{"id":4252,"date":"2011-04-05T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2011-04-05T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T08:00:09","slug":"the-email-marketing-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-email-marketing-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"The Email Marketing Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Problem with working at home is being a <em>blob<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s oh-so-easy to plop your butt in a chair for 3 or 4 or 10 hours a day and completely mangle your body in the process with potentially deadly blood clots growing in your legs, messing up your circulation and (if you&#8217;re a man) damaging your prostate, testicles and other bits &#038; pieces of your &#8220;nether region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Think I&#8217;m joking?<\/p>\n<p>It happened BIG TIME to one of my friends.<\/p>\n<p>He spent several hours per day creating a product and screwed up his legs so bad he is in near <em>constant<\/em> pain (and he&#8217;s not even 30 years old).<\/p>\n<p>The solution?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I call it the &#8220;email workout.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(With mega creative titles like that, how can I go wrong?)<\/p>\n<p>For me it&#8217;s email, but it works for anything you&#8217;re working on (articles, sales letters, blog posts, programming, research, wasting time on social media sites, whatever).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<p>Every time I finish a task, I do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A set of pull ups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A set of chin ups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A set of pushups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many cool things result.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there&#8217;s exercise and circulation.<\/p>\n<p>I also get LOTS more work done, too.  <\/p>\n<p>(Way more than I would otherwise.)<\/p>\n<p>But besides that, there is a <em>creative<\/em> benefit &#8212; it forces me to get away from work and, sure as shizzit, just like Gene Schwartz taught, ideas come slipping into my mind for whatever I&#8217;m working on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This comes in especially handy with big workloads.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like, for example back in February. <\/p>\n<p>Between client work and my own projects I was writing well over 25-30 articles\/emails per day (plus sales letters).<\/p>\n<p>Brutal.<\/p>\n<p>But this routine got me through it with my legs intact.<\/p>\n<p>The key is doing a set of 3 exercises (doesn&#8217;t matter what kind &#8212; just short intense reps) after each &#8220;action.&#8221;  By action I mean, you write an email &#8212; you do a set.  You write an article, you do a set.  You write a page or chapter, you do a set, etc.  <\/p>\n<p>You can also just do it every 30 minutes if that&#8217;s easier.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s the email marketing workout.<\/p>\n<p>Not the cleverest of titles.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s all I got.<\/p>\n<p>For more email secrets (for making sales, not muscle), go to:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.StreetSmartEmail.com\">www.StreetSmartEmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem with working at home is being a blob. 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