{"id":10518,"date":"2016-01-06T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10518"},"modified":"2016-01-06T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:30:16","slug":"what-to-do-if-you-have-no-email-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/what-to-do-if-you-have-no-email-list\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do If You Have No Email List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the attitude to have.<\/p>\n<p>Props to Stephanie Jones Seegars who just posted this in the free podcast Facebook group this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I have a very tiny list of 8 people. Haven&#8217;t emailed them in months and have nothing to sell them right now. Decided this morning, who cares? Screw it, I&#8217;m going to start emailing them every day. Starting today. If all 8 unsubscribe, I&#8217;ll just email myself while I build my list.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tired of procrastinating and making up excuses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s\u2026Do\u2026This\u2026!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the exact mindset to have.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about how big your list is, who is going to read or \u201copen\u201d your emails, or who is going to click, or who is going to opt-out if you haven\u2019t emailed them in a while (note: it\u2019s not easy waking up dead lists, and they often wake up grumpy \u2014 mummies don\u2019t like having their sleep disturbed, after all\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>You can worry about all that later if&#8217;n you want.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it&#8217;s\u00a0about taking massive and immediate action writing emails.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today.<\/p>\n<p>Her post was timely, too.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because Sunday\u2019s podcast shows you how to build a list quickly using the emails you are writing. In fact, I show you how to turn every email you write into a steady stream of quality, responsive leads, without spending a single penny.<\/p>\n<p>That let&#8217;s you kill two stones with one bird.<\/p>\n<p>(As my English teacher once quipped.)<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime?<\/p>\n<p>You can see more stories &amp; ideas like this here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BenSettleShow.com\/facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the attitude to have. Props to Stephanie Jones Seegars who just posted this in the free podcast Facebook group this morning: I have a very tiny list of 8 people. Haven&#8217;t emailed them in months and have nothing to sell them right now. Decided this morning, who cares? Screw it, I&#8217;m going to [&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-10518","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\/10518","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=10518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}