{"id":5022,"date":"2013-10-08T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2013-10-08T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T13:00:58","slug":"why-sales-mysteriously-drop-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-sales-mysteriously-drop-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sales Mysteriously Drop Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it happens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re chugging along, kicking bootay each day sending emails then, suddenly&#8230; sales drop off &#8212; maybe even to goose eggs.<\/p>\n<p>No obvious reason why.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation.<\/p>\n<p>No clue what happened.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens to you&#8230; relax.<\/p>\n<p>Chill.<\/p>\n<p>There are LOTS of reasons this might happen.<\/p>\n<p>For example&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unqualified leads (very common, realize if you aren&#8217;t growing your list with qualified leads, then after you convert the 5% on your list that are hot to buy, the rest will take more time or maybe never buy at all&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Seasonal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Economy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Weather<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Breaking news reports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Email delivery problems (ISP&#8217;s blocking your autoresponder, etc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>There are all kinds of reasons sales can drop.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep <em>plugging<\/em> away &#8212; these kinds of problems tend to work themselves out for people who are persistent and just keep on keepin&#8217; on, and don&#8217;t give up or let fear paralyze them.<\/p>\n<p>So get those emails out.<\/p>\n<p>Keep selling.<\/p>\n<p>And ride out the storm, baby.<\/p>\n<p>For ongoing guidance, examples and tactics, 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>Sometimes it happens&#8230; You&#8217;re chugging along, kicking bootay each day sending emails then, suddenly&#8230; sales drop off &#8212; maybe even to goose eggs. No obvious reason why. No explanation. No clue what happened. If that happens to you&#8230; relax. Chill. There are LOTS of reasons this might happen. For example&#8230; Unqualified leads (very common, realize [&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-5022","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\/5022","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=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}