The Marketing Strategy that Earned Me $16k in One Month!
Have you ever considered webinars to sell your products online? Maybe you’ve had a go and nothing came of it? Well…
Recently I had an open enrolment period for my Marketing Untangled Training program. I don’t have that big a list. I’ve only just started building it outside my native Iceland, and in a country of 330 thousand people, building a huge list of people interested in marketing and branding for entrepreneurs and small business is, well … :) Add to that a cultural difference between us Europeans and USA, which means that I have found that many marketing strategies and tactics that work like a charm State side need to be, let’s say, adjusted and softened somewhat on this side of the pond. Webinars are something I have done before on a number of occasions, and they’ve done well for me, all things considered. Well, ok, but I knew I could be doing much better. I have seen people out there increasing their revenue dramatically in that one hour during a webinar, sometimes by 5 and 6 figures and I wanted to do the same.
So, a little over a month ago, I decided it was time to do this webinar thing properly. And the best way to do that? [Read more…]
What To Do In Your Marketing?!
Are you sick of being told do this, do that do blah blah blah … Aaaaaaargh!
So, this marketing thing is kinda my thing. I love it! But you know, even though it’s my thing, and even though I love it, there are still days when I feel like this:
Well, actually, more like this:
STOP TELLING ME I HAVE TO DO THIS AND THAT AND EVERYTHING! Stop telling me I have to be on Facebook, and on Twitter, and on Instagram and LinkedIn, and Google+ and have a LinkedIn Group, and have lead magnets and do webinars, and Pinterest and do Periscope and do Google Hangouts and have an email list, and blog, and vlog and grrrroooog or whatever, and do infographics and video series and funnel optimisation and keyword analysis and SEO, and use Google Analytics, and buy more analytics and use Google Search Console, and master copywriting and … just stop!
Because at the end of the day, none of this matters. None of all these shiny objects, with their fiddly things and click here and click that and click this are not going to do anything for me on their own! They’re just not! And there is no way I – or you – or anyone – can be on all of these and do all this stuff well. Not unless we have an army of experts – which, I’m guessing, if you are reading this blog, you don’t have ;)
Yes, they can help. Yes they can be great tools. But just like a carpenter does not need 453 different types of hammers, or 967 different types of nail to build a good wood shed, we don’t need all the tools under the sun to do our marketing. We just need to find the right ones for us.
But how on earth do we do that? [Read more…]
Show up and be there! #Notthere
Today I want to share something a little bit out of the ordinary for me. See, I just got back from beautiful Boston where I attended the most awesome conference ever, #Inbound15, hosted by HubSpot. It was in one word MINDBLOWING! It is a conference about inbound marketing (aka content marketing) and has a host of fabulous speakers on all kinds of things marketing related, as well as some inspiring and motivational keynotes. Anyway, I want to share something with you from Inbound:
So, marketing related blog posts are not out of the ordinary for me, but this one isn’t strictly speaking marketing related. However, it is important, not just for us as people, but for us as marketers and business people. At Inbound, one of the keynotes was given by someone I pretty much only remember as the daughter in the White House when I was younger. Not being in the US, I must admit I didn’t really know what an amazing and inspiring woman Chelse Clinton has grown up to be, and the fantastic work she is doing. In her keynote she drew attention to worldwide data on women’s rights and her work with women and children. As an Icelandic woman, I belong to a country at the forefront of gender equality today – and yet, we still have a long way to go. So does the US, the UK, mainland Europe and the rest of the world. We must do better. We must get there! #notthere
This is not just a question of women’s rights being human rights, as Hillary Clinton said in Bejing 20 years ago, this is also a question of economics. The fact is that a world with equal rights and women’s participation in all aspects of our world is also a better world economically and a better world for business – a better world all around.
I pulled out a few things from the talk and the interview afterwards into images that can be shared on social, and I hope you do. There is a lot more to be said, and I want to encourage you to visit noceilings.org for more about the state of affairs for women in the world and what we can do. The video of the whole keynote and interview can also be seen below. [Read more…]
I HATE Boring Businesses!
There! I’ve said it! I truly, deeply, madly hate boring businesses. In my mind there is absolutely no excuse for boring businesses. Don’t get me wrong, not every business has to be outrageously funny and crazy (although, I definitely don’t mind those) – but I believe all businesses should be interesting, because boring is not antonym of fun or funny when it comes to business – it is the antonym of interesting. Why on earth should we do business with those who are not interesting? If you don’t have something of interest to contribute in this world, why should I give a damn? If you don’t make the world better in some way or another, why exist? Businesses that are interesting are worth caring about. Those that can’t be bothered – well, why should we bother with them?
Why?
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