{"id":11190,"date":"2019-09-18T04:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2019-09-18T04:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:30:54","slug":"breaking-the-4th-wall-in-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/breaking-the-4th-wall-in-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking The 4th Wall In Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my guilty-pleasure movies is the first Deadpool.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say it&#8217;s the greatest movie ever made, or that it won&#8217;t lower your IQ a point or two if you aren&#8217;t careful. But, there is a powerful email lesson embedded within its reel that can potentially be quite a boon to your squealing piggy bank.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I am talking about how it breaks the 4th wall.<\/p>\n<p>This means, Deadpool directly talks to you \u2014 the audience.<\/p>\n<p>i.e. breaking the 4th wall.<\/p>\n<p>And this, my loyal plebe, is what great emails do, too.<\/p>\n<p>As one of my pals Sean Kaye once told some of my customers, when you tell a story with a specific kind of narrative, while also giving a reader a behind-the-scenes look at at your life, your business, etc, you are breaking the 4th wall.<\/p>\n<p>Most emails never do this.<\/p>\n<p>And, even if they do, they do it in a way that is dorky.<\/p>\n<p>Like, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complaining about their problems (nobody cares about your problems, some of us are even *glad* you have them\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Mushing on about irrelevant tangents they don\u2019t tie into what their list wants<\/li>\n<li>Lecturing via doling out boring philosophy or dry tips<\/li>\n<li>Giving lots of free hard info away their list will safely ignore<\/li>\n<li>And the goo-roo band marches on\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, if you want to learn how to do it right, never fear.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why my entire Email Players methodology is all about in some ways.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription info 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>One of my guilty-pleasure movies is the first Deadpool. I won&#8217;t say it&#8217;s the greatest movie ever made, or that it won&#8217;t lower your IQ a point or two if you aren&#8217;t careful. But, there is a powerful email lesson embedded within its reel that can potentially be quite a boon to your squealing piggy [&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-11190","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\/11190","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=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}