{"id":11912,"date":"2017-02-25T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2017-02-25T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T14:30:34","slug":"so-simple-a-goo-roo-fanboy-will-never-figure-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/so-simple-a-goo-roo-fanboy-will-never-figure-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"So Simple A Goo-roo Fanboy Will Never Figure It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couple weeks ago while speaking at Ray Higdon\u2019s personal branding bootcamp I had lunch with the authors of the smash hit book \u201cGo For No&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d been a fan of their for years.<\/p>\n<p>And, afterwards they sent me their book.<\/p>\n<p>In the envelope was a nice card and a smaller card, written in a child\u2019s handwriting, that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>One day I asked my daddy for a cookie but my my daddy didn\u2019t let me have a cookie. So I asked for a cookie but he didn\u2019t let me have a cookie. So I asked for a cookie and he didn\u2019t let me have a cookie. So I asked for a cookie he let me have a cookie. The end.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wrote them back and immediately said:<\/p>\n<p>That is probably the single best example of the power of daily emails (or any kind of relentless follow up selling anything).<\/p>\n<p>So simple.<\/p>\n<p>So easy.<\/p>\n<p>So simple and easy even a child can grasp it \u2014 even if the average opportunity-minded goo-roo fanboy looking for &#8220;cool ninja tricks, man!\u201d will never grasp it, constantly floating from one technique, tactic, and trick to another.<\/p>\n<p>Selling ain\u2019t complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Nor should it be.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why my email methodology works so well for so many.<\/p>\n<p>It ain\u2019t based on complexity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s based on simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of simplicity anyone can use to start writing emails your list eagerly looks *forward* to reading and buying from \u2014 day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and, yes, decade after decade.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to let go of complicated it can work for you.<\/p>\n<p>If not?<\/p>\n<p>Then get ye behind me.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us have work to do.<\/p>\n<p>To see a ridiculously simple way of writing emails based on a dead psychologist\u2019s brilliant work, check out the March issue of \u201cEmail Players\u201d \u2014 which goes to the printer in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where to subscribe while you still can:<\/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>Couple weeks ago while speaking at Ray Higdon\u2019s personal branding bootcamp I had lunch with the authors of the smash hit book \u201cGo For No&#8221;. I\u2019d been a fan of their for years. And, afterwards they sent me their book. In the envelope was a nice card and a smaller card, written in a child\u2019s [&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-11912","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\/11912","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=11912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}