permission to sell

There’s one toxic yet pervasive belief that makes it almost impossible to make money from your email list:

Fear of selling.

Case in point:

A fellow copywriter and email marketing expert recently reached out for help.

She admitted she feels like a bit of an impostor these days…

Because her own list is broken.

She’s barely making any money from it.

Imagine teaching on something all day long while secretly knowing it isn't working in your own business.

Oof.

Truth is, I don’t have to imagine.

I know how much that stings because I was in a similar position when I started my list.

Turns out, going from zero to one is harder than it looks.

Anyway, another thing she mentioned was that she was great at delivering value in her emails…

But felt uncomfortable selling.

And when you feel weird or icky about selling, you find excuses not to mail your list…

Or not to make an offer when you do…

So when you finally do work up the nerve to pitch something, it flops…

Which feels like proof that you were right to feel like a fraud in the first place.

And round and round it goes.

It’s easy to assume the people outselling you are just bolder, or pushier, or shameless in a way you could never be.

Maybe some of them are.

But most are not.

They’ve just given themselves permission to sell.

They recognize how much of their valuable time and effort has gone into building high-quality products and services for their audience…

And that it’s their job to promote themselves unapologetically.

Confidence is a signal.

If you’re confident and enthusiastic in selling your stuff…

Customers pick up on that.

Likewise, if you’re shy, sheepish, or feel the need to apologize for daring to acknowledge the true nature of the relationship…

(which is business, not charity)

… then customers pick up that too.

One is magnetic while the other is repulsive.

But how do you strike the right balance without veering from confidence into cringe?

Simple:

By leading with an entertaining story that reveals a useful lesson…

Provides a refreshing perspective shift…

Or deconstructs a false belief.

This is how you can engineer emails that are worth reading all on their own.

Even if the reader isn’t interested in the offer that comes after.

Teaching someone how to do something is not the only way to “provide value.”

And when the email is worth reading on its own…

Asking for the sale stops feeling like begging and starts feeling like the polite thing to do.

Now, if this doesn’t come naturally to you, that’s okay.

I’ve spent the last 10 years perfecting this one skill.

Luckily, you can skip all that…

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If you struggle to find the right words to confidently promote your offers…

Or if you’ve been trying to overcompensate for your fear of selling by providing even MORE value…

Hoping and praying that your audience will spontaneously reward you for it…

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Jim Hamilton


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