{"id":10087,"date":"2015-08-13T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2015-08-13T06:30:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T13:30:32","slug":"benoholics-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/benoholics-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Benoholics Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Mary Rose Maguire writes on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>In a weird way, Ben is almost like the AA for marketers. I&#8217;ll speak\u00a0for myself, here&#8230; Before I was &#8220;hooked&#8221; on the people approving\u00a0of me by the open rates and zero unsubscribes. But then I noticed\u00a0that I was just doing enough to not rock the boat&#8230; to say what I\u00a0thought people would like&#8230; to remain trapped in mediocre\u00a0marketing because to take a risk (and possibly have unsubscribes)\u00a0seemed impossible for me to do. Or at the very least, unpalatable.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>^^ it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing I want to be known for it\u2019s this:<\/p>\n<p>Freeing people from the strangling ropes of the mainstream and\u00a0majority \u2014 not only in the marketing arena, but everywhere in life.\u00a0The majority is very often wrong (not just business).<\/p>\n<p>So it is in email marketing.<\/p>\n<p>And copywriting.<\/p>\n<p>And just about anything else.<\/p>\n<p>If you want me to personally indoctrinate you with this way of\u00a0thinking then check out my \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>It ain\u2019t cheap.<\/p>\n<p>And, it\u2019s not for people who need \u201capproval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(From clients, gurus, colleagues, their wives, whatever.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s for free thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>For people not afraid to be different.<\/p>\n<p>And, for those who want to stick out in their markets.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the link:<\/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>\u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Mary Rose Maguire writes on Facebook: In a weird way, Ben is almost like the AA for marketers. I&#8217;ll speak\u00a0for myself, here&#8230; Before I was &#8220;hooked&#8221; on the people approving\u00a0of me by the open rates and zero unsubscribes. But then I noticed\u00a0that I was just doing enough to not rock the boat&#8230; [&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-10087","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\/10087","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=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}