Yesterday, a guy got onto my email list and wrote me straight away to ask for my physical mailing address — he had something very important to send me.
Since my mailing address is not something I share promiscuously, he ended up sending me the important something as a PDF attachment to an email. I opened it up to see the following:
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I wanted to send a large FedEx box to your address with the letter you are reading now. You must be wondering why I would do such a thing?
There are two reasons:
1. Sending FedEx boxes is expensive, so you can tell yourself that what I have to tell you is very important.
2. Large boxes are almost always opened immediately. This is important because what I have to say is extremely urgent.
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I found myself a little dizzy reading a PDF about the importance of this expensive, extremely urgent FedEx package that I had just opened up but couldn’t remember opening.
Still, I pushed through the dizziness to the rest of the message. The gist was that the guy has a course he’s acquired the rights to, and he’s hoping I will promote it to my list and we can split the profits.
I took a quick look at the sales page of the course he has the rights to. And I quickly decided it’s not something I would promote to my list.
It might be a fine course. But the promise to me is not novel or exciting… there’s no strong proof to latch on to… and the whole lot doesn’t seem like something I could enthusiastically get behind and promote in the best interest of my readers, whose trust I have been cultivating and honoring for years.
So I wrote back to say thanks, but no thanks.
And then I got to wondering.
Because as I wrote recently, I promoted one affiliate offer last year, Steve Raju’s ClientRaker. That worked out great, from a financial point of view, from my personal satisfaction point of view, and most importantly, from the point of view of the people who ended up buying, many of whom wrote me to say thanks for turning them on to Steve and his great training.
So I got to wondering, are there other people on my list with good things to promote?
I don’t know. But I’m willing to find out.
So if you have something good to sell, promote, or offer, hit reply and let me know.
It could be a product that you sell.
Or it could be a service that you offer.
The main thing is it’s good — meaning it’s got a great big promise, an element of excitement or novelty, and strong proof that it does what you say it does.
If you have something like that, then send me an email about it, or a virtual FedEx package. We can start a conversation to see if it’s a fit for my list of business owners, coaches, writers, in-house copywriters, and freelancers of various stripes.