There’s a powerful new Communication Era available for those who are looking to communicate their message to a market. Are you prepared to take advantage of it?

A little over a year ago – I coined the term ‘Intellectual Voyeurism’ to reflect that much of our representation of ourselves to our clients was becoming more ‘consumption-based’ than ‘promotion-based’.

What do I mean by that?

Before facebook, twitter and the like, a marketer pretty much managed the flow of information to his prospect. As someone visited a website, they registered for an autoresponder which portioned out – in carefully measured and timed releases – access to the ‘expert information’.

Era of ‘Managed Information Flow’

This was the Era of ‘Managed Infomation’. Experts showed their Prospects what they chose to when they chose to and literally crafted the tight little path to a decision.

People went to a “Squeeze Page” (why that name is attractive still eludes me!) which then determined exactly how the ‘expert’ was going to ’show his hand’ and dole out just enough information to create the desire necessary for them to buy.

Enter Social Media… in 2007-2008, facebook was a site that represented the wild frontier for marketers. For some who actually made money as a result of connecting to prospects via facebook (twitter soon followed), the seduction process changed drastically.

No longer could you control the order and the process of flow of information to your prospects. Now, your postings became part of the ‘information collective’ and someone could land on ANY piece of prospect seduction that you had available at ANY time and consume as much or little of your ’stuff’ as possible.

Era of Selective Transparency

This represented the migration of Prospect Seduction from the Era of ‘Managed Information’ to a new Era of ‘Selective Transparency’. The challenge was that people were now observing all the seduction elements we were putting online (testimonials – offers – teleseminar event invitations – etc) without seeing them in any specific order BUT…

Experts were able to manage what passed in front of the ‘windows’ into their online world. In other words – the FLOW couldn’t be managed, but we were able to at LEAST control what was being voyeured and represent ourselves in a manner that was flattering.

Evolution has a way of speeding up even the degree of change!

And with less than 18 months of being the paradigm for representing your message online, the Era of ‘Selective Transparency’ is already seeing a new challenge from within the market!

Both availability of information and the ‘meshing’ of data input has begun to shift a new era into the forefront.

The first technological enablers of this new shift are the abilitis to ‘tweet’ about someone else’s services, quotes, and transformation offerings. The ubiquity of ‘tagging’ enables not only people to create and submit information about you – but even to do it in such a way such that ALL of your followers can see it as if you posted it yourself!

This can have AMAZING leveraged benefits and can present challenges as well. As with any Era in marketing, being prepared to capitalize on the amazing benefits this new Era brings and not be blindsided by the challenges that accompany it.

Social Media moved the bar from Selectively Managing Information FLOW to having your entire composition of contribution available on demand to peruse and yes – even Voyeur your body of work and your presentation of yourself online. In much the same way, the increased INTERACTION within Social Media has not only expanded the FLOW of Information about you, but the Sourcing as well.

If you’re lucky – you have ceased to be the primary source of your own work within the ’space’ of market interaction. Forum posts, blog comments, facebook posts, comments and the like made by your clients collectively make up more of this online repository of who you are as your own directly posted contributions.

Era of the Market Mirror

We’ve now entered the Era of the Market Mirror. Consistently, how we’re viewed in the eyes of our collective market is available for review to anyone who searches us or watches our personal ‘feeds’. The mirrors of a dozen, a hundred, a thousand admirers, frustrated followers, questioning searchers have become a cacophony of intellectual ‘noise’ that all references us!

Our job as we shift into this new Era is to create information that’s not only transformative, digestible and actionable. But also that is easy to mirror and is clear when represented by third parties. Just like those trying to hold to the carefully managed distribution of the ‘Squeeze and Respond’ paradigm of the Era of “Managed Information’ found themselves blindsided when Social Media began this new Era can be a bit ruthless unless we find a way to shape the information coming from the divergent sources now referencing us.

Our new responsibility as transformation artists in this new era is to provide our ’stuff’ in such a way that we literally COMPEL the market to represent and to ‘mirror’ our work in a massively leveraged fashion through each of THEIR universes… And to do it in a way that speaks to their followers in a way that honors both their voice and our message!

Ohhhh the opportunity that exists in this new Era to anyone who is aware! The ability to propagate a market with your message just got a whole lot easier. IF you know and tap into maximizing the use of this powerful paradigm!

With each new Era and the transition of the ‘rules for success’ that opens up, a new crop of success stories show up. Businesses who’ve not been tied down to the paradigms from the past and who are open to embracing the new opportunities this Era brings can quickly ride this wave to the top!

Are YOU on board?

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