{"id":3537,"date":"2010-06-30T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2010-06-30T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:00:09","slug":"telling-prospects-to-bugger-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/telling-prospects-to-bugger-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Prospects To Bugger Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A subscriber ponders my sales letter&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>  <strong>Ben, I don&#8217;t get what you&#8217;re doing with your email course launch.  Why do you go out of your way to turn potential buyers away (like the lack of guarantee)? <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent question.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I want to sell my email course.  <\/p>\n<p>(After all, I went through the trouble of creating it and writing an ad for it, right?)<\/p>\n<p>But consider ye this:<\/p>\n<p>My Crypto Marketing Newsletter subscribers ALL had a 7-day window last week to get it at &#8220;cost.&#8221;  In other words, my hard cost to print, package, ship and process it.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I made zilch on the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I finally did the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out a cool 82 people took advantage of the &#8220;at cost&#8221; offer, which means I probably left between $10k to $20k on the table.  (I&#8217;m all about putting long term customer relationships before short term profits.)<\/p>\n<p>The point?<\/p>\n<p>Chalk it up to <em>apathy<\/em>, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice if I make lots of the green stuff from it, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>But if not, that&#8217;s cool, too.<\/p>\n<p>I created <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsmartemail.com\/500\">Street-Smart Email<\/a><\/strong> mostly because there&#8217;s not a lot of quality info about email anymore (the only other course I recommend costs $995.00 and is no longer even for sale), and people on my list were <em>nagging<\/em> me to do a product.  <\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t part with this info lightly.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t want &#8220;just anyone&#8221; owning it, either.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, if someone&#8217;s got a problem with my buying conditions, tough.  As my friend Jim Yaghi says, they can &#8220;bugger off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us will just have less competition.<\/p>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s it for today.<\/p>\n<p>The $500.00 off sale is still alive and kicking.<\/p>\n<p>But it ends in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want in, now&#8217;s the time. <\/p>\n<p>Details over yonder at:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.StreetSmartEmail.com\/500\" rel=\"noopener\">www.StreetSmartEmail.com\/500<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A subscriber ponders my sales letter&#8230; QUESTION: Ben, I don&#8217;t get what you&#8217;re doing with your email course launch. Why do you go out of your way to turn potential buyers away (like the lack of guarantee)? Excellent question. Obviously, I want to sell my email course. 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