{"id":11335,"date":"2016-11-27T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=11335"},"modified":"2016-11-27T06:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:30:16","slug":"how-to-stick-out-in-the-inbox-like-a-blue-haired-feminist-at-a-gun-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-stick-out-in-the-inbox-like-a-blue-haired-feminist-at-a-gun-show\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Stick Out In The Inbox Like A Blue-Haired Feminist At A Gun Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trivia:<\/p>\n<p>2016 is the 50th anniversary of Gene Schwartz\u2019s magnificent copywriting book:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cBreakthrough Advertising\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And in honor of that great tome, I want to talk about something that can make you an infinitely better email copywriter:<\/p>\n<p>Gene\u2019s \u201c5th stage headline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ooh yeah, baby.<\/p>\n<p>Oooooh, yeah\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I have found this type of headline to be the perfect kind of subject line and theme for emails long term \u2014 doing daily broadcast emails, long auto-responder sequences, and, yes, even affiliate offers. I have been thinking about this off and on for years. But, if there\u2019s one thing that&#8217;ll let you bang out emails that consistently get read and bought from in multiple markets, over long periods of time, even when you&#8217;re selling mostly the same thing day in, and day out, without mass numbers of people getting bored or opting out\u2026 it is to write what I call \u201c5th stage emails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They look different than everyone else\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n<p>They smell different than everyone else\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, they sell different (i.e. better) than everyone else\u2019s emails \u2014 especially the ones just rabbiting off benefits, boring lectures, claims, and lame \u201cLast chance!\u201d subject lines, or whatever is being taught to the kids these days.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>The December \u201cEmail Players\u201d issues shows you exactly how to do these.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes an example (of an email that got more sales than any other in an affiliate campaign I did once) showing you how it\u2019s done so you can model (not copy and paste like a loser, obviously) it to do the same for your emails.<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p>Are you a Gene Schwartz fanboy?<\/p>\n<p>(Like Yours Grinchy is?)<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>Then the special bonus I include will give you marketing wet dreams.<\/p>\n<p>I can virtually guarantee it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, she\u2019s goes to the printer in just a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe in time while you still can to get it, 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>Trivia: 2016 is the 50th anniversary of Gene Schwartz\u2019s magnificent copywriting book: \u201cBreakthrough Advertising\u201d And in honor of that great tome, I want to talk about something that can make you an infinitely better email copywriter: Gene\u2019s \u201c5th stage headline.\u201d Ooh yeah, baby. Oooooh, yeah\u2026 I have found this type of headline to be the [&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-11335","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\/11335","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=11335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}