Little Known Secrets About Credibility
Marketing!
Copyright 2005 Glenn Dietzel
A key factor in successfully marketing your business is to establish
credibility within your market. How, you might ask, is it possible to establish
credibility quickly? This article is geared toward helping you understand
the importance of enhancing your credibility and how to leverage it in
the most efficient manner possible. This is somewhat of a contrarian view
on how to utilize your credibility so that you can become a best selling
author and make money quickly.
If you really want to leverage your expertise to build your credibility,
you must understand the concept of leverage. The best way to leverage your
credibility is for you to become an author. Don�t let that scare you. Authoring
simply means to create. You must create something that other people want,
especially if you want to make money. And that is what every successful
business is all about. Now, most people automatically think traditional
publishing when they think of authoring. However, I am not an advocate
of this at all for a number of reasons. The main reason is that it keeps
you from receiving cash flow immediately.
My father taught me throughout my childhood that business cash flow
is the overriding determinant of a successful business. And he is definitely
correct! It does not matter how many assets that a company has, if it cannot
produce a steady cash flow, the business will die. If you want to go the
traditionally published route at the beginning, you will end up wasting
too much time getting a book to market. Furthermore, in my experience,
most people do not acquire the necessary sales and marketing skills to
fully leverage the big publishing house model. From a business perspective,
the traditionally published model of authoring does not make good business
sense.
How do you explode into the market place? You create a best selling
eBook or digital product which your target market wants! In fact never
has it been easier to become a best selling author, and you can do it in
an afternoon. There are a number of ways to create a product quickly. The
best way is to put together a questionnaire on a topic that you are passionate
about and that has a great demand in the market place. Read your outline
or get someone else to interview you, and record this as an MP3 file. Then
use a service like elance.com or idictate.com to transcribe it: e-publish
it as an eBook using Adobe�s free service and presto you are a published
eBook author!
What makes this method so effective is that your product is digital,
so you have instant access to a global market 24/7. No wonder Mark Victor
Hansen, author of the hugely successful Chicken Soup series, recently stated,
�The Internet is the best real estate today.� According to a recent eMarketer
report, almost 50% of what was purchased on the Internet in 2004 was purchased
through this medium because this was the only place where the material
could be purchased. And this trend is increasing consistently.
In you want to author by communicating through the written medium, it
is imperative that you unlearn some rules about �successful� writing you
were taught in school. For example, successful writing is not about doing
all your research first and then spewing out a data dump. Successful writing
on the Internet is about writing at a grade 6 or 7 level and communicating
just the way you speak. Incomplete sentences are acceptable. Perfection
is a liability. This is not to say you don�t want to do a good job. But
I want to underscore the fact that good writing is conversational in style,
informal in demeanor and user friendly in its ability to help people solve
their problems. If you can write a long email or hold a conversation, you
can author a best selling eBook.
As a best selling author and infopreneur, you are not paid to deliver
information. People from every disciple are drowning in this. What you
are financially rewarded for is contextualizing knowledge (information
filtered by your personal experiences) and delivering attitudes and skills
to your target market so that they can advance themselves beyond their
problems.
Another way to get published quickly through writing is by setting up
a blog. A blog, or web blog, is a great tool to use to deliver valuable
content to the Internet world. Because of its importance as a vehicle for
content, blogging is an excellent way for you to gain credibility very
quickly, in some cases almost overnight. What makes blogging so effective
is that search engines love them. Blogs provide you access to the search
engines if you format them correctly, using highly targeted key words.
Blogs capitalize on the great affinity that search engines have for valuable
content. In fact, the more you blog, the more frequently search engines
will come to your website.
The posts that you create on a frequent basis, as well as the feedback
and comments you get from others, can provide the foundation for your best
selling eBook.
In summary, successful businesses are good at exchanging the value they
create in the market place for cash flow. This allows companies to expand
their influence as they solve the problems that their target market has.
The amount of influence is in direct proportion to their cash flow. Authoring
a digital product provides the greatest form of credibility which in turn
allows individuals to leverage their expertise and reap financial rewards.
Never has it been easier to become a best selling author. What�s holding
you back from using the best form of credibility marketing?
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