{"id":4110,"date":"2014-02-19T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2014-02-19T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:00:18","slug":"reverse-engineering-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/reverse-engineering-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s So Cute When People Try To &#8220;Reverse Engineer&#8221; My Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often blatantly plug &#8220;Email Players&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I do this is because so many people ask about email marketing and really, it&#8217;s the only way to learn my system. You can try to &#8220;reverse engineer&#8221; my emails if you want. 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