{"id":5787,"date":"2013-04-15T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2013-04-15T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:00:43","slug":"why-i-laugh-at-people-who-reverse-engineer-my-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-i-laugh-at-people-who-reverse-engineer-my-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Laugh At People Who &#8220;Reverse Engineer&#8221; My Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never a dull moment &#8217;round here.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Instead of buying your products, my guess is you apply your same products to your own daily emails. This is why i reverse engineer your daily emails and extract the good stuff out from them. My question is why should I buy your products if they are already applied to your daily emails (if they arn&#8217;t &#8211; then wtf)?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The goo-roo fanboyism is strong with this one.<\/p>\n<p>For one, you can&#8217;t &#8220;reverse engineer&#8221; what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>You can try to.<\/p>\n<p>And, you may even think you are doing it.<\/p>\n<p>But I can assure you, you&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p>And any one of my long term &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscribers will tell you the same thing. This is why swiping my emails will not do you any good long term &#8212; you don&#8217;t even know what you&#8217;re swiping.<\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I do things WRONG on purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, sweetie, I do this to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And all the &#8220;reverse engineers&#8221; like you.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because it amuses me.<\/p>\n<p>And because I know that in the long run it doesn&#8217;t hurt my sales since I do things the right way enough times where it doesn&#8217;t matter. This is why all the idiots who ripped off my &#8220;Avengers&#8221; email last year (apparently the goo-roo fanboys were scrambling for an original thought that day) will never make the money they could be making &#8212; while completely demolishing their credibility with long term customers, even if they get a few short term buyers.<\/p>\n<p>As for should you subscribe?<\/p>\n<p>No!<\/p>\n<p>You should continue to fool yourself into thinking I&#8217;m giving anything even CLOSE to my best, most profitable tips away in my free emails. You should also continue to &#8220;reverse engineer&#8221; my emails where I do things purposely wrong. And, you should continue to sign up for free lists thinking that&#8217;s all you need.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us will have the best customers.<\/p>\n<p>Make the most sales.<\/p>\n<p>And, build the biggest businesses.<\/p>\n<p>To take off the training wheels, go here:<\/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>Ta,<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never a dull moment &#8217;round here. Check out this question: &#8220;Instead of buying your products, my guess is you apply your same products to your own daily emails. This is why i reverse engineer your daily emails and extract the good stuff out from them. 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