You’re not annoying, you’re trying to help.
I know you don’t believe me, so I’ll say it again:
YOU’RE! NOT! ANNOYING!
SELLING! IS! HELPING!
You’re simply trying to help someone solve a problem, or meet a need, or overcome something.
People will really do anything to sell their offer, BUT… well, sell their offer.
And by NOT talking about your offer…
You’re not getting anywhere with selling it.
And trust me: I totallyyyy get why you’d be uncomfortable showing up, talking about it all the time, posting consistently — ESP if you’re not getting immediate results.
But by saying NOTHING?
You’re also *selling* nothing.
So let’s get in the habit of selling before we expect to make a million dollars, k?
The first thing you need to understand is that the feeling itself is not the problem.
It feels like a problem because it’s loud and uncomfortable and makes you want to close your laptop and disappear into a “maybe I’ll try again next week” spiral.
But that feeling isn’t telling you to stop. It’s just your brain reacting to visibility.
Your brain thinks visibility = risk.
So when you show up to sell, your nervous system goes, “Oh shit, we’re about to be perceived,” and starts firing off every possible warning it can come up with:
But none of that is feedback. It’s PREDICTION.
Your brain is wired to anticipate negative outcomes to keep you safe — not to accurately assess whether your content is landing.
And because it can’t actually see how people are responding in real time (and even if it could, it would still skew negative thanks to bias), it fills in the gaps with worst-case scenarios, which is why it feels so convincing.
Add in the fact that your body is reacting like something bad is happening — elevated heart rate, discomfort, that weird “ugh, I hate this” feeling — and now you have both mental and physical evidence that something is wrong.
Except… nothing is wrong. You’re just posting. LOL.
Your nervous system genuinely does not know the difference between actual danger and social exposure, so it treats showing up online like a threat, even though the “risk” is literally just someone maybe thinking a thought about you.
You’ve been inside your own offer for way too long.
You’ve thought about it, talked about it, written about it, refined it, explained it, launched it, reworked it… over and over again. Of course you feel like you’re repeating yourself.
Of course it feels excessive.
Of course it feels like “if I say this one more time, I’m actually going to lose my mind.”
But your audience is NOT living in your brain.
And despite it feeling this way, they’re not seeing everything you post, not tracking your messaging, not counting your IG story mentions of the product, not sitting there thinking “wow, she’s said this 14 times already, can she stfu already?”
Most people don’t even see the majority of your content — and even if they do see something, their brain is likely to forget it within a day or two.
So, while you’re operating from a first-person, hyper-aware “I’ve said this a million times” perspective… they’re experiencing your content as occasional, scattered touchpoints.
YOU feel like a broken record. THEY experience you as a reminder.
YOU feel like you’re overdoing it. THEY are just starting to recognize you.
Repetition isn’t annoying — it’s necessary.
The brain literally needs repeated exposure before it decides something is important enough to pay attention to.
So if you stop every time you feel annoying, you’re not protecting your audience; you’re interrupting the exact process that leads to them understanding, trusting, and eventually buying from you.
The discomfort isn’t something you wait to disappear before you keep going. It’s something you bring with you while you keep going.
You don’t eliminate the feeling first and then show up. You show up with the feeling, long enough for your brain to learn that nothing bad actually happens.
Because right MEOWWW, your brain’s pattern looks like this:
“we show up → we feel uncomfortable → we stop”
So it never gets updated!!! Your brain never gets the proof it needs to recognize that the discomfort isn’t dangerous!!!!
It just keeps reinforcing the idea that stopping was the right move.
The only way to change that is to create a new pattern:
“we show up → we feel uncomfortable → nothing bad happens → we keep going”
By continuing to show up despite it, until your brain recalibrates.
You’re NOT annoying. You’re just visible in a way your brain hasn’t gotten used to yet.
And instead of treating that discomfort like a stop sign, you need to start treating it like proof you’re doing the exact thing that actually moves your business forward.
And here’s how to do that.
Decide what consistency actually looks like for YOU, not some influencer on TikTok.
Examples:
Make it doable enough that you won’t bail on week two.
For me, my weekly newsletter, Tuesday Table of Contents, is my bare minimum. If I can get that done, nothing else really matters. Ain’t no way I’m giving up that 5+ year streak.
Consistency is 10x easier when you’re not reinventing the wheel every week.
Examples:
These themes become your autopilot.
One of mine is a gooooood morning post on my Instagram stories. In the next few slides, I share what I’m working on for the day and a few announcements if I have any. Things like:
It’s not so much of a full-on sales pitch, but more of a reminder that I have these offers. You never know when someone is going to decide to click on your stories.
We can’t expect everyone to be paying attention to us 100% of the time, or watching all our stories, or reading all our Threads, or opening every email…
So, we need to repeat ourselves, again and again and again, if we want the right people to see it (so they can learn about it, and maybe even purchase it).
We need to be TALKING about our offers if we want people to be BUYING our offers.
Pick the key things people must know before buying your offer:
Say those things repeatedly, in different formats. (You’ll get bored with yourself long before your audience ever will.)
Here are 5 ways to talk about one offer.
Choose one core idea — not a whole curriculum — and let everything point back to it.
Example:
Your anchor message = “You don’t have to struggle with ___.”
Your content that week:
This keeps things cohesive without being repetitive.
Consistency dies when every post feels like work.
So create two versions of everything:
If you can’t do the A+ version, post the Lazy Girl version. Still counts. Still works.
Not a pitch or a countdown. Just a reminder that your offer EXISTS.
Examples:
I keep track of my content in Notion and my time in Toggl. I want to understand exactly how long something takes me AND keep a record of everything I’ve done so my ADHD brain doesn’t trick me into thinking I’ve checked something off the list when, in fact, I have not.
Inside Notion, create a super simple tracker:
Seeing the truth on paper makes the habit easier to keep. It’s almost like a virtual accountability partner. And who doesn’t love the little endorphin boost from checking something off a list?!
In case you need to be told one more time… you’re not annoying!!! Selling is helping!!!
This workshop is THE THING that will fix your insecurities about showing up consistently online (and yapping your ass off about your offer), and I can’t WAIT to teach you how to remove the cringe feeling from your posting.
Because you are NOT annoying.
And I’m about to help you actually believe that.
Website Copywriter and Marketing Mentor really freaking passionate about helping business owners figure out how to market themselves online with ease.
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