For the past couple days, I’ve been fielding responses about my new “work alongside me” offer.
In short, I’ve launched a new list and I’m starting to grow it by paying for ads. I’m inviting people who want to follow the same process I’m following to work alongside me and to grow their own list.
Inevitably, I’ve gotten a few timid hand-raises from folks who consider themselves beginners, like the following message:
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I don’t actually have a list yet. But I am scouting for products at the moment, which I would like to promote as an affiliate.
Would this offer be relevant for me as a newbie?
I am starting this side venture in the hopes of replacing my 9 to 5.
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And the answer is…
Yes yes, of course! This offer’s PERFECT for newbies!! Just give me your money now, and we can talk about it later.
A little more seriously:
I followed up with the dude above. I wanted to know what exactly “newbie” meant to him. Turns out, he has been studying marketing and copywriting for a year+, buying courses, preparing to jump in for real.
The fact is, I do think that this “work alongside me” offer would be relevant to him.
But whatever I write now will seem self-serving, just as self-serving as my “yes yes, just pay me” rant above.
So I won’t write anything now.
Instead, let me share something I wrote almost six years ago, specifically on Dec 29 2018, in an email with the subject line, “The salutary effect of paying for traffic.” That email was about my campaign at the time to grow my alternative health list via Facebook ads, and the positive effect it had on me:
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Well, paying for traffic doesn’t have the same salutary effect [as making cold calls].
But it does make me want to write emails every day to these leads.
What’s more, it makes me want to write emails that get read and get people stirred up.
In other words, I’m no longer just writing for the sake of being able to say I’ve done it. Instead, I’m writing to make sales.
That’s both because I’m spending money on traffic now (rather than counting on an indefinite stream of leads from Google)…
And it’s also because it becomes a game — can I make back the money that I will spend on ads, so I can do this all over again on a bigger scale?
The weird thing is, this kind of sales-first writing is something I’ve been able to do for a long time — as long as I was writing for clients. But it took paying for traffic to get me to do it in my own project as well.
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I’d like to suggest that paying for traffic could have the same salutary and head-clearing effect on you, even if you are a newbie.
Does that mean this “work alongside me” offer will give you a side venture that can replace your 9-5?
Nope. It will only give you one thing, and that’s a paid traffic system to build you an audience.
That done, you will still need to find or create offers to promote. And you will still need emails to send to people, whether you write them yourself or get someone else to do it.
At the same time, will you be 1,000,000x more likely to do those things and actually succeed if you start paying to build an audience… than if you just keep paying for courses and preparing to jump in for another year?
I absolutely believe you will, for reasons that I wrote about in that email from 2018:
The fact you will be paying money (even $10-$15 a day is very motivating)…
The fact you will be able to see quickly if it’s working or not…
The fact that it will feel like a game you want to win.
Of course, ultimately, it’s your call and your decision.
But if you want to experience the salutary effect of paying for traffic, and get some real experience, which you can then flip over and over on a bigger scale, then maybe you’d like to get my help along the way?
That’s what this “work alongside me” offer is about. In case you’re interested, hit reply, and I can give you more information.