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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Speaking the Secret Language of Your Ideal Customer with Jeffrey Shaw

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Understanding your customers is the key to success in any business. Jeffrey Shaw has cultivated that understanding throughout the years, and he knows how to best approach his customers and speak their language through lingo. Hear his story about starting his photography and media venture, learning the hard way that he needed to shift his base, and more in our latest episode!


Jeffrey Shaw is a new media artist and researcher. He is a portrait photographer, speaker, and author of LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer’s Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible 


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0:00.0

Today's world, you know, entrepreneurs cannot afford for eight out of ten customers to be a waste of their time

0:05.8

If we're getting 80% of our income from you know to 20% of our customers and that's to say that eight eight out of ten customers are a waste of time.

0:14.0

It's so hard to stand out and gain someone's business today.

0:17.5

We can't afford that.

0:19.0

So I think it's been a big shift.

0:21.0

On the 80s, we had an abundance of work.

0:22.0

I had an eight week waiting list, etc.

0:24.6

You know, we had an abundance of work in the 80s and maybe even some of the 90s. But boy, has that shifted it? And by the time you get someone's attention,

0:31.2

you need to maximize that. So the goal of Lingo is to build this five-step

0:35.1

secret language strategy so that people end up with businesses where they're only

0:39.3

working with our ideal customers which is efficient, highly profitable, and so much more fun than any other way of being in a business.

0:47.0

I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative Podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.

1:04.5

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