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Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners

066: Forget That Guy

Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners

Stu McLaren

Business, Marketing

4.9679 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I read an email from a guy who clearly looks for the negative in everything. Can your marketing appeal to these people? Find out in this episode.

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0:00.0

Oh, baby, it was a point of discussion in our office.

0:03.4

And this negative email had us laughing and also feeling for the guy.

0:08.8

Seriously, his perspective was this?

0:11.3

I'll tell you about it in this episode.

0:14.7

Marketing your business is for you, the business owner, who has a product, a service,

0:19.0

or a message that you believe in.

0:20.8

My name is Stu McLaren, and each week we'll take a behind the scenes look into the real

0:24.7

world marketing tactics and strategies for getting what you have in front of a lot more people.

0:30.4

Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let's get started.

0:35.5

So as a business owner, I got to share a story with you that I guarantee you you can relate to.

0:41.9

Because in life, we all know that we are never going to be able to please everybody.

0:47.0

And it doesn't matter how much we can do for somebody, there's always going to be one person who will view it in a negative way.

0:55.4

For example, I just got an email from one of our customers who's going through our tribe

1:01.6

course. Now, just know this, that this year, by far, has been our best year for tribe.

1:09.7

Best year in terms of front-end sales. We talked about that,

1:12.8

one of the previous episodes where I debrief the whole launch, but also best year ever in

1:18.9

terms of our lowest refund rate ever. I'm actually going to do a whole episode just on that

1:25.1

because I think that speaks to all the energy and effort that our

1:28.8

team has poured into just making the onboarding experience and the whole learning experience

1:33.9

just world class. But even with that said, there's still, believe it or not, people who

1:40.0

will just view it through a negative lens. For example, so one of the new things that we did this year was we included an offline component.

1:48.9

So the course is all being delivered online.

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