{"id":12046,"date":"2017-04-28T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=12046"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:00:16","slug":"weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A freebie seeker this morning is not satisfied with the free Value I provide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Weird.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heard so much about you and your top level email marketing tactics, but your first 3 emails to me have scored ZERO on a scale of usefulness, and TEN on pitching your $97\/month product.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ironically, you slam the goo-roo fanboys and yet, here you are doing the same &#8220;goo-roo&#8221; thing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember when you needed to build a relationship first?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dayem.<\/p>\n<p>Why didn\u2019t someone *tell* me I didn\u2019t know how to build a relationship via email? Or that I score a big fat ZERO on the usefulness scale? Like, for example, these readers who replied to the same content of one of the 3 emails Usefulness guy got:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>(Comedy not based on truth is simply not funny.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It hit me&#8230; Words of wisdom! <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I&#8217;m going to write those words somewhere where I see them often.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I don&#8217;t have a list yet, that&#8217;s why I haven&#8217;t bought your emailsplayers yet. but once I do, I&#8217;ll be digging around for more info lol.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyways, thanks for the free, cool, emails<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8230;&#8221;Indifference makes people more persuasive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>along with &#8216;having contempt for what you cant have&#8217;&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben, it&#8217;s almost too powerful to spread around,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruce<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Great email!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I &#8220;LOL&#8217;d&#8221; at this part &#8220;complicated funnel screen shots that have more circles on it than an in-home MLM presentation.&#8221; ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christina<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s always amusing to me how whenever one person whines about something I write not having Value or whatever, several more will find Usefulness in that exact same content.<\/p>\n<p>Weird how that works\u2026 innit?<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, enough fun times for my soul.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get down to bid\u2019niz where I now pitch my $97\/month product:<\/p>\n<p>The May issue (which goes to the printer Sunday night) contains a bonus training with one of the best A-list copywriters on the planet. A writer who has competed and beat controls from some of the best writers who ever lived, including the late great Jim Rutz.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not full of \u201cninja tactics\u201d or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Just solid info from a writer who wins in the harshest copywriting environment there is.<\/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>A freebie seeker this morning is not satisfied with the free Value I provide: Weird. Heard so much about you and your top level email marketing tactics, but your first 3 emails to me have scored ZERO on a scale of usefulness, and TEN on pitching your $97\/month product. Ironically, you slam the goo-roo fanboys [&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-12046","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\/12046","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=12046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}