{"id":2624,"date":"2012-03-26T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=2624"},"modified":"2012-03-26T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:00:34","slug":"why-i-delete-your-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-i-delete-your-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Delete Your Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harsh subject line, ain&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it even makes me sound like a total &#8220;a-hole&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it does.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry &#8212; the truth is, I rarely ever ignore emails. Even when there&#8217;s 200+ piled up in my inbox (a typical morning), I read ALL subscriber comments.<\/p>\n<p>Except&#8230; when meeting the criteria below.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, dear one, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>There are some emails I delete on sight.<\/p>\n<p>And, in some cases, manually unsubscribe the sender!<\/p>\n<p>(To put them out of my misery&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Why would I do this?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here are a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Questions\/comments that are not clear or make no sense<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending me a form email with a JV pitch (Ugh)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mindless negativity<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Not getting to the point<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Writing in one giant paragraph (too hard to read)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Whining about getting too many emails (I&#8217;m always amused by people who sign up for DAILY email tips and then complain about getting daily emails. Duh&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, these are just a few reasons.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>Now that I think about it, some of the above are not only my criteria for deleting or ignoring emails &#8212; they&#8217;re your <em>prospects<\/em>&#8216; reasons for doing it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Just something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>But fear ye not, Batman.<\/p>\n<p>Your boy Settle has a solution to this:<\/p>\n<p>In the April &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue (which goes to print very soon), I&#8217;m showing you 5 ways to create irresistible curiosity in your emails.<\/p>\n<p>The kind of emails people can&#8217;t ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Cheerfully want to open.<\/p>\n<p>And, even have a hard time resisting buying from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But time is short, amigo.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe in time here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harsh subject line, ain&#8217;t it? Maybe it even makes me sound like a total &#8220;a-hole&#8221;? I suppose it does. But don&#8217;t worry &#8212; the truth is, I rarely ever ignore emails. Even when there&#8217;s 200+ piled up in my inbox (a typical morning), I read ALL subscriber comments. Except&#8230; when meeting the criteria below. Yes, [&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-2624","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\/2624","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=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}