Several months ago there was a big broo-ha-ha on Twitter when my pal Sean Kaye got fed up with guys cold DMâing him about how to make an extra $1k per month⦠and he screenshot and mocked it. Very amusing post. And quite brutal too. He basically mocked guys who sit around stroking their bobble head dolls of Andrew Tate desperately trying to manifest greatness by squirting out cold DMâs on social media and sliding cold into strangers' DMs like dik pics on grindr. And to do my part to help cure the cold DM bros of their misguided bad marketing habits, I told a story about when Stefania had gotten nailed by a fraudulent chargeback putting her $6,000 in the red overdrawn on her bank account when dealing with a female Facebook life coach. This was BB (before Ben). Her back was to the proverbial wall. And she was just days away from being evicted by her landlord (her own uncle) who could get a lot more money for her apartment than she had been paying in rent. She also couldnât pay for her utilities, food, and other bills since she had zero income, with even her other family members turning their backs on her. Not a fun spot to be in. And hereâs what happened: She was doing the copywriting, online marketing, branding shtick at the time. Specifically, to the female life coach niche. If you know anything about that niche they are basically Money Twitter bros with ovaries in how they approach marketing. And she got into a situation with a sociopath client who scammed her out of thousands of dollars and put her $6,000 overdrawn on her bank account by doing a fraudulent Stripe chargeback. This happened at probably the absolute worst time too. Like I mentioned earlier: Her landlord/uncle was itching for an excuse to get rid of her due to her paying so low of rent (due to family) in Jersey City at a time when all the New Yorkers were flocking over due to being priced out of NY. He could easily rent it for a lot more to the hordes of dumb money coming over from NY, and her lease was in his way. Even worse: She couldnât pay for anything since she didnât have a real credit card. Just a debit card attached to the overdrawn account. i.e., negative money to her name. That meant she literally couldnât get food, pay bills, or buy anything, really. Stripe wasnât having anything to do with it, either, with their decision being final. And so there was no getting even a penny of that money back. This is the sort of situation financial nightmares for are made of. Her solution? Blindly send cold DMâs to randos? Start an Onlyfans? Beg her family (who were hostile to her business plans)? Pray to Quetzalcoatl? Nope. But before I explain what she did: Understand Stefaniaâs background in business is not online marketing or email or websites or social media or eBooks or anything digital. Her background was working in her momâs resale shop in Manhattan which is frequented by everyone from street hookers to A-list Hollywood celebrities and those celebritiesâ fashion consultants. A very interesting place. And so she learned how to sell the good, old fashioned way: One-on-one talking & interacting with and finding out what people want. And thatâs what she did when overdrawn in the red. If you were to ask her, sheâd tell you she went into almost a haze and doesnât remember much. She was obviously very scared and freaked out. And who could blame her? But she did what she knew and followed what came naturally to her from working all those years growing up in her momâs store: Warm outreach to clients, peers, people she knew. One-by-one. No agenda other than to find out how theyâre doing. It only took a few to tell her about a problem she could help with. And then, boom, clients acquired, back in the black, within a few days. Nobody wants to hear that of course. They want the sEcReT cold email or DM turn-of-phrase. But life doesnât work that way. Ironically: The best advice for those doing cold outreach is not to do it. Itâs actually warm outreach. Everyone thinks they need to do cold outreach to start or grow a business â which is as big a mistake as direct response marketers and other businesses neglecting their current warm list and only spending time on getting new cold leads and customers. That happens so much it is literally a trope that gets (rightfully) mocked at direct marketing seminars and in direct marketing books, yet people still do it anyway. Go figure⦠None of what is in this email is new. Itâs all very basic salesmanship 101. But it might as well be new considering how few do it. Of course, the ideal way has always been to build a warm email list and mail it. That way if you get in a financial jam with the wolves at the door it can be as simple as: 1. Think of ridiculously valuable offer with looming deadline 2. Email your list Chances are thatâll do the trick. If you donât yet have an email platform to start growing your list on, or if you are using a platform you are not satisfied with, then BerserkerMail may be exactly what you are looking for. It might not be, either. Really, that depends on you, your business, and your offers, goals, tolerance for the needless complexity and thought policing other platforms engage in, their lack of deliverability, their enslavement to the gods of DEI with social activist trainers that look like they shouldnât be allowed within 100 feet of a grade school, and the list goes on. If you want a free BerserkerMail test drive use the URL below. [httpsâ¶//www.EmailPlayers.com/berserker]( Ben Settle This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2024 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. Click here to
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