Perry Marshall is a marketing expert who is best known for his reinvention of the 80/20 principle—the theory that 80% of your results are determined by 20% of your effort.
His work has helped thousands of companies reshape the way they think about sales & marketing, by teaching them how to focus on pulling the levers that drive the biggest impact for their businesses.
He’s published a bunch of books, including The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords, which laid the foundations for the $100 billion Pay Per Click industry and went on to become the world’s most popular book on Internet advertising.
In this episode, Perry explains that sales is not about ramming your product/service down someone’s throat or persuading them to buy stuff they don’t need. Sales and marketing are about finding proper matches; it’s the art and science of helping people who need each other, find each other.
While 80/20 patterns exist everywhere in your business, we specifically dig into how it applies to your sales and marketing efforts.
You’ll learn how to use the 80/20 principle to qualify your most profitable buyers, filter out and reject clients who aren’t a good fit, and find the most powerful points of leverage that produce the biggest results for your business.
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“What any good marketer does is more than pushing and manipulating the world. What really good marketers do is they harness natural forces. They don’t just go get a road grader and make a highway. They start with a sheep trail and they turn it into a sidewalk, which eventually they turn into a road, which eventually they turn into an expressway, if the market keeps liking to go down that path. And so, I think a lot of people think that we have to fight the world at every turn. And that’s not true. In fact, the best marketers never do that.” – Perry Marshall
“Go solve an actual problem. Don’t solve a problem that 16 other companies have already solved and turned into commodities that they all sell for however many bucks a pound. That’s not solving a problem.” – Perry Marshall
