{"id":5094,"date":"2011-12-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2011-12-01T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:00:00","slug":"why-email-is-like-a-promiscuous-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-email-is-like-a-promiscuous-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Email Is Like A Promiscuous Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people think me an email snob.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I mean:<\/p>\n<p>They have a question or comment and send me multiple emails, and after a while start to sound like they&#8217;re beginning to HULK out&#8230; getting very angry and\/or distressed about my not emailing them back.<\/p>\n<p>But, there are many reasons I don&#8217;t respond.<\/p>\n<p>Like, for example&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I simply cannot answer every email.<\/p>\n<p>We rapped about this not long ago when that dude whined about how I didn&#8217;t give him a salutation and cordial greeting while answering his question.<\/p>\n<p>(Which I was not even obligated to answer).<\/p>\n<p>But it bears repeating.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this, see:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/blog\/why-i-delete-your-emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BenSettle.com\/blog\/why-i-delete-your-emails<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Message not received<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love email.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s kind of like being in love with a highly promiscuous woman &#8212; you may LOVE her, but you can never fully TRUST her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And so it is with email delivery.<\/p>\n<p>So when in doubt go here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/blog\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BenSettle.com\/blog\/contact<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Reply not received<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I did receive your email (this usually applies to customer service, not general questions which I rarely respond to) and emailed you back, but you never got my response probably making you think perhaps I never answered your email in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Again, try the URL above.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, bottom line is this:<\/p>\n<p>If you want your emails to be a priority, then you&#8217;ll have to be an &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber. That&#8217;s part of the deal &#8212; ask me questions whenever you want.<\/p>\n<p>No, I won&#8217;t be your pen pal.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t always answer right away.<\/p>\n<p>But I do personally answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, 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 people think me an email snob. Here&#8217;s what I mean: They have a question or comment and send me multiple emails, and after a while start to sound like they&#8217;re beginning to HULK out&#8230; getting very angry and\/or distressed about my not emailing them back. But, there are many reasons I don&#8217;t respond. Like, [&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-5094","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\/5094","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=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}