{"id":4439,"date":"2011-06-02T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2011-06-02T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:00:08","slug":"how-would-you-sell-if-your-very-life-was-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-would-you-sell-if-your-very-life-was-at-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"How Would You Sell If Your Very LIFE Was At Stake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me ask you a question&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If your life depended on it and you HAD to make more money this month from your existing email list (no more people would be added) than you ever have before or you would be tortured and killed&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you only mail once that month (or once per week)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you spend any of those 30 days only giving away free stuff and &#8220;incubating&#8221; people without doing any selling?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you care about offending non-buyers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you treat your list with disrespect?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you obsess over open rates &#038; clickthrus?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you spend more than 15 minutes on each email?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Would you do short &#8220;teasers&#8221; sending people to a blog?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But my answer to all the above is &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;d mail EVERY day (even multiple times per day&#8230;), would sell like crazy, would purposely try to offend ALL non-buyers, would write FAST, and would show my list nothing but respect (yes, even though I&#8217;d be mailing them, and offending people and selling each day).<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t see how that&#8217;s possible?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is possible.<\/p>\n<p>And, it&#8217;s easier than you think.<\/p>\n<p>I do it all the time (even when my life isn&#8217;t on the line&#8230;) <\/p>\n<p>You can, too.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can, my friend.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t care what product you sell, what market you sell to or how much you hate writing, either.<\/p>\n<p>None of that matters.<\/p>\n<p>Get the skinny on email at:<\/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>Let me ask you a question&#8230; If your life depended on it and you HAD to make more money this month from your existing email list (no more people would be added) than you ever have before or you would be tortured and killed&#8230; Would you only mail once that month (or once per week)? 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