The quiet week between Christmas and New Year is the perfect time to revisit the fundamentals that actually work.
While everyone else is planning their "new year, new me" marketing experiments, you could be installing the only framework you'll ever need to predictably generate clients.
In this episode, I want to share one of the early I Love Marketing episodes where Joe and I break down the 8 Profit Activators - the foundational system I've used to help thousands of businesses create vending machine marketing instead of slot machine marketing.
Putting money in and knowing exactly what goes in and exactly what comes out, every single time, rather than putting money in and hoping.
We talk about how most business owners would happily pay 20-25% of a transaction if someone delivered ready-to-buy clients to them, but they won't invest that same amount in building their own client-generation system.
I'll remind you how to think about your business in three separate units (Before, During, and After), why narrowing your focus to one target market makes everything easier instead of harder, and how to stop confusing "being nice to people" with an actual orchestrated referral system.
If your marketing feels like throwing spaghetti at the wall in any way, this episode will give you the clarity and foundation you've been missing.
Key Takeaways from This Episode:
How to transform your marketing from a slot machine (hope and pray) into a vending machine (predictable results every time you invest)
Why treating your business as three separate units (Before, During, After) instead of one complicated mess creates immediate clarity and better results
The focusing question that changes everything: "What would be a dream-come-true experience for your specific client?" - and how to build your entire service delivery around the answer
Why narrowing your focus to ONE target market at a time actually makes you more money (not less) - and how to identify which market to dominate first
The difference between "being nice to people" and having an actual orchestrated referral system that generates clients on demand
How to calculate what you should invest in client acquisition (hint: if you'd pay someone else 20-25% to deliver ready-to-buy clients, that's your marketing budget baseline)
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