So Cameron signed on to write Rambo: First Blood Part II and Aliens simultaneously — while also doing rewrites of The Terminator. With a calculator, he divided the amount of time he had by the number of pages he had to write and spent the next four months jumping between three different desks, putting on different music for each script.
So reads page 61 of a book I’m reading called:
“James Cameron Interviews”
Not the most exciting title.
But it’s about an exciting dude — James Cameron.
He’s the guy behind such kick gluteus assimus movies as the first two “Terminator” movies, Aliens, and True Lies — all huge Hollywood blockbusters (he also did Titanic and Avatar which, while I was kinda bored by Titanic and thought Avatar dorky, I can’t argue with their results — the two highest grossing movies in history).
Anyway, I’m a big fan of the guy’s writing.
His work ethic.
And, especially, his “the beatings will continue until morale improves” style of leadership.
But mostly, I like his work ethic.
And, his philosophy of not being a perfectionist, but a “greatest.”
(i.e. “I only want to do something until it’s great”)
Anyway, why am I bringing this up?
Because this is exactly the attitude to have if you want to kick a lot of booTAY in email marketing.
Forget perfectionism.
Forget trying to please others.
And, yes, forget trying to be “liked” (nobody likes Cameron — actors would go home crying, crew members would accuse him of abuse, and he even once made his own brother, in the movie “The Abyss”, shoot a scene 25-feet underwater, eyes open, with a live crab in his mouth just to get the perfect realistic shot of a corpse with a crab crawling out of its mouth…the joke about James Cameron’s dictator-style on set was “I’m letting you breathe, what more do you want?”)
Forget all that.
I have always admired James Cameron’s work ethic.
His drive to write cool stories.
(Even if they weren’t all cool — i.e. “Avatar”, and the end of “The Abyss” was about as lame as it gets).
And, his desire to be great at what he does.
And you know what else?
These are the kind of customers I like, too.
Guys and gals who are action-takers.
For example:
I have talked to a lot of “Email Players” subscribers. Especially the ones who have been with me since its launch in August 2011 (going on 3 years straight now). And, there’s one thing they almost all have in common:
This same iron-fisted work ethic.
An ethic that keeps them writing daily.
Selling daily.
And, yes, making sales daily.
Those are the kind of customers I like.
And, I try to repel all others — like opportunity-minded people who can’t commit to anything, or those who never implement, and people who are looking for a “lazy” way to build their businesses.
Is that you?
Then get thee behind me, babycakes.
Go haunt the Warrior forum.
Or, better yet, Facebook.
Otherwise, “Email Players” may be a fit.
Or not.
Only one way to find out, yo?
And that’s to use it.
Speaking of which:
The July issue goes to the printer in 2 days.
(Pushing it back a day due to all the traveling I’ve been doing.)
It shows you a secret way I’ve been using since February to sometimes get more sales in a day than I normally get in a month. It also has a bonus training about building your list rapidly using solo email ads, too.
This baby is a great “jumping on” issue for new people.
But, time is short.
Subscribe here while you still can:
Ben Settle
