{"id":13072,"date":"2018-08-27T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2018-08-27T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:46:13","slug":"how-to-tap-that-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-tap-that-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Gonna Tap That Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite Donald Trump email lessons:<\/p>\n<p>A few years back, the media interviewed Trump and the topic of a super model he dated came up, to which Trump said she was \u201cNo longer a 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the media asked for her response?<\/p>\n<p>Incoherent babble.<\/p>\n<p>She was clearly rattled, and it got her upset emotionally \u2014 despite the fact he was now a mother of 4 and well past her modeling days and it shouldn\u2019t really have mattered what Trump said or thought.<\/p>\n<p>But it did matter.<\/p>\n<p>And, it mattered because Trump tapped into one of her insecurities.<\/p>\n<p>With one measly sentence.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>This tapping into insecurities in a headline or subject line is one of the best ways ever invented for getting people to not only read your ads and emails, but give them their undivided attention.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what else?<\/p>\n<p>In the September \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue I show and analyze a great example of this.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s right smack dab on page 2.<\/p>\n<p>And, it\u2019s a doozy of way to use, too.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m sending this issue to the printer early this month.<\/p>\n<p>(Tomorrow is the deadline.)<\/p>\n<p>So make sure you are subscribed today to get it in time:<\/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 Donald Trump email lessons: A few years back, the media interviewed Trump and the topic of a super model he dated came up, to which Trump said she was \u201cNo longer a 10.\u201d When the media asked for her response? Incoherent babble. She was clearly rattled, and it got her upset [&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-13072","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\/13072","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=13072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}