{"id":5262,"date":"2012-01-18T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2012-01-18T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:00:27","slug":"how-to-tell-if-im-full-of-crap-about-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-tell-if-im-full-of-crap-about-email\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Tell If I’m Full Of Crap About Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

The only question that matters is asked…<\/p>\n

“Hey Ben, You regularly mention not following various goo-roos’ advice blindly…how do we know we can trust your advice versus the goo-roos without seeing any “proof” other than your word? I absolutely love your teaching and am beginning to apply it to my business, particularly emailing my blog posts rather than linking back to them. I’m considering joining Email Players, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m just curious how you’d answer that question.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t mean this as negative or critical at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just one of those “how do you know” questions.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A very good question.<\/p>\n

Here’s my answer:<\/p>\n

Look, I don’t think you should follow ANY advice (including mine) blindly and I’ve said it before.<\/p>\n

Test everything, see what works for you.<\/p>\n

The proof is in the doing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s the only real “proof” there is.<\/p>\n

Take the tips I give away free (especially in the free “Email Players” pdf and my media page) and use them.<\/p>\n

It costs bubkis to test this stuff out.<\/p>\n

It either works or it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

And if it does?<\/p>\n

If you want more?<\/p>\n

If you want the really advanced<\/em> material?<\/p>\n

“Email Players” is waiting patiently for ya at…<\/p>\n

www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben Settle<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> Speaking of proof…<\/p>\n

The FTC doesn’t like us posting testimonials where people had results that aren’t “average.” Otherwise I’d post the testimonial I got last week from Kelly Tanguay about the free tips (not even the paid stuff) I give away. Specifically, how she doubled response (and more than doubled sales) for her boss resulting in over $50k in extra unexpected dollars from a single mailing.<\/p>\n

Bottom line:<\/p>\n

The material speaks for itself.<\/p>\n

I got nuttin’ to prove…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The only question that matters is asked… “Hey Ben, You regularly mention not following various goo-roos’ advice blindly…how do we know we can trust your advice versus the goo-roos without seeing any “proof” other than your word? I absolutely love your teaching and am beginning to apply it to my business, particularly emailing my blog […]<\/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-5262","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\/5262","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=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}