{"id":10559,"date":"2016-01-29T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10559"},"modified":"2016-01-29T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T02:30:07","slug":"manipulation-mind-tricks-i-use-on-my-best-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/manipulation-mind-tricks-i-use-on-my-best-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulation Mind Tricks I Use On My Best Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of fairness:<\/p>\n<p>Below is an email written to his list about how methods did NOT work (well, briefly, at least\u2026) from a man who is a Gary Halbert and Dan Kennedy-approved marketer, Agora Financial copywriter, and one of my best marketing chums\u2026 Doberman Dan Gallapoo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>After busting my chops for years about not emailing my list every day, I finally gave in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And only a few months ago I started sending a daily email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guess what happened after the first month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuttin\u2019 honey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I sooooo wanted to prove Ben wrong. So I told him my results.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He told me to stop trying to sell surreptitiously, grow a pair and pitch in EVERY SINGLE EMAIL.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since I wanted to prove him wrong, I did exactly what he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guess what happened after two more weeks of daily emails&#8230; but this time with a blatant pitch in every email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nuttin\u2019 honey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So I kept doing it. \u2018Cuz I couldn\u2019t wait to tell Ben his system failed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But guess what happened two weeks later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The floodgates were opened.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And I\u2019m happy to say that the number of knights in the Marketing Camelot has never been higher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Settle, ya big beautiful bastard. I soooooo wanted to prove you wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But dammit&#8230; your email system worked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sure, it took a while to get it tweaked and build some momentum. But it\u2019s now generating a steady, predictable and reliable flow of new knights into my Marketing Camelot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I shoulda done this when Ben first told me about it YEARS ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gawd knows how much money I\u2019ve missed out on because I didn\u2019t.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You really need to study the email marketing Jedi mind tricks Ben reveals in his Email Players newsletter&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.emailplayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No, that\u2019s not an affiliate link. Ben doesn\u2019t allow affiliates to sell his newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And no, we don\u2019t have any kind of rev-share agreement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact, he has no idea I\u2019m even mentioning his newsletter. (Until he reads this email.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m just sharing it with you for two reasons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s excellent and it\u2019s making me a lot of money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t have a scarcity mindset.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In other words, I don\u2019t believe that promoting Ben\u2019s newsletter to the people on my list is going to negatively affect enrollment in my own membership program and newsletter, The Marketing Camelot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben\u2019s newsletter is something I believe in so I wanted to share it with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple as that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Ben, I\u2019m not breaking your rule of pitching in every email. I DID pitch. I just pitched YOUR newsletter&#8230; probably much to your surprise.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Look, I\u2019m not gonna lie to you and tell you that doing an email every day is a walk in the park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are some nights when I\u2019m sitting in the family room with my wife at midnight, staring at my laptop half asleep, wondering what the hell I\u2019m going to write for tomorrow\u2019s email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Cuz I made a commitment to do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And it\u2019s worth it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen, I\u2019ve heard all the objections for not sending a daily email. Hell, I said them all myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But I tried it and now I\u2019m a believer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Try it. You\u2019ve got nothing to lose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All the best,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Doberman Dan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. Ya know what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think Ben has been using his mind manipulation tricks on me for YEARS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;knowing I would eventually pull my head outta my posterior and start emailing daily.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I bet that smug S.O.B. is gloating right this very second.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I SHOULD be mad. But his system is making me so much money I can\u2019t be anything but happy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think you\u2019ll be happy, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pax vobiscum.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>Even my best pals doubt me.<\/p>\n<p>But, that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<p>I actually dig it.<\/p>\n<p>Because, it\u2019s the people trying to prove me wrong (the intellectually honest ones, at least) who apply the info, and who end up making out like bandits (some of them even go on to out earn my own results using my own methods!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today\u2019s the deadline to get the February issue.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you want to test my methods yourself or are just looking for an excuse to get started, now\u2019s the time.<\/p>\n<p>After today, it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here tonight before the deadline is over, and before it\u2019s too late:<\/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>In the name of fairness: Below is an email written to his list about how methods did NOT work (well, briefly, at least\u2026) from a man who is a Gary Halbert and Dan Kennedy-approved marketer, Agora Financial copywriter, and one of my best marketing chums\u2026 Doberman Dan Gallapoo. 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