{"id":5174,"date":"2014-07-05T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2014-07-05T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T13:30:40","slug":"dan-kennedys-funny-email-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/dan-kennedys-funny-email-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Kennedy&#8217;s Funny Email Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold my all-time favorite marketing quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>People buy more and buy more happily when in good humor<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s from Dan Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>And I can tell you from personal experience and sending thousands of emails out over the past 10 years (between my own sites and various clients) it&#8217;s even MORE true on planet email.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, let&#8217;s face it:<\/p>\n<p>Most emails are as dry and barren as a horse&#8217;s <em>skull<\/em> in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re just the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Or just hard content.<\/p>\n<p>Or just straight sales pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I read them, I feel like Archie Bunker in that episode of &#8220;All In The Family&#8221; when Edith is nattering on about something pointless and Archie is so bored he starts mimicking like he&#8217;s committing suicide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s how a LOT of readers feel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s why so many emails fail.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why entertainment is so mucho important.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, including &#8220;entertainment value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some do it naturally, and God bless &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>But for others it&#8217;s such a struggle they don&#8217;t even try.<\/p>\n<p>Big mistake!<\/p>\n<p>big, Big, BIG mistake!<\/p>\n<p>This IS a skill that can be learned, applied and used in your emails to boost ye olde sales fairly quickly, and in a way people LOOK FORWARD to reading (and <em>buying<\/em> from).<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna prove this is true.<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>Because in tomorrow&#8217;s brand spanking new &#8220;Ben Settle Show&#8221; podcast\u00a0I reveal multiple different ways to make all your marketing fun,\u00a0engaging and, yes, entertaining&#8230; even if you have the personality\u00a0of a dead earwig.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, it ain&#8217;t rocket science.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually pretty simple.<\/p>\n<p>And FUN, too.<\/p>\n<p>(Imagine that &#8212; having fun making sales&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Watch for my email tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, download past episodes here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/itunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.BenSettleShow.com\/itunes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold my all-time favorite marketing quote: People buy more and buy more happily when in good humor It&#8217;s from Dan Kennedy. And I can tell you from personal experience and sending thousands of emails out over the past 10 years (between my own sites and various clients) it&#8217;s even MORE true on planet email. Listen, [&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":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}