{"id":16447,"date":"2024-06-12T00:53:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=16447"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:53:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:53:36","slug":"a-cautionary-tail-for-email-marketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/a-cautionary-tail-for-email-marketers\/","title":{"rendered":"A cautionary tail for email marketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago I got this email from a veterinarian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hi Ben!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We love you and Zoe as clients! To say thank you, we\u2019ve got a new mobile app for you and your animal companions. It helps manage their lives so you don\u2019t have to! Plus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* Request Appointments 24\/7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* Pet Pickup Notifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* Create and store all your pet\u2019s reminders<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a mighty fine service for pet owners.<\/p>\n<p>I will certainly give them that.<\/p>\n<p>But, here\u2019s the problem:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last time Zoe went to this vet was 9 years ago, way back when I lived in<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16453 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20180721_071015-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20180721_071015-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20180721_071015-920x1024.jpg 920w, https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20180721_071015-768x854.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20180721_071015-1381x1536.jpg 1381w, https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20180721_071015-1841x2048.jpg 1841w, https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20180721_071015.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\n<p>The Burgle. She has since long passed away and joined the Kennel Invisible a year and a half ago. And yet, this vet is sending me this ditty about how much they love having my deceased pet\u00a0as a client. Anyone who owns pets knows<\/p>\n<p>their lifespans are short \u2014 and so I guarantee you I am not the only one who had a \u201cWTF is wrong with you people?\u201d moment when seeing that.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line?<\/p>\n<p>Not even my paid Email Play<\/p>\n<p>ers newsletter can f<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ix email marketing this bad..<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, not a problem for 99.9% of marketers.<\/p>\n<p>But a cautionary tail \u2014 as Zoe would have put it \u2014 nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Email Players, you can learn more about it 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>A couple months ago I got this email from a veterinarian: Hi Ben! We love you and Zoe as clients! To say thank you, we\u2019ve got a new mobile app for you and your animal companions. It helps manage their lives so you don\u2019t have to! Plus: * Request Appointments 24\/7 * Pet Pickup Notifications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-inner-game","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447","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=16447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16454,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16447\/revisions\/16454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}