{"id":13553,"date":"2019-03-30T22:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13553"},"modified":"2019-03-30T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T05:30:35","slug":"how-to-conquer-your-fear-of-email-opt-out-and-unsubscribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-conquer-your-fear-of-email-opt-out-and-unsubscribes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to conquer your fear of email opt-out and unsubscribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Kendra LaBouf shows how to play to win instead of playing to not lose:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I just wanted to let you know how The Email Players Skhema Book affected me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I received the book two days ago. I read half of it the first day. I got to the part about unsubscribes and realized this is my biggest fear with daily email. I thought, &#8220;What about when people unsubscribe?&#8221; and you said, &#8220;They will.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So the next day, I read the second half of the book, and still there was this nagging voice that said, &#8220;What about when people unsubscribe?&#8221; even though you had plainly stated that they will.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I realized then and there that one of my biggest obstacles is I really want to be liked. But trying to be liked has never served me well in any other area of life, so why was I so hung up on it for my less-than-a-year-old business. It&#8217;s just a baby business! It doesn&#8217;t need to grow up with baggage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So I sent out my first email using your techniques in the book with the title I can&#8217;t even pronounce, and made my pot of morning coffee. Before I had even had a chance to pour a cup, I got a notification that I made a sale from that email!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And the unsubscribes? That happened too. Four of them in the last five hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guess which thing I&#8217;m focusing on and calling my mom about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks so much!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The April \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue is going to the printer tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Hit the jump below to subscribe in time to get it:<\/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>\u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Kendra LaBouf shows how to play to win instead of playing to not lose: I just wanted to let you know how The Email Players Skhema Book affected me. I received the book two days ago. I read half of it the first day. I got to the part about unsubscribes and [&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":[9,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing","7":"category-inner-game","8":"category-list-building"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553","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=13553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}