{"id":12038,"date":"2017-04-28T14:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=12038"},"modified":"2017-04-28T14:01:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:01:43","slug":"why-its-foolish-to-charge-97month-for-a-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-its-foolish-to-charge-97month-for-a-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It&#8217;s Foolish To Charge $97\/Month For A Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>But, when I first launched \u201cEmail Players\u201d back in 2011 I didn\u2019t see anyone pricing their continuity at $97\/month. Probably someone did here or there. But, since then it seems everyone and their mother is using that price.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s probably not a good idea for a multitude of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Especially for *my* own product.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I mean:<\/p>\n<p>I hereby admit I made a mistake pricing \u201cEmail Players\u201d at that, and would change it (and will, eventually) today if I wasn\u2019t so lazy (it involves re-editing multiple pages on my site, re-recording audio for my podcast intro, and a bunch of other things).<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>For one, when everyone prices things the same it&#8217;s basically marketing incest. This is one reason not to be a copycat and swiper. When you \u201cswipe and deploy lol!\u201d you are essentially looking like a poser. Sac up and be an individual if you are in swiping mode just because so-and-so guru told you to.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, you are not positioning yourself uniquely at all.<\/p>\n<p>You are looking like everyone else charging $97\/month.<\/p>\n<p>$97\/month has become almost trendy now.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, there\u2019s another reason not to do $97\/month.<\/p>\n<p>A reason that is hurting my own positioning (which is why I\u2019ll be changing it for my own product), product brand, and overall feeling of \u201cValue\u201d about my business. A reason that, alone, is why nobody in this industry especially should be selling anything for $97\/month. And, yes, it\u2019s a reason I explain in more detail, as well as what kind of prices are much *better*, in the upcoming May \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>This info can help anyone who sells continuity or wants to.<\/p>\n<p>(Regardless of what price you sell.)<\/p>\n<p>Details in the May issue which I\u2019m sending to the printer shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where to subscribe:<\/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>It may be coincidence. But, when I first launched \u201cEmail Players\u201d back in 2011 I didn\u2019t see anyone pricing their continuity at $97\/month. Probably someone did here or there. But, since then it seems everyone and their mother is using that price. And you know what? It\u2019s probably not a good idea for a multitude [&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-12038","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\/12038","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=12038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}