{"id":592,"date":"2022-11-29T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uglymugmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2022-11-29T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T14:18:17","slug":"case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uglymugmarketing.com\/blog\/case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200aIf you are having a hard time closing more deals, closing more proposals, the reason is people don&#8217;t trust you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You see, you are at the center of this universe, and these are people who know you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They trust you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you begin to grow your business, you move further and further degrees of separation away from people who know you, to people who are referred to you, people who don&#8217;t know you, people all across the country, maybe across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so you&#8217;ve gotta learn to manufacture trust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;ve got to learn to get this trust out to these people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is no one trusts you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They don&#8217;t trust me as business owners, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who do they trust?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They trust other people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So we&#8217;ve gotta use testimonials and we&#8217;ve got to learn to use case studies to make this happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, when it comes to case studies, there&#8217;s three ingredients to make a strong case study.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number one is you&#8217;ve got to talk about the problem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the problem the person was facing before they came to you?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next was what was the solution that you offered to fix that problem?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the third ingredient, the third element is the outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was the actual outcome of the solution that you provided?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, use that framework, the problem, the solution, and the outcome to build your case studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Freelancers - 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