What is Your Message

What Is Your Message What Is Your Message?

By Anthony Mora
Copyright© Anthony Mora 2006

Okay, here’s a tough one, what is your message? What is the central idea behind your business? Two or three people can run the exact same business, whether it’s a clothing line, a dry cleaners, a law practice, or a skin care company, and the message behind each of the businesses can be completely different for each one. It is vitally important to understand what your message is and what you are trying to communicate to your prospective clients.

Take a few minutes and write a description of what your message is and what you want to communicate to your audience. Think of it as a brief mission statement that helps define you and your business. Doing this brief exercise can help give you a clear vision of what it is you want to accomplish.

This isn’t always as easy as it wounds and the answers aren’t always obvious. It may take some time and some soul searching. But it’s important that your audience, clients, or patients realize that you are not just selling a product or a service, but that there is a message behind it.

It’s important to define your message, yet, at the same time, this doesn’t have to turn into a profound philosophical quest. People have a tendency to get awfully bogged down with this message stuff. I’m not necessarily talking about earth-shattering here. You’re not answering that all-important question at the Miss America pageant. Just write a brief, simple, clarifying statement. What is it about how you do what you do that makes your business different and your company unique?

Some businesses may have messages that are more broad-based, such as helping the
community or healing the environment, whereas others will focus on offering better quality or giving up-to-the-minute information. There are as many messages as there are businesses. This isn’t a moral issue, so don’t get overwhelmed thinking that your message has to be some type of grandiose statement. This is a basic, practical matter.

What is it that you offer that makes you special? Why should your clients or patients or
customers come to you instead of your competitor down the block? Once you can clearly and succinctly answer that question, you’ll be able to successfully communicate that to the media and your target audience.

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Anthony Mora began his media career as a freelance journalist for such
publications as Us, Rolling Stone and other local and national
publications. He served as editor-in-chief of two Los Angeles-based
entertainment and lifestyle-oriented publications, and co-founded Phillips & Mora Entertainment, a public relations and personal management company, which ventured into video and film production.

In 1990, Anthony formed Anthony Mora Communications, Inc. a Los
Angeles-based media relations company that specializes in media placement, image development, and media training. AMC Inc. has placed clients in: Time, Newsweek, 60 Minutes, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other local, national, and international media outlets.

Anthony has been featured in: USA Today, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The BBC, CNN, Entrepreneur, Fox News, MSNBC, and other media. He has written three books. The most recent, “Spin to Win,” is a step-by-step guide on how to define goals and utilize the power of the media to achieve success in any field. Practical and user-friendly, “Spin to Win” can be utilized by heads of major corporations, small business owners, and entrepreneurs.

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