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Big Ideas: Do it again, go on!

I was reminded of this simple yet profound truth on a webinar I was conducting just last week. This one is important my friends, and very deep. Tune in. And listen to what I am about to share with you.

As I always do, I asked my coaching students for their recent good news-bad news stories. I do this so we can all learn from each other, both good and bad. The topic was distribution, and more specifically, how we can increase our service distribution path. I offered an idea and one “student” immediately shared the fact that she had done exactly what I was talking about … and that it worked to perfection.

I applauded her positive efforts and asked her to share more of the story and how the success evolved. Remember, this was on a seminar conducted just last week. Her reply was met with disbelief and more than a modicum of chagrin.

“1978” was the year she last performed this “successful” marketing gambit. 1978!

I suggested that she forget everything she has ever read about sales and marketing since that day in 1978, and simply do what she did back then. I meant it.

We all study, read, buy books, go to seminars, attend conferences and go to church on Sundays to pray for ideas that just might work. Then, on a good day, something we do does work. Then, for some unexplained reason, we enroll in another seminar in search of a better way.

My mind drifted back to my days as a collegiate football quarterback. We had a playbook with at least 3000 plays inside a three inch binder.

This never made much sense to me. If I called a play and it worked for more than three and a half yards, I would call the same play until the defense wised up and stopped our forward motion. “Why try numerous plays when one worked?”

The same holds true for marketing. When you stumble across some idea, strategy, tactic or gambit that works do it again! And again! And again!

I truly hope my coaching student returns to 1978 and does whatever it was she did back then. I doubt that she will. It appears to be more fun to fail at a new challenge than to benefit continuously from old news.

Mike Marchev has “been around the bases” more than a few times, and enjoys sharing his street-smart lessons with who ever will pause long enough to listen.

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  One thought on “Big Ideas: Do it again, go on!

  1. Geoff Millar says:

    I agree stick with what works, I don’t care when you learned or last used it. When I read all the trade publications it amazes me. If I purchased or subscribed to everything they told me I needed to be successful at selling travel I would either be broke or run out of hours in the day implementing everything. People still buy for the same reasons they did 50 years ago. The only thing that has changed is the number of ways to contact those people.

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