{"id":13367,"date":"2019-01-26T18:28:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13367"},"modified":"2019-01-26T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T02:28:04","slug":"the-worlds-greatest-salesmans-email-list-building-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-worlds-greatest-salesmans-email-list-building-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s greatest salesman&#8217;s email list building secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always astounds me how so many old school door-to-door methods of selling either work directly online, or are easily adapted to selling online.<\/p>\n<p>Or to any kind of direct response marketing.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p>Referral lead generation.<\/p>\n<p>The man the Guinness Book Of World Records says is the \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest Salesman\u201d (the great Joe Girard) consistently outsold every car sales man by a country mile year in, and year out.<\/p>\n<p>And one of his big secrets?<\/p>\n<p>Referrals.<\/p>\n<p>He sold in such a way where his customers couldn\u2019t help but tell all their friends, family, co-workers, even complete strangers about him. That meant, people came to him already trusting him, knowing he could help them, and eager to hand him the sale.<\/p>\n<p>These are the best kind of leads you can get.<\/p>\n<p>They readily buy.<\/p>\n<p>They readily use\/consume\/implement what you sell them.<\/p>\n<p>And then, assuming you give them a good experience and your product\/service works, are far more likely to spread the gospel about you to everyone they know \u2014 including their email list, social media audience, colleagues, yada yada yada.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the February \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>I go deep into my all-time favorite referral list building method.<\/p>\n<p>A method that has added many hundreds of subscribers to my list in the past few months alone. But, not just ordinary subscribers. These are, in many cases, cream-of-the-crop subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>This is a method pretty much anyone can use, too.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you\u2019re a raw and \u201cwriggling\u201d newbie.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t say it will build you a huge list really fast, necessarily.<\/p>\n<p>(Especially if you&#8217;re brand spanking new to marketing.)<\/p>\n<p>And it does take some elbow grease, time, and patience.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it\u2019s not at all \u201cscaleable\u201d, either.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s my #1 favorite method.<\/p>\n<p>And, I teach it in depth, everything I know about it and everything I do to implement it, in the February \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue. In fact, it will become part of a higher ticket product (along with the March issue, and a couple other back issues I\u2019ve done about list building) later this year or early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to get this issue approaches quick.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the 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>It always astounds me how so many old school door-to-door methods of selling either work directly online, or are easily adapted to selling online. Or to any kind of direct response marketing. For example: Referral lead generation. 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