{"id":115,"date":"2024-04-04T22:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/?p=115"},"modified":"2024-04-04T22:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:07:32","slug":"the-problem-with-following-guru-marketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/the-problem-with-following-guru-marketers\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with following guru marketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago someone in the \u201cwait loss\u201d vertical wrote and said:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to get my email marketing campaign off the ground. I&#8217;m in the weight loss vertical. I&#8217;ve written a 52 week autoresponder series but I don&#8217;t know how to create emails that sell.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read that there&#8217;s two options: soft selling (story telling) and hard selling (eg discounts, coupons, etc).<\/p>\n<p>Where can I find soft selling email templates? Do you have any examples that I can use?<\/p>\n<p>I would like to sell clickbank products.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Wait a sec.<\/p>\n<p>So this chap here wrote a 52 week autoresponder series and didn\u2019t write a single email selling anything?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that is exactly what he did.<\/p>\n<p>Someone in an IM forum told him to follow the Pareto Principle when it comes to email, stating that his emails should be 80% content that is helpful advice to give his subscribers and the other 20% is selling.<\/p>\n<p>Call me ruthless, but I sure hope YOU yes, YOU don\u2019t follow that advice.<\/p>\n<p>Since one reading it can easily think of doing the following;-<\/p>\n<p>Send 8 emails that are pure content.<\/p>\n<p>Send 2 emails that are selling.<\/p>\n<p>Only 2 chances to sell your audience something that can help them lose the poundages.<\/p>\n<p>What is even more interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Almost every guru marketing eggspurt I know who has done this had to find out real quick that it is a terrible idea.<\/p>\n<p>Sure it works for some but not all.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest you do the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Spend 80% of your time selling and the other 20% delivering content.<\/p>\n<p>For the how-to on how to do it the way I teach, you&#8217;ll want to hop in the Inner Circle:<\/p>\n<p>Go here:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.IsaiahJackson.com\/innercircle?__position__=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.IsaiahJackson.com\/innercircle<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago someone in the \u201cwait loss\u201d vertical wrote and said: I&#8217;m trying to get my email marketing campaign off the ground. I&#8217;m in the weight loss vertical. I&#8217;ve written a 52 week autoresponder series but I don&#8217;t know how to create emails that sell. I&#8217;ve read that there&#8217;s two options: soft selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaiahjackson.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}