How to reach and captivate your most likely buyers?

REACH andCAPTIVATEHow to

By Anders Lindgren

your most likely buyers?

Quickguide

What is the onegreat dream all marketers SHARE?

We want to CAPTIVATE and REACH peoplewith our content.

On the screenand in print.

In the old days it used to be less complicated.

You simply followed themarketing rule book

BATTLE FORATTENTION

Today, the

has changed.

WWW

In the rumbling digital and urban jungle, people are

BOMBARDEDwith a quad zillion messages.

Never have so many had so much CONTENT and so many offers to choose from.

It has radically changed how buyers READ, SHOPand PROCESSinformation.

First of all, most people DISLIKE ads.

Consumers hate ads. Display ads don’t work. Users don’t click on banners. Full screen pop-ups elicit rage as they interrupt browsing –especially on mobiles .”

The Communication Trends Report 2016 from Hotwire, succinctlysums it all up.

Secondly, there are all sorts of ways to BLOCKout the messages you’re sending out.

Technical devicesprovide people with increasingly smarter ad filters.

People have also started to invoke the world’smost sophisticated NOISEFILTER.

THEMIND

If the content craze continues, people will start to invoke the ultimate defense system:

CONTENT NAUSEA.

Doug Kessler, Creative Director at Velocity Partners, calls the phenomena: the ‘Content Effluent Deluge ‘in his bright presentation: Crap.ow.ly/kDlpN

TURNING UP THE VOLUME

and mashing up lots of contentwon’t work any longer.

It’s just too much noise.

So-M

e

There are too many SCREAMING to be heard at the same time.

No one does it better than the professionals.Brands are becoming publishers.Marketers are becoming editors.Bloggers are becoming journalistsJournalists are becoming click obsessed.

Everyone is MASHING UP content.

HMM! Isn’t there an old proverb: When everyone does the same thing, no one is thinking?

RE-THINKMARKETING.

Maybe it’s time to

With two decades of experience as marketing director, I understand how daunting the brave new digital marketing world can be.

So, I started on a quest to find a surefire formula.

What I created willmake your marketingway more powerful.

I looked at all the best methods and tools and consolidated them into one FORMULA:

CAPTIVATE!

The FOUNDATION and twin pillars of the Marketing Marksmanship Code are:

The dual aspect of the marketing discipline

REACH!

If you are not able to reach and captivate your most likely buyers, nothing else you do as a marketer will matter.

A TRUSTWORTHY SOUL

A WARM HEART

A PRECISE FOCUS

A CLEAR MIND

The key to reaching and captivating your buyerslies in FOUR essential human skills

The skillset represents the ‘HOLY GRAIL’ of marketing.

They have withstood the test of time and odds of change.

They will likely always be at the core of marketing marksmanship.

1. A PRECISE FOCUS

3. A CLEAR MIND

2. A WARM HEART

4. A TRUSTWORTHY SOUL

A PRESICE FOCUS

Decide precisely what your business is and identify exactlywho your most likely buyers are, then act resolutely to reach them.

1

Create from your heart with warmth, empathy and genuine appreciation for your buyers, then your creations will more easily reach their hearts.

A warmheart

2

Clarity of writing follows clarity of thought, so think about what you want to say, then say it as clearly as possible.

3A CLEAR MIND

Demonstrate that you can and know your stuff, share insights that is useful for your buyers and highlight customer testimonials and your credentials.

A trustworthy soul

4

The Marketing Marksmanship Code™ COMPLETES Aristotle’s classical rhetorical triangle.

Ethos

Pathos

Logos

The worlds most influential method of persuasion.

The formula adds the apparent, yet overlooked VITAL ELEMENT.

Ethos

Pathos

Logos

It makes all the difference!

AkribosIt’s the Greek word forprecision.

To have a precise focus is the ZEN of the Marketing Marksmanship Code™.

It gives focus to your energy and channels it in the right direction.

YOU WILL FAIL!

It doesn’t matter how great your content is, if you don’t reach the right people:

To put it bluntly:

When you are precise in your focus and bring together the noble energies of your heart, mind and soul, then you master the Marketing Marksmanship Code. ”

– ANDERS LINDGREN, digital pioneer, PR-veteran andcontent marketing specialist

™

MENTAL SHIFT!Many need to take a

How it has changed the battle for attention

Specifically, we need to fully understand the the digital revolution.

and people’s purchasing behavior and reading habits.

And we need to takeownership to the one

To what extent does your buzz create business?

ONE KEY ISSUEtop management is concerned about:

You should be able to answer the question.

TO WHAT EXTENT DO PEOPLE WHO

VIEW YOUR CONTENTTURN INTO LEADS

AND SALES

TAKEAWAY?What’s the greatest

MorePRESICE

REMEMBER what the Marketing Marksmanship Code is all about being:

Morehuman

It’s the surefire way to

your most likely buyers.

REACH andCAPTIVATE

Check out the 3 versionsof this presentation.

You find all of them on slideshare.comhttp://bit.ly/1Lb6d03

Take the quick or full tour to SUCCESS.

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See also my supplementary guide.

magic tactics8

It will soon be available on Slideshare.

Another related presentation.

It’s alsoavailableon slideshare.

© 2016 Anders Lindgren.

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Contact: Anders Lindgren. E- mail: [email protected]. Phone : 921 30 430

About the author and creator of The Marketing Marksmanship Code™.

Anders Lindgren is a digital pioneer, PR-veteran and content marketing specialist with two decades of experience as a marketing and communication director for large professional services firms, primarily PwC and Sopra Steria.

He is passionate about sharing insights about all communication around people and brands that makes them SHINE.

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