Strange new type of fear opened up in my dreams yesterday. It was about not being willing to face a problem or a dark secret or an issue.
I pondered the whole day on what that issue or those issues could be.
On the same day I had planned to go & pay my taxes on a property. I went and they asked me to disclose things that I hadn’t have to disclose before. I felt the same feeling as above.
But I wonder, could the dream been more than a prelude to a normal day at the tax office? This predicament is a common one even for me in a corrupt beaurocacy as in Nepal.
So I wondered, could that dream be more than my taxes?
Maybe it is my fear to start with my email marketing strategy. I have been putting it off since so long.
I did one email blast in 2006 and that is it. I gave up. I was scared of being ignored constantly & I was right at that time because there was no product as now.
Today I have videos & an exact product offering. I’ve developed coping strategies for playing this new game of full time freelancing until I die. It is tough but every life is tough. At least this life gives me what I love: freedom & money together.
so I’ve been afraid of doing email marketing. But for me there is no better marketing:
- I hate doing Pr & meeting people casually
- I love writing
- I love to spend a few hours a day doing copy paste of emails as it is like chatting
- I don’t mind being ignored
This strategy will become a daily habit. I needed a strategy that can be done daily without causing me discomfort.
I will start.
At first I predict not much will happen, some people might reply negatively but I’m ok. It is 100 times easier than door to door marketing & corporate visits. I enjoy these 2 strategies but I don’t have a competitive advantage in these. Cheaper people & gossipers are more suited to those strategies. They thus take away from me.
Yes I feared this new venture. But time has come. With zero marketing I have reached this far. I must reach at least 1 new potential client per day.
My measurement will be increased:
- views
- friend request
- replies
- jobs
- referrals
should I stop? No even Brian Tracy or Tony Robbins didn’t stop, I must not.
1 email per day. That’s it.
