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You must have their insight that you dive into an ocean of friends with community involvement. You become involved with the community by helping it. It becomes involved with you by helping you. Marketers need friends. From these friends come business associates, marketing partners, investors, employees, customers, prospects, suppliers and referrals.<\/p>\n

Becoming involved with the community means more than joining clubs. It means contributing your brains and energy to the community. It means working hard to make your community a better place. You get to prove your conscientiousness and noble efforts with the work you do instead of the words you say. One of the keys to marketing \u2014 keeping it very personal, because the more personal the marketing the better \u2014 is in establishing relationships through networking.<\/p>\n

And one of the richest sources of networking opportunities is the community. You serve on committees. You go to little league games. You help set up parades, holiday decorating programs, Thanksgiving Day turkey races, Fourth of July celebrations. People see you in action. They see that you’re a person of action, a person who keeps their word.<\/p>\n

So when you say something in a marketing context, they tend to believe you. When you make an offer, they know it’s not going to be bogus. You’ve proved yourself in the community. There are wrong ways to demonstrate community involvement as well. If you volunteer to work on a committee but are never available for meetings, or if you sponsor a little league team and don’t show up for games, you’re proving yourself to be crass and superficial, probably sucking up the community to get business instead of working for it for altruistic reasons.<\/p>\n

Consumers are more sophisticated than ever these days. People know the difference between serving the community and serving yourself. If you’re not willing to devote honest time and energy to your community, you’re better off skipping this weapon and leaving it to the real guerrillas in your community. I just hope for your sake that none are your direct competitors.<\/p>\n

Your community is not merely defined by geography. Guerrillas become involved with their industrial community, though it may reach from coast to coast, or across the ocean. Digital communities are springing up all over the place as the world goes online. Whatever the size or scope of your community, the Guerrilla Rule remains the same: do unto others as they hope you will do unto them. As part of the community, they are hoping for your help, not your hype.<\/p>\n

While you’re involved with your community, be sure that you’re attuned to their problems. Listen for the \u201couch\u201d. Guerrillas know that it’s easier to sell the solution to a problem than to sell a positive benefit. That’s why they position themselves as problem-solvers. A well-known axiom of marketing has always been that it is much simpler to sell the solution to a problem than it is to sell a positive benefit.<\/p>\n

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By Jay Conrad Levinson \u00a9 2006 Jay Conrad Levinson and Guerrilla Marketing International. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from author or publisher (except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages and\/or show brief video clips in a review).<\/p>\n

Guerrilla Marketing During Tough Times includes and may make reference to works owned and copyrighted by individuals and\/or entities not affiliated with Jay Conrad Levinson and\/or Guerrilla Marketing International. All such ownership and copyrights remain with their respective owners. Jay Conrad Levinson and Guerrilla Marketing International make absolutely no claim of ownership or copyright to any third-party material. ISBN: 1-933596-10-4 Paperback ISBN: 1-933596-11-2 e-Book ISBN: 1-933596-12-0 Audio Published by: Morgan James Publishing, LLC 1225 Franklin Ave Ste 325 Garden City, NY 11530-1693 Toll Free 800-485-4943 www.MorganJamesPublishing.com Cover and Inside Design by: Heather Kirk www.GraphicsByHeather.com Heather@GraphicsByHeather.com OceanofPDF.com CRITICS ARE RAVING \u201cYour guerrilla marketing talk was definitely the highlight of our seminar schedule.<\/p>\n

In fact, many veteran attendees proclaimed you as the best speaker we have presented in our eight-year history.\u201d ~ David Scroggy, Director, Comic Book Expo \u201cA source of inspiration for many independent entrepreneurs.\u201d ~ Booklist \u201cEvery book by Jay Levinson is worth reading.\u201d ~ Jane Applegate, author of Succeeding in Small Business \u201cSlam dunk! Without exception, every person who attended our guerrilla marketing seminar said it was well worth their time. Some even commented that they were glad others did not show up because now they have a jump on their competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

~ Julie Lopresti, Advertising Manager, Pacific Bell \u201cAsk almost any successful entrepreneur what the best book is for building a small business, and one of Levinson’s titles will surely come up.\u201d ~ Entrepreneur Business Success Guide \u201cYou gave us concise, practical ideas to implement directly and virtually all of them were applicable and affordable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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