10 Tips to Get Over the Fear of Promoting Your Products and Services

  March 22, 2023 blogging tips 🕑 6 minutes read

Crete, Greece

 

(Updated 3-22-2023)

 

Getting clear on promoting your products and services increases blogging income.

 

Blogging business struggles arise if you lack clarity.

 

Promoting your blogging business confidently leads to fun, freeing blogging success.

 

Stop fiddling around with blogging small potatoes to try to get around the fear of self-promotion.

 

No; spending precious time figuring out the perfect spot for your opt-in form is not the key to a professional blogging career.

 

Creating helpful content, building connections and feeling clear on self-promoting is.

 

Understanding this idea expands your awareness quickly.

 

Versus burying your offerings and working hard to get people to see your products and services you share each freely, help people and receive money.

 

Logically the process is simple to understand.

 

Emotionally the process involves wading through uncomfortable fears.

 

Nudge through the mental muck.

 

Get clear on promoting your blogging business.

 

Experience the joy of helping people and receiving money for helping people.

 

Doesn’t that sound fun?

 

Follow these steps to overcome the fear of promoting your blogging products and services.

 

1: Commit to Mindset Training

 

Train your mind to unearth fears associated with self-promotion.

 

Go within. Spot your discomfort with receiving money. Observe worthiness issues. Identify fears around being criticized for selling.

 

Training your mind by observing beliefs long buried is a direct way to root out self-promotional fears. Give yourself 20 minutes daily to observe how you think and feel about self-promotion. Assess these emotions. Does each support or torpedo your blogging business?

 

Look within to see how you unconsciously self-sabotage via self-promotional fears.

 

Train the mind to be aware of this: the enemy is within.

 

2: Forgive Money Limiting Beliefs

 

Money does not grow on trees.

 

Not true; we live in abundance.

 

People hate to be sold to.

 

Not true; people love receiving the benefits of whatever you sell.

 

Look money limiting beliefs dead in the eye. Challenge each fear. Most bloggers fear promoting self and their business because money limiting beliefs play over and over in their mind like a tape recorder.

 

For example, promoting:

 

Blogging From Paradise eBooks

 

seems like a good idea but fearing that money does not grow on trees and that people hate to be sold to would goad me not to promote the link. Not promoting the link makes it more difficult for you to find it which makes me work harder to generate diminishing sales.

 

Do you see why harboring money fears kills your blogging income?

 

Allow these ideas to surface in your mind to see them as false. Proceed in the opposite direction. Promote yourself to expand your blogging business.

 

3: Surround Yourself with Clear Bloggers

 

Surround yourself with clear, confident bloggers.

 

It’s okay to charge money for your products and services; they’re doing it and you can do it too.

 

Forgive and let go bloggers who fear charging money for products and services. Let go bloggers who criticize bloggers for promoting themselves. Do you want any of that smoke? Do you want their self-promotional fears kicking around in your mind?

 

The goal is to get over self-promotional fears not to buy into them.

 

4: Learn from Top Earners

 

Bloggers like Pat Flynn earn substantial worldly income because self-promotion is a relaxed organic process for these individuals.

 

He does such a smash up job being truly helpful through his content that self-promoting loses any negative, scared, heavy charge.

 

Naturally, he earns coin because top earners have fun helping people thoroughly and allow money to take care of itself.

 

Surround yourself with prospering bloggers. Study their mindset. Pay close attention to their attitude. Most are hyper-clear on promoting self because doing so is another way to help others versus only earning money for self.

 

A self-less aspect to self-promotion exists. Few understand this. Few get that although you receive money the customer or client receives helpful advice, too. Resisting self-promotion lessens the chance of people receiving help they can really use right now.

 

Did you ever frame self-promotion in this fashion?

 

5: Promote Your Business Freely to Trigger Fears

 

Promote your products and services freely.

 

Develop the habit of sharing your business to trigger fears in the mind.

 

For example, dropping a link to your blogging course at the end of each post for 6 months can trigger these fears in mind:

 

  • “Nobody bought it; I am wasting my time.”
  • “The course is not good enough”
  • “I am not good enough.”
  • “Nobody will buy it going forward.”

 

Good!

 

Now explore each of your fears. Feel these emotions. Each fear blocks blogging income. Each fear blocks free self-promotion.

 

Self-promoting frequently triggers fears you seemed previously unaware of.

 

Follow this practical strategy to unearth fears that need to go for increased self-promotion and blogging profits.

 

6: KISS

 

Keep Income Streams Spreading.

 

Adding:

 

  • products
  • services

 

to your blogging arsenal makes you less dependent on any single product or service.

 

Being less dependent on any one channel compels you to self-promote seamlessly because you will blog abundantly not from scarcity.

 

7: Accept this Truth

 

Money does not define you.

 

How much you earn suggests nothing of your worth.

 

Net worth as the world sees it is this: how much means of exchange you appear to acquire.

 

Does that idea sound worthy of you?

 

I didn’t think so.

 

Identify not with money. Framing money as a symbol to use impels one to freely promote products and services.

 

The less you identify with money the more freely you share your business with others.

 

Since it is not a big deal (aka NOT YOU) it feels effortless to share products and services with others.

 

8: Observe How You Feel While Handling Money

 

Do you fear spending?

 

How does it feel when bills arrive?

 

Feel fears arising in awareness as you think about money. Express and forgive these emotions.

 

Clearing the fears helps you handle money with love and harmony.

 

Handling money with love and harmony inspires you to promote your products and services freely.

 

When you fear not losing it you share helpful ways to earn it.

 

9: Celebrate Every Penny You Earn

 

What you appreciate appreciates.

 

Be thankful for every penny of blogging income to generate ideas for earning more blogging income.

 

Promoting your blogging products and services freely is one such way to generate more blogging income.

 

Appreciate what you have to share and multiply what you own.

 

In the process, readers access helpful resources.

 

Who loses?

 

No one.

 

10: Repeat this Phrase to Yourself Persistently

 

“It is only money.”

 

Or….

 

“It is just money.”

 

Promoting a blogging business is not equal to asking for someone’s child or right leg.

 

Humans cling to insane ideas concerning this neutral means of exchange. Money is not human sacrifice. Money is something people exchange.

 

The product or service is helpful advice. In exchange, people offer a neutral symbol called “money” to receive the help.

 

No big deal, folks.

 

Perceive money as no biggie.

 

Promote your premium offerings freely.

 

Conclusion

 

Follow these steps closely.

 

Get clear on promoting your blogging business.

 

Be truly helpful and receive money for it.

 

Your Turn

 

How are you getting clearer on promoting your products and services?

 

What fears do you have concerning promoting your premium offerings?

 

What tips can you add to this list?

  1. Ryan Biddulph says:
    at 9:30 am

    I left a thought.

  2. Anda says:
    at 12:31 pm

    Wow, Ryan, what an eye opening post! I am one of those shy people who fears self promotion. I should pin your post and read it on and on for encouragement. It made me smile when you said that you signed up more clients at $200 than you did at $25. When you ask for more you send out the message that you are worth more. It’s the exact psychology used when pricing the merchandise in a store: you’ll immediately assume that the $250 purse is of much better quality than the $25 one. Great advice, Ryan, like always.

    • Ryan Biddulph says:
      at 3:10 pm

      Perfect Anda. That is it, exactly. Charging higher prices emits an abundant vibe that helps people see the value in your offering. I experienced the same deal when I rose prices from 99 cents to $1.99 with my eBooks. Then I made even more sales when I rose prices from $1.99 to $3.99. Thanks for the rocking comment.

  3. Ryan Biddulph says:
    at 9:49 am

    That is a cool way of looking at it Drewry. Lack of self-consciousness here which is great. People cruise through, you share your helpful products and services, no worries, no tension. Keep on sharing and promoting and creating value dude. Well done.

  4. Elvis Michael says:
    at 1:05 pm

    Ryan, buddy, I hope you’ve been well. Been extraordinarily busy on my end, but I wanted to drop by and chime in.

    This post resonates with me on waaaay too many levels, and im sure other people feel the same way. I have been there many times in the past, and STILL continue to be there on occasion.

    “What if im charging too much?”
    “I already sent out this sales pitch before. I cannot possibly do it again. It would look ridiculous and my email subscribers will leave…”

    The list of thoughts goes on and on…

    And your point about raising your prices is absolutely top-notch. There’s a thing called perceived value, and demanding what you’re worth will command more respect from customers (as opposed to driving them away). As long as the actual value is there, of course…

    A low-end product is fine as well, but it also delivers a message of “cheapness” (not all of them, but you get my point). Analyze what you’ve got, and charge accordingly.

    Im saying this as a reminder to myself as well (because again, im not entirely cured from that fearful nasty mindset).

    Thanks for bringing up such an important issue, man.

    Elvis

    • Ryan Biddulph says:
      at 1:51 pm

      Dude this stuff still plays in my head sometimes. I think it does for all of us mere mortals aka, every human being on earth. Even billionaires like Mark Z fear annoying people because even if you have manifested billions of dollars, you are still human, and want to mindfully pull yourself in your reader’s or customer’s or client’s shoes. Love the comment dude. Great to see you!

  5. Donna Merrill says:
    at 10:26 pm

    Hi Ryan,

    I like to use the term “pull the trigger.”

    I’ve worked with people so many times who do 70 or 80% of something and then won’t follow it through to completion.

    And I know why.

    They’re afraid of completing something because the next step is to pull the trigger and make it happen.

    Whether it is buying ads, putting together a Facebook campaign or just going public and letting people know that their product is done or their service is now for offer.

    People are comfortable creating things and putting them together.

    But they get very uncomfortable about selling them.

    But like you say =money is just a neutral energy.

    Let fear factor into the equation and you convert it into a negative energy.

    Don’t focus on the money, rewards or any other results.

    Focus on the help that you’re giving people with your product or service.

    That pretty much obligates you to offering it #1… and doing your best job at selling it #2,

    After all, the more you sell, the more people will benefit from it.

    -Donna

    • Ryan Biddulph says:
      at 11:53 am

      You have helped me pull the trigger more freely and easily through your rocking example Donna. Loving the comment and I love your style. Keep on inspiring new generations of bloggers. You have a far greater impact on all of us than you realize my friend.