{"id":11217,"date":"2016-09-26T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=11217"},"modified":"2016-09-26T06:30:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:30:30","slug":"the-most-importantest-email-lesson-in-the-entire-history-of-the-multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-most-importantest-email-lesson-in-the-entire-history-of-the-multiverse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Importantest Email Lesson In The Entire History Of The Multiverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago one of my \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscribers came to my table with a problem that plagues a lot of emailers.<\/p>\n<p>He sells a loyalty app to for online stores.<\/p>\n<p>And, his problem was:<\/p>\n<p>He was struggling with how to write about his market\u2019s pains, frustrations, etc. For example, one of their pains is falling short as a dad, or overextending themselves, or death, or employee regulations and laws, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>How does one turn *these* into emails for a friggin\u2019 customer loyalty app?<\/p>\n<p>\u2019twas a good question.<\/p>\n<p>My answer?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cNever fear \u2014 your pal elBenbo&#8217;s got this.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what I did was, I went through ALL of his customer research, point by point, and turned each pain, fear, desire, insecurity, etc \u2014 no matter how obscure or off-the-wall or disconnected with his product \u2014 into an email theme he could easily bang out.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>I put it all in the October \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is the whole essence of my methods.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not really about the \u201cwriting\u201d or the \u201cpersuasion\u201d or the \u201ccopy\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s about sound, principled thought and the laws of human behavior applied to daily emails.<\/p>\n<p>This training is the most important I\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n<p>It can help anyone regardless of your product or market.<\/p>\n<p>And, newer people will especially benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>(i.e. people who have not yet been indoctrinated with the usual goo-roo nonsense thinking you have to manipulate and put people in persuasion \u201cchoke holds\u201d or whatever to make a sale \u2014 screw that, I\u2019ll take the Pepsi Challenge against those tactics any time.)<\/p>\n<p>All right, enough.<\/p>\n<p>The hour draws late.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline looms.<\/p>\n<p>Subscriber here today to get this issue before it goes to the printer:<\/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 few months ago one of my \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscribers came to my table with a problem that plagues a lot of emailers. He sells a loyalty app to for online stores. And, his problem was: He was struggling with how to write about his market\u2019s pains, frustrations, etc. For example, one of their pains [&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-11217","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\/11217","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=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}