I recently appeared as a guest on the Business Owner’s Toolkit podcast and they asked me to explain my Four-Spot Marketing Model. It contains what I consider to be the four essential spots of marketing: Branding, Experience, Conversation, Promotion.
I’ve illustrated them here in The Marketing Circle of Life, But Greg Corombos of Toolkit and I get to discuss them a in more detail in this 14 minute podcast.
Take a listen: The Four Essential Spots of Marketing
(My thoughts begin at the 2:50 mark)
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