{"id":5604,"date":"2013-03-14T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2013-03-14T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:00:04","slug":"newbie-linguistic-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/newbie-linguistic-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Newbie Linguistic Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Ben I&#8217;m new to copywriting and emails and really enjoy your material. But why don&#8217;t you ever talk about NLP (neural linguistic programming)??? I&#8217;ve started studying it and I can see how it would make copy so much better!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah yes.<\/p>\n<p>The newbies love the sexy stuff, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p>Like NLP.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called &#8220;dark arts&#8221; of copywriting.<\/p>\n<p>Hypnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Anything with a goo-roo name attached to it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m not knocking any of the above.<\/p>\n<p>I just find it amusing, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s funny how, when I see copy and emails and sales letters done by people obsessed with all the ninja stuff (and can&#8217;t be bothered to learn the <em>fundamentals<\/em>) they are always struggling.<\/p>\n<p>Always hopping from one new thing to the next.<\/p>\n<p>And always trying to trick &amp; manipulate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a pity, too.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, why not just learn how to sell?<\/p>\n<p>Why not learn how to put attractive offers in front of receptive leads (who already want what you sell) in a way they enjoy hearing about?<\/p>\n<p>Why screw around?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so much easier that way.<\/p>\n<p>And, so much more profitable, too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also what I focus on in &#8220;Email Players&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription info at:<\/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>Check out this comment: &#8220;Ben I&#8217;m new to copywriting and emails and really enjoy your material. But why don&#8217;t you ever talk about NLP (neural linguistic programming)??? I&#8217;ve started studying it and I can see how it would make copy so much better!&#8221; Ah yes. The newbies love the sexy stuff, don&#8217;t they? Like NLP. [&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-5604","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\/5604","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=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}