Ben Settle

“Email Players” subscriber Derek Pierce swallows elBenbo’s black pill, and shares a comment he got from his emails using my unruly ways:

“When I read emails from you now, it looks and feels different (the good kind of different), compared to say… 8 months back. It seems as if you swallowed a pill and miraculously started popping out these ‘grab you by the collar and pull you in’ e-broadcasts… however, like many things in life I’m certain you took the time and effort to master the craft of intriguing email writing.”

In full-on Matrix vernacular:

There’s the red pill.

There’s the blue pill.

And then there’s the black pill — which is what you swallow when you come to my world, immerse yourself in it, and start making more sales as a result. I believe Derek has only been with me for a couple months and you can see by the response he got, it didn’t take long to make an impact.

I’m sending the October issue to the printer in two days.

It’s a special “Halloween” issue.

And, it has a lot of scary-profitable info inside.

The kind you won’t easily find anywhere else.

Go to this link to get your monster claws on it in time:

www.EmailPlayers.com

Ben Settle

Following is a cautionary tale:

Sir Tim Hunt, Nobel Laureate, awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology, once made a… a… a… joke about chicks in labs. After that joke, while in a plane (where he couldn’t respond) some loser social justice warrior complained about it on Twitter, after which he was attacked and mocked by hundreds of other social media zombies on Twitter. And, soon after that, this great man of science watched his reputation and legacy of 50 years be destroyed.

All because of a joke that hurt someone in the feelz.

A joke anyone with a brain knows was self deprecating.

(Which, investigations revealed, was greeted with laughter, not silence, by a mostly female audience.)

Anyway, here’s why I bring this up:

If you do email using my wicked ways long enough, you, too, will eventually run into these so-called “social justice warriors” (societal trolls who have no problem lying, cheating, and ruining otherwise normal people for no reason whatsoever) trying to get you to submit to their twisted narrative.

This happens all the time.

And, chances are it’ll happen to you, too.

Yes, even if you bend over backwards not to offend people.

Case in point:

A few months ago an “Email Players” subscriber was attacked by a trollish social justice warrior that perfectly illustrates how they go after email marketers, bloggers, and anyone who has an opinion they disagree with.

In his case, someone called him a racist.

Why?

Because he said in an email his wife is Puerto Rican and she can be loud and snappy sometimes.

Gasp!

Oh nos!

Someone get this man a KKK Grand Puba Imperial Wizard robe on the double!

Of course, he asked elBenbo how to respond. And, I told him not only how to respond to such accusations, but also how to *profit* from them as well.

And guess what?

You can see what I told him in the October “Email Players” issue.

She goes to the printer Friday.

Subscribe here today to get it in time:

www.EmailPlayers.com

Ben Settle

P.S. Speaking of social justice warriors… The bonus going with this issue will hopefully give any social justice warriors, mush cookies, fire-breathing feminists, or garden-variety snowflakes heartburn, too.

Yay.

“Email Players” subscriber Nicholas Lal comes clean on his addiction:

My name is Nick and I’m a elBenboaholic. Ben’s newsletter helped me to my first $100,000 in sales online in Solo Ads. Now I’m transitioning to E-Commerce and going to really focus on list building in different niches and creating relationships with my buyers to create repeat business using Email Player rules.

There’s no 12-step program for this, I’m happy to report.

I’m that monkey on your back that refuses to leave no matter how hard you try to shake me off. But the good news is, as addictive as using my wily ways are to you… they are a helluva lot *more* addictive to your customers who soon realize they love your emails and can’t live another day without them.

The best example of this is the October “Email Players” issue.

She goes to the printer Friday.

And, the teaching about how to turn even the obscure and “boring” things about your market into emails that make the sale can get you so many extra sales coming in — month after month, year after year, decade after decade — your list will become completely dependent on you for their “fix” each day.

Don’t believe me?

Then maybe you’ll believe “Email Players” subscriber Tom Woods whose emails are the only ones read by several opinion leaders in his field:

(Context — Tom is a Senior fellow of the Mises Institute, New York Times Bestselling Author, Prominent libertarian historian and author, and host of one of the longest running and most popular libertarian podcasts on the planet…)

Ben, another testimonial.

I have been leaving tens of thousands of dollars on the table by not mailing enough, and not using your methods. Period.

How do I know? Because of the tens of thousands I’ve brought in since adopting them.

A lot of my emails are up at my blog, where you can see they’re written in classic elBenbo style.

I’ve had a bunch of people, including several opinion molders I respect highly, tell me my emails are the only mass emails they read. They look forward to them, they tell me.

I’ve got five children, so my household isn’t cheap. I now live a much more comfortable life, thanks to Ben Settle. That is no exaggeration.

I ain’t just whistlin’ dixie with this stuff.

It works.

But, only if you know it and use it.

Subscribe here today in time to get the October issue:

www.EmailPlayers.com

Ben Settle

Here’s something to ponder:

My pal (and sometimes business partner) Ryan Levesque has formulated a brilliant way of using surveys to draw information out of a market.

I have never really seen anything quite like it before.

And, it’s some of the most valuable info you can have.

(I’ve seen some of the magic he’s done with it, it’s quite brilliant.)

One of the terms he uses is doing a “deep dive” survey which lets you get deep into your market’s psychology and hot buttons (amongst other things) to pull out what they really want and what kind of offers to sell them without guessing.

I highly recommend learning this.

And, he deserves major props for even making his methods public.

But…

(There’s always a “but”, isn’t there?)

That said, there is also a time to do what I would call a “shallow dive” survey. This is pretty much what a lot of old school direct mail companies who built the entire direct response marketing industry do and have done for the last 100 years of direct response.

It’s also 100% elBenbo-proof.

i.e. anyone can do it.

I’ve used this to figure out what to sell people for the last 14 years and have (mostly) never sold a product to my lists they didn’t already want me to sell them — all from asking a couple questions in one of these “shallow dive” surveys. This, of course, makes selling products as easy as falling off a log with emails (and, really, any other method you want to use).

All you do is jot down this question, push send, and await the replies.

You’ll know with near certainty what to sell your list.

And guess ye what?

I share this tidy little idea in the October “Email Players” issue.

She goes to the printer in a couple days.

Subscribe in time to get it here while you still can:

www.EmailPlayers.com

Ben Settle

New “Email Players” subscriber, one of the top video marketing guys in his industry, and a “for real” business owner (i.e. he has offline businesses as well as online businesses) Tyson Zahner writes:

Alright bro … I can’t believe I’ve waited this long to start implementing the Settle style of writing emails. I’ve been following you for years and it wasn’t until we met in Arizona that I finally decided to grab email players and start using your methods.

Last night I was reading the email player’s playbook and E-mail Secret #7 (on page 34) prompted me to write an email commenting on a current event. The current event had absolutely NOTHING to do with my market, but I figured if Ben can find ways to tie weird sh*t into his business, then so can I.

So I sent out this email with the subject line “Ryan Lochte Attacked on LIVE T.V.”

Anyway, it’s only been 4 hours and I’ve already made 4 sales from just that one email. CRAZY!

So moral of the story … This hard headed doofus has finally seen the light. I am now a believer.

The beauty of it all?

As Tyson will no doubt be finding out (if he hasn’t already), my wily ways work not just for writing emails, but for doing videos, too. People who ask which is “better” – video or email – are missing the point. In fact, “Email Players” subscriber Drew Morisey — who sells products showing people how to rap, and markets to millennials (the group who hates email…) — uses my methods to do YouTube videos more than he does for emails.

So many uses for my system.

So many ways to make sales.

So many ways to do it in a way that’s fun.

(For both you to write, and others to buy from.)

The October issue goes to the printer in a few days.

As I keep droning on about — it’s one of the single most important issues I’ve ever written. It shows you how to turn the things you know about your market into a steady stream of emails that make lots of sales for the rest of your existence.

You have but a little time left to get your grubby hands on it.

Subscribe here before it’s too late:

www.EmailPlayers.com

Ben Settle

A few months ago one of my “Email Players” subscribers came to my table with a problem that plagues a lot of emailers.

He sells a loyalty app to for online stores.

And, his problem was:

He was struggling with how to write about his market’s pains, frustrations, etc. For example, one of their pains is falling short as a dad, or overextending themselves, or death, or employee regulations and laws, and so on and so forth.

How does one turn *these* into emails for a friggin’ customer loyalty app?

’twas a good question.

My answer?

“Never fear — your pal elBenbo’s got this.”

And what I did was, I went through ALL of his customer research, point by point, and turned each pain, fear, desire, insecurity, etc — no matter how obscure or off-the-wall or disconnected with his product — into an email theme he could easily bang out.

And guess what?

I put it all in the October “Email Players” issue.

Again, this is the whole essence of my methods.

It’s not really about the “writing” or the “persuasion” or the “copy” — it’s about sound, principled thought and the laws of human behavior applied to daily emails.

This training is the most important I’ve ever done.

It can help anyone regardless of your product or market.

And, newer people will especially benefit from it.

(i.e. people who have not yet been indoctrinated with the usual goo-roo nonsense thinking you have to manipulate and put people in persuasion “choke holds” or whatever to make a sale — screw that, I’ll take the Pepsi Challenge against those tactics any time.)

All right, enough.

The hour draws late.

The deadline looms.

Subscriber here today to get this issue before it goes to the printer:

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Ben Settle

While back reader Josh Steimle responded to an email I wrote about fast writing being best:

“So good. I’ve written over 200 articles for Forbes, Entrepreneur, Mashable, TechCrunch, Time, etc. Guess which articles have been the most popular? The ones that took me 45 minutes to write. The ones that took me 8-10 hours to write because of all the interviews, sources, data, research, revisions, editing? Not so much.”

Once again elBenbo’s wicked ways are vindicated.

Not by opinion.

Not by a flakebook meme.

Not even by my own bloated ego.

But by hard results from someone else.

I don’t get these blokes who spend hours and days (and even weeks!) carefully crafting emails. You are far better off banging out a C-level email in 5 minutes than you are an A-level email in 5 days.

Don’t believe me?

The proof is in the doing.

Next time you write an email or any content write FAST.

You are allowed one edit, that’s it.

Then push send and call Dr. elBenbo in the morning.

If you want methods for writing fast, getting ideas fast, and making sales fast with email make sure you dig in to the “Email Players” newsletter and the book that comes with your subscription.

Soon, you’ll be like speedy Gonzalez at this.

And, you’ll wonder how you ever did it any other way.

Subscription info over yonder:

www.EmailPlayers.com

Ben Settle

This is for people who want to join Email Players but can’t afford it.

The solution for probably 90% of them:

Cancel your cable/satellite service and use that to pay for it.

Only broke people complaining about finances pay for cable over bettering themselves. Which is why, if you’re like most struggling to “afford” the $3.23 per month (ooh), your rationalization hamster is probably hard at work spinning out reasons why you *need* cable (for the kids, to watch the football, whatever).

What?

You’re now telling me:

“But Ben I don’t have cable! I can’t even afford that!”

Then get a part time job, Pumpkin.

You have too much dignity for that?

Okay, how about mowing lawns?

I made way more than $3.23 per day as a teenager doing that. Or, if you’re a moderately attractive woman with most of your teeth and no visible open sores, work them street corners, babycakes. (I’m joking — it’s much better if you have *zero* open sores if you want to be a hooker…)

Anyway, here’s the point:

If you want it bad enough, you’ll prioritize for it.

If you don’t, you won’t.

I don’t really concern myself with the second group.

(They really shouldn’t subscribe, opposite mindset of what I require in my customers.)

But if you’re in the first group?

You’ll cancel your cable.

Or stop eating out so much.

Or, figure it out somehow.

And if not?

Then that merely means you don’t want it bad enough.

For everyone else, go here:

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Ben Settle

For some reason (no idea why, random…) I started thinking about the TV show “Lost” recently. Despite its idiotic series finale ending, it started out with some of the best storytelling I’ve ever seen.

I distinctly remember the first season.

I liked the first two episodes well enough.

Nothing too earth-shattering, but good.

Then, the third episode “hooked” my righteous gluteus assimus to the point where I watched the entire 6 seasons (despite the ridiculous plot holes, insults to the viewer, and other JJ Abrams BS he injects in his movies/shows) all the way, hoping that one day… *some* day… the show would give me the kind of entertainment and vibe that 3rd episode of season 1 about John Locke and his being rejected for the Australian walkabout and miraculous healing from the island did.

(Fans of the show will no doubt remember this)

That episode — and “don’t tell me what I can’t do” scene in particular — was my dopamine drip. I kept watching and watching and watching — for 6 years — hoping the show would eventually do this again or better, to get my fix.

Never happened, unfortunately.

It had its moments, but nothing like that kind of storytelling.

Anyway, there’s an email lesson here.

You may be banging out emails and wondering if people are going to stick around for more of what you have to say. I would say yes, if you give them one great dopamine drip, they will come back for more. And, even forgive the occasional boring email or rambling nattering on email (like most people write).

Keep striving to get better.

Keep writing.

Keep sending ‘em out.

It only takes ONE email to get people hooked on you.

And that brings us to the October “Email Players” issue.

It has a detailed (and, I daresay *intensive*) teaching about how to turn your market’s worst fears, enemies, problems, and angsts into emails that pay you over and over and over for years… keeping people addicted to you and your emails, not being able to to *not* read them.

In fact, I show you a real life business asking about this.

And, the ideas I give him based on his market.

(So you can easily replicate it all.)

In some ways this is the most valuable “Email Players” issue to date.

That is, if you have a nose to smell, and fingers to touch.

She goes to the printer soon though.

Get it here while you can:

www.EmailPlayers.com

Ben Settle