The Digital Marketing Growth Mindset

Apply Rainmaking Skills To Digital Marketing and Grow Your Sales

Why do some organizations excel at sales and marketing and others struggle?

In my experience, the biggest driver of marketing success is having the right frame of mind. Yes, you must have the knowledge and the skills, but you are bound to struggle with increasing sales if you lack a mindset for growth.

Successful companies excel at sales and marketing because they have rainmakers who operate in a growth mindset.

In this blog we will review the traits of marketers with a growth mindset and provide you with tips and tactics you can use to develop your rainmaker skills and operate in a mindset focused on growth.

Finding Your Growth Mindset Starts by Taking Action

A growth mindset starts with an understanding that you must invest time and money in your company to drive growth. The key is picking the right marketing priorities for your business and knowing what drives sales and marketing returns on your time, money and effort.

Regardless of what you set as marketing priorities, you must be willing to learn and grow whether you succeed or have a set-back. Playing it safe and not taking smart marketing risks is not a growth mindset.

If you are not doing these things already, here are a few marketing tactics that will bring a return if you put in the time, effort and money to make it happen:

• Build an industry leading website with thought leadership content
• Invest in a top-notch CRM and email automation tool like HubSpot
• Post industry leading content to LinkedIn and other social channels
• Build an AI sales agent or chatbot to converse with your target market
• Invest in a central AI brain for your marketing team
• Improve your visibility in both Google organic search and AI search

These are foundational marketing strategies, yet many companies don’t do them well or don’t do them at all!

Be Creative and Try New Marketing Strategies

A fundamental truth of business is that if you keep doing the same things you will get the same results.

If you are looking to grow your company, then something has to change. You can get better at what you are already doing to get marketing and sales wins or you can test new approaches.

Experiment and don’t be afraid to get something wrong. You can only learn and improve if you get it wrong and try again. Having a growth mindset means you are not afraid to fail and you don’t let fear stop you from taking action.

Action Item:

What are three things you can do differently in your marketing starting this week?

Customer Obsession – The Customer is the Hero

Rainmakers are obsessed with their customers. It is part of their personal values to be obsessed about making customers happy and meeting their needs. They understand this is why their company exists.

They make the customer the hero and position themselves as the guide to help them get what they want. Rainmakers with a growth mindset understand clearly it is not their role to rescue customers, but rather to be their guide helping them reach their goals.

You are not the hero of the story, your customer is.

Understanding that your company exists to meet the needs of your customers is foundational to a growth mindset.

It is easy to get so entrenched in your business operations and people issue that you lose sight of this key concept driving business success.

Live Inside the Mind of Your Target Market

“You get what you want by helping other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

This quote is so true!

People with a growth mindset deeply believe this concept. You can only truly know what people want by getting inside their head to understand how they think about things, what motivates them, what pains they want to avoid, and what goals they want to achieve.

Digital marketing works best when you understand your target market. This happens when you spend time understanding the people most likely to buy from you, especially your best customers.

There is a mental exercise for marketing pros that I love. Place yourself in the shoes of your targeted customer and imagine what a day in their life looks like. Think through their concerns, struggles, frustrations, and goals. Understand the pain they want to avoid and what they hope to gain.

How can you guide them toward what they want? That is your growth mindset in action.

Action Item:

Ask your customers this question:

“What are the top three reasons you buy from our company?"

In most cases, the answers will surprise you in their simplicity. You will also learn new reasons people buy from you. These reasons form the basis for the key benefits you must effectively communicate in your marketing.

Ask Questions First

The best way to get inside the head of your target market is by asking questions. Don’t assume you know what they want, you may be wrong!

And there is no reason to assume what people are thinking because you can ask.

People love to be asked questions and it builds trust because it shows you want to understand them. This translates to a desire to help people, which means a lot.

Action Item:

Make a list of questions you plan to ask prospective customers and referral sources.

Be Proactive

A few years ago my wife and I were once in a very long line at the Denver International Airport waiting for access to the kiosk to get our boarding passes. I realized the line was long and going slow because people were waiting for instructions on when to approach the new kiosks to get their boarding passes printed.

There was no one from United Airlines at the front of the line to help out. I realized if I did not do something we might miss our flight to Vancouver, BC. So, my wife stayed in line and I went to the front of the line and started directing people to an open kiosk. The line started moving and we made our flight, along with hundreds of other travelers!

This is an example of being proactive and not waiting for things to happen. Everyone in the line was waiting for directions to approach a kiosk, so I decided to give them the direction they were waiting for so they could get what they wanted.

A growth mindset makes things happen, which leads to benefits for many people.

When I go to a restaurant and see all the staff waiting around for customers to come in so they can get hours for their shift, I think what if those staff members were rainmakers helping draw people to the restaurant? This would add value to the staff and the restaurant!

Create your reality, be proactive and make things happen.

Be a Constant Learner

It’s hard to have a growth mindset or be a rainmaker if you are not learning and growing. You must constantly improve your knowledge and skills or others will pass you by.

Rainmakers are hungry to learn because they understand that the more they know, the more value they can bring prospective customers and this drives growth for both!

Learning comes in many forms and generally has to do with getting insights that help you perform a task better or specifically help you reach a goal. The field of human psychology and behavior is a great place to start expanding what you know about people and relationships.

We are fortunate to have great minds in both marketing and human psychology and here are a few must have marketing and human behavior books to get you started:

Building a Storybrand, Donald Miller

This is Marketing, Seth Godin

Marketing in the Age of AI, Thomas Young

The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, Stephen Covey

The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, Richard Carlson

Action Item:

Always keep a new marketing resource, book, webinar, or other education insights within reach.

Never Give Up

People with a growth mindset are determined and don’t give up too early. They are highly connected to their goals and take their goals personally that is why they are so determined to succeed!

It is my belief, following many years working in the field of marketing, that many sales and marketing initiatives fail because marketers give up too early. This often happens when success is right around the corner!

If you truly believe in your products and services then keep working hard and time and persistence will eventually work in your favor.

Summary

Companies must have a rainmaker and team members with a strong growth mindset. If you don’t have these skills on your team then make an effort to learn and practice the traits in this blog. The sky’s the limit and with the proper growth mindset, sales growth is bound to happen.

The Growth Mindset Assessment

How well is your marketing team doing at establishing a growth mindset?

Rate each statement on a scale of 0–5, with 5 being the highest and 0 the lowest.

1. We make business decisions mostly based on how the outcome will benefit our customers.
2. Our marketing team is constantly trying out new marketing strategies and measuring the results.
3. We modify our sales and marketing tactics based on the results and data we set-up and monitor.
4. Our marketing and sales teams interview our best customers and learn why they buy from us.
5. We have written well-defined personas of the key people in our target markets.
6. Our marketing and sales team is constantly learning how to improve their skills and perform better at their jobs.
7. Our company website leads the industry with content, design and other resources.
8. We post high-end, thought-leadership content regularly on social media and get solid engagement.
9. We are using a tool like HubSpot with a CRM, marketing automation and sending regular emails to our target market.
10. We have a culture of growth at our company.

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