Book excerpt: MARKETING MADE HUMAN is mindset shifting personal branding book and a practical guide for marketing in the 2020s. It breaks down cemented perceptions and beliefs around marketing and empowers entrepreneurs to fall in love with marketing, so they can have a bigger impact in the world and unlimited business success. NOW is the best time ever to connect with your true tribe and build a lovable personal brand that customers will happily and voluntarily promote. This book will change your view of marketing forever. It breaks down cemented perceptions and beliefs around marketing and brand building and empowers entrepreneurs to fall in love with marketing, so they can have a bigger impact in the world and unlimited business success. Understanding fundamental human desires and their role in purchasing decisions opens up new ways of approaching your marketing role in the 2020s. The mission is to put human connection and fundamental human desires at the center of marketing, and thereby release entrepreneurs from the discomfort and fear often associated with marketing. The book provides a framework to design novel marketing strategies that will, in fact, be helpful to and supported by your customers. Hopefully, you will feel inspired to tap into this new marketing paradigm to create a lovable brand and grow into a successful personal brand, and a confident marketer and leader of your tribe. This book will: - Demystify why you (with good reason) may have felt reluctant to marketing and sales, and outline a new paradigm to help you feel inspired and capable instead - Show you how fundamental human desires are driving customer happiness like never before and how you can leverage that in your marketing - Shed light on the forces driving immunity to traditional marketing and explain how social media platforms are responding to consumer demand to be ‘unreachable’ by traditional marketing, while increasingly empowering consumers to act as voluntary marketers - Teach you how you, as a personal brand entrepreneur, can leverage factors commonly ignored by bigger brands making authentic personal branding a cornerstone in your business success - Help you find the courage to fully step into your role and take full ownership of the empowering force you truly are to your most desired audience - Show you where to focus your efforts with generous human interaction and solid guidance to turn customers into engaged brand ambassadors - Outline how to build sales funnels in this new marketing paradigm and which metrics to use to measure your business success The book also offers a complimentary personal branding workbook with templates to complete the exercises and a complimentary 3-day mini-course to help you immediately connect more strongly with your audience.