{"id":456,"date":"2016-03-11T08:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T08:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2019-09-05T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:36:14","slug":"play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/play-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If baseball players played baseball the way that most business owners do their marketing they would be running out onto the field swinging a couple of bats, kicking a ball, jumping up and down on the bases, and trying to put their gloves on their head. They would have a rough idea about how the game is played but they would be going about it all wrong. What they would be missing would be rules and strategy.<\/p>\n

Your marketing approach must have a strategy behind it or you will be haphazardly using the tools of marketing in completely the wrong way. When I begin working with client I learn specifically what they’re struggling with in their business and what they want to achieve so I can design a marketing strategy specifically for them. So, you can be laser focused on winning the game while all the other teams are just playing with their balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If baseball players played baseball the way that most business owners do their marketing they would be running out onto the field swinging a couple of bats, kicking a ball, jumping up and down on the bases, and trying to put their gloves on their head. They would have a rough idea about how the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[49,33,41,40,51,50,46,31,38,44,36,39,47,34,43,42,37,48,45,35,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebigtimegroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}