Hacks That Make Your Content Sticky Like Duct Tape: John Jantsch on Marketing Smarts [Podcast]. Here are just a few highlights from my conversation with John: Don't talk about your solutions, talk about the buyer's problem (04:35): "The challenge today is, because the buyer is really in charge of the journey they don't sit around waiting for us to tell them what they need. They go online, they go onto Facebook, they ask their friends. "I think that the biggest challenge that that buyer out there wandering in the wild has is that they don't, in some cases, connect the problem that they have with the solution that we're providing. So if I'm an SEO person, I'm talking all about 'we have great on-page techniques and we'll get you backlinks' and all the kind of stuff that SEO people do; the buyer doesn't necessarily connect that with 'oh, you make my phone ring more. How you solve the buyer's problem might not even matter to them (06:56): "I can tell you that [for] a lot of problems businesses solve, the end buyer doesn't even care how you do it. Having trouble getting in-house experts to give you content? [But] what we would typically find is that they have answered a lot of really great questions via email, and they just didn't think about that as content. Especially when you get into those more technical business, they hire a marketer and they say, 'Write our content,' and the marketer's like, 'I don't know anything about whatever it is that we do here, how am I going to write this content?' "I was actually at a Microsoft conference, and a woman...had been charged with writing all this stuff but nobody would give her anything, so I told her, 'Go find their sent email.'
Seth Godin has called him “the Peter Drucker of small business marketing tactics,” and John Jantsch does not disappoint.
John’s a marketing consultant, speaker, and creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System. He’s also a popular speaker (we first met when he keynoted Social Slam in Knoxville, Tennessee), and the best-selling author of several books, including Duct Tape Marketing, Duct Tape Selling, The Referral Engine, and The Commitment Engine.
I invited John to Marketing Smarts to discuss his latest book, SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers & Entrepreneurs. And because content plays such a big role in SEO, we also cover quite a few tips, tricks, and hacks for effective content marketing.
Here are just a few highlights from my conversation with John:
Don’t talk about your solutions, talk about the buyer’s problem (04:35): “The challenge today is, because the buyer is really in charge of the journey they don’t sit around waiting for us to tell them what they need. They go online, they go onto Facebook, they ask their friends. The journey of buying is almost done by the time they may come and read our whitepaper and look very deeply into the solution that we can provide for them.
“I think that the biggest challenge that that buyer out there wandering in the wild has is that they don’t, in some cases, connect the problem that they have with the solution that we’re providing. So if I’m an SEO person, I’m talking all about ‘we have great on-page techniques and we’ll get you backlinks’ and all the kind of stuff that SEO people do; the buyer doesn’t necessarily connect that with ‘oh, you make my phone ring more. And that’s the problem that they have—their phone’s not ringing enough, they’re not getting enough traffic, they’re not getting enough business… All they need to know is, ‘We…
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