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Background: Running a B2B marketing company.
I'm sick of feeling guilty about selling a marketing service that doesn't generate tangible results 100% of the time.
In some cases we do, which I'm really proud of.
In some cases we don't, which I feel extremely guilty about.
In every case we try the best we can. But...
...there's too many factors outside my control that affects a customer's perception of me.
For example. Is my client's business viable? Is this an offer that can be sold through the channels we specialize in?
Are there market forces that make my client's customers reluctant to buy from my client?
I can't think of any real solution around this, other than I'd rather package and replicate en-masse a dirt cheap McCampaign and sell them the "time they'd have to spend figuring this out" as opposed to any real business result. That way a customer doesn't really care that it didn't result in anything but "hey at least we did the work and tried? Either it works or it doesn't?"
I *never* want to put myself in a compromising situation where I sell a certain benefit / result, only to have it not materialize. I'd really rather tell a client that YMMV upfront and have them be okay with that, instead of selling a pipe dream, which is what my competitors will do.
How have other agency owners approached this? @BizyDad @Black_Dragon43 @Andy Black @Sean Marshall
I'm sick of feeling guilty about selling a marketing service that doesn't generate tangible results 100% of the time.
In some cases we do, which I'm really proud of.
In some cases we don't, which I feel extremely guilty about.
In every case we try the best we can. But...
...there's too many factors outside my control that affects a customer's perception of me.
For example. Is my client's business viable? Is this an offer that can be sold through the channels we specialize in?
Are there market forces that make my client's customers reluctant to buy from my client?
I can't think of any real solution around this, other than I'd rather package and replicate en-masse a dirt cheap McCampaign and sell them the "time they'd have to spend figuring this out" as opposed to any real business result. That way a customer doesn't really care that it didn't result in anything but "hey at least we did the work and tried? Either it works or it doesn't?"
I *never* want to put myself in a compromising situation where I sell a certain benefit / result, only to have it not materialize. I'd really rather tell a client that YMMV upfront and have them be okay with that, instead of selling a pipe dream, which is what my competitors will do.
How have other agency owners approached this? @BizyDad @Black_Dragon43 @Andy Black @Sean Marshall
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