{"id":12021,"date":"2017-04-20T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2017-04-20T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T15:30:56","slug":"how-to-turn-lies-about-you-into-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-turn-lies-about-you-into-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Turn Lies About You Into Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a fine, upstanding citizen on Flakebook declared about selling with email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201c&#8230;you actually have to give a crap about your subscribers. That\u2019s a secret Ben Settle forgets to share.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I\u2019ll be *triggered*.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea I was being so neglectful.<\/p>\n<p>No idea I was engaging in sheer, uncircumcised marketing malpractice.<\/p>\n<p>Someone slap the cuffs on elBenbo!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Blind<\/em> me with pepper spray!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clearly I have been asleep at the switch all these years forgetting to tell people to care about their markets. Except, of course, in daily emails (like when I tell you the importance of bonding with your list, not bull shytting them, being transparent, not hiding sales pitches, not trying to manipulate with dorky &#8220;ninja&#8221; persuasion tactics, etc), Email Players, Crackerjack Selling Secrets (first chapter), 10-Minute Workday, CopySlacker, my podcasts, and pretty much any podcast I&#8217;m interviewed on when the topic comes up.<\/p>\n<p>Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p>And people wonder why I mock Flakebook.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s not the first time that\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n<p>Nor will it be the last.<\/p>\n<p>But, one thing will remain constant:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be using the blue light special\u2019s who say idiotic things, half truths, and outright lies about me to my advantage via my daily emails to make even more sales.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what else?<\/p>\n<p>You can (and should) just as easily do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Enter my \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>It shows you how to write email people look forward to reading and buying from.<\/p>\n<p>Which, makes turning lies about you into sales.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the righteous link:<\/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>Recently, a fine, upstanding citizen on Flakebook declared about selling with email: \u201c&#8230;you actually have to give a crap about your subscribers. That\u2019s a secret Ben Settle forgets to share.\u201d Well, I\u2019ll be *triggered*. I had no idea I was being so neglectful. No idea I was engaging in sheer, uncircumcised marketing malpractice. Someone slap [&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-12021","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\/12021","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=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}