How to Find Marketing Success with This 5-Step Framework

And how the marketing Bar can Help you Reach Your Goals

As entrepreneurs, your marketing and business success go hand in hand. You canโ€™t reach your goals and bring in the income you need to continue growing your business without marketing.

And marketing is all-encompassing. It requires having a solid brand foundation, a marketing strategy tailored to your unique customer and client journey, and systems and routines that make marketing your brand efficient, effective and effortless.

So many entrepreneurs start by DIYing their brand and marketing, grabbing a free lead magnet here or there, or paying for the occasional course. They piecemeal a marketing strategy together, essentially throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks.

Does this sound like you?

If it does, you're likely overwhelmed by all the advice out there and wish you knew what was right for your brand. You're tired of feeling alone in building a business and crave a community and support system, but can't afford an expensive mastermind. You want the guidance and accountability of a coach but can't afford the high 1-on-1 prices.

Today Iโ€™m going to share my 5-step framework to marketing success.

The Marketing Bar

It starts with The Marketing Bar โ€“ an all-encompassing, affordable brand and marketing membership for solo entrepreneurs.

As a member, you'll learn how to create and grow the perfect brand cocktail for your business, increase visibility, master your marketing, and create paying fans of your brand.

While new Instagram reel strategies, email marketing campaigns, and fancy lead magnets can be useful, they won't magically make you successful. There's no switch, no one plan, and no launch secret that will make all of your business worries fade away overnight. The Marketing Bar takes a different approach, focusing on building a strong brand foundation and understanding your audience and client journey so you can adapt consistent marketing systems for your business that actually work.

Inside the Marketing Bar, I help you craft your unique brand cocktail using my 5-step framework. Through a guided course, live coaching, and the support and accountability of your peers, you'll define or refine the foundations of your brand and marketing. With those core elements in place, you'll learn how to take the best practices from all areas of marketing (online, social, email, sales, PR, etc.) and expertly mix them into your business to reach your goals.

5-Step Marketing SUccess Framework

So, how can The Marketing Bar help you find marketing success? Let's dive into the 5-step framework that will take you from struggling to thriving.

Step 1: Build a Solid Brand Foundation

The Marketing Bar is all about creating a unique brand identity that sets your business apart from others. This includes crafting a brand's heart, visual identity, and brand voice. Having a strong brand identity shows that you are confident in your message and have a unique voice that you love. When you have a strong brand foundation, you will attract your ideal clients and make it easier for them to know, like, and trust you.

Step 2: Design Your Marketing Strategy Based on Your Unique Client Journey

The Marketing Bar helps entrepreneurs design their marketing strategy based on their unique client journey. This is the path that your ideal clients take to find you, get to know you, and ultimately become paying customers. This is not a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all strategy. We tailor a strategy based on your brand, your ideal audience, and your unique client journey. Meeting your ideal audience where they are and creating an intentional marketing strategy that puts them on a simplified and direct path to know, like, and trust you is key to taking your marketing from chaotic and inefficient to streamlined and focused.

Step 3: Create Systems and Routines to Make Marketing Your Brand Efficient, Effective, and Effortless

Consistent marketing routines don't have to suck all your time and energy out of your day. The Marketing Bar helps entrepreneurs bring joy into their marketing with systems designed to work for them. With the exclusive Marketing Activities tool, you'll learn how to choose which marketing activities to embark on and how to create efficient and effective marketing routines based on your unique marketing journey that fit into your busy schedule, so you can spend more time doing the things you love in your business.

Step 4: Get Support and Encouragement from a Community

Entrepreneurship can be lonely, but it doesn't have to be. The Marketing Bar provides entrepreneurs with a community and support system that they might not find among their friends and family. You can connect with other like-minded individuals, get feedback on your ideas, and hold each other accountable. Not only do we support each other in The Marketing Bar, but collaborations and referrals are also encouraged.

Step 5: Guidance and Accountability of a Coach

You can't afford to outsource your marketing or spend a lot of money on high 1-on-1 prices. The Marketing Bar provides entrepreneurs with the guidance and accountability of a coach at an affordable price. Get individual coaching to advance your brand, accountability, and the latest insights and resources you need to stay ahead of your competitors during the bi-weekly coaching calls or anytime in the Community. 

The Marketing Bar is an all-encompassing brand marketing membership that offers entrepreneurs a chance to create a solid brand foundation, design a marketing strategy based on their unique client journey, and create efficient and effective marketing routines. Plus, you'll have the support and guidance of a community of like-minded entrepreneurs who are all working towards the same goal.

Success in your business is within your reach, and it all starts with building a solid brand foundation. So why not join us today and start building the brand and business of your dreams?

Join The Marketing Bar Today!

Kristin Lawton

Ready to grow your brand and get a handle on your social media once and for all without a ton of work?

Then you need Kristin Lawton behind the bar with you. As chief brand mixologist for the District Brand Bar, Kristin uses her decades of experience directing marketing and branding strategies to help small business owners see results for their bottom line. She distills down an otherwise time-consuming process into a simple-to-implement tailored brand recipe. Her work with businesses and sole entrepreneurs gets results. Her action plans get you organized to effectively share compelling content and engage with your customers online, driving traffic to meet your revenue goals.

When not boosting engagement on Instagram, youโ€™ll find her behind her home bar creating a new cocktail or embracing her adventurous spirit in and around Washington, DC with a new restaurant, new travel destination or new hike.

https://www.districtbrandbar.com
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