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Chapter Twenty-nine: Are you a new generation
marketer?
Denis Waitley wrote – 'Unless you join the generation of the
future, you will be relegated to living in the past.
That could never be truer with regards to your marketing and
advertising efforts!
You now have an amazing assortment of marketing tools at your
disposal:
· Websites
· Magazine advertising
· Newspapers
· Emails
· Auto responders
· Pod casting
· Blogging
· Vlogging
· Plogging
· Postcards
· Direct mail
· Dimensional mail
· Print on demand books
· Voice broadcasting
· Fax broadcasting
· Vehicle displays
· Social networking sites
· Chat rooms and forums
· Word of mouth
· Radio
· Television
· Yellow pages
...and probably a hundred and fifty other ones I could list if
I put more time into it.
The point is not the tools you have, but how you use them. PLUS
how you integrate them to all work as one.
A tool is just that... a tool. You can use the ones you are
comfortable with – or make do without. Lots of weekend handymen (or handywomen)
can do amazing things with the tools they have. They don't have all the best,
expensive tools – but they can make do and get a decent output.
Then you have the pros: They have ALL the tools... and they
know how to use them all. When they work – it is like a ballet... every step of
the way looks carefully choreographed... and the output always is a
masterpiece.
It is no different in your marketing. You can make do with what
you know now... and with tools you have at your immediate disposal.
Or you can hire it out to the pros... where you get more
done... in much less time... with a much greater output.
Or... you can do some yourself and hire some out to the
others.
My point is: The generation of the future will learn how to use
multiple tools and make them work together. Not all – but enough to cover online
AND offline marketing. Enough to build long-term customer trust... AND to create
massive cash flow surges and new client acquisition programs.
The tools are there... are you learning how to use any new
ones?
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