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What is Jon doing today?
Starting at 2pm Eastern and broadcasting until he gets tired, Jon will be giving away Pizza Plan rebrand rights to new and current Heavy Weight members at I Love Hits. Throughout the day I will also be discussing marketing issues, social media techniques and generally having a good ol’ time on uStream.
Oh yeah, and of course I’ll be giving away prizes, books, treats and other goodies so spread the word =)
At the end of the broadcast, I will take 10 % of all profits earned and donating it to Traffic Exchanges Care as well so let’s have some fun today, raise awareness to the water crisis and give away a bunch of rebrand rights to The Pizza Plan…
And oh yeah, be sure to comment below and let’s talk about whatever your heart desires…
After reading and debating in a thread at Net Marketing Forum about demographics and the ‘old school way’ of marketing to people, I thought for sure I wasn’t going to get into it anymore. You see, I will never convince people that the old school way of marketing to the masses is dying…Why? There is comfort in familiarity.
People hate change. They don’t and won’t embrace it until they have no other choice. Here’s what is changing and why I think the old school way of marketing is dying.
A few years ago, all you needed was a survey of about 100 people. Ask them questions like how old they are, how much money they spend on certain things, what their sex was, average household income…You know, stuff that made everyone an ‘average’.
Then along came Mr. Marketing and created products and services, geared towards ‘the average’.
People usually just embraced whatever the average was and you had empires built on catering to the ‘masses’ or ‘the average’.
Then along came this thing called the internet and in the past few years everything has changed. In Chris Anderson’s masterpiece ‘The Long Tail’, he explains that the real opportunities in life are the ones that the ‘masses’ aren’t looking at. It’s the smaller niches. The group of people that don’t like what everyone else does and that’s where I REALLY get excited about the future of marketing.
I’d rather cater my business to people who think like me. No marketing survey on earth will tell me this, the only way I can ‘cater’ to this group is to roll up my sleeves and interact with them. How do we do this in this day and age? Simple, Twitter, facebook, LinkedIn, Sweeva, forums, blogs, and every aspect of the social media world we can use.
The power is found in the people during this time of social revolution and while companies will hide behind ‘marketing demographics’ for as long as they can, savvy marketers are seeing the change. They are embracing the need to be visible, to ENGAGE and interact with others. This is where the future is, it’s not in the numbers, it’s in the people.
I’m sure many people will debate this and tell me that old school marketing is not dying. And hey, like I said in the forum, whatever works for you, works for you. But I encourage interested people, roll up your sleeves and get to ‘know’ your fellow entrepreneurs. There is a lot that is about to happen in this social world…Key word here is…Social.
