{"id":6351,"date":"2012-10-06T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2012-10-06T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T19:20:46","slug":"the-blonde-chick-in-the-munsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-blonde-chick-in-the-munsters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blonde Chick In The Munsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of y&#8217;all BenSettle.com readers got issues.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I&#8217;m talking about people who ask me questions about how to sell online without selling (wtf does that even mean???) It&#8217;s like people still think &#8220;selling&#8221; is a dirty word &#8212; sort of like the &#8220;F-word&#8221; of business.<\/p>\n<p>I can kinda see why, though.<\/p>\n<p>Especially with all the shady &#8220;persuasion&#8221; tricks out there.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the old TV show &#8220;The Munsters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The whole family were basically monsters &#8212; like Frankenstein, the were-wolf, the ghoul, dracula, etc. And whenever the mailman or the water meter guy or whoever popped in they&#8217;d get freaked out by the look of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Because they LOOKED like monsters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, for the blonde hottie cousin living with them &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone liked and trusted her.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was scared of her.<\/p>\n<p>And, people liked her.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because in that family she looked like a nice, normal person &#8212; not a monster.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s how selling is, too.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the lame manipulation, gimmicky, hype-filled tactics everyone on the Internet uses and come off as a monster.<\/p>\n<p>Or, you can be like the blonde chick in the Munsters:<\/p>\n<p>Inviting.<\/p>\n<p>Attractive.<\/p>\n<p>And EASY (to talk and do business with).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why email is so effective.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you succumb to goo-rooitis and put up a hype filled nonsensical sales page that turns off cold prospects (or if you&#8217;re selling as an affiliate and you have no control over the sales page) it don&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Your emails do all the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p>Many won&#8217;t even read the sales page.<\/p>\n<p>Test it yourself and see, amigo.<\/p>\n<p>Go here to see how it&#8217;s done:<\/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>Some of y&#8217;all BenSettle.com readers got issues. Specifically, I&#8217;m talking about people who ask me questions about how to sell online without selling (wtf does that even mean???) It&#8217;s like people still think &#8220;selling&#8221; is a dirty word &#8212; sort of like the &#8220;F-word&#8221; of business. I can kinda see why, though. Especially with all [&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-6351","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\/6351","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=6351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}