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John Jantsch
www.ducttapemarketing.com
About John Jantsch

John Jantsch is a veteran marketing coach, award winning blogger and author of Duct Tape Marketing - The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide (foreword by Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth) published by Thomas Nelson - due out in the fall of 2006 He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing small business marketing system and Duct Tape Marketing Authorized Coach Network. His Duct Tape Marketing Blog was chosen as a Forbes favorite for small business and marketing and is a Harvard Business School featured marketing site. His blog was also chosen as "Best Small Business Marketing Blog" in 2004, 2005 and 2006 by the readers of Marketing Sherpa.



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Two Questions That Matter Most
- For more on John Jantsch visit www.ducttapemarketing.com

When you consider writing marketing copy, throw out all your notions about features and benefits, riveting, detailed descriptions and techno jargon and focus on answering the only two questions that really matter - and do it before you pass go.

1. What are your prospects and clients saying to themselves as they consider purchasing your type of product or service? What are the actual words they think in their heads? (visualize the cartoon bubble floating above) Chances are it’s not - “gee, I wish I had a new fangled Acme gizmo #156.” No, chances are, it’s more like - “gee, I wish I had more time off or why is running my own business so hard” So, you must discover their conversations and use them as your copy.

I’ve discovered over the years that my prospects are asking something along the lines of “Why is marketing a business so hard or I just don’t know anything about marketing.”

So I might start an introduction to Duct Tape Marketing by posing this question - “Have you ever said “I’m just no good at marketing” or “Have you ever wondered why marketing your small business is so hard?”

2. What would they like to say to themselves if they actually got the result they are seeking? In other words, what would success sound like to them.

I’ve discovered that what my prospects would like to say to themselves is that “marketing can be simple, almost automatic once you understand what to do.”

In this instance it’s essential that I am able to paint a picture of what their world could be like if they had the magic sauce.

These are the mysteries rolling around in the minds of your prospects, but you must find ways to discover, unlock, and communicate the answers in your marketing and sales materials or your copy will never move beyond the level of static.

Oh, and by the way, I just happen to be holding a three session teleseminar on the subject of creating these kinds of education based marketing materials - check it out here - it’s possible we will get into the very subject of this post!





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