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Ensightium

By: Renee T. Walker
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 Ensightium is a multichannel platform created by author, speaker, brand and marketing expert Renée Walker. Ensightium provides practical business strategy, brand, marketing and growth resources for small business owners, solopreneurs and freelancers delivered through real-world experience, advice and interviews to accelerate your business or professional growth.

Using a variety of content — including articles, publications, infographics, interviews, podcasts and videos — our purpose is to educate, engage and empower. We share, analyze and highlight the hottest trends, latest strategies and best practices that can help you accelerate your business and career success. We also challenge the status quo to help you think differently and take control of your business and career. Visit https://ensightium.com.
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  • 024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your Marketing

    024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your Marketing
    Apr 22 2021
    Read the Article Show Notes [00:00:39] Whether you’re operating a small business with just a few employees or you’re a freelancer or solopreneur, your ability to effectively market your products and services to your customers is vital. And, to effectively market your products and services, you first must get back to the basics and align your marketing goals with your business strategy. [00:01:01] Once you have accomplished this, your next step is to develop a well-thought-out strategy to convey the right messages, deliver them on the right channels, and monitor your metrics to achieve your marketing goals. You may be wondering how do I do that? [00:01:19] Well, you start by asking yourself these five insanely simple but crucial marketing questions. You answer them from your target customer’s perspective. I want to say that again. You answer the questions based on how your target customers would answer the questions, not how you feel they should answer the questions. [00:01:44] So that’s going to require that you do some research, talking with your current customers, as well as your ideal customers to get a better understanding of their perspective and their behaviors when they’re trying to identify products and services that you sell. [00:02:02] Now, the first question is what primary challenge does your product and service solve or opportunity does it create for your customers? [00:02:14] I know this is an obvious question, but it’s one that most small business owners, solopreneurs and freelancers often overlook when developing their marketing strategies, their messages, as well as their campaigns. This is an extremely powerful consideration for your marketing efforts and provides tremendous insights for your marketing communications. [00:02:38] Again, we’re going to answer this from your customer’s perspective, not how you feel they should answer the question. As you prepare for your next marketing campaign, you should really think about the reason you developed the product or service for your specific target customers. And the benefits of your particular product or service provides for them? [00:03:03] While many business owners can clearly articulate their personal reasons for starting their businesses, including wanting to be their own boss or finding more satisfaction in their personal life or even creating wealth, oftentimes, they find it challenging to express why their business helps their customers. Whether your new product or service disrupted the marketplace, or you provide a product or service in a well-defined and mature market, focusing on why your business provides value to your customers is a major component of successful brand and marketing strategies. [00:04:01] The second question to ask is what unique experience do you provide for your customers? Now, I know this is extraordinarily difficult because a lot of business owners feel that they’re not doing anything unique. They’re providing good customer service. They’re providing a quality product or service and that’s the end of the story. Actually, that’s where your story begins. Every business is unique. [00:04:35] The experiences that you create for your customers are unique. And while your products or services may already exist in the marketplace, how you deliver them and how you care for your customers is unique. No two businesses do it the same. And therein lies the opportunity for you to begin differentiating your products and services in the marketplace. But to do that, you absolutely have to drill down to what is unique about how you deliver your products and services for your customers. Then, you need to make sure that your brand is reflective of those unique characteristics that you provide, whether its exceptional customer service, value added opportunities for your customers. [00:05:31] I’d like to take a few minutes to talk about why your brand is so crucially important to your marketing efforts. Strong brands convey the value that you provide to your customers and the promise that you make to them. It’s extremely important to know that your brand is built from the inside-out and that there are absolutely no shortcuts to creating a positive, recognizable and profitable brand. [00:06:28] Here’s why you’re a small business brand is so important to your marketing efforts. Without a consistent, proactive and purposeful brand strategy. You are diffusing your ability to successfully position yourself in the marketplace and confusing your customers. You’re essentially adding additional complexity and unnecessary time to your sales cycle and you’re reducing your ability to cross sale and up sale your customers. But by far, most importantly, without a strong brand strategy, you are significantly weakening your value proposition, diminishing your ability to command premium pricing and creating more of a challenge for your marketing messages to resonate with your target customer ...
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  • 023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better Results

    023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better Results
    Apr 8 2021
    More ResourcesCheckout the article and download the FREE infographic. View Now 024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your Marketing 024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your Marketing024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your MarketingWhether you're operating a small business with a few employees or you're a freelancer or solopreneur to effectively market your products and services, first get back to basics and align your marketing goals with your business strategy. Read More 023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better Results 023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better Results023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better ResultsMarketing is a critical part of every successful business. It’s crucial to take a strategic approach to your marketing efforts to optimize success and maximize your investment. Here are ten knucklehead mistakes that often hinder marketing success for small business owners, solopreneurs and freelancers. Read More 022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client Segmentation 022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client Segmentation022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client SegmentationToday, our Pro Tip focuses on the importance of client segmentation as a key business development and growth driver. Nicole Lewis, the president and CEO of Nicole Lewis & Associates, is a passionate client advocate and solution architect who creates high impact... Read More 020: Boost Your Communications with these Expert Tips 020: Boost Your Communications with these Expert Tips020: Boost Your Communications with these Expert TipsIt’s my pleasure to welcome Ryan to the Ensightium podcast. Ryan is an award-winning marketing strategist and brand consultant that transforms communications into mission-driven and results-oriented solutions for a wide array of creative projects. Ryan mixes... Read More 019: Achieve Greater Success with a Coach, Consultant or Mentor 019: Achieve Greater Success with a Coach, Consultant or Mentor019: Achieve Greater Success with a Coach, Consultant or MentorLet me briefly introduced Matt. He has coached hundreds of financial advisors for more than a decade. Following Matt's extraordinary success with helping his client achieve and exceed their goals, Matt launched his own coaching/consulting company, Top Advisor... Read More 018: Everything You Need to Know about Referrals 018: Everything You Need to Know about Referrals018: Everything You Need to Know about ReferralsReferrals are an extremely effective and cost-efficient revenue generation strategy. Yet, many business owners constantly expend countless resources focused on mass marketing in an effort to appeal to an entire market using a one-size-fits-all approach. With some... Read More 017: How to Make Money with a Surefire Pricing Strategy 017: How to Make Money with a Surefire Pricing Strategy017: How to Make Money with a Surefire Pricing StrategyIt’s January 2018…A new year always brings the inevitable resolutions or if you prefer behavioral modifications. Many business owners—like you and me—resolve to generate more revenue and to grow their companies. With an estimated 80 percent of resolutions likely to... Read More 016: Boss Up: How to Transition from Business Owner to CEO 016: Boss Up: How to Transition from Business Owner to CEO016: Boss Up: How to Transition from Business Owner to CEODo you remember the moment you decided to launch your business or to become a business owner? Do you remember the myriad of decisions you had to make? Specifically, how did you decide on your new title of president, managing partner, founder or CEO? Whatever your... Read More 015: Excellent Customer Service Should Be Your First Focus 015: Excellent Customer Service Should Be Your First Focus015: Excellent Customer Service Should Be Your First FocusCustomer service is personal for your clients and customers. There are many benefits when businesses provided exceptional, excellent or even good, customer service. Yet, many business owners don’t consistently focus, monitor or improve their customer service. In... Read More 014: When It Pays to Fire Clients 014: When It Pays to Fire Clients014: When It Pays to Fire ClientsDeciding to end a client relationship is a highly stressful, intense and difficult choice that should not be made quickly or taken lightly. In fact, your decision should be made with all due consideration and with well-defined reasons. It is also important that you... Read More 013: Best Marketing Ideas for Spectacular Business Growth 013: Best Marketing Ideas for Spectacular Business Growth013: Best Marketing Ideas for Spectacular Business GrowthMarketing can be a daunting challenge. There are so many conflicting recommendations. And, the landscape seems to evolve daily with new digital and social media platforms. If that’s not enough, there are the issues of what to say, how to say it, where to say it,... Read More 012: How to Align Sales ...
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    20 mins
  • 022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client Segmentation

    022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client Segmentation
    Mar 22 2018
    024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your Marketing 024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your Marketing024: 5 Insanely Simple Questions to Boost Your MarketingWhether you're operating a small business with a few employees or you're a freelancer or solopreneur to effectively market your products and services, first get back to basics and align your marketing goals with your business strategy. Read More 023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better Results 023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better Results023: 10 Knucklehead Marketing Mistakes to Avoid for Better ResultsMarketing is a critical part of every successful business. It’s crucial to take a strategic approach to your marketing efforts to optimize success and maximize your investment. Here are ten knucklehead mistakes that often hinder marketing success for small business owners, solopreneurs and freelancers. Read More 022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client Segmentation 022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client Segmentation022: Win Buyers and Influence Sales with Client SegmentationToday, our Pro Tip focuses on the importance of client segmentation as a key business development and growth driver. Nicole Lewis, the president and CEO of Nicole Lewis & Associates, is a passionate client advocate and solution architect who creates high impact... Read More 021: Ignoring Business Etiquette Will Cost You Time and Sales 021: Ignoring Business Etiquette Will Cost You Time and Sales021: Ignoring Business Etiquette Will Cost You Time and SalesToday, our Pro Tip focuses on business etiquette and why it is important for business owners, professionals and executives to achieve greater business and career success. Joscelyn Davis, the president and chief strategist of JADE Strategies, Inc., is a highly... Read More 020: Boost Your Communications with these Expert Tips 020: Boost Your Communications with these Expert Tips020: Boost Your Communications with these Expert TipsIt’s my pleasure to welcome Ryan to the Ensightium podcast. Ryan is an award-winning marketing strategist and brand consultant that transforms communications into mission-driven and results-oriented solutions for a wide array of creative projects. Ryan mixes... Read More 019: Achieve Greater Success with a Coach, Consultant or Mentor 019: Achieve Greater Success with a Coach, Consultant or Mentor019: Achieve Greater Success with a Coach, Consultant or MentorLet me briefly introduced Matt. He has coached hundreds of financial advisors for more than a decade. Following Matt's extraordinary success with helping his client achieve and exceed their goals, Matt launched his own coaching/consulting company, Top Advisor... Read More 018: Everything You Need to Know about Referrals 018: Everything You Need to Know about Referrals018: Everything You Need to Know about ReferralsReferrals are an extremely effective and cost-efficient revenue generation strategy. Yet, many business owners constantly expend countless resources focused on mass marketing in an effort to appeal to an entire market using a one-size-fits-all approach. With some... Read More 017: How to Make Money with a Surefire Pricing Strategy 017: How to Make Money with a Surefire Pricing Strategy017: How to Make Money with a Surefire Pricing StrategyIt’s January 2018…A new year always brings the inevitable resolutions or if you prefer behavioral modifications. Many business owners—like you and me—resolve to generate more revenue and to grow their companies. With an estimated 80 percent of resolutions likely to... Read More 016: Boss Up: How to Transition from Business Owner to CEO 016: Boss Up: How to Transition from Business Owner to CEO016: Boss Up: How to Transition from Business Owner to CEODo you remember the moment you decided to launch your business or to become a business owner? Do you remember the myriad of decisions you had to make? Specifically, how did you decide on your new title of president, managing partner, founder or CEO? Whatever your... Read More 015: Excellent Customer Service Should Be Your First Focus 015: Excellent Customer Service Should Be Your First Focus015: Excellent Customer Service Should Be Your First FocusCustomer service is personal for your clients and customers. There are many benefits when businesses provided exceptional, excellent or even good, customer service. Yet, many business owners don’t consistently focus, monitor or improve their customer service. In... Read More 014: When It Pays to Fire Clients 014: When It Pays to Fire Clients014: When It Pays to Fire ClientsDeciding to end a client relationship is a highly stressful, intense and difficult choice that should not be made quickly or taken lightly. In fact, your decision should be made with all due consideration and with well-defined reasons. It is also important that you... Read More 013: Best Marketing Ideas for Spectacular Business Growth 013: Best Marketing Ideas for ...
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