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Your business is different to us – we need to sell not market

“Ric it’s different for you. You’re an OD Consultant working internationally. All your marketing ideas work for you. We’re different, as [insert your profession here] we need to focus on sales activity not marketing.” Not verbatim, but very close to these words I hear from recruiters, financial planners, business coaches, and the like. Building a [...]

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Weekly Wisdom No.115: Thank you – but not again

Thank you – but not again So, you’re telling me that your mobile phone service is better than the rest. I’m not being trapped into believing that line. So, what you’re saying is that you have the best interest rate coupled with the lowest fees. I’ve heard that before. So, you’re promising that you will [...]

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Are you making these same marketing mistakes?

Nothing happens until you sell something. Rarely, can you sell something without doing the marketing first. I contend that marketing is the process of attracting attention, articulating your value, and explaining how you will improve the customer’s condition by either fixing their pain or improving upon the success they are already achieving. Selling is merely [...]

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Small Business Advice: ABC-Radio Longreach interviews Ric Willmot

ABC-Longreach-Radio Keep it simple. Make certain there is market need for your products or services. You must competency. You must also be perceived as being competent. You have to be passionate. Put in place the business metrics to measure your success or otherwise.  

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Social Media Marketing Busted

Social media marketing landscape complicated – Business Insider

The Facebook IPO has made Mark Z very wealthy. Kudos to him. Social media, for the most part, will not make the rest of us very wealthy, however. And, for those who invested there is some not so pleasant news: since their first trade at $42, Facebook shares have shed about $11 billion, the value [...]

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Website strategies for professional services providers

Gone are the days when your website was a static electronic brochure for your practice. Your website is now a marketing and prospecting tool to attract new customers. People don’t decide to drive the freeways to go looking at advertising billboards — and people do not troll the internet looking to be sold to. People [...]

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How to grow your business in this new economy

What do we need to do in this new economy to grow our business? Repute: develop a reputation that you are proud to advertise. Make certain you deliver the incumbent value to prove you deserve that repute, and that it will hold up to scrutiny. Be known for something, specifically: obsessively specialise. No niche is [...]

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Irena Yashin-Shaw Ph.D and Ric Willmot’s recent workshop

Thanks for an absolutely spectacular workshop Ric. Huge value!! Jam packed with lots of great content and delivered so expertly and with great sincerity. Well done. I can see why you are such a success and why firms that work with you experience success as well.

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Praise for Ric Willmot’s recent workshop in Sydney

Ric has packed an unbelievable amount of useful information into his one-day seminar, and what’s more, it all made good sense, was easily digested and I expect will be very valuable in the years to come. Ric’s material is first-grade and his delivery style means that attendees get the most out of the time invested [...]

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Executive Wisdom Times No.89 May 2012

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