{"id":11000,"date":"2016-07-13T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2016-07-13T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T13:30:49","slug":"why-yearly-subscriptions-are-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-yearly-subscriptions-are-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yearly Subscriptions Are The Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question that waifts by like a stale fart in the breeze every now and then is why I don\u2019t let people pay for \u201cEmail Players\u201d for a year in one shot. After all, they have the dough, they want to give it to me, and they are even eager to do so.<\/p>\n<p>My reply to that?<\/p>\n<p>I get why people want to do that.<\/p>\n<p>I am the same way.<\/p>\n<p>But, I also don\u2019t like being in debt or buying things on time.<\/p>\n<p>By selling things in advance that have not been created yet, that puts a kind of psychological stress on my wee brain that sucks all the fun out of doing it for me. At that point it becomes a chore and something I have to fulfill on.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, my answer is always no.<\/p>\n<p>Think I\u2019m the only one?<\/p>\n<p>Think again, Buster.<\/p>\n<p>Even the great Terry Dean, when I interviewed him once, told me he is the same way with his newsletter. People who have been buried in a bottomless pit of debt and financial problems in our lives tend to not want more debt.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, even product-fulfillment debt.<\/p>\n<p>(i.e. such as selling yearly subscriptions.)<\/p>\n<p>Being bound to having to do it for a year in advance would take all the fun out of it.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, for those who keep asking \u201cwhy no yearly?\u201d \u2014 now you know.<\/p>\n<p>And, as my pal GI Joe used to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cKnowing is half the battle\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Giddy-up.<\/p>\n<p>To check out my *monthly* \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter go here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question that waifts by like a stale fart in the breeze every now and then is why I don\u2019t let people pay for \u201cEmail Players\u201d for a year in one shot. After all, they have the dough, they want to give it to me, and they are even eager to do so. My reply [&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-11000","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\/11000","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=11000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}