{"id":13673,"date":"2019-05-29T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13673"},"modified":"2019-05-29T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:28:12","slug":"ignorance-of-elbenbos-pricing-law-is-no-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/ignorance-of-elbenbos-pricing-law-is-no-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Of elBenbo&#8217;s Pricing Law Is No Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following will seem a bit \u201ccounter intuitive\u201d to a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>And, it\u2019s something that frustrates even my best customers sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>But, there is a method to the madness.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s the story:<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I got this question from a new \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI&#8217;m a new freelance copywriter, currently working on mastering long form sales copy, and email marketing for clients, I would love to know if you have any courses, or coaching, or book courses, that I can buy? I saw that you have email client horde but I can&#8217;t seem to find other courses from you on Google. Weird. Can I have the links to all your courses, book courses like email client horde, and all of them? Would greatly appreciate it\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, by all observable variables, this is a great customer.<\/p>\n<p>Serious about succeeding.<\/p>\n<p>And, eager to learn and implement.<\/p>\n<p>But, the only thing I would reply with was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cPatience, eager one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would I do this, and not send them a pile of links to all my books, offers, and products, especially when raring to go?<\/p>\n<p>Because of a \u201claw\u201d I follow.<\/p>\n<p>A law that has helped me create what I believe (and I have many testimonials and happy JV partners to back this up) is one of the most responsive email lists in my industry.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a \u201claw\u201d I teach in the June \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, in the 3-page bonus \u201cRavings of an Adman\u201d insert.<\/p>\n<p>Although, full disclosure:<\/p>\n<p>The insert is about how I apply this law to pricing my offers, as I have a very specific approach to pricing I rarely see anyone do, much less teach. But, it is also why I don\u2019t do \u201cwhole enchilada\u201d offers or even let people buy everything at once in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, even at the expense of getting many upfront sales.<\/p>\n<p>But, I suspect it gets Yours Crotchety many more overall over time \u2014 and that is why I think it has helped me build one of the most responsive lists in my industry. It is also why I will say if you want to know how to approach pricing your offers especially, violate this law at your peril\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The deadline to get this June issue is almost upon you.<\/p>\n<p>If you want it, subscribe at this link today:<\/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>The following will seem a bit \u201ccounter intuitive\u201d to a lot of people. And, it\u2019s something that frustrates even my best customers sometimes. But, there is a method to the madness. Anyway, here\u2019s the story: A couple weeks ago, I got this question from a new \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber: \u201cI&#8217;m a new freelance copywriter, currently [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673","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=13673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}