{"id":13740,"date":"2019-07-22T21:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T04:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13740"},"modified":"2019-07-22T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T04:05:55","slug":"his-grammar-nazism-needs-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/his-grammar-nazism-needs-work\/","title":{"rendered":"His Grammar Nazism Needs Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, while selling the great A-list copywriter and \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Kim Krause Schwalm\u2019s copywriting product, I wrote this in the email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>One of my all-time favorite copywriters \u2014 and, frankly, one of the 3 best copywriting minds who ever walked this planet \u2014 was the late, great Jim Rutz, who was so good he charged a fat $100k fee. And, Kim not only competed and won against that great master of copywriting, but did so twice.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, it got the attention of an amateur grammar nazi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>GRAMMAR NAZI: \u201cAnd, Kim not only competed\u2026\u201d -&gt; &#8220;And, Jim not only competed&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>elBENBO: Jim didn&#8217;t compete with himself. Your grammar nazi game needs work.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, the point?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure there is one.<\/p>\n<p>Except, maybe, if one is going to be a dorky grammar nazi, at least do it right\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of my \u201cEmail Players\u201d methodology is, even if you horribly mangle your grammar and spelling, you can still make just as many \u2014 and probably a lot more for reasons I won\u2019t go into here \u2014 sales as if you spend 3 hours polishing every word to sparkling spelling perfection.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be a proof-reader, you can make a gloriously modest wage doing so.<\/p>\n<p>And, possibly even get away with being a pretentious wannabe advertising critic.<\/p>\n<p>But if you want to make sales?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re far better off knowing how to sell than to spell.<\/p>\n<p>Free advice based on years of building a business and not just talking about it on social media&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Subscription info here:<\/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>A few months ago, while selling the great A-list copywriter and \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Kim Krause Schwalm\u2019s copywriting product, I wrote this in the email: One of my all-time favorite copywriters \u2014 and, frankly, one of the 3 best copywriting minds who ever walked this planet \u2014 was the late, great Jim Rutz, who was [&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-13740","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\/13740","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=13740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}