Here’s the thing. Trust is at an all time low. Skepticism is high. Cynicism is high.
Email open rates are cut in half. Cause are overwhelmed with emails. And we are bored with email “broadcasts” that are not really connecting with us. We’re sick of being tricked, manipulated, and used by marketing.
Yet we still want and need to send messages to make offers, to show value, and to authentically share our work with the world.
We still need “marketing.” We just need it in a different form. A new form.
So what IS new and true and happening?
What still WORKS?
Here are 5 Key Qualities that marketing needs in these new times.
And guess what? Empaths, creatives, and sensitive folk are really GOOD at this stuff!
1. Responsiveness
When I send out an email to my tribe, and someone hits “Reply” to that email, I answer them personally. And they are always shocked.
I’m not surprised! Most emails go out as one-way communications – impersonal, bland, and pushy.
We are all starving for a measure of responsiveness.
What can you do to create this responsiveness?
How about answering emails? Addressing concerns?
You could literally ask people to “hit reply” and let you know what they need/want/wonder.
And, since email is so rarely responsive anymore, you may just have to pick up the phone, or try Facebook messaging, or text… or any dang way you can actually be responsive!
Hey, as a sensitive empathic type, you likely want and even NEED to converse with your tribe. You don’t want to feel like a guru on a hill speaking into empty space. So offer responsiveness and it’ll be a win-win for you and your peeps!
2. Specialization/Segmentation
We’re all sick of the one-size-fits-all solutions. We want a specialized solution. We want to feel special cause we ARE special.
That’s why I teach people how to design a QUIZ that engages their people, pre-qualifes their clients, and is likely to go VIRAL.
I love my Soul Gift Quiz because when I know someone’s Soul Gift, I can relate with them as a gifted unique person. Some people call this “segmentation” but it sure feels more like connection than separation!
Also, I’m a big fan of very specialized expertise. I help people to define their unique expertise, their particular offerings, and their special business strategy that fits them to a T. That’s because when you can be specific, and you know who exactly you’re here to help, communicating gets personal, deep, and meaningful. Till then, you just sound like every other helper/leader/coach. Blah.
Empaths often resist getting specific. Cause they want to help EVERYone. But once they do specialize, they find themselves so much more energized and inspired by their work, because it becomes personal connection – and that’s what we empaths do best!
3. Experience
You know how people learn best? Through Experience! Some would say that experience is the only way to learn. It’s certainly the only way to keep people engaged.
So beyond preaching at your peeps, what experience can you invite them into?
Once someone has taken my Soul Gift Quiz, they are invited to dive into an experience with me. When they join my page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/channelyourgifts/, they get access to a video course that leads them through the experience of choosing their best niche for their business. They get to participate with me in real conversation. They get to get stuff done!
So instead of just talking at our people, what if we invite them into an experience of the lesson, the transformation, the big aha!
4. Purity
Be one of the good guys.
It seems good guys are few and far between in the land of marketing. Or at least it seems that way! Most marketing messages sound kinda pushy and rude. Greedy. Needy. Even mean.
So how can you emanate the purity of your own intentions, your desire to serve, and your devotion to the Highest Good above all else?
First, you can devote yourself to the Highest Good above all else. (for reals)
Secondly, you can invoke the Invisible Team that guides you to keep you honest and on track, and to support you with miracles that benefit the goals of the higher team (and therefore your purpose)
Thirdly, you can speak with confidence and kindness, coming from this place of your devotion to serve.
Fourthly, you can create your work as something bigger – get in touch with the Movement that you are truly creating for the benefit of the world.
This is some deep stuff. It’s devotional. It’s magical. And we go into it with attunements and clearings and deep sharing and pragmatic coaching in my Channel Your Genius Academy. That’s where people get direct coaching with me, and full participation in my livestream experiences. I’ll be opening up enrollment again later in August 2019 again.
Empaths need community. You need support. And you can find it for less than a fancy cell phone bill with me this year. So check that out.
5. Nudity
Ooh I got your attention right? hehe
What I mean by Nudity is this. Take off the masks. Take off the costumes. Peel back that “professional voice” and get real.
We are all sick of fakey fakers. We can see right through them.
We long for the realsy authentic peeps. We can FEEL them.
I’m gonna keep getting naked for you people. More and more. Get ready.
How are you gonna get naked, pure, experiencified, specializing, and responsive this year? Please comment below with one of your commitments to new paradigm marketing this year. I want to learn from you too!
So appreciate this. I am so tired of seeing ‘funnel marketing’. It is so obvious and so manipulative. What you are speaking of Mellissa is simply embodying the qualities of one’s soul nature in all that we do.