The point of a LIGHTHOUSE is that there’s someone who is a higher authority, better known, has a bigger audience, and more perceived expertise in a particular area — and you’re co-creating content with them. This confers authority on you. Their audience respects you because they already respect the person who is the LIGHTHOUSE. A LIGHTHOUSE lets you teach by …
XYZ Method and How It’s Powerful
Most small businesses or marketing agencies start out by saying “yes” to everything. This is not surprising because when you’re figuring out how to generate leads, the focus is often on getting money through the door as quickly as possible. And sure, in the short term, that might seem like the easiest way to gain traction. More customers mean more …
11 Pro Tips for Personal Brand Building
Are you just starting out your business or already in the business and are getting caught between how you can grow your personal brand? When you’re a founder and you don’t have a name, you don’t have a reputation, you don’t have a lot of money. It’s hard to get known. You have a chicken and egg. In this session, …
How to Make Meaningful Connections (5 ways)
Some business owners are so focused on learning the technical skills required to run their businesses that they forget the most powerful tool they have, which is knowing how to make meaningful connections. You might be stuck right now in a mindset that says, “Oh, Dennis has a lot of connections, and thus he can do these different things.” However, …
Positioning in Marketing: Get Your Brand in the Brain
Between 1970, and up until the 1990s, Mcdonald’s used various forms of their slogan “you deserve a break today” to position their brand message deep in their target audience’s psyche. This slogan, in the form of a jingle, positioned Mcdonald’s against one of its biggest competitors … not Burger King, but home cooking. The idea was to compel people to …
Brand Differentiation Strategy: (How to Brand Better)
If you look at a map of the world and randomly put your finger on a place, often you can generate an image in your mind of the differences of that area compared to others. A similar thing happens with brands. Brands that develop a good brand differentiation strategy tend to stick out in our minds. We start to associate …
How to create, edit, share, and boost a WHY video
Do you have a WHY behind what you do? People are more likely to buy from someone who has a story or mission that they identify with. We believe that the best way to share your stories or mission in an engaging way is through the use of a WHY video. A WHY video defines your reason, or your passion, …
How To Go From a One-Man Show to an Agency
If you’re still running the show all by yourself, you’re working hard but not working smart. Maybe it’s time for you to hire people and become an agency.
Why your personal brand is more important than your company.
A long-time friend of Content Factory, Leonard Kim, constantly inspires us with his personal branding insights. I recently sat down with him to learn how he became a personal branding leader: What inspired you to work in your industry? I tried a few different projects in the meantime until one day it dawned on me: I had already figured out …
Your true competitors aren’t who you think they are.
In AdWords, you could find your competitor’s keywords and bid against them. In fact, one of my favorite tactics over the last decade (which still works) is using various tools to do this across multiple search engines. You might even straight copy their ads, if relevant and not misleading. You’d use Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, and whatnot for competitive monitoring. The …
Going 200 miles per hour… but in the wrong direction
Did you know that the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is capable of 204mph? And that it’s able to hit 60mph in 3.7 seconds? If you love electric cars, the Tesla P85D can do 60mph in 3.1 seconds, with an electronically limited top speed of 155mph. Impressive, right? But even with all this power and speed, what if you don’t know how to …