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The value of information marketing and knowing when it's time to test it out for your company.

Transcription

Another clue you might be ready for information marketing.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I want to talk about information marketing, because it's a whole lot of what it is that I work with my clients on. And it's a whole lot of what I do.

So it's one of those things that I just see more and more and more needed. With most businesses, especially businesses that already have a lot of traffic, a lot of deal flow happening, a lot of people that you're getting in front of already. You're getting in front of ideal clients to begin with, if you're in that type of position where you're already in the mix.

The next big step, and I'll tell you why this came up the next big steps information marketing.

Let's get into that in a second. The reason why this came up because I was working with a client of mine, and she was discussing that, well, she wasn't discussing, we were in a webinar with a bunch of potential customers.

A lot of people that she is known people who have been customers in the past along with people who are potential customers, and people at all different levels. The one thing we were getting back was a whole lot of questions, very common questions, the type of questions that take you in a whole different direction.

You can tell they are applying to try and see if they can do some of the work that her and her company does themselves. They're seeing if they can plug in some of these ideas if they could milk her for ideas and be able to move forward.

Now if you're in a position where you're doing a heavy service, or you're doing something of an expert level, for people, the instant reaction is to be offended, and say, why don't you just pay me to do it, you know, and to kind of have that kind of attitude about it.

Or say, hey, you could try it yourself but you're going to fail type of thing. You have to look in a slightly different direction, if you're getting a lot of questions like that.

That's the type of field that you're in or they're the type of questions that don't have anything to do with what you're doing. That's also another thing that can really clue you into the fact that you need information marketing.

Here's why, if someone's asking you for all those things chances are, if they don't get it from you, they're going to get it from somebody else.

In the long run what matters most is your relationship with them over time. It's not how much money you're making off of them today or how much money you made off of them up till now.

It's how much money you're going to be making off of them over a lifetime. If you're just talking dollars and cents, that's what it comes down to and the way you increase that is you increase trust.

The way you increase trust, is by increasing the amount of time that you have with them, and the amount of expertise that they view you as having. A big piece of doing that is having information marketing.

So you know one of the initial pieces, I don't have a huge information marketing offering from BrianJPombo.com quite yet, we've got a lot of plans in the future that we're going to be developing.

We have a whole lot of stuff that you can get out there information that I'm putting out there for free, and to kind of flood the market and get get the word out.