure effect we need to go deep we need to have icas talk about their miracles and miseries we need to highlight benefits and if that doesn't work we go for the logical element and then we go back
to benefits all of this is going to take time it's going to take energy and it's going to take investment in your marketing which is why if you're at this stage right now where it's just not delivering the results that you want you need to do more now of course i'm not going to leave you hanging with just that which is why i'm going to link up a video right here that's going to show you a digital marketing strategy that's going to help so make sure to check it out now and we'll see in the
next video now the worst offense here is not having a marketing funnel or more accurately not thinking about your marketing funnel and instead just hoping and wishing
