Part 1: Content - The Most Powerful Communication Elements
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This transcription introduces a podcast series focused on messaging, explaining its importance in unifying brand communication across various platforms like ads, content, and sales. The speaker clarifies that messaging is the cohesive framework linking all these elements. The episode delves into content messaging, presenting four key content quadrants: connection to build trust, educational to establish authority, self-identifying to help audiences recognize their problems, and thought reversal to challenge outdated industry norms and gain thought leadership. The speaker stresses that effective content relies on first understanding the audience's specific problems and symptoms, which then inspire topics and enhance relevance. A starting guideline suggests allocating 50% of content to educational, 20% each to connection and self-identifying, and 10% to thought reversal, with flexibility to adjust based on audience response. The overall goal is to use these messaging elements to create a consistent, trustworthy, and authoritative brand voice that guides the audience through a cohesive communication ecosystem.
So messaging is a big topic and some people, you know, honestly don't even really know what messaging is. What's the difference between messaging and copy and messaging and content and all of that stuff. Well, what we're going to do is we're going to spend the next five weeks going through explaining what messaging is where it fits in how to make it all connected and more because there's a lot of pieces right. You have ads, you have launches, you have content, you have emails, you have all these things that are going out and a lot of people look at that and they go, well, what's the framework for this email or what's the framework for this sales process or this or that. But they never ask how do I communicate within the email that not just to the ad that matches to the webinar and pull people through and just create cohesive communication through my entire brand. And so today what we're going to do is we're going to dive deep into the content side of well, what messaging elements do we need when creating content, how can we create really powerful content, what content do we need and more. What I want you to do is to pay attention to the elements that we're going to be talking about pay attention to the elements that we are using because what you'll notice is the same elements that we're going to be talking about today will be the same elements we use through the next five weeks as we dive into every piece of messaging that you're going to need within your. So if you're ready to figure out and see and hear how you can start creating really effective content to build report build trust the two types of trust you need yes, there are two types of trust you need. How to build educational content establish authority we're diving into all of that today so if you want to learn how to do all that inside your content well keep on listening. Hi, I'm Branley Sarrow and you're about to experience the new way to thrive in business entrepreneurship in life by leaning into who you are, what you love and standing up for what you want to create. Get ready because this is where we go against the grain say no to outdated society norms and we say yes to change in order to create a happier, more fulfilled world. Welcome in Generation Entrepreneur Podcast. Hello, ladies and gentlemen welcome back to another episode of the new generation entrepreneur podcast we have something pretty special for you guys today is going to be episode number one of a five part series we're doing all around messaging. Okay, so we're going to do it's all around messaging and each week is going to be a different episode on messaging or a different topic around messaging so we're going to talk about content messaging within content messaging within sales messaging within launches and funnels messaging within ads and we're going to go through each. You know like the elements involved in each one of those and then the fifth episode will be how do we use all of these elements together to create one big messaging ecosystem within your brand and what you'll find is we kind of use the same elements all the way through the entire series because that's what messaging is messaging is your communication. But the great thing is is once you understand your communication the effective communication you just get to use it everywhere within your brand so again ads launches sales content and more so let's go ahead and dive in today what we're going to do is talk about content and I do have to apologize I'm a little under the weather as you can hopefully maybe you didn't notice but maybe you did it's one of those things where I breathe into heavily I feel like I have to cough so if I cough for. Stutter or stumble that's that's the reason why but we're going to power through we're going to do this we're going to go deep into messaging behind content so let's start with. Content in the elements that we're going to need for content so when it comes to messaging you have to understand most parts most of us. The very first thing that we have to do with messaging or the very first experience that people are going to have with messaging usually comes in two ways two areas it comes in the form of content or ads so ads will be you know the first thing that people see. If they're brand new cold to you that sort of stuff content also like they maybe they stumble upon you or they search and find you or someone sends in the video so that could also be a first touch point. However what we want to the main difference with content versus ads is ads is like almost guaranteed once you run through warm traffic it's pretty much guaranteed that everyone who is seeing your ad is brand spanking new to you they're not going to have time to go through your content they're not going to have or not time but they're not going to have that experience of going through your content listening to. What you have to say or listening to a podcast episode so it's quick it's short it's more direct response content doesn't necessarily have to be direct response it shouldn't be direct response it really like in order for if content to be really effective and have great messaging within your brand people need to experience multiple pieces of your content you can't deliver every single piece of your message or messaging in your content is just impossible you can't do it. Okay so we need to go step by step and go through it there's not going to be remember there's not going to be a single piece of content that's going to have every element we need messaging element that's why we have four quadrants of content to deliver different types of messages at different times. The only way I've seen it really work where like one piece of content could embrace all of those is when it comes to podcasting podcasting allows us to have more time to be able to do those things but it also doesn't have to you don't need to shove all of this into a single episode on podcast so with that being said let's start off with the four quadrants of content now these four quadrants they kind of shift in and changed over the last year or so. A little bit if you're in NGM you have everything that you need but if you're not in there yet what you may have heard on the podcast may be a little bit different than what you hear today depending on how long you've been listening so i'm just going to dive into these four quadrants now I want to be very clear about something these four quadrants are not equally spaced out okay so they're not equally spaced out meaning that it's not a 25 25 25 25 like you do. 25 25 25 25 25 25 now every brand is a little bit different so some brands might do better with thought reversals which if you don't know what that is we will definitely go into that today some may do better with self identifying some might be better with educational so you're going to have to just sort of see which which not formula but percentage works better for your business like oh my audience says really well with this or resonates really well with this or not so much with these types and i'm going to limit these a little bit so you get to kind of go through it all so i'm going to go through the four quadrants of content the first one is connection connection content is really important because this is what allows you to build the trust with your audience this is like the know the like the trust this is where we build that rapport this is where we get to speak our message speak our heart this is where we really get to open up and just really just stand up for you know what we want to believe in these can also be sort of classified as motivational inspirational sometimes that happens sometimes people will look at these and go oh you're just doing a motivational video and as we dive deeper into them you'll see why they're not just motivational and if you just classify them as motivational inspirational you'll be missing a lot and you'll see why in a second so that's connection again it builds the trust that's the objective of why we do it allows you to speak your heart it allows you to state what you believe within your brand what your brand stands for it allows you to just build that connection get people to go like wow I really I really like that person number two is educational not and I want to be very clear I'm not talking about how to there's a lot of different ways to do educational content it doesn't have to be in the form of tutorial or how to although it can be but there are a lot of different ways to educate people you know I always use the example of a TED talk versus an encyclopedia TED talk is engaging great lessons creates demand but is not just like here's not going to stop too so again we want both inside of our program we've like five or six different ways to do educational content including something called the persuasive tutorial but age educational is great because it allows you to build that authority allows you to just demonstrate and show people look I know what I'm talking about I'm pretty good I'm pretty good I'm an authority it's that sort of thing and obviously to help people right it's to help your audience it's to help them solve a problem it's to help them overcome something to find a solution it's all of that so it's educational has many different pieces to it there's multiple ways to to go about it okay number but again just to recap it gives you that authority so now we have we've covered connection we've covered educational so now we've built that rapport we've built the connection we've built the no like and trust and we've established some sort of authority okay number two is what I call self identifying language the master of this in my opinion is the holistic psychologist she's very good this content in fact her content is what allowed me to discover wow this self identifying thing is really powerful because I saw how powerful her content was and as I dove deeper into ask myself why is it so powerful I started to become more clear on why it was powerful the reason why it was so powerful is because it got the audience to come to their own conclusion
that one, they have the problem that she can solve. And, or, not only did it do that, but sometimes it would also create extreme amount of relevance, relevancy, because people would be like, "Oh my God, that's exactly what I'm dealing with. That's what I'm going through. She's describing me." Okay? What it also did is it made people aware of things they weren't aware of before. So you have to understand your audience has a problem. They don't know that they, what the, why it's happening, they don't know why, what they're trying to do to fix it isn't working. And when you can sort of connect those dots for people, like, this is why, this is what's causing the problem. Or this is why this thing you're doing to try to fix a problem isn't working. People go, "Oh, okay, it's not connecting. It's awareness raising." So we'll talk about self identifying as well. And then the last quadrant is thought reversal. Thought reversal is perspective shifting content. When we look at best selling books, these are always the best selling books. They always know like in the nonfiction realm. It's always like, look, I know this is the industry standard. This is the belief most people have. This is probably what you've been doing. But it doesn't work. And you start to show the flaws and you start to discredit those industry norms or those beliefs. And people go like, "Oh my God, I never saw that before. I never realized that before." So the reason why I thought reversals are so important because it gives you thought leadership access or status. And the reason why it does that is because you're challenging the status quo, you're challenging the norm, you're taking a stand for something that's outdated and doesn't work anymore. You have to understand that everything inside of your space was all created by someone at some point. It will become outdated as we grow, as we learn, as we discover more things. That's what thought reversal starts to do. Thought reversals start to challenge outdated stuff and position you as a thought leader. You have to do them right. You have to do them correct. You can't just do them for the sake of trying to be right. You actually have to identify and find those limited and outdated beliefs and those industry norms that don't work anymore. You have to find those things. But when we have thought reversals, it gives you thought leadership access and then when we have this self-identifying content that I talked about, what we start to do is we start to get the other type of trust that you need. And the other type of trust that you're going to need within your brand is people have to trust in your ability to solve their problem. If they do not trust your ability to solve their problem, they will not buy from you. They just won't. It's just the way it works. They will not buy from you. No matter how much they like you, no matter how much they think you're cool or funny or whatever it may be, they will not buy from you if they do not trust in your ability to solve their problem. You know, I have a lot of friends who are very successful and they don't have kids. And if they ever released a course on how to raise successful kids, I probably wouldn't buy their course even though I adore them and love them because I don't trust their ability to teach that to accomplish that because they never done it. They just don't have the experience. So self-identifying content allows us to do that. So what I want to do is now that we have the four quadrants of content, I was thinking of like, how do we go and teach these? And so I'm going to do it a little bit different. I'm not going to go into each one and talk about how to do it. I'm actually going to talk about the elements you're going to need to make all of these work and then tell you what content those elements are relevant to. So we'll give that a shot. So in order to start putting, oh, let's go here real quick. The thing that I want to say about these four quadrants is you guys are not limited to just these four quadrants. You should be testing other things. Like, try vlogging, you know? Try like short dancing reels if that's what your heart desires. Like just try whatever it is that you want to try. In no way, by no means am I telling you, you have to use these four and just these four. You want to use these four in combination with whatever else it is that you want to use. And so you're not stuck with just these four. In fact, I think you should always be experimenting with everything. Now, the ratio that I recommend you use is going to be start with, where is it? Okay, so I would say start with about 50% educational. 20% connection, 20% self identifying and 10% thought reversal and just, and around that ratio and just see what starts to happen. So just see what starts to happen. And then you can adjust those ratios based on how your audience receives it and how they respond to it. All right, so let's dive into the elements. So here's the elements 'cause the next question I get is like, well, Brian, how do we start to piece these together? What elements do I need? What are the topics going to be? All of that stuff, okay? So number one is we want to start with problems and symptoms. So the reason why we're going to start with problems and symptoms is you have to understand what it is that your audience is dealing with. You have to ask yourself, what do I solve for people? What does my skills, what does my knowledge, what is all of this actually solve for people? And what a lot of people do is they just take all their skills and knowledge and they shove it into a program and then they try to sell the program and they don't understand why it's not working and they don't realize, okay, I'm talking too much from solution, I'm trying to over educate people all of that stuff, right? But when we start to accurately and specifically describe people's problems, what starts to happen is their subconscious automatically starts to pay attention to what's going on, okay? So when I say, hey, if you're a course creator dealing with x, y and z and it's so specific that someone reads and goes, oh my god, that's me, that's the self identifying language that we want. So the first messaging elements are piecing your content together is you want those things. You need to know those things. And what I always do, or what we use this for is going to be in our self identifying content. So when you create a piece of content that says like five reasons why this problem occurs and then you go through the five causes, right? Those are problems, those are symptoms, those are mistakes that cause it, those are the causes. Like that sort of specific language is great with self identifying content. Self identifying content just gets the audience to go, oh my god, that's me. I never realized that's why that's happening. Get some two self identifying. But we also want to use it in educational content because what I like to do is when we start educational content and I say something like, hey guys, today we're going to teach you how to create engaging content. Look, I know it's frustrating when you're putting out your best content, your best information, and no one seems to really pay attention to it. No one's clicking on it, no one's consuming it. It's really, really frustrating. And if you're here, you've probably been doing it for three months or more. Now the audience goes, oh my god, how do you know that? That's exactly what I'm dealing with. So even in my educational content, because I know the problem, I'm able to pull people in. So the other reason why we want to start with the problems when it comes to self identifying and educational is because they can also inspire topics. So if I know the problem that someone is having is that they're putting out their best information and they're not getting the sales, then I can create a piece of content around that that is like five ways to get more engagement on your best information in the form of content or something like that. Like that's not the world's best title. But hopefully you guys are seeing like, it's not about a benefit based title, although those are still helpful. It is a problem based thing, right? So another example would be if I'm a parenting coach, and I know that I have an audit, like I yell at my kids in order to get them to listen. My title could be how to stop, or how to get your kids to listen the first time, or how to stop yelling at your, how to stop yelling at your kids, or how to get your kids to listen without yelling, right? So those are all titles that are stemming in base from a problem, not necessarily a solution or end goal. Now sometimes when we go too deep into the end goal and things like that, our titles might look like how to heal, how parents can heal their trauma to stop yelling at their kids, and it's like, well, yeah, that might be, that might be the solution is like, because they're triggered and then they're yelling, and there's some sort of trauma there, or something, right? But they don't know that. They just know that they're out of problems. So when we kind of take the problems into our mind when we're creating the titles and we're creating the topics, it just becomes another level of relevance. There's another level of relevancy to our audience. So we want to know the problems. We want to know the symptoms of what our audience is going through. These, to be honest with you, you could also probably use these four thought reversal titles. So thought reversals will be that perspective shifting content. So a thought reversal would be essentially like this. Like I could identify an industry norm. I can understand that is outdated, which I believe that how to content in order to build an audience is an outdated belief. I don't think it works for everyone. I think it works for like maybe 5% of the people out there. So I look at that and go, OK, well, I'm a creative title. Curiosity-driven title. It says, is how to content really the best way to build a brand online? Question mark. And then I start with, is how to content really the best way to build a brand online? Then I live in compassion. Look, I understand why you think that. Everyone and their mom is telling you to do this and that. And da da da da da. But when we look at Gary Vaynerchuk, Simon Sennick, Brane Brown, they have huge brands, tons of engagement. And they aren't doing how to content. They're doing something else. Now in that moment, people go like, "Oh my God, I never realized that before."
And then I can go into the new solution, right? But I sometimes looking at the problem really helps with this because I go, what's the problem that someone is going through? What is the problem they're going through? And I ask myself, why do they have that problem? Is there a belief that they're doing? Is there a mistake that there are belief that they have? Is there a mistake that they're doing? Because beliefs cause actions. So is there a belief they have that's causing the action that they have that's causing the problem? I'm asking myself, is there an industry norm here that they're following or believing that that that that is causing the problem? And those won't always be the most powerful thought reversal topics. So element number one that we need is going to be problems and symptoms. Okay. Ben or the next element we're going to need is benefits and desires. Now I don't talk about this enough because I really harp on problems because it's just one of these things that people just don't get people just don't seem to follow and understand and I have to say it a million and a half times. So I lean really heavy into pushing people to understanding the problems. But at the same time, we do need to understand the benefits and the desires that people also have. So what are they trying to gain? What are they trying to accomplish? And what I find is when we focus more on what are they trying to gain and accomplish, we want to look at what's within their awareness. So if again, if you're a parenting coach and you know that parents yell their kids because they're triggered and they have triggers because there's trauma, we don't want to say to them like finally heal your trauma. We want to say finally stop yelling at your kids. So it's like, hey, do you have to yell at your kids minimum two times every morning in order to get them to listen and the only thing you want to do is you just want to figure out how you can get them to listen without yelling with almost every single task that you have within the house that you need them to do. So now we're combining the problem with the benefit and the end goal. So we do need to know the specific benefits, the specific desires and keyword here is specific specific problem specific benefits, specific desires and we want to do it with educational content. Okay. So the reason why I use this with educational content is because it will inspire titles. So you can still use benefit driven stuff in your titles and just test it. Just see just see how it does. But also you want to use them while you teach. So if I'm going to start a video and says how like, hey guys, today I'm going to teach you how to create really engaging content. And then I go right into the problem like, hey, you're probably posting your best stuff for free. It's not really working. It's completely frustrating. Well, in this video in the next five minutes, we're going to totally break down how you can create really engaging content that stops the scroll gets your ideal audience to click over and you'll never have crickets on your videos again. Right. So problem and benefit combined together in the intro of my educational content makes it more powerful. And honestly, guys, I do the same thing with every step that I teach too. So every step that I teach, especially on webinars and sales mechanisms, I'm always going into that before I even reveal the step is I said, okay, here's step number one. Like, here's the biggest problem you're going to face when this is not working. But after this and after I teach you this, you're going to be able to experience x, y and z. So again, benefits and desires. Let's move on to messaging element number three. Messaging element number three is beliefs and industry norms. We need to know the beliefs and industry norms that your audience has that are causing problems. So once you identify the problems, you need to ask yourself what beliefs do they have and what norms are they following that are causing these problems? Well, belief do they have what industry norm are they listening to that is causing the problem and they're almost always as one. And as you start to find out what these are, you start to create thought reversals around these. Okay. So you start to create thought reversals around these industry norms and beliefs. So with a thought reversal, the first thing you want to do is just state what the belief is, state what the norm is. Okay. Number two, and then or you can question it. So you want to state what it is and say that it's wrong, it's outdated or whatever, or question it. Is this really the best way to get x, y and z? Then you want to live in compassion because you're going to be budding up against the reality. So you're going to, you're going to go right into like, I understand why you think that. And then you're going to go into discredit. So you want to discredit the belief, basically you're going to expose the flaws in it. So you can use different sort of patterns like chunking up. So you ask like, well, does everyone who do how to content get the result they want? No. We can chunk down and make it specific to them. So it's like, well, if that was working, then how come it's not working for you? Why isn't it working now? We can use counter-adimpals like I use Gary Vaynerchuk, Brunei Brown, all of that stuff. To kind of show like, oh my gosh, yeah, they aren't doing that, right? And then you want to go into, so what are they doing or what is the solution, then you go into your solution. But again, it all stems from beliefs and industry norms. And when you guys watch my launches or my webinars, I'm using all of these. I'm talking about problems and I'm talking about symptoms. I'm talking about benefits. I'm talking about the desires. I'm talking about the beliefs and the industry norms. And I'm talking about the mistakes they're making that they're not aware of them connecting these dots, right? And then number, yeah, so the next thing we want to do, that's not reversals, the next thing we want to do is move into connection content with beliefs. So we still want to use beliefs inside of connection content. And we want to do this not with the beliefs that are causing problems, but the beliefs that you want to take a stand for. So like, I have a belief that I think entrepreneurs are the ones that change the world the most. I believe kindness and compassion is something that everyone should have, like getting out of anger is something that everyone should should focus on. Like, these are all things that I think would be really beneficial. I think focusing on your limiting beliefs and overcoming them are all like really powerful things that you can do as an entrepreneur, right? So I can talk about those things. I can talk about that in stories. I can talk about that in content. I also believe that, you know, we should be teaching kids to be critical thinkers. And I believe that we should be teaching kids to question things. And I believe that society's not set up for our kids to be successful. I believe all of that stuff. And I talk about that within my brand, probably not as much as I should, but I love talking about it within the brand because it builds connection with my audience. So my audience tends to believe similar things. And it's like, okay, I really like Brandon and I like what he says and I like what he stands for. I also tell a lot of stories that kind of reveal my values. So my kids, my family, all that stuff is a high value to me to me. I talk about my spiritual path because that is a high value to me. I talk about all these things to just again, relay my beliefs, relay my stuff. And by the way, you don't have to relay everything in your brand. You can be totally selected with it. So you don't have to like talk about anything and everything within your brand. You have to understand that what you choose to do with your connection content will be who you attract. So if you're like, you know, if you're Catholic or you have some sort of religious belief or you are spiritual and you're like, I don't want to just work with Catholics or spiritual people. I want to work with everyone. Well, then maybe don't talk about it as much, right? But if you are like that and you're like, I do want to just work with people with this belief system, then start to use that in your brand and you start to talk about it more. And then that's going to be who you attract. You're literally the light that attracts the audience that comes into your ecosystem. So use it with your connection content. Your beliefs, right? So the next thing that we want to talk about element number four is going to be your identity and values. And this is the identities of who you want to attract. So if you want to attract moms, then use the word moms. If you want to attract course creators and use the word course creators, if you want to attract yogis, then use the word yogis. And then you can incorporate that into your titles as well. So for me in our ads and our content, I try to use the word course creators and online coaches a lot. We use it within our copy. You know, one of the things I could do inside of a title is instead of titleing it how to create engaging content, I can tell how course creators create engaging content. So now someone's identities in there, that's going to be who I tracked. That's a like a subconscious trigger that's going to get them to stop and listen and pay attention. But I also want to include values. And I kind of talked about that already. So we're going to put that into connection content. So connection content really boils down to identities, values, beliefs of the person that you want to attract. But there's also the other beliefs that they have that are causing problems. They're limiting beliefs. So you have empowering beliefs and limiting beliefs, empowering beliefs and who you want to attract. Because in connection content, you have limiting beliefs that go into thought reversal content. This is also something that I like to talk about when it comes to niching. So a lot of the elements that we talked about already in the form of content are literally what we're going to use to niche down. And so what this means is we're going to use problems, identities and values. So if you want to niche and you're not really sure how to niche down or whatever it may be, you want to start with the problem. So you're going to say, I help or you're going to start with the identity. I help identity who overcome this problem, but also has these values. So for me, it would be something like I help course creators who put their best stuff out there for free. Post a lot of information that can really help people. But their audience and sales just aren't growing their launches or sort of plateaued.
But it's so frustrating because they want to change the world. That's a value. So the value has changed the world. The problem is posting stuff and it's not really resonating, even though it can help people. And the identity is the course creator. That's my niche. I don't pick a category of a category of a category. I'm using these elements to figure out what my niche is going to be, who my niche is. So I'm using all of these elements to sort of figure that out. And then the last element I'm going to cover, and I'm going to cover it quickly because it's pretty straightforward and simple is your unique solution. The unique solution is kind of the last element. It's really important, but I don't like putting a lot of weight on it because when I do, a lot of people go directly into teaching mode. So what unique solution is, is your unique process to solving the problem for someone. That's it. So you all have a process. If you have a course, you have a program, you have a process. You have a process of how you help people, right? So when it comes to your unique solution, you all have a process for it. That process can also inspire educational content topics. So if I know pillar number one for me is subconscious language or scroll stopping language or whatever you want to call it, then I can look at that and go, "Okay, what can I teach underneath pillar number one in the form of educational content?" Okay, I got this topic. I got this topic. I got this topic. What problem is someone facing that requires this topic to be necessary, right? So now I know the problem. I can use it in the copy. I have the topic. I actually know that what I'm about to teach is relevant to my unique solution. It's connected to my offer. And then I get to use all the other elements that we talked about. So when we go through that educational content, I get to teach part of my unique solution. I get to use the problems. I get to use the benefits. Or sorry, the benefits. I can use connection points or value points if I want. You know, all of that stuff. So unique solution is really helpful with content because it can inspire a lot of content topics. So with that being said, let's just do a quick recap. The four quadrants you need are connection content, educational content, self identifying and thought reversal. Okay, you can use more than that. You don't have to not limit it to just those four. You can use more than that. But I do recommend you use them all because connections going to give you that no like and trust. Educational is going to give you that authority. Self identifying is going to build that relevancy, but also the trust and your ability to solve their problem in thought reversals is going to give you that thought leadership because it's giving you. It's allowing you to shift people's perspective. Okay. Now in order to create these to the most amount of effectiveness, we would need problems. You need to know the problems in the symptoms. So that's going to help us self identifying and thought reversals and even educational. You need to know the benefits and the desires that they have to what benefits are going to give them and what desires that they have. That's going to help with educational content, especially as you start to teach it. You can you can sell even within your educational content, you can start to get them to self identifying. Number three is you need to know the beliefs and industry norms, the limiting beliefs that are causing the problems that they have and industry norms. This is going to help with connection content. But number three, we also need to know not just the limiting beliefs, but we need to know the empowering beliefs. So when we have the empowering beliefs, that allows us to build empowering, I'm sorry, I'm just writing it down. So empowering beliefs, it allows us to build really effective connection content. So when we have these beliefs that empower, this is what I stand for is what I believe is my brand is, it allows people to really sort of connect with us. The fourth element is identity in values, you need to know the identity, who you want to attract and the values that they have. And then that's going to be used for your connection content. And then we have unique solution, which is just what is your process, what are the pillars, what are the columns that you use in order to get someone result and then use those as inspiration for educational content topics and all of that good stuff. So you get to just look at it and go like, okay, what can I teach it? And then you can use some of these other elements within those videos as well. Okay, so that's how we start to use messaging and sort of content. It allows us to gain all these things that we need in order to build an audience. So it gives us all these things we need in order to start generating sales. Okay. So with that being said, what we're going to do next week is we're going to dive into another topic. So we're going to dive into add, we still have ads, we have launches, we have what else sales, we have, and then the fifth episode is going to talk about how all these elements work together to produce really great funnels and really great branding and ecosystem. So hopefully by the end of this, you guys will have everything you need and then we actually have a three day training coming up in March, that will help you go even further because now that you kind of know the guidelines and the direction of where to go. Putting this all together is actually, it is the difficult part, the understanding of what I should do is fairly easy, but how do we do it? What are the exercises involved? What are the frameworks? What are the frameworks for connection? What are the frameworks for educational? What types of education or like, what do I do when I have all of these and how, once I have all the elements, how do I start to piece these together inside their actual content and then once, once I have, once I know the elements, how do I know they're even working, how do I know they're even resonating with people. So that is what we're going to start to cover and help you with inside of the launch, our three day training in March and surprise surprise will be opening up NGM at the end of March as well to help you go through and piece all this together. So I'm really excited we're going to be diving a lot into the messaging over the next couple of weeks. So that's it for this week. I'll see you guys all next week and we'll dive into another topic. And if you have not done so already, please leave us a review on iTunes. I love reading those reviews and that's it. We'll see you next week. Take care everyone.
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The speaker introduces a five-part series on messaging, emphasizing its role in creating cohesive communication across all brand touchpoints like ads, content, emails, and sales funnels.
Four quadrants of content are outlined
Effective messaging starts with understanding audience problems and symptoms, which informs content creation across all quadrants, ensuring relevance and engagement. A recommended starting content ratio is 50% educational, 20% connection, 20% self-identifying, and 10% thought reversal.
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This transcription introduces a podcast series focused on messaging, explaining its importance in unifying brand communication across various platforms like ads, content, and sales. The speaker clarifies that messaging is the cohesive framework linking all these elements. The episode delves into content messaging, presenting four key content quadrants: connection to build trust, educational to establish authority, self-identifying to help audiences recognize their problems, and thought reversal to challenge outdated industry norms and gain thought leadership.
The speaker stresses that effective content relies on first understanding the audience's specific problems and symptoms, which then inspire topics and enhance relevance. A starting guideline suggests allocating 50% of content to educational, 20% each to connection and self-identifying, and 10% to thought reversal, with flexibility to adjust based on audience response. The overall goal is to use these messaging elements to create a consistent, trustworthy, and authoritative brand voice that guides the audience through a cohesive communication ecosystem.
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Messaging is the overarching communication strategy that ties all brand elements together, while copy and content are specific applications of that messaging in formats like ads, emails, or articles.
The four quadrants are connection content (builds rapport and trust), educational content (establishes authority), self-identifying content (helps audiences recognize their problems), and thought reversal content (challenges outdated norms to position you as a thought leader).
Start with a recommended ratio of 50% educational, 20% connection, 20% self-identifying, and 10% thought reversal, then adjust based on your audience's response and engagement.
Self-identifying content helps your audience recognize their own problems and feel understood, which builds trust in your ability to solve those issues and increases relevance.
Thought reversal content challenges outdated industry norms or beliefs, positioning you as a thought leader and helping your audience see new perspectives.
Begin by identifying your audience's specific problems and symptoms, then use these insights to craft topics and titles that resonate in self-identifying, educational, or thought reversal content.
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