Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Turn Off The Sewer Drip Of Bad Information

You Will Market Your Business For Two Reasons

Every time you turn on the news these days or pick up some other new publication, all you seem to here is about how bad it is and slow growth.  For most business owners, this can become overwhelming hearing all the negative mumbo jumbo that is out there.  To be honest, I don't even listen to that stuff anymore even if it comes from my favorite news network.

I have been around for a while and have grown a few very successful businesses and did it in what others where saying were not very good economies.  I grew one business to a very large size in the delta area of Louisiana which is predominately farming communities and totally defied the odds and defied what everyone else was telling could not and would not happen.

You have to think different

Now, it's not that I am some kind of genius with a high IQ or anything like that, but I am an out of the box forward type of thinker.  I am what I call and think others have called an "Idea Entrepreneur."  All great accomplishments started with ideas, a formulated belief system and then action on that belief system.  This is what set me apart from the "can't doers."

If you are going to succeed at anything, especially business, you cannot move with the masses and what I mean by that is simply doing what everybody else is doing.  If you do what everybody else is doing, then your competition is going to be stronger because you are trying to compete on the same playing field as a hundred others in your niche market.  That is why you have to be different.  You have to do things the competition is not even considering. 

You can sit around and just maintain if you want to.  However, business owners who are in maintenance mode all the time begin to burn out over time.  That come down with a disease called "mundane."

You see, when your business is growing and thriving, it produces a level of joy and excitement that fuels your creative juices.  It pushes you to be on the cutting edge.  As one person said, "it will make you charge hell with a water pistol and swing out over the flames on a corn stalk and spit in the devils eye." 

You have to see yourself as an innovator and not a prisoner of the economy.  When others are whining, you are coming up with strategies to push a head in the market and you are seizing opportunities when others are letting them pass by.

I want to encourage you today to turn off the sewer drip of bad information.  Don't feed on the rhetoric of news people and politicians who have grown comfortable behind a desk and have no real desire to change things for the better.  It's up to you to make the difference.

If you need help getting your business or life unstuck out of the goo of bad information, then call our office today at 337-303-2841 or visit our main website at Reddoch Media Group.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Video Marketing That Makes An Impact



Why Use Video Marketing?

 I am sure that most of you have been to a movie theater at some point in your life and if you haven't you have probably watched at home but there is something unique about the theater experience.  Everything that happens from the time you walk in and you take your seat is a marketing message.  The sites, sounds, images and movie trailers are designed to engage you and your emotions and motivate you to take certain actions.
Everything is designed to get your attention and keep it.

We live in the attention economy and everyone with a marketing message is bidding for your attention and there is no other medium for getting attention like video.  Video has a way of connecting with the human emotion like no other media out there.  Video can influence your emotions so powerfully that it can bring you to tears without one word being said or make you laugh with a sequence of clips that tell a humorous story.  It pulls on your emotions so strongly that when you leave the theater, you almost immediately begin to voice opinions over what you saw based on the emotions it pulled out of you.

Video Marketing Makes A Connection With Your Audience

It is a proven statistical fact that most of the people that use the internet would rather watch something rather than read it and for you who are using video or thinking about using video marketing, this gives you a huge advantage in your market over your competitors who don't.  On the other hand, if you are not using video to market your business and build your brand, you are leaving value on the table and giving your competitors an advantage. 

Think about this:  What if you started doing regular video of your products and services and you showcased them in a way that connects with them on a more personal level, what do you think the response would be.  I cannot tell you how many times people chose to do business with me based on the information that received in a video.  They would say things like "that video summed up and answered my questions before I even called you."  It connected with them and helped them make a decision.

This is one of the reasons our company focuses on helping you have a solid video marketing strategy.  We help you know how to communicate your message in a way that engages potential clients and customers.  We have the tools available to make an impact on your website visitors that sets you apart from your competition.

If you are interested in video marketing and how it can help you, visit our website at Reddoch Media Group and we will be glad to help you get the exposure you need to compete in this new economy.