This post is part of the 📖 1-Page Marketing Plan series.


Today I am reading a new section Building Your Marketing Infrastructure from Nurturing Leads chapter of the book The 1-Page Marketing Plan written by Author, serial entrepreneur and rebellious marketer Allan Dib.

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Yesterday, I read some sections of Nurturing Leads chapter of the book.

Tomorrow, I am going to read a new section Become a Prolific Marketer from the Nurturing Leads Chapter. Look out for tomorrow’s article.

Building Your Marketing Infrastructure

Up to now, we learned how to capture leads, but what do you do with these leads is what really separates the boys from the men.

You have a database of high-probability prospects. Your job is to market to them until they buy or die.

Instead of being a pest, I advocate becoming a welcome guest. Send your high-probability prospects a continuous stream of value until they’re ready to buy.

How?

Send the following useful things that are related to your niche.

  • Tutorials
  • Articles
  • Case studies
  • A monthly newsletter

The above activity builds trust and goodwill and positions you as an expert and educator rather than just a salesperson going for the jugular.

The tools and technology to manage your database are cost-effective and scalable in the today’s world.

Author provided a list of marketing infrastructure assets that he used in his own business over the decades.

  • Lead capture websites
  • Free recorded message info lines
  • Newsletters
  • Blogs
  • Free reports
  • Direct mail sequences
  • Email sequences
  • Social media
  • Online videos and DVDs
  • Podcasts and audio CDs
  • Print ads
  • Handwritten notes
  • Email auto-responders
  • SMS auto-responders
  • Shock and awe packages (discussed in the next section)

He says, all the ads that he runs are designed to plug cold leads into this system and convert them into raving fan customers.

Lumpy Mail and the Shock and Awe Package

Shock and awe package is essentially a physical box that you mail or deliver to prospects full of unique, benefit-laden assets related to your business and industry.

Here are some list of Shock and Awe packages:

  • Books
  • DVDs or CDs
  • Testimonials from past clients
  • Clippings from media mentions
  • Brochures and sales letters
  • Independent reports
  • A sample of your products or services
  • Unusual trinkets and gifts (like coffee mugs to iPads)
  • Handwritten notes

A shock and awe package should do three things:

  1. Give your prospect amazing, unexpected value
  2. Position you as an expert and trusted authority in your field
  3. Move your prospect further down the buying cycle than they would otherwise have been
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Key Takeaways

  • Some of the prospects will convert into customers immediately, while others will do so weeks, months or even years later.

Summary

Don’t make the mistake of being cheap and efficient when it comes to wooing prospects. Shock and awe packages are a huge competitive advantage.

Are you building your marketing infrastructure? Are you constantly building on and improving your marketing systems?

If you want to know more then buy the book.


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  • How to get new customers, clients or patients and how to make more profit from existing ones.

  • Why “big business” style marketing could kill your business and strategies that actually work for small and medium-sized businesses.

  • How to close sales without being pushy, needy, or obnoxious while turning the tables and having prospects begging you to take their money.

  • A simple step-by-step process for creating your own personalized marketing plan that is literally one page. Simply follow along and fill in each of the nine squares that make up your own 1-Page Marketing Plan.

  • How to annihilate competitors and make yourself the only logical choice.

  • How to get amazing results on a small budget using the secrets of direct response marketing.

  • How to charge high prices for your products and services and have customers actually thank you for it.

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Author(s): Allan Dib

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