{"id":10614,"date":"2016-02-25T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2016-02-25T06:30:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:30:29","slug":"how-she-sold-100-copies-of-her-book-to-her-list-before-even-writing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-she-sold-100-copies-of-her-book-to-her-list-before-even-writing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How She Sold 100 Copies Of Her Book To Her List Before Even Writing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Dale Bell asked several months back:<\/p>\n<p>(In a Facebook group)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you don&#8217;t currently have a product to sell (still learning the market and what they want), what would you add in your emails as the CTA? I\u2019m aware I could offer affiliate products but if I\u2019m honest, I\u2019m not a big fan of selling other people&#8217;s stuff!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Any help is appreciated because I feel like I\u2019m overcomplicating things here, spinning my wheels and getting nowhere.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would say this:<\/p>\n<p>99% of people online (that I hear from anyways) do overcomplicate things.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s no different with Dale\u2019s question.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, for the past 8 years (give or take) I\u2019ve been using a very simple (almost stoopidly simple) method for pre-selling via emails people on my products before said products are for sale or even have been written\/assembled\/created.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve used it in multiple successful launches.<\/p>\n<p>(In multiple niches.)<\/p>\n<p>And, doing it with affiliates, social media, blogs, social proof, yada yada yada.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, I\u2019ve helped others do the same.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, another \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Vicky Fraser said this in the same facebook group thread after I revealed it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201c\u201cYes! ^^ I\u2019d forgotten I did this with my book. Sold 100 copies to my list before I\u2019d even written it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Want to learn my not-so-mysterious method?<\/p>\n<p>Then get your buttox on \u201cEmail Players\u201d before the March issue goes to the printer.<\/p>\n<p>I answer this question in detail.<\/p>\n<p>(Not that there\u2019s all that many details to it \u2014 I answer it in 3 short sentences.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to get it in time hit the jump below:<\/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 Dale Bell asked several months back: (In a Facebook group) If you don&#8217;t currently have a product to sell (still learning the market and what they want), what would you add in your emails as the CTA? I\u2019m aware I could offer affiliate products but if I\u2019m honest, I\u2019m not a big [&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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","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=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}