This document provides guidance on marketing yourself and marketing as a service. It discusses defining marketing and outlines various ways to market yourself, such as developing marketing plans and multi-channel marketing strategies. The document also provides tips for writing marketing briefs and marketing services to different industries like erosion control.

1. Marketing Yourself
…and Marketing as a Service
© 2010 Bizucate, Inc.

2. Who Am I?
Student
B2B
Vertical Industries
Educator
B2C
Marketing and Design
A2M
Content Producers
Motivator
NP2D
Software and
Consultant
Hardware MFG
B2B2C
Marketer
Strategist
Sales Person
Entrepreneur
Triathlete

3. Where We’re Going
• Start at the end
• Tell you a little about me
• Look at some pictures
• Define marketing
• Discuss marketing yourself
• Discuss marketing as a service
• Capture strategic and tactical steps you can take
• Provide 5 Frames for Future Profitability 3

4. 5 Frames for Future Profitability
1. Strategy
2. Product/Service Mix
3. How You Market
4. How You Sell
5. How You Produce
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5. Areas of Opportunity
…to Market Ourselves
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6. Areas of Opportunity
…to Develop New Services/Products
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7. Areas of Opportunity
…to Sell at Profitable Levels
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14. Road Lessons
• Technology available to many
• Can take you most anyplace
• See new things
• Try new things
• Meet new people
• Have to be interested in new
• Have to be willing to fail
• Experiences can make for a more interesting ride 14

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26. Geocaching Lessons
• Choose to do it
• Get out there
• Develop your “cache senses”
through experience
• Technology alone won’t get
you all the way there
• Can still get lost and
frustrated
• Need to look up from tech
and see where you are
• Can get hurt
• Don’t forget to have fun
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28. I’m not a “have to” guy
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33. Two Ways to be More Profitable
1. Develop the world’s most efficient workflow
– People
– Processes
– Technology
2. Sell
– …for more
• A major difference in your sales can come from
the way you use marketing
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34. Defining Marketing
• How do you define it?
• How would your customer define it
• AMA Definition 2007
– Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for
creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings
that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at
large
• AMA Definition 2004
– Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for
creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and
for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the
organization and its stakeholders
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35. AMA Definition Stirs Debate
• The American Marketing Association's recently updated definition of marketing has
sparked a bit of a brouhaha. The definition, the first update in four years, reads:
"Marketing is the activity, set of institutions and processes for creating, communicating,
delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners and
society at large." It will be used as the official definition of marketing in books and
taught in universities nationwide, according to the AMA. Big mistake, said Mike Smock,
managing director of marketing consultancy vSente, who blogs about marketing. In a
post, Smock wrote that the definition may lead marketers down the primrose path.
"Marketers can hardly get it right in small enterprises; how are they going to extend that
to society at large?" he told BtoB. "The bottom line is CEOs are disgruntled with
marketing, and this definition doesn't help," Smock said. The new definition gets away
"from the fundamentals, like sales, revenue, margins and market share." Nancy
Costopulos, CMO of the AMA, said the association had anticipated some dissent. "We
think it's healthy for the profession to have a dialogue and a conversation," about the
new definition, she said. She added that 70% of 1,000 marketers responding to queries
about the new definition said it was an improvement on the prior definition. Of the
revision Costopulos said: "It's not just about marketing in management but marketing
at a higher level." Still, Smock is less than impressed. In response, he posted his own
definition of marketing: "Marketing is ideas and actions that generate increasingly
profitable market share."
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41. Marketing 101, 201, 301 and More
• 101: Defining Marketing: Management process
responsible for identifying, anticipating and
satisfying customer requirements profitably
• 201: Defining a Marketing Strategy
– Acquisition
– Retention
• 301: Measuring Effectiveness (ROI)
• 401+: Developing even more ROI based efforts
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42. How Familiar Are You With?
• Principles of Marketing, 13ed.
• Kotler and Armstrong
• Part 1: Defining Marketing and
the Marketing Process
• Part 2: Understanding the
Marketplace and Consumers
• Part 3: Designing a Customer-
Driven Strategy and Mix
• Part 4: Extending Marketing
• One of their definitions
• Marketing is managing profitable
customer relationships.

43. We’ve Defined Marketing…
• How do you use it for your business?
• How do you use it as part of a product or service
you offer to your customers?
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44. How Could You Market Yourself?
• Hire a “real” marketing • Create a new marketing
person company
• Build a marketing team • Go after existing
• Build a “better” website customers
• Do more direct mail • Look for new customers
• Print more brochures, • Tweet more
letterhead and business • Have more open houses
cards • Post more often to the
• Develop your own multi- blog
channel campaign • Train sales to act more
• Develop a web to print like marketers
solution
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45. Marketing
Your Marketing Plan
• Do you have one? If not, why not?
• If so, how’s it working for you?
• When was the last time you
updated it?
• Can key employees discuss the
overall marketing strategy and
describe current marketing
initiatives?
• Does sales feel like marketing is
helping them?

46. Marketing Plan?
• Oh…that’s the part of the business plan outlining the marketing strategy
for a product or service
– A written document that details the necessary actions to achieve one or more
marketing objectives
1. Review of the marketing environment. Study of the organization's
markets, customers, competitors and the overall economic, political,
cultural and technical environment; covering developing trends, as well as
the current situation.
2. Review of the detailed marketing activity. A study of the company's
marketing mix; in terms of the 7 Ps - Product, Place, Price and Promotion,
Physical Environment, People, Process
3. Review of the marketing system. A study of the marketing organization,
marketing research systems and the current marketing objectives and
strategies. The last of these is too frequently ignored. The marketing
system itself needs to be regularly questioned, because the validity of the
whole marketing plan is reliant upon the accuracy of the input from this
system, and “garbage in, garbage out” applies with a vengeance.
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47. A Sample Marketing Plan Outline
• Executive Summary • Marketing Strategy
• Current Market Situation – Positioning
– Market Description – Product Strategy
– Product Review – Pricing Strategy
– Competitive Review – Distribution Strategy
– Channels and Logistics – Marketing Communications
Review Strategy
– Marketing Research
• SWOT Analysis
– Marketing Organization
• Objectives and Issues
• Action Programs
• Budgets
• Controls
Principles of Marketing, 13th ed. Kotler and Armstrong

48. Basic Marketing Needs
• Acquisition and Retention
• Why do people do business with you?
• How do you keep the customers you have and
grow sales with them?
• How do new people find you?
• What do people say about you?
• Where do you plan on going?
• What do you do to influence all of the above?
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49. Marketing
Multi-Channel Marketing Strategy
• Who are you trying to reach?
• What channel(s) will you use to get to them?
• How can they find you?
• What will you say (listen for)?
• How often will you say it?
• Will you ask to do something?
• Why should they do it?
• How will you know if
they did or not?

50. Marketing
Remarkable Relevant Content
• You could describe your product/service
• You can teach people how to use your product/service
• You can inform customers about news and relevant
information to their needs beyond your product/service
• You can tell stories how others use your product/service
• You can let your customers tell the stories and describe
what’s most meaningful to them
• You can help your customers help other customers use
your products/services
• You could just listen…what are they saying about you, your
company, your products/services, your competitors, your
industry and more
• You could also do nothing at all

51. Ed Mayer is Dead
• 1907-1975, was an international authority on
direct mail and direct marketing
• But his principle still lives on…
– 40/40/20 Rule of Successful Direct Mail Marketing
– 40% Data (Audience)
– 40% Offer (Hook)
– 20% Creative (Everything else)
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52. What Would be the Rule Today
• Data
• Offer
• Design
• Channel(s)
• Timeliness (schedule)
• It’s not about the percentages…until you define
what you are measuring
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53. 5 Marketing Success Keywords
NEVER TO FORGET
1. Plan
2. Content
3. Channel
4. Hook
5. Passion
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54. How could you market your business?
• As part of you plan you could try it all…and turn it
all into a series of case studies you share with
your customers and prospects
• You can turn your efforts into services you offer
…or services and products you choose not to
• Traditional marketing and modern marketing are
all about the mix
• Or…it’s all about how an individual wants to be
communicated at a particular moment
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55. Message
Message
Sender Mobile App Constant
Feedback
Message
Soc. Ntwrk
TV
Message
Message Message Radio
E
E-Mail Message SMS Text Message
E-News E-Stmnt
Message Message
Search Inst. Messg.
Message
Message Message
PURL
Blog
Message Phone Message
Widget Podcast
Instantaneous
Message
Message
Website
Feedback Message
Viral Video
Receiver
Print
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56. What do you see?
• Half Full • Challenge
• Half Empty • Opportunity
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57. Erosion Control
• Practice of preventing or controlling wind or
water erosion in agriculture, land development
and construction. Effective erosion controls are
important techniques in preventing water
pollution and soil loss -WP
• Mitigation measures used to reduce (or
decelerate) erosion, which is a natural or
geologic process whereby soil materials are
detached and transported from one location
and deposited elsewhere, primarily due to
rainfall, runoff and wind –CCRoadwise.org

58. Absorbing an Industry
• What do you do? • What trade orgs do you join?
• What do you read? • Where do you advertise?
• What are your interests? • Where do you do
• What are your worries? development/manufacturing?
• What have early adopters • Who are your customers?
learned? • How do you communicate with
• What have/haven’t you your customers?
taken time to figure? • What are your trends?
• Where are you doing • How can I capitalize on trends?
business? • What other industries do I find
out about along the way?

59. More and More
• crop rotation • perennial crops
• conservation tillage • polyacrylamide*
• contour bunding* • reforestation
• contour plowing • riparian strip*
• cover crops • riprap
• ditch liners^ • strip farming
• fiber rolls • sand fence
• gabions* • vegetated waterway
• hydroseeding • terracing
• level spreaders • wattle (construction)^
• mulching • windbreaks

60. Classification Process of Information
• Regulations
• Environment/Situation
• Technology
• Techniques
• Who’s Who
– Regulators, Contractors (Private and Public),
Manufacturers, Distributors, Consultants, Associations

61. What if I knew…
1. Who you were?
2. What you did?
3. Who you did it for?
4. How you did it?
5. Why you do it?
6. Where you’re going?
7. Where I can and can’t fit?
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62. And then thought more about
how I could…
1. Save/make you money
2. Make you/your organization look good
3. Make your life easier/organization
more efficient
4. Save you/your organization
5. Challenge you
6. Because it’s the right thing to do
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63. And then I called you
with a few ideas
• Would you care?
• Would you want to hear them?
• Why would you want to hear about them?
• What else would you want to hear about?
• Would I look different than most people
who call on you?
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64. What if I made a similar effort
…with your customers?
• Or constituents, or students, or donors, or
attendees, or contractors, or defendants
or… you get the point
• Would you care now?
• How might I be perceived differently from
your competitors?
• How might I be perceived differently than you?
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65. How/Who to Sell
to the Erosion Control Industry
• Manufacturers, Distributors, Contractors,
Environmental Engineers, End Customers
• Private, Commercial, Local, State
and Federal and (Global)
• Help the manufacturers sell
• Help the distributors sell
• Help the contractors sell
• Help engineers sell
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66. Marketing Service Steps
1. Initial research
2. Share initial ideas to secure meeting
3. In meeting discuss key value props
4. Create brief
5. Sell brief
6. Develop and deliver on the proposed work
7. Measure effectiveness
8. Review results
9. Discuss how to do it better next time
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67. How to Write a Brief
1. Write a summary of the project including any background information. Include
all areas and all players who will be involved in the project. Know the prices of
each part of the project and the total cost.
2. Outline the expectations of each party involved. Know the individual jobs of each
player and include these job expectations in your creative marketing brief. You
want everyone to be clear about the job at hand.
3. Include the dates of each part of the project. Know who is completing what and
when it should be completed. Have a date for the final project.
4. State your goals and objectives so that everyone knows the purpose of your
project. You have a better chance of succeeding if everyone is clear on this point.
5. Know your target group. The more you know about the target, the more
successful your project will be. Once you know the target group, you can tailor
the project to that group.
6. Write your brief in project format with clear headings and sections for each part
of the project. Include plenty of white space between sections so readers can
scan for information.
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68. 763 Approach
to Business Development
7 Know Me Concepts 6 Reasons Why People Buy
1. Know who I am 1. Save me/Make Me Money
2. Know what I do 2. Make Me/My Organization
3. Know who I do it for Look Good
4. Know how I do it 3. Make My Life Easier
5. Know why I do it 4. Save Me/My Organization
6. Know where I’m going 5. Challenge Me
7. Know where you can 6. Because It’s the Right Thing to
and can’t fit Do
3 Good Ideas: After doing research and developing value propositions then bring
you those ideas to help you grow you and your organization.
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70. Local Inc. 500
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74. Some Marketing Services
• Strategy planning • Campaign
• Business Plan development
review/develop • Campaign execution
• Marketing Plan • Design services (Multi-
review/develop channel)
• Goal development and • SEO and SEM
metrics
• Data analysis • Do it for yourself first!
• Application design
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75. ROI of Marketing Campaigns
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76. 7 Social Media Truths
1. There is no “one way”
2. Social media is a method
3. It isn’t always about you
4. Let them choose
5. Engage, don’t lecture
6. Cost isn’t always about money
7. Plan, content, channel, hook and passion
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77. 8 Risks of Social Media
1. Something gets posted 5. Social media channels
you don’t want others to and content can open up
see breaches of security
2. You create a social 6. Social media strategies
presence but no one is that don’t include the
participating whole organization
3. You’re trying to be social 7. Too much power wielded
but the topic gets by an individual
sidetracked or hijacked 8. Not having the ability to
4. Some people don’t localize your message to
tolerate change a particular audience
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78. Multi-Channel Planning Guide
1. Campaign Goals
2. Channel(s) Specifications
3. Response Capture Specification
4. Channel Needs
5. Internal/External Partner Provider
6. Response Capture
7. Specified Action Completion
8. ROI Calculation
9. Campaign Post Mortem
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79. What’s Your Interest In…
• Answering the hard questions
• Asking other people to answer them and helping
to develop a solution based on the opportunity
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80. Hard Questions
• Have you ever answered
the hard questions?
• Essential questions to ask before
you say “I Do.”
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81. Q1: Sell Most Product/Service
• What product/service do you sell the most of?
• Why is it the most popular thing you sell?
• What is the most popular way you sell that kind of
work?
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82. Q2: Most Profitable Product/Service
• What is the most profitable product/service you
perform/deliver to your customers?
• What makes it the most profitable thing you sell?
• What is the most popular way you sell that kind of
work?
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83. Q3: Future Value of the Business
• What are you doing now to build the future
value/profitability of your business?
• Do you have a plan to get there?
• What are the main objectives?
• If you don’t have a plan, why/why not?
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84. What Charley Corr Asked
• What is your consolidation play?
• How do you expand geographically?
• How do you reduce costs?
• How do you expand product and services?
• What growth opportunities do you pursue?
• What is your web strategy?
• What are your technological investments?
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85. What Bill Gibson Asked
• What business do you want to be in?
• Who’s going to take it over from you?
• What will you sell?
• What will you do?
• What are you interested in?
• What responsibilities do you have?
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86. What Nick Fiorenza Asked
• What do you need to know about healthcare?
• What do you have to do to take care of yourself,
your employees and your company?
• What could your customers need to know about
healthcare?
• How can use changes in healthcare as a potential
selling tool?
• How should you be preparing for changes in
healthcare and how can you help your customers?
• What are the hidden costs of healthcare reform?
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87. What John Foley Asked
• What’s a QR code and should you care about them?
• What does social media mean to you?
• What does social media mean to your customers?
• Do your customers want to save cost, get found, make
money and stay in business? How can you help them do
that using social media?
• How can online marketing help/hinder your business?
• How important is knowing your audience when working on
your social media strategy? Why?
• Can you measure social media? How?
• What are the 4 Fundamentals of all 5 Social Media Sites?
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88. What Elizabeth Gooding Asked
• What’s the difference between retention marketing and
acquisition marketing?
• How do regulations affect your business? Your customer’s
business? Where’s the opportunity?
• How can you “help” your clients?
• You don’t just “offer” promotional transactional
print…what else do you need to do to be successful?
• How could you compete with yourself? Is that a good
thing?
• What are some of the gaps in the value chain you can fill?
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89. Get Out…
• How much time do you spend outside your
company?
• How much time do you spend in your customers
business?
• How many countries did you bill?
• How many countries did your customer bill?
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90. Where Could You Look for More Profits?
Where Could You Help Your Customer Do the Same?
5 Frames of Future Profitability
1. Strategy
2. Product/Service Mix
3. How You Market
4. How You Sell
5. How You Produce
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91. Your Opportunity
• Help your clients develop their message and
produce it in the medium(s) that best meets the
needs of their audience within a budget and time
frame that is acceptable to all parties and has a
value that sets your actions apart from everyone
else.
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92. Think Like a Marketer
2. Law of Category
– If you can’t be first, set up a new category
4. Law of Perception
– It’s not a battle of products it’s perceptions
16. Law of Singularity
– Only one move will produce substantial results
18. Law of Success
– Success often leads to arrogance and arrogance to failure
21. Law of Acceleration
– Successful programs are built on trends not fads
22. Law of Resources
– Without adequate funding an idea won’t get off the ground
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93. Apply Technology Like an Adventurer
• Take advantage of what you have
• Plan investments based on where you want to go
• Envision what it would look like if you were there
• List what it will take to get there
• Decide if you’re going to
• Remember that technology is available to
everyone
• Use technology to get you where you want to go
• Technology can get you close you will finish
• Get going doing something and have fun!
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94. Pricing for Multi-Channel
Marketing Services
• Pricing in this arena is like the Wild
West…uncharted, unpredictable but more
potential for high rewards and a lot less
competition for those who make the effort!
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95. Other Very Helpful Resources
• Small Business Administration
– sba.gov
• American Marketing Association
– marketingpower.com
• Direct Marketing Association
– the-dma.org
• Google Search
– Startup
– “How to write” + “business plan”
– “How to write” + “marketing plan”
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96. Review Your Profitable Possibilities
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97. Consider Bunko Choices
1. There is no plan
– Economy changes too fast for
your career to have a plan
2. Think strengths, not weaknesses
– Find your advantages
3. It’s not about you
– Serving others serves you best
4. Persistence trumps talent
– Keep showing up
5. Make excellent mistakes
– Take risks, but fail forward
6. Leave an imprint
– Do something that matters
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98. Where We Went
• Started at the end
• Told you a little about me
• Looked at some pictures
• Defined marketing
• Discussed marketing yourself
• Discussed marketing as a service
• Captured strategic and tactical steps you can take
• Provided 5 Frames for Future Profitability 98

99. Areas of Opportunity
…to Market Ourselves
1.
2.
3.
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100. Areas of Opportunity
…to Develop New Services/Products
1.
2.
3.
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101. Areas of Opportunity
…to Sell at Profitable Levels
1.
2.
3.
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102. Thank You
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