{"id":7679,"date":"2025-08-14T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:18:02","slug":"hard-and-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/hard-and-slow","title":{"rendered":"Hard And Slow???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your business slow right now?<\/p>\n<p>Does it feel like it takes more time and\/or energy than it usually does to make a sale?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019re feeling a bit more \u201csales resistance\u201d than you\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hearing this a lot lately.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I always recommend when I hear this is to go check to make sure all <strong>3 variables in your marketing<\/strong> are lined up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The marketing triangle<\/strong> works\u2026but, like all things in your business, it\u2019s not stationary\u2026one or more of those variables can change, and you have to be in top of it <strong>so your marketing doesn\u2019t get stagnant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t set it and forget it\u2026it isn\u2019t a rotisserie chicken\u2026 \ud83c\udf57<\/p>\n<p>All great marketing takes <strong>tweaking, reviewing<\/strong>, and <strong>adjusting<\/strong> to work to its <strong>maximum capacity<\/strong>\u2026 which means <strong>you make the most money possible <\/strong>too!<\/p>\n<p>In case you don\u2019t have a copy or need a reminder, here\u2019s the marketing triangle\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7681 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Marketing-Triangle-Picture-No-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Marketing-Triangle-Picture-No-Logo.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Marketing-Triangle-Picture-No-Logo-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Marketing-Triangle-Picture-No-Logo-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most important thing to remember when you think about these three things, is that <strong>all three of them have to be right for it to work<\/strong>\u2026 they don\u2019t have to be world class, or great, but they all have to be right.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the thing most of my clients are finding is they need to <strong>update their message<\/strong> \u2013 the target market isn\u2019t changing, but the market (the people they sell to) are in a bit of a different place with everything that\u2019s going on in the world. When that happens, and at other times too, <strong>you have to adjust your messaging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the most part, I\u2019m finding their <strong>marketing<\/strong> is good, and they\u2019re in the right <strong>media<\/strong> (this has changed a couple times as people have moved to different platforms) but their <strong>message<\/strong> needs to be changed\u2026usually just a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re feeling like things are more of a struggle than they should be or are having some challenges, let\u2019s see how we might be able to work together to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Reach out to me here, or email me at <a href=\"mailto:info@CompleteMarketingSystems.com\">info@CompleteMarketingSystems.com<\/a> and we\u2019ll have a quick chat.<\/p>\n<p>To Your Success \u2013<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dianesig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PS \u2013 I hope you enjoyed <em><strong>\u201cDiane\u2019s Dozen\u202612 Lessons I Learned From Sports That Apply To Business\u201d.<\/strong><\/em> The next one\u2026<em><strong>\u201cDiane\u2019s Farm Dozen\u202612 Lessons I Learned On The Farm That Apply To Business\u201d<\/strong><\/em> will be in your mailbox next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your business slow right now? Does it feel like it takes more time and\/or energy than it usually does to make a sale? Maybe you\u2019re feeling a bit more \u201csales resistance\u201d than you\u2019d like. I\u2019m hearing this a lot lately. One of the things I always recommend when I hear this is to go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/hard-and-slow\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,58],"tags":[709,226,196,13,10,30,609,909,708,216,59,690,918,913,44],"class_list":["post-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-general","category-business-strategy","tag-business-strategy","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-diane-conklin","tag-entrepreneur","tag-implementation","tag-market","tag-articles-marketing","tag-marketing-plan","tag-marketing-strategy","tag-marketing-triangle","tag-media","tag-message","tag-small-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}