Marketing Your Business Your Way - NOT His Way NOR Her Way
What's wrong with his or her way? Is it because it's a me too
way? Did you ask? Well, it is your business you are marketing.
There is nothing wrong with his, her and me too way. You just
need to adjust things to suit your situation. In other words,
your business simply should be done your way.
Mr X is a successful marketer. His way of marketing has brought
him good business. He has screenshots of big commissions and a
long list of testimonials. If you want to earn big money as a
net marketer, then follow his way. You are a newbie, you simply
don't have your way. His way is time-tested and proven to give
awesome results. Almost all web rockstars' advertisements show
powerful wordings like that. You will also find earnings
disclaimer somewhere on their site. It basically says that you
may or may not achieve as good as those described in there. Your
success can only be guaranteed by you and only you, NOT him NOR
his products. That is certainly the ultimate truth. What works
for others may not necessarily work for you. Do, however, learn
from successful people like him. They are indeed your good
references.
Success comes through a long and winding road, bumpy too :-) So
people say. The now successful people have gone through that.
They too started a newbie. They kept going even when the going
got tough. Some of them even got to the bottom where things just
couldn't get any worse. They just kept going. That's the spirit
worth having. That's the attitude worth following. Never let any
bad thing or any handicap by human standard prevent you from
making progress and achieving good results. What is this
handicap by human standard thing you are talking about? I hear
you asked :-) The following story gives a good description of
it. Let's get to it now.
How did he do it? He couldn't even..... The question arises
whenever we see a handicap can do as good as or better than
normal people. My friend told this "true" story. He must have
got it from his reading somewhere. Never mind the source, it's
the content that I am interested in. Here we go.
There was a businessman selling encyclopedias. His bookshop was
in a shopping mall. He wanted to increase his sales by
recruiting sales-people. So he did. 20 people showed up, 1 of
them had a speaking disability. Normal people can simply
pronounce "butterfly", he goes
"bu..but...butte..r..but..ter...fly". His name is Jondo (not his
real name :-)). The businessman only paid commission on sales
done. Deep inside his heart, he knew Jondo had come to the wrong
place, certainly NOT selling his EXPENSIVE encyclopedia. He
didn't show his feelings. He gave everybody the same toolkit and
2 books in a bag to get started. After a short briefing,
everyone went their way to sell. Office hours are 10am-5pm. It
was 9:50am.
10:30am came Jondo with money for the 2 books, grabbed another 2
and took off. 11:30am came Jondo with money for the 2 books,
this time took 4 and off he went. The other NORMAL guys hadn't
sold the original 2 yet. The businessman got puzzled. How did he
do it? He asked his shop assistant to take over for him. He
decided to follow and see Jondo in action.
Jondo stopped at the hall where traffic was heavy. He approached
the passing by person that took a glance at him. His bag on his
shoulder, one hand holding a book, another pointing at it. He
said :"Sir, goo...d bo..ok." As the person stopped for a while,
that very moment Jondo opened the book and went :"I...I re..ad
fo..for you." That's how Jondo did it. That's NOT in the
toolkit. That's NOT what he taught his sales people to do or
would do himself. His eyes got wet with tears beyond control.
At the end of office hour, the BEST normal sales person sold 4
books. Majority didn't sell any. Jondo sold 10 by marketing his
way. End of story.
Even though the story is about selling, but the idea applies to
anything you do in life. You already HAVE what it takes to
succeed. You already HAVE your way within you. You just need to
make the best out of whatever you have NOW. Start from where you
are and make progress after progress....never ending. Your way
will show only by your doing NOT just reading, thinking,
dreaming or you-name-it non action.
Start putting into practice whatever know-how you have now, if
you haven't done it already. Practice makes perfect, so people
say. You know they are right of course :-)