What's the best marketing advice you've ever got?

[Dev]

What's the best marketing advice anyone's ever given you? Could be something big or small, but if it helped you out, drop it here.

Here’s mine: "You are not your customer."

Honestly, this one changed everything for me. For the longest time, I thought I knew what would work just because I liked it. Turns out, the stuff I personally thought was lame or boring is sometimes exactly what the customer wants. The minute I stopped trusting my own taste and started actually listening to the people I was selling to, things started clicking.

Now I just try to keep my own opinions in check and pay attention to what the customer actually says and does - even if it's not what I'd pick.

So what's the best marketing tip you've ever gotten?

 

[Octavia]

Niche down

 

[t2van]

Build a brand army

 

[tiiberius]

Don't become bottleneck in your own funnel.

 

[TheVigilante]

You are talking to a human

 

[roydan]

Fail fast
Test fast and dirty

Couldn't decide on one of these, but they kinda go hand in hand.

 

[back2form]

There is only one thing that matters - Customer Satisfaction.

So, To win the market, you must win the heart of your customer !

 

[polecat]

Before you sell anything watch what others in your niche do then base how you sell the product on what they did you can see what worked well.

 

[Pizza raj]

Trust no one.

 

[SirTop]

Productize yourself... the less competition you have
Find something that feels natural or like play to you but looks like work to others.

 

[Zwielicht]

There was this PPC guy I used to watch on YouTube. His channel was more about tourism than IM, but occasionally he’d mention what he does for a living. Anyway, I liked his advice that it’s not about who does it first, it’s about who does it right first.

Edit: Jubril Agoro, that was his name.

 

[Dopious]

Don`t buy cheap fckn links.