{"id":14042,"date":"2019-11-27T04:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=14042"},"modified":"2019-11-27T04:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:45:12","slug":"why-elbenbos-righteous-carbon-footprint-is-way-too-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-elbenbos-righteous-carbon-footprint-is-way-too-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Why elBenbo&#8217;s Righteous Carbon Footprint Is Way Too Small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, I was asked by a bloke in France why I don\u2019t use a printer in Europe for European subscribers to cut costs and (I quote) \u201cprotect planet earth a bit in terms of carbon footprint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My answer:<\/p>\n<p>If anything, due to my self-imposed airplane travel moratorium the past 12 months, my righteous carbon footprint is way too small.<\/p>\n<p>True rookie numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta Bigfoot that carbon footprint up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That said, I am a big fan of <em>recycling<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At least, when it comes to emails.<\/p>\n<p>Enter another question from new \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscriber Tyler Stokes, when he asked me about the idea of \u201crecycling\u201d emails that I not only teach, but openly do all the time, oftentimes making more sales the second, third, or fourth time I use an email than the first time I use it.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Bernie, it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to making your bank account greener, recycling those evil emails is just fine by be.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, here\u2019s another amusing thought:<\/p>\n<p>If I wasted time A\/B split testing emails and, even worse, being a mindless little goo-roo fanboy about the results by only reusing the ones that \u201cworked!\u201d\u2026 I\u2019d be killing my own sales. Especially since, so many of my most profitable emails did bupkis the first time I used them, but pulled all kinds of new business when recycling them months or years later.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I told him:<\/p>\n<p>Yes, by all means recycle good emails.<\/p>\n<p>It can do wonders for your bank account\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n<p>But, there is one thing I did not tell him about recycling emails in my reply. Specifically, a way (and the exact time) I do it to make even more sales. And I talk about this way in glorious detail in the December \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue on page 8.<\/p>\n<p>To get this issue in time, go here immediately:<\/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>Not long ago, I was asked by a bloke in France why I don\u2019t use a printer in Europe for European subscribers to cut costs and (I quote) \u201cprotect planet earth a bit in terms of carbon footprint.\u201d My answer: If anything, due to my self-imposed airplane travel moratorium the past 12 months, my righteous [&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-14042","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\/14042","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=14042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}