I promote one of my eBooks or courses through every piece of content I create.
Now, I am promoting my eBook:
How I Published 100 Amazon Products in 10 Months (So You Can Do it Too)
Why? Why not? We are business people, folks. Imagine being shy about promoting a brick and mortar, offline business? I liken the analogy to opening a corner store and refusing to add a sign because you feel embarrassed about promoting your business. Why call attention to yourself? Why add a sign? You feel shy. Plus, you better tint the windows. People will be able to see your products, and how the products can help you, unless you tint out the windows. No way you want that to happen; too much attention on you and your products, with clear windows.
If this sounds crazy offline, imagine how crazy it sounds online? Bloggers who feel shy promoting themselves hide their business products. How can people feel your calm, clear confidence if you fear promoting yourself and your products? People will not buy unless you buy into yourself. You do not buy into yourself until you patiently, persistently and genuinely face your fears fueling your promotional shyness.
Rye Shy Guy
Years ago, I was really shy about promoting my blogging products. I feared annoying people. Was I clinically insane? Would I ever walk into a grocery store and get annoyed that the business owner sells spaghetti? Only unhappy, angry people get persistently annoyed about you selling something through your blog. Annoyance is not rational or logical; knee-jerk, fear-based reaction. Plus their annoyance has nothing to do with you because all fear is projection, saying all about the critic and nothing about the object of criticism.
I also faced my fear of nobody buying my stuff after I promoted myself freely. My shyness was genuinely a firm, resolute belief in my certain failure. Ouch. Turns out, I was not shy. I just believed I was a loser who would fail. I believed no matter how much I promoted my stuff, nobody would buy it. Do you know how I got thru that fear? I felt its frustrating pull, then promoted my blogging products – eBooks and courses – through every piece of content daily. People began buying my stuff regularly because I felt the fear fueling my shyness and nudged into the fear. This simple, sometimes uncomfortable process always leads to success if you face and feel fears fueling shyness.
Being Shy Is Not Natural
Shyness is fear. Fear is illusion. Only love is real. Being shy simply indicates you fear something or someone, and shy away from the source, in fear. Note how bold, confident little kids shy away from strangers; they are a little afraid of the unknown. But little kids usually nudge into the fear-shyness, feel it, then gradually warm up to strangers, until a stranger becomes familiar, or, a friend.
Being shy is not natural because you have that same, resilient, bold energy in you, as a shy child who becomes social. You are an adult. Why do you fear what people will think, say or do about you promoting something beneficial to people? Why do you fear people will criticize you for your right to make money?
Stop being shy. Return to your natural bold, clear vibe. Promote your products freely. Make more money.
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