{"id":3868,"date":"2015-12-09T19:33:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:33:57","slug":"what-is-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/what-is-marketing","title":{"rendered":"What is Marketing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many terms today for marketing.\u00a0 The terms you hear being used aren\u2019t really different kinds of marketing \u2013 they\u2019re really more like different kinds of media.<\/p>\n<p>For example\u2026email marketing, social media marketing, digital marketing, and internet marketing all really just describe different media that the marketing is used in. Content marketing is really just an overall term used for any kind of marketing that has valuable information (which should really be all marketing anyway). Content marketing not a new form of marketing, you\u2019ve always used good content in your emails and your marketing, right?<\/p>\n<p>The real answer is as long as you\u2019re using Direct Response Marketing, that\u2019s what matters.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar playerhost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/cms-2015-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/secure\/\" : \"http:\/\/cms-2015-videos.s3.amazonaws.com\/ezs3js\/player\/\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + playerhost + \"flv\/50B8ED6C-F089-AA1E-B37AE87AC6FAE48E.js?t=\"+(Math.random() * 99999999)+\"' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And, what about the newest buzz word\u2026Authentic Marketing!\u00a0 Aren\u2019t you always you? Aren\u2019t you always the best you possible? Don\u2019t you always want people to know more about you and what\u2019s important to you? If you answered yes to those questions, then don\u2019t sweat it\u2026you\u2019re being authentic!<\/p>\n<p>Marketing isn\u2019t some bad thing or even some mysterious thing\u2026it\u2019s simply everything you\u2019re already doing. Marketing is how you answer the phone, how you present yourself, your logo, your colors, how you dress, and everything else you do in your business.<\/p>\n<p>For most business owners, you just need a little tweak, a little adjustment, or an addition of one thing\u2026or maybe you need to eliminate some things in your business.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing, and really looking at your business in a way that you can\u2019t because you\u2019re in the middle of it (and you can\u2019t see the forest for the trees when it comes to your business) is what we\u2019ll be doing at <strong><em>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.TheImplementationEvent.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Implementation Event<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.TheImplementationEvent.com\" target=\"_blank\">\u2122<\/a><\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And, this is the first time I have announced this, but this is going to be the LAST time I do this event\u2026that\u2019s right, I\u2019m retiring this event and I\u2019m not doing them any more after this. So, if you\u2019ve been thinking about coming to this event but have been putting it off, for whatever reason, now is the time.\u00a0 Mark off February 11-12, 2016, and do whatever it takes to get to Atlanta, for the <strong>LAST<\/strong> ever <strong><em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.TheImplementationEvent.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">The Implementation Event<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.TheImplementationEvent.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">\u2122<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See you in Atlanta\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Prosperity &amp; Abundance to You &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PS \u2013 I\u2019d love for you to leave a comment or share the post! 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