Working in a marketing job, or managing your own marketing for your small business is one of the toughest jobs in the world. The truth is, marketing is a game of failure because most marketing campaigns successes are measured in small percentages. But that’s okay as long as you have outstanding marketing management disciplines.
I get to create new online and real-world training and coaching programs now that I’ve sold my digital marketing agency. Having worked in sales and marketing my entire professional life, I’ve got some war wounds.
The reason I focus on working with marketing managers, directors and small business owners who need to get out of their own way and build a small, in-house marketing team, is because I know how difficult the work can be and I created a system to ease the pain.
How To Get “Clarity” and Confidence in Marketing and Sales
The system I created is called Clarity. It’s a strategic action planning process I’ve used with my own businesses and thousands of others since I started using it in 2007. My online courses will soon be featured on a brand new online learning platform.
The current version of Clarity emerged from earlier action planning models I used to set up marketing automation software for my customers between 2008 and now. I was one of the earliest marketing automation guys on the planet because I have always loved buying and using any software tool or system that can help me be more efficient with my marketing and managing a business.
Here are a few suggestions if you’re wondering how to get better sales and marketing results with less stress, time and money:
- Business, sales, and marketing are team sports. If you need customers, you need to contact many prospects. So all of this marketing stuff is about helping you make contact with people who might do business with you.
- Most small business owners and big-time CEO’s can’t or won’t manage their own marketing. Small business owners often blow it after they get the basics. It’s not easy to learn to trust and delegate. Every big company CEO already knows better, and they can well afford to hire others to do what they do best.
- If you don’t have a written, strategic plan of action, let me help you write one. Include your key, valued people in marketing, sales, and finance in the process. When you have a sound plan, you will have “clarity” and you will know exactly how to market and sell with the utmost efficiency.
- Hire the best advisors, employees, and contractors your money can buy. Ditch the rest. You can’t afford to hire and pay people who can’t or won’t get the job done right the first time. If you don’t the roles, the jobs, how can you hire and manage effectively?
- Wake every day with a strategy and team you believe in. Work from a serious, shared plan of action. Measure everything in sales and marketing. Manage it all like your business is your best investment because it is.
Gratitude Counts
I’m grateful for my experience as a career sales and marketing guy. One of the biggest transitions I made over the years was learning to invest wisely in marketing to build my own small businesses. When you work for a company and you invest their money, not yours, the emotions are much different compared to when you invest in your own business.
Either way, one of the biggest and most-costly mistakes for business owners, leaders, and even some of the world’s most famous business people, have to rely on the right marketing professionals to get the job done.
Now you have a simple list of things to consider if you want to get better business, sales and marketing results.
Clarity gives you confidence. That’s why I called my company Clarity Strategic Advisors, LLC.
Let us give you clarity and confidence so you can sleep well at night.
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