{"id":12084,"date":"2017-05-30T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2017-05-30T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:27:12","slug":"how-to-ratchet-up-sales-by-picking-fights-with-gurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-ratchet-up-sales-by-picking-fights-with-gurus\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Ratchet Up Sales By Picking Fights With Gurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things to happen is when a guru (not a goo-roo, goo-roos are kinda insignificant to these things) argues with something I say, or just espouses a totally different point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because it makes for perfect email fodder.<\/p>\n<p>I liken it to picking a fight with them.<\/p>\n<p>Guru writes something I know is wrong, and can prove it, and then I write an email to my list talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I do this the sales roll in hot and heavy.<\/p>\n<p>And, well, so it is.<\/p>\n<p>But, here\u2019s the caveat:<\/p>\n<p>There is a right way to pick a fight with gurus and wrong way. When I see people do it on social media I just shake my head. Usually, they are doing it in a way that garners sympathy for the guru and hurts their own case (and sales).<\/p>\n<p>Not so with my \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>At least, the ones who read the June issue.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on page 11 I show you 3 real-life examples of how this is done.<\/p>\n<p>Complete with why they worked, and what not to do.<\/p>\n<p>It takes balls to do this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>But, it\u2019s always been well worth the potential fall out for me.<\/p>\n<p>This issue goes to the printer Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Grab it here while you 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>One of my favorite things to happen is when a guru (not a goo-roo, goo-roos are kinda insignificant to these things) argues with something I say, or just espouses a totally different point of view. Why? Because it makes for perfect email fodder. I liken it to picking a fight with them. Guru writes something [&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-12084","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\/12084","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=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}