{"id":10027,"date":"2015-06-26T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2015-06-26T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:30:26","slug":"i-said-emotional-content-droogie-san-not-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/i-said-emotional-content-droogie-san-not-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"I Said Emotional Content, Droogie-san, Not Anger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite movies is Bruce Lee\u2019s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cEnter The Dragon\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But, not just because of its entertainment value. There&#8217;s mucho\u00a0educational value to the email marketer embedded throughout, too.\u00a0One example is when Bruce is training a young whipper-snapper in\u00a0kung fu.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce tells him to kick him.<\/p>\n<p>The whipper-snapper kicks.<\/p>\n<p>But, does it in a \u201cgoing-through-the-motions\u201d way.<\/p>\n<p>(Phoning it in)<\/p>\n<p>Bruce replies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWhat was that? An Exhibition? We need emotional content. Now try again!\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The student tries again.<\/p>\n<p>But, this time he overdoes it \u2014 angry and frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce snaps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI said \u2018emotional content.\u2019 Not anger! Now try again!\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The student tries again, a much better kick Bruce praises.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what does this have to do with email?<\/p>\n<p>A lot, Droogie-san.<\/p>\n<p>Emotional content is something a LOT of emails lack.<\/p>\n<p>Probably because nobody teaches it or thinks about it.<\/p>\n<p>But fear ye not.<\/p>\n<p>Your Uncle elBenbo goes into detail about how to write your emails\u00a0in this way (with emotional content) in the July &#8220;Email Players&#8221;\u00a0issue. I also show you an example of this kind of email I wrote to\u00a0the MLM market recently. Of all the emails I wrote for that\u00a0affiliate sequence, this one \u2014 which had the best mix of emotional\u00a0content than the others \u2014 got double the opens and click-throughs\u00a0as the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Again, few (if anyone) talks about this.<\/p>\n<p>(Or even think about it or understands it.)<\/p>\n<p>But, knowing it will give MY guys and gals a huge advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be one of them?<\/p>\n<p>Best decide quick.<\/p>\n<p>She goes to the printer in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Details here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite movies is Bruce Lee\u2019s: \u201cEnter The Dragon\u201d But, not just because of its entertainment value. There&#8217;s mucho\u00a0educational value to the email marketer embedded throughout, too.\u00a0One example is when Bruce is training a young whipper-snapper in\u00a0kung fu. Bruce tells him to kick him. The whipper-snapper kicks. But, does it in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}