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In this episode, Amanda C. Watts discusses the importance of trust in marketing and introduces 'The Trust Equation' to help sell high-value advisory services effectively.

You think you have a marketing problem. You think you're bad at sales. You post on LinkedIn, you get a few likes (mostly when you post a picture of your dog), but no ideal clients are reaching out. You feel like marketing is just pushing water up a hill, so you stop, write it off, and decide to rely on referrals again. Here is the truth: You don't have a marketing problem. You have a trust problem. You are trying to sell high-value advisory services—where a business owner has to let you into the most vulnerable parts of their life and business—to people who haven't had enough evidence that you understand them, can help them, and are worth paying premium fees for. If you are trying to build all that belief, value, and trust in a single sales call, it's never going to work. In this episode, I'm introducing "The Trust Equation" (Visibility x Value x Time). We’ll explore why selling advisory is fundamentally different from selling compliance, and why your marketing must do the heavy lifting before a prospect ever books a call. If your content is generic, cautious, and beige, you are failing the audition. I'll show you how to fix the equation so your marketing stops being…

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