5 Most Common Questions Marketers Ask

Whether you are just starting out as a new marketer who has a lot of questions (no worries, that’s normal) or maybe you are starting to have some success. Either way, when your team starts to grow, you will get questions. Below I have listed the 5 most common questions marketers ask and the answers I give my clients may be the personal breakthrough you were looking for.

1. “What do I do next?”

This is the most popular question I get and I’m always happy to help because for one, It’s NOT a dumb question. Two, I know how frustrating it is to feel stuck and not know what to do next. (There are things we don’t know, and things we don’t know that we don’t know. Ya know?)

And three, it’s an easy fix. Most of the time the answer is right in front of us, we just can’t see it, and all we need is someone to put it there.

The reason why we can’t see what’s in front of us in the first place is because we put up mental blind spots. We all do it more often then we’d like to admit.

The answers we can’t see (or hear) that is right in front of us is because we have a certain belief. Either we believe we don’t have the answer or that we can’t have the answer or we can’t have the answer right here, right now. Or we believe the answer needs to look like something else.

There is a name for this mental blind spot, and that’s scotoma. By definition, it’s a partial loss of vision or a blind spot in an otherwise normal visual field.

Every normal mammal eye has a scotoma in its field of vision (aka blind spots). A good example of this would be when someone asks you to pass the salt but you don’t see it when it’s right in front of you. A simple explanation about why that happens is because our minds are on something else. We get distracted by something other than locating the salt until someone points it out, telling you, “It’s right there!” Then the salt somehow magically appears.

Another example, I would go as far as saying that scotoma has effected us a time or two when we are driving our cars. When we are not focused at the task at hand, we lose site to things that are right in front of us. That’s why trees and other vehicles suddenly appear out of nowhere when it wasn’t there a split second ago.

And we as marketers are doing the same thing in our business. We are putting too much focused energy on what we want that we can’t see the people or things that come into view that will take us towards the things we want.

This reminds me of Law of Attraction. When you want something, the feeling of that desire is sent to the universe. However, we tend to stay focused on that thing we want so bad that creates the mental blind spots. Then we get stuck on the how and when and miss the signs that are right in front of us that will point us to our desire.

So for marketers, they tend to focus only on the end goal — typically financial freedom — and they could miss the answer that is already in a module or training call or that one opportunity or that one key person that was placed right in front of them.

Here’s the simple solution: Stay focused on the task at hand. I’m not saying lose focus on what you want, but don’t put so much energy on it. If you’d like to learn more about how to attract the things you want in life and master the skill of seeing the signs which will take you to those things you want, read Total Law of Attraction by David Che. I found it on Kindle for 99 cents. It’s the best book on the subject, well worth $4,999.99 as far as I’m concerned. (enter amazon link)

2. What is the quickest way to make money?

Get a job or work more hours if you are already working ON TOP of working your business when you’re not working your 9–5 so you can replace that income and fire your boss. Do what you need to do to make it work by spending less time on TV and more time on your business. Where most people are getting their 8 hours of sleep, you are there from 10pm to 2am crushing it. If you want to feel a sense of accomplishment in your business, get up earlier or stay up late to get done what needs to get done. Too many people fall for they hype. Don’t be one of them.

3. I need a plan. How do I start building momentum and keep it going?

This is the best way to start building momentum in your business: start talking to people every day and never stop. Be genuinely curious about who they are and start building a rapport. You will find that most people love to talk about themselves, and in that conversation you will be looking for problems they may have in their life or business (or both, if that’s what you do) that you may have a solution for. So make sure you don’t have your mental blind spots on by focusing on getting a sale. You are 100% focused on them and their needs.

If you don’t have the solution at this time, move on. Don’t waste either of your time. You’ve made a friend in the industry and planted a seed.

Here’s another way to build momentum in your business: once you get in the grove of talking to people every day, you will start to recognize a pattern. A lot of struggling marketers will have these two issues in common: getting leads and converting those leads into sales. What you can do is educate yourself on how to solve those problems, blog about it, make a video, get on Snapchat, IG stories (whatever) and give that solution away for free. Ever wonder how people like Mike Hobbs and Ray Hidgon are always coming up with content every day? I just gave you that answer.

4. What do I blog about?

I started blogging in early 2013 with zero experience. I struggled for over 2 years! Even though I was blogging every day, I was blogging about random stuff that I didn’t find interesting in the first place.

Now, why would I do that? Who would blog everyday about stuff they’re not really interested in? Good question. One reason was because I was told by my mentors to blog daily. I’m glad I did because here’s what it taught me: consistency. It also taught me to became a better writer and communicator — where forming two sentences together was difficult before I started blogging (because words are hard, yo)

Okay, so am I telling you to start blogging about stuff you’re not really interested in? No way! I wouldn’t put anyone through what I went through. You can still find consistency and become a better writer and communicator when you blog on the stuff you are interested in. So, what do you blog about? That’s up to you. But I’m not going to leave you hanging with just that because that doesn’t really answer your question. This is what I tell my clients: instead of asking, “What do I blog about?” you should be asking, “What do I want to learn?”

Remember the strategy I talked about a minute ago? When you start talking to people, you will find problems to solve. Blog about those problems and solutions. It’s a win:win. Then you can go back to that person you didn’t have a solution for, and give it to them by sharing your blog post. This will create amazing rapport, viral sustainability, and instant authority.

In addition to that, invest into your education: books, seminars, modules…

There’s even affiliated marketing systems that allows you to resell the education you just purchased for a commission. Most of the people reading this, I’d like to assume, are affiliate marketers. If you’re not, become one because people are buying education all the time! It’s free to be an affiliate for Amazon. You have a favorite book you’d like to blog about or do a review on, put your affiliate link at the end and tell them to buy the book!

If you are an affiliate for a marketing system already, sit your ass down, take the time to watch some training, take notes, put some snippits of that training in a blog and video for FREE to build a following, and watch as people are looking to learn more from you, and that’s when you get them to buy the full training.

5. Could you see if I’m doing this right?

I can resonate with this BIG time. I used to think I was doing things wrong because I wasn’t getting the results I wanted in my business. It would have been helpful if I had someone to look at what I was doing so I know I’m on the right track.

Here’s the thing: everything is a test. There is no right or wrong about doing this business.

Actually, there is a wrong way and that’s not moving forward …which is almost like quitting. A lot of times what stops people in their tracks and feeling stuck is they over complicate things. Just test it for a month or two and see if what works. If you’re not seeing results, fix it. If you start to see results, scale it up.

What helps is to watch what other successful people are doing, and most important what they are NOT doing.

I started this business with no help from anyone and I was afraid to ask for help because I thought I had to find the answer myself. So I started to go on “Stalker Status” and started to learn from my “silent mentors”.

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