A Sci-fi author asks a timely question many can benefit from:
Hi Ben,
I’ve been reading your emails for years. Just recently I read your email regarding the Mum trying to look after her disabled son.
Would you have any advice or recommendations for me?
I was hoping you’d be able to help me please? I was also wondering if you’d like to hear my story? My story is unbelievable! but it is all true. I am a severely disabled individual, but I’m trying to achieve my dreams. by severely disabled I mean that I am completely blind, partially deaf, have 10 spinal fractures, I am a partially recovered paraplegic and I have many other conditions as well on top of this.
The result is that I spent 80% of my day bedbound and the rest confined to a wheelchair. I have been saved, burnt, and abandoned by the NHS. I am on benefits but wish to be off them despite many others trying to get on them. I believe that if you have the capability to do something, you have the responsibility to do it. I am also a published author and am in the process of trying to achieve my dreams.
I hope I can prove to be an example for others. I hope I can prove that if you want something enough you can achieve it. I hope this will help others to achieve their own goals and dreams as well.
Would you be interested in my story and trying to get it out there into the world for others?
My advice:
The best way for a guy who has been learning my ways for years to get his story out there ain’t through me or anyone else. It’s to continue to build an email list, mail it interesting content his list wants to read each day, and then let his fans tell, spread, and pass on his story over time.
Every email is like a tentacle that goes out into the marketplace.
Many will come back void.
But sometimes one of those tentacles brings something back.
Or even several somethings’ back: new sales, new fans, new contacts…
And you never know what those will lead to over time. There was a time (pre internet) when everyone almost had no choice but to seek out and gain admittance from a gatekeeper.
Now?
Everyone looking for a gatekeeper to let them in can simply be their own gatekeeper instead.
And you know what?
It’s much better that way..
It’s also something email can cheaply and efficiently allow nearly anyone to do.
So that is my advice, for what it is worth.
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