Everything your business puts out, from ads to emails to webinars, is content. Most people fail because they don't know how to communicate it effectively. The word "messaging" didn't work until the speaker rebranded it as "content" and suddenly customers paid attention.
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But it was really hard. And I think this is like the first business lesson for a lot of people is that I started off trying to sell it as messaging and I started to realize like no one really knew what that was back then. And so I had to wrap it around as content and I started to say like, you want effective content. And then people started to pay attention to what I was doing. And, but I knew what was going on was I realized the num— number one reason why people either make it or they don't make it in this industry is their ability to get attention. But the way you communicate is how you get attention. And everything in this business is content. An ad is content, an email is content, your ad copy is content, your webinar is content. Everything is content. But content is literally created by how you communicate. And the biggest problem is people just don't know how to communicate in a way to make it land. And so that's what I focus on over the last 8 years, and that's what I teach now.