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The One-Eyed Man
by Denise Hedges
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
I like that quotation. And the message here is simple as it applies to marketing your business.
You don't have to know everything there is to know about marketing and do it perfectly to be successful at it. You just have to do a couple of things others aren't doing to make yourself more attractive to potential clients and give yourself a competitive edge. That's because advantage is a relative thing.
You just have to be able to see what others don't see and translate those insights into results.
When it comes to marketing yourself, here are two big things so many people are blind to that I want you to see clearly.
People want to do business with professionals they feel comfortable with and have confidence in. And it's pretty hard to instill a high degree of confidence and create the requisite level of comfort in someone if they don't really know you.
Seems obvious, doesn't it? And yet, so many people rely on marketing that's impersonal ... arms-length ... what we call "low touch."
No! It doesn't work. You have to give people a personal experience of you. That means you have to get out there and make contact with folks.
Look, I get that putting yourself out there can make you uncomfortable. Don't think that I'm always all that comfortable. I'm not. Some level of anxiety and discomfort simply comes with the territory. But your job as a marketer is to make connections at a human level, and you can't do that by hiding out and expecting a tweet, your Facebook profile, your website, or a brochure to bring in business.
Insight number one: Your marketing needs to be high touch.
Insight number two: You don't need to sell people. You need to serve them.
If you think that marketing and sales is about talking people into something, you're missing the point entirely.
Sure, that's the dominant mindset that still prevails today, but it's so old-school.
You're in business as a professional to make a living by serving people, by finding out what they want and need and helping them achieve the results they're looking for. Well, that process shouldn't start once somebody becomes a client. It should start when you first meet them and they express the first bit of interest in what you do.
You want an example of how serving differs from selling?
Well, if we were interested in selling to you, we wouldn't give you these insights in a newsletter ... for free. OMG. No way. We would tell you there are secrets that we have and you need to know, and if you just sign onto our program and pay us the low low price of X, we'll tell them to you, and you'll be magically successful.
Instead, we give you information we know you need, and if you like us and want more, we offer you the chance to learn more.
We don't really sell you anything. And guess what? Not only does this approach yield better results, it's infinitely easier, more comfortable, fun, and wholesome-feeling. It's so cool, because everybody wins and nobody feels creepy as the result of having to "sell" or being sold to.
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See how it works? We give you something of value. If you want more, we help you get it. How simple is that? And yet, most don't get it. Most can't see it.
Next month, another related insight. It comes from billionaire investor George Soros. It's the approach he followed that made him big money, and it can keep us from making a big mistake in our marketing efforts.
Until then ...
Denise | 
I'm so excited to announce the arrival of my newest granddaughter, Kennedy Laton Lester. She's a miracle baby in so many ways. My daughter is older and didn't know if she could have kids. And the pregnancy was touch and go at the end. We almost lost them both.