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Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners

265: If You Hate Selling, Let Your Clients Do It For You

Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners

Stu McLaren

Business, Marketing

4.9679 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Most people don't love selling. You avoid talking about your offer because you don't want to come across as that pushy, cheesy salesperson. So you stay quiet. And your best offers stay invisible.

Here's the good news: the most powerful way to sell barely involves you at all.

In this solo episode, Stu shares the moment that proved it. At a recent mastermind he co-hosted, a long-time client named Emily had one honest conversation about her experience. People leaned in, a little circle formed, and several of them decided to invest in Stu's highest-priced offer. He had nothing to do with it. He wasn't even part of the conversation.

From there, Stu breaks down the three lessons that make this work in any business, plus the simple reframe from his friend and mentor that finally got him comfortable talking about the work he cares about most.

In this episode, you'll learn:

  • Why a happy client's honest word carries more weight than your best pitch

  • How to be intentional and ask, without ever feeling pushy

  • Real, specific ways to invite your happiest clients to show up for you (reviews, launch calls, and sharing their story)

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Most people don't like selling.

0:02.7

And we avoid talking about our offer because we don't want to be that pushy, cheesy salesperson.

0:09.0

So here's the good news.

0:10.3

There is one very effective way to sell that doesn't even involve you doing the selling.

0:17.6

And that's exactly what I'm going to talk about in this episode.

0:20.7

Welcome to Marketing Your Business. I'm Stu to talk about in this episode welcome to marketing your

0:21.9

business i'm stew mclaren co-founder of membership.io and author of predictable profits now here's the

0:27.9

truth you are one great marketing idea away from transforming your business one strategy can be the

0:34.8

difference between struggling and thriving between a business that drains you and one that fuels your life.

0:40.8

Every episode, you're going to get specific tactics you need to build your audience, attract more customers, and scale your business, all without the burnout.

0:49.1

These are real strategies, real numbers, real behind the scenes.

0:53.3

Buckle your seatbelts, my friend. Let's go.

0:57.9

It has been a whirlwind. I just got back from Nashville where I was co-hosting a mastermind

1:07.2

with Amy Porterfield and Russell Brunson. And we were doing this as a way to raise money

1:13.2

for the charity that my wife and I founded called Village Impact. It was epic. I'm going to have

1:18.4

some takeaways and lessons from that in an upcoming episode. But I wanted to get you this episode,

1:24.4

which is about selling. And most people don't like selling. In fact, we shy away

1:30.4

from it. We don't talk about our product. We don't talk about our programs. We don't want to come

1:34.9

across as that cheesy, high pressure salesperson. So we just stay quiet. And our best offers

1:40.8

stay invisible. In fact, I experienced this firsthand with our charity,

1:46.2

believe it or not. I never even used to talk about the charity or what we were doing or the

1:50.3

programs or the way that we were raising money and building schools. I just, I didn't want to put

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