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How to Shine in a Crowded Market
Alex Membrillo, CEO@alex_membrillo@cardinalws
Cardinal Web Solutions is a creative group of marketing professionals skilled at leveraging traditional and innovative mediums empowering small to medium-sized businesses and national brands. We focus on driving your profits through improved search results rankings, increased website traffic, social media orchestration, and other interactive marketing techniques.
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Stuff you will learn today
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• How to claim your place in a crowded market
• How to scale your company
• How to laugh during a presentation
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Only sell what you are PASSIONATE about
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• Don’t sell what you do, sell why you do it
• It takes grit and determination to continue to push through to find your niche
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Will people REALLY buy your stuff?
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Before changing your company’s direction, test it on employees
and trusted customers to see if they will pay.
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Nix anything but your Niche
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• Your company can only really scale one service/product at a time
• Finding the best talent and R&D is expensive- but worth it
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Great is better than Good, duh
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• Don’t shortchange yourself by being good at a lot but not great at anything
• Selling is SO much easier when you have awesome case studies
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How to Price
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• You can’t be Marshalls AND Bloomingdales
• Either go for volume OR quality
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Be Different, Be Human
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• People buy things from people, not buzzwords
• Stand out, have a sense of humor
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People are your best resource
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• Recruit 24/7
• Hire the best around
• Get out of their way
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Time to Scale
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• Process is king
• Sell and market your business like crazy
• Save enough for 1 month of expenses, re-invest the rest
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What have we learned today?
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• Passion First, Not Money
• Test New Offerings
• Define your Niche
• Hire the Best so you can work ON Your Business