Identity – Standing for Something. There’s a good chance you’re slaughtering your marketing right now, and YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW IT. You’re saying things you THINK are profound and unique, but in reality, they simply AREN’T. Highly Experienced. Superior Quality. Finest Materials. Providing Customers What They Want. Unbeatable Warranty. Experts in… Specialize in… In your mind, this stuff sounds awesome. To your prospects, it sounds like blah, blah, blah, blaaaah. It’s totally expected. Have you ever felt like your marketing is invisible?
What this does, is it makes your marketing and your company look just like everyone else’s; you sound like everyone else and you put off the same “vibe” as everyone else—even if you’re really awesome at what you do. Don’t believe me? Go to your website right now, then look up the websites of a dozen or so of your competitors. Guess what? They’re all pretty much all the same. And that’s not good.
The key to breaking out of the sea of competition is to focus in on your company’s unique and powerful IDENTITY-standing for something so you not only STAND OUT – You’ve made them irrelevant! You’ve got to instantly and definitively communicate who you are, what you stand for, what customers can expect, and why they should choose YOU instead of ANY of your competitors. Once your identity is defined, then you’ve got learn how to communicate with passion, precision, and power.
Once you articulate your Identity, you’ll see how everything else in your marketing mix emanates from your Identity. Identity becomes the ‘hub’ of all of your other marketing.
Learn how you can leverage your own powerful Identity:
What to do next? Learn how to innovate your business so that you become better than your competition.