{"id":5500,"date":"2012-03-07T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2012-03-07T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T14:00:41","slug":"poo-pooing-the-p-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/poo-pooing-the-p-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Poo-pooing The P.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think the &#8220;PS&#8221; was super important.<\/p>\n<p>And I still think it is in direct mail.<\/p>\n<p>But in email?<\/p>\n<p>Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, (depending on what market you&#8217;re selling in) I suspect people mostly ignore PS&#8217;s in emails because they know a sales pitch is coming. (Not saying to never use them, of course, just understand the reality of the situation.) Which is why I kinda did you a disservice in yesterday&#8217;s email. Because, in the second PS (ugh &#8211; TWO PS&#8217;s!), I made an announcement a lot of my readers will probably want to know about.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, about a free email marketing book I&#8217;m giving away.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s what it said:<\/p>\n<p>Before last July (2011) I used to give away (as an opt in gift) a report with 10 uber-profitable email secrets I use all the time.<\/p>\n<p>That report has helped a LOT of people, too.<\/p>\n<p>But, I no longer give it away.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I now sell it on Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Except this week.<\/p>\n<p>This week you can download it free on Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I&#8217;m giving away a free month of my &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter to whoever gives the most interesting review (should you decide to leave a review for it).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, here&#8217;s the linkage:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/AyHkzQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/AyHkzQ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is good for a few days longer.<\/p>\n<p>After that, it ain&#8217;t free.<\/p>\n<p>Laters.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to think the &#8220;PS&#8221; was super important. And I still think it is in direct mail. But in email? Not so much. In fact, (depending on what market you&#8217;re selling in) I suspect people mostly ignore PS&#8217;s in emails because they know a sales pitch is coming. (Not saying to never use them, [&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-5500","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\/5500","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=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}