What is They Ask, You Answer?

What is They Ask, You Answer?
They Ask, You Answer is a business framework with one obsession at its core: What is my customer asking? By focusing on its straightforward concepts, thousands of businesses have improved lead quality and sales outcomes with inbound marketing. 
Today, those principles are still relevant, but the world has changed. Buyers are using AI to search and decide who to trust, which is why Marcus Sheridan expanded and evolved the framework into Endless Customers, a more complete system for becoming the most known and trusted brand in your market.
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Today, They Ask, You Answer (now Endless Customers) is used by thousands of businesses around the world

This includes B2B and B2C companies in retail, manufacturing, home improvement, software, healthcare, real estate, and dozens of other industries.

At the core of They Ask, You Answer was a simple idea

Educated prospects become happier, better customers.

If your prospects are asking questions, you must answer them (openly and honestly) on your website. That’s where the name for the original framework comes from: They Ask, You Answer.

And this matters even more now. As search becomes more AI driven, your answers, your clarity, and your proof of trust are the signals that help buyers and AI tools decide whether you are the company to recommend.

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At the core of They Ask, You Answer was a simple idea

Educated prospects become happier, better customers.

If your prospects are asking questions, you must answer them (openly and honestly) on your website. That’s where the name for the original framework comes from: They Ask, You Answer.

And this matters even more now. As search becomes more AI driven, your answers, your clarity, and your proof of trust are the signals that help buyers and AI tools decide whether you are the company to recommend.

They Ask, You Answer shifts your focus to educating customers

This allows us to candidly address everything about our products and services — even things that are uncomfortable, like price and drawbacks. In doing so, we...

  • Build trust with our audience
  • Weed out bad-fit prospects
  • Make the buying process smoother.
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You start producing the right content for your customers

They Ask, You Answer (now Endless Customers) teaches you to create the right written and video content, organize and index that content so it’s easily consumable, and utilize that content in the sales process to improve close rates.

If you implement this framework at your business, you’ll see dramatic increases in leads, and sustained revenue growth.

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You start producing the right content for your customers

They Ask, You Answer (now Endless Customers) teaches you to create the right written and video content, organize and index that content so it’s easily consumable, and utilize that content in the sales process to improve close rates.

If you implement this framework at your business, you’ll see dramatic increases in leads, and sustained revenue growth.

Become the trusted resource

They Ask, You Answer aligns your marketing and sales teams around shared growth goals and will position your business as the trusted resource in your industry.

The next version (Endless Customers) is a sustainable way to grow, because it is built on trust, not tricks. And in the age of AI, trust is what determines who gets remembered and recommended.

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When you implement Endless Customers (formerly They Ask, You Answer) at your company:

You control your sales and marketing destiny and no longer depend on an outside agency.
Your sales and marketing
teams reach their potential

and work as one unit.
Your marketing finally generates more sales as you attract more qualified leads.
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How does your marketing measure up?

AI is changing how buyers find businesses, and most companies are dangerously underprepared. Take this free assessment and find out if yours is at risk of becoming invisible to your buyers.

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Sales & marketing assessment

How does your marketing measure up?

AI is changing how buyers find businesses, and most companies are dangerously underprepared. Take this free assessment and find out if yours is at risk of becoming invisible to your buyers.

Why Endless Customers works

Simple System

Proven concepts that apply to many industries and can be mastered by your organization.

Trust

By openly answering your customers’ questions, you’ll be seen as the voice of trust and authority in your industry.

Alignment

Your marketing and sales efforts will be unified, with common goals and objectives.

Education

Using the right content in the sales process gives you better fit, ready-to-buy customers.

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Core concepts of They Ask, You Answer and Endless Customers

The Big 5

Five content topics areas that are sure to drive the most qualified leads and sales.

Assignment selling

Learn to utilize content effectively in the sales process, from prospecting to closing, yielding better-educated prospects.

In-house content management

A well-trained in-house content team is faster, less expensive, and better aligned with your organization’s needs.

Revenue team

By combining marketing and sales teams into a single team, you’ll unite around what really matters: bringing in revenue.

Learning center

Your content has to be well-organized on your website so that visitors can quickly find what they’re looking for.

The Selling 7

The seven types of videos that help customers build a relationship with your brand before contacting your sales team.

AI Visibility

AI has changed the way buyers search. Your business needs to be found and recommended by AI LLMs like ChatGPT.

Self-service tools

Make buying from you easy with pricing, scheduling, and selection tools, as well as more touchless customer experiences.

Sales process optimization

Unite your sales team around shared goals and core strategy so you can finally replace lost deals with an optimized process.

Martech and CRM adoption

Don’t just pay for the CRM platform, equip your whole team to use it correctly, end to end.

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The origins of They Ask, You Answer

In 2008, Marcus Sheridan’s pool business was failing

The Great Recession was spreading, and buyers were getting nervous. With mounting cancellations, his pool business, seemed like it wasn’t going to make it. But Marcus had heard about inbound marketing, and he decided to take matters into his own hands. He set out to answer customer questions — openly and honestly — on his company website.

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Each night after work, he wrote detailed and transparent answers to every common customer question, problem, and concern he had ever heard

He watched trust increase dramatically. Exploding traffic, leads, and sales. They Ask, You Answer became the most proven sales and marketing framework in the world for achieving online dominance in any space.

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Each night after work, he wrote detailed and transparent answers to every common customer question, problem, and concern he had ever heard

He watched trust increase dramatically. Exploding traffic, leads, and sales. They Ask, You Answer became the most proven sales and marketing framework in the world for achieving online dominance in any space.

Now, years later, Marcus preaches the core philosophy to companies all over the world

Marcus wrote the best-selling book, They Ask, You Answer, which has been named the best digital marketing book of all time by Book Authority.

And as AI changed how buyers search and who gets recommended, Marcus expanded the system into Endless Customers, built to help businesses earn trust signals that influence both human buyers and AI driven search.

Endless Customers resonated with buyers and business leaders to the point that the book earned a spot on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list.

Today, thousands of businesses owe their success to Marcus’ framework that starts with a simple principle: If you obsess over your customers’ questions, problems, and concerns, and if you seek to educate and build trust, customers will buy from you. After all, trust is the common currency of all business.

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