{"id":4951,"date":"2011-10-07T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2011-10-07T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T13:00:35","slug":"how-to-get-people-physically-addicted-to-your-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-get-people-physically-addicted-to-your-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get People Physically Addicted To Your Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for good TV.<\/p>\n<p>But often, I come to the best shows late in the game (i.e. 2-3 years after they debut). This happened with &#8220;24&#8221;, &#8220;Dexter&#8221;, &#8220;Burn Notice&#8221; and, most recently&#8230; &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; &#8212; about an underachieving chemistry genius who gets cancer and, to take care of his family, starts cooking the purest and most expensive meth in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>That got me to thinking about YOU, recently.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I mean:<\/p>\n<p>While back my pal Ryan Healy wrote an article about how scientists discovered reacting to a never-ending stream of &#8220;information bursts&#8221; (you know, like checking your email&#8230;) literally &#8220;excites&#8221; your brain to the point where it dumps dopamine into your system &#8212; the stuff that creates feelings of happiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It makes you feel goooood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And the MORE you release it, the MORE you crave it.<\/p>\n<p>And the MORE you crave it, the MORE you want to keep doing whatever caused ye olde &#8220;pleasure dump&#8221; in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m no health goo-roo.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe I&#8217;m just watching too much &#8220;Breaking Bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But know what this sounds like to me?<\/p>\n<p>Checking email is like taking drugs!<\/p>\n<p>Freaky, eh?<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, it sure explains why so many of my &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscribers are kicking booTAY (in the past 24 hours alone two subscribers told me how doing email the way I teach has doubled their sales).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because people LOVE a good email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They look forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>And (if you do it right) their brains FEEN it.<\/p>\n<p>They need their fix, Heisenberg.<\/p>\n<p>Give it to them!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>To start writing &#8220;addictive&#8221; emails like that, 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>I&#8217;m a sucker for good TV. But often, I come to the best shows late in the game (i.e. 2-3 years after they debut). This happened with &#8220;24&#8221;, &#8220;Dexter&#8221;, &#8220;Burn Notice&#8221; and, most recently&#8230; &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221; &#8212; about an underachieving chemistry genius who gets cancer and, to take care of his family, starts cooking the [&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-4951","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\/4951","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=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}