{"id":5065,"date":"2012-08-07T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2012-08-07T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:00:52","slug":"the-email-jerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-email-jerk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Email Jerk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Halbert in his newsletters used to quote this old saying…<\/p>\n

“No good deed goes unpunished!”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Case in point:<\/p>\n

I hardly ever respond to email questions (Email Players subscribers<\/a><\/strong> being the exception). And if I do, they are addressed publicly as “fodder” for my daily emails so everyone can benefit from them.<\/p>\n

But, one time I broke that rule.<\/p>\n

And… I was reminded WHY I had the rule in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s what happened:<\/p>\n

I thought it’d be fun to mix it up and answer some of the dozens of questions that can accumulate over a week. Anyway, I answered one dude’s email question about auto-responders and he soon replies back with… a complaint<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Apparently, my “curt” answer bugged him.<\/p>\n

Sure, he liked the info.<\/p>\n

But he wanted a SALUTATION, dang nab it!<\/p>\n

A friendly greeting.<\/p>\n

And some fraggin’ “cordiality.”<\/p>\n

Amusing, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

And kind of useful<\/em>, too — as it was a solid reminder of the “gimme gimme gimme” mentality created by the Internet Gary Halbert wrote about lo them many years ago, and why I should be trying harder to REPEL such people.<\/p>\n

Hey, what can I say?<\/p>\n

I see biz lessons in everything.<\/p>\n

Even in dorky complaints.<\/p>\n

I’m a glass half full kinda guy…<\/p>\n

Ben Settle<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> Another cool thing that happened is it reminded me just how cool my “Email Players” subscribers are.<\/p>\n

They ask great questions.<\/p>\n

Are eager to learn and get better at email.<\/p>\n

And rapidly apply the info taught.<\/p>\n

They don’t whine and complain about info.<\/p>\n

They use it.<\/p>\n

And they’re a pleasure to deal with.<\/p>\n

My kind of people.<\/p>\n

To see if you qualify for this exclusive “club”, go to:<\/p>\n

www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Halbert in his newsletters used to quote this old saying… “No good deed goes unpunished!” Case in point: I hardly ever respond to email questions (Email Players subscribers being the exception). And if I do, they are addressed publicly as “fodder” for my daily emails so everyone can benefit from them. But, one time […]<\/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-5065","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\/5065","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=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}