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Will You Add? - Small Business Marketing Secret #2: Marketing Is Like Fishing - You Need A Hook
This dilemma is one of the most common management dilemmas. It is not constraint to large organizations that focus -- to name one -- on implementing a shared service center, but also small companies are dealing with this problem ... even a computer programmer faces the same dilem
Customers may hear your message, they may think about your message, but they are very unlikely to take a desired act
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You wouldn’t go fishing without the hook, would you? The hook is probably the most important part of the fishing process.
The same is true in your advertising. If you want to be successful in advertising you have to resign your position as general manager of the universe and realize that your ad is not a personal soap box to speak your mind, hype accolades, regurgitate philosophies, spout jargon and blab about anything else.
The people who see your ad really don’t care about you, your personal agenda or that you’ve spent good money to talk to them. As you know they only care about one thing…themselves. Likewise your advertising should focus on only one thing…them!
You have already identified that “YOU” is the most powerful word in any advertisement. That is why a hook works so well. A hook is something of value you offer your target, which they can’t live without.
It’s something that provides them with a solution, a cure, an answer to a daunting problem. A hook incites them to take the desired action your advertisement was designed to evoke.
An advertisement without a hook is like a fishing pole without a hook. Fish may look at the bait, they may nibble the bait, they may even eat the bait – but you will never catch a fish without a hook.
Customers may hear your message, they may think about your message, but they are very unlikely to take a desired acti
Making money on eBay, for most people seems like an ideal solution to giving up the daily grind of working for somebody else, and taking control of your future. But how much room is there really in the marketplace. I have no doubt that a select few power sellers have mastered the for
The people who see your ad really don’t care about you, your personal agenda or that you’ve spent good money to talk to them. As you know they only care about one thing…themselves. Likewise your advertising should focus on only one thing…them!
You have already identified that “YOU” is the most powerful word in any advertisement. That is why a hook works so well. A hook is something of value you offer your target, which they can’t live without.
It’s something that provides them with a solution, a cure, an answer to a daunting problem. A hook incites them to take the desired action your advertisement was designed to evoke.
An advertisement without a hook is like a fishing pole without a hook. Fish may look at the bait, they may nibble the bait, they may even eat the bait – but you will never catch a fish without a hook.
Customers may hear your message, they may think about your message, but they are very unlikely to take a desired act
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You have already identified that “YOU” is the most powerful word in any advertisement. That is why a hook works so well. A hook is something of value you offer your target, which they can’t live without.
It’s something that provides them with a solution, a cure, an answer to a daunting problem. A hook incites them to take the desired action your advertisement was designed to evoke.
An advertisement without a hook is like a fishing pole without a hook. Fish may look at the bait, they may nibble the bait, they may even eat the bait – but you will never catch a fish without a hook.
Customers may hear your message, they may think about your message, but they are very unlikely to take a desired act
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It’s something that provides them with a solution, a cure, an answer to a daunting problem. A hook incites them to take the desired action your advertisement was designed to evoke.
An advertisement without a hook is like a fishing pole without a hook. Fish may look at the bait, they may nibble the bait, they may even eat the bait – but you will never catch a fish without a hook.
Customers may hear your message, they may think about your message, but they are very unlikely to take a desired act
Recently I read of a new website where teachers can post and sell their lesson plans to recover the time that they had spent in developing these plans. On the surface, this sounds reasonable and why would anyone object to teachers making a little more money through such a capitalist
Customers may hear your message, they may think about your message, but they are very unlikely to take a desired action unless you give them a STRONG INCENTIVE to do so, something they see as valuable.
If your ad doesn’t ask your target to take action you are totally wasting your money. Your ads need to provide an undeniable reason focused on relieving your target’s pain that incites them to take a desired action.
Next time you go fishing, be sure to bring a few hooks. Next time you advertise, try throwing a few hooks in there too.
Have you spent money on advertising and afterwards you wonder if it was effective. It’s tough to know right? You should have learned how to avoid this in science class. In Jim and Travis' small business marketing secret #3 we’ll tell you how.
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