{"id":4872,"date":"2011-09-15T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2011-09-15T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:00:31","slug":"why-email-marketing-is-like-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-email-marketing-is-like-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Email Marketing Is Like Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been studying a true marketing genius:<\/p>\n<p>Barry Maher.<\/p>\n<p>Barry is a world class sales trainer whose clients include everyone from ABC, Capital Cities and the American Management Association&#8230; to Fuji Film, the National Lottery of Ireland and Verizon (and a bunch more, but you get the point). He&#8217;s also been featured in USA Today, the New York Times, Business Week, Success and the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I dig this dood&#8217;s style.<\/p>\n<p>Especially his quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Your business is kind of like sex. If you&#8217;re not enjoying it, you&#8217;re probably not doing it right.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So true.<\/p>\n<p>So very, Very, VERY true.<\/p>\n<p>ESPECIALLY when it comes to email.<\/p>\n<p>People constantly ask how can I write an email per day? (Actually, I write more than one per day&#8230;) My response is always, &#8220;dude, how can you NOT write an email per day? Don&#8217;t you know how much FUN you&#8217;re missing out on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t do this if it wasn&#8217;t fun.<\/p>\n<p>These days I almost HAVE to do it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun and even therapeutic.<\/p>\n<p>When I get up in the morning and work on an email (I email multiple lists in multiple niches) before anything else, it&#8217;s like eating dessert first. (And, let&#8217;s face it, the extra sales are fun and &#8220;therapeutic&#8221; too&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But I ain&#8217;t the only one who thinks like this.<\/p>\n<p>Many of my students do, too.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re thrilled to possess this skill, do it each day and see extra sales (sometimes lots of extra sales) roll in as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, you can do it just as easily as we do.<\/p>\n<p>No natural talent is required.<\/p>\n<p>No long hours needed.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking 15 (maybe 20 minutes, 30 at the most) per day. It&#8217;s one of the things I teach throughout the &#8220;Email Players Playbook&#8221; &#8212; which you get as a gift when you subscribe to &#8220;Email Players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the newsletter is expensive.<\/p>\n<p>And no, it&#8217;s NOT for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>To decide if it&#8217;s right for you, go to:<\/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<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> One of my subscribers said the first issue alone will put an extra $500 in his pocket shortly (and much more $$ in the future).<\/p>\n<p>The point?<\/p>\n<p>If you use the info, it should not &#8220;cost&#8221; you anything.<\/p>\n<p>It should make you a bundle.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where to go next:<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been studying a true marketing genius: Barry Maher. 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