{"id":15901,"date":"2024-02-16T23:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T23:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=15901"},"modified":"2024-02-16T23:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T23:37:03","slug":"how-i-shamelessly-profited-from-the-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-i-shamelessly-profited-from-the-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"How I shamelessly profited from the lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Email Players subscriber (not sure he wants me naming him) asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hey!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick question: Do you ever hold back on sending an email if you notice the one before it is pulling really well?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For example, I sent an email that has gotten me more sales than most. Is it wise to keep it top of the inbox for a bit? Or is it fine to stick with my schedule and throw another one on the pile? Or does it not matter in the slightest and I\u2019m overthinking it?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me put it this way:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve definitely switched out emails when hitting a nerve.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even switched out entire pre-loaded email campaigns at times.<\/p>\n<p>Like, for example:<\/p>\n<p>During the lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>I had spent a bunch of time writing &amp; loading emails to sell my Copy Troll book. But, I did an impromptu Q&amp;A livestream right when lockdowns were imposed, when people were freaking out &amp; uncertain about the future&#8230; and a good 50% of the questions were from marketers wanting to suddenly know how to build an email list. They could not have given a rat&#8217;s puckering arse about monetizing trolls at that point. (That came a few months later during the black lives matter\/antifa rioting &amp; sudden virtue signaling\/shaming olympics &#8211; when I did the same thing with an already pre-loaded campaign selling a different book). So I spent the next day scrambling to switch out the already locked &amp; loaded Copy Troll emails with a campaign selling my List Swell book.<\/p>\n<p>The result:<\/p>\n<p>More List Swell book sales.<\/p>\n<p>More happy customers.<\/p>\n<p>More fun\u2026 during that campaign than when the book originally launched.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta strike while that nasty iron is scalding hot.<\/p>\n<p>Thus:<\/p>\n<p>Keep mailing about that topic until interest wanes, is my advice.<\/p>\n<p>To learn my way of doing email, see the paid Email Players newsletter here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Email Players subscriber (not sure he wants me naming him) asks: Hey! Quick question: Do you ever hold back on sending an email if you notice the one before it is pulling really well? For example, I sent an email that has gotten me more sales than most. Is it wise to keep it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-15901","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\/15901","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=15901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15908,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions\/15908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}