{"id":4912,"date":"2011-09-30T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2011-09-30T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T13:00:46","slug":"email-list-building-for-luddites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/email-list-building-for-luddites\/","title":{"rendered":"Email List Building For Luddites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back I put up a &#8220;media&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p>This is a page on my site which has copies of various audio interviews I&#8217;ve done on radio shows (as well as podcasts). And there are many strategical and profitable reasons for having such a page &#8212; like attracting more traffic, generating high quality prospects for your email list, rock-solid credibility, and the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Mucho benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Zippo drawbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, someone asked how to get on radio like that?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have to mail &amp; fax press releases?<\/p>\n<p>Call reporters up?<\/p>\n<p>Have connections?<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely not!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, while I AM a big fan of faxing press releases, I no longer do it that way. Now I use plain old &#8220;retro&#8221; email to do it. It&#8217;s free, it&#8217;s fast (I have gotten interviews lined up within minutes of sending an email to a reporter) and it&#8217;s highly efficient.<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p>The same method can get you on podcasts, too.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast interviews are list building GOLD MINES.<\/p>\n<p>Especially if they have big audiences.<\/p>\n<p>(After all, podcast listeners are near their computers&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Plus you can be a total luddite to do them. Frankly, for building my email list I am finding podcasts to be my favorite (and probably most profitable) method for adding new people to my list who are prospects and not merely &#8220;suspects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The key is knowing how to get booked.<\/p>\n<p>What do you say in the email?<\/p>\n<p>And who do you contact?<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what?<\/p>\n<p>This is one of several list building secrets taught in the next &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue and its accompanying bonus reports and audio CD training.<\/p>\n<p>It goes to the printer tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe in time, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while back I put up a &#8220;media&#8221; page. This is a page on my site which has copies of various audio interviews I&#8217;ve done on radio shows (as well as podcasts). And there are many strategical and profitable reasons for having such a page &#8212; like attracting more traffic, generating high quality prospects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}