{"id":6083,"date":"2012-07-18T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2012-07-18T06:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:00:27","slug":"take-this-test-to-see-if-youre-a-winner-or-a-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/take-this-test-to-see-if-youre-a-winner-or-a-loser\/","title":{"rendered":"Take This Test To See If You&#8217;re A Winner Or A Loser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you got the ballz, I dare you to take this test:<\/p>\n<p>Read the following &#8220;winner\/loser&#8221; thinking list, and honestly assess what your answer would be (i.e. what your current beliefs are about email marketing).<\/p>\n<p>If you get too many (or ANY) &#8220;loser&#8221; answers, don&#8217;t fret.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t even tell anyone.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s nobody else&#8217;s business.)<\/p>\n<p>Just change your wicked ways by doing what the winner would do, and watch the money flow like lies from a goo-roo&#8217;s lips.<\/p>\n<p>Hit it, maestro:<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says &#8220;The more emails I send, the more unsubscribes I get&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says &#8220;The more emails I send, the more sales I get&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says &#8220;This email got a 45% open rate&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says &#8220;This email brought in $4,500 profit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says &#8220;I want to be a great writer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says &#8220;I want to be a great marketer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says &#8220;I&#8217;ll do what my favorite goo-roo says based on blind faith&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says &#8220;I&#8217;ll do things MY way based on what experience has taught me&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says, &#8220;I&#8217;ll &#8216;reverse engineer&#8217; what others are doing and skip having to learn via investment of money, time and sweat&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says, &#8220;I&#8217;ll invest money, time and sweat to learn my craft&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to write my ads with a swipe file&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to write my ads based on my market intel&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says, &#8220;I have read over 100 marketing books 1 time&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says, &#8220;I have read the 10 best marketing books 10 times&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>loser<\/strong> says, &#8220;I want to &#8216;manifest&#8217; money by giving away lots of free information&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>winner<\/strong> says, &#8220;I&#8217;ll find out what pain my market has, and sell them the solution in a way they want to be sold by&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ok, enough.<\/p>\n<p>Tally up your scores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many times have you thought like the loser?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be honest.<\/p>\n<p>Change what needs changing.<\/p>\n<p>And then, get your bootyus on the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber list, and start writing profitable emails using your own personality, experiences and market intel &#8212; and not a warmed over version of your favorite goo-roo&#8217;s leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>Ready?<\/p>\n<p>Subscription info at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you got the ballz, I dare you to take this test: Read the following &#8220;winner\/loser&#8221; thinking list, and honestly assess what your answer would be (i.e. what your current beliefs are about email marketing). 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