{"id":6481,"date":"2012-11-20T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2012-11-20T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T14:00:30","slug":"why-my-email-guyz-and-galz-are-the-toughest-sobs-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-my-email-guyz-and-galz-are-the-toughest-sobs-on-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why My Email Guyz (And Galz) Are The Toughest SOB&#8217;s On The Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about a badass.<\/p>\n<p>I recently asked one of my &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscribers from Down Under (one of Australia&#8217;s top copywriters, and a cool cat to boot) about how he was doing. And he replied with this awesome inspirational email (name removed by request, for reasons that&#8217;ll be obvious in a second). An email that shows how someone can use &#8220;Email Players&#8221; to not only make a ton of the green stuff under some crazy conditions, but get other, uhm, &#8220;benefits&#8221;, from it too&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Thanks man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To be honest, my girl and I have been battling some full-on health stuff. So we had to fly abroad for some radical treatment that they couldn&#8217;t do in Oz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But you know what buddy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cos of the bad health, I went thru a &#8216;slump&#8217; and even started doubting my own awesomeness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Productivity dived.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Completely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But yesterday i picked up Email Players issue #15 [NOTE: the &#8220;Tao Of Steve&#8221; issue, back issues available for sale to subscribers only &#8211; BEN] while hooked up to an IV in Mexico. Read it front to back. Some parts twice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You reminded me to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Grow some Balls<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8211; Be Excellent<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8211; Entertain<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8211; Add personality<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8211; Be funny, witty and unpredictable.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8211; And don&#8217;t be a pussy when telling to buy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perfect antidote mate. Thank you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In about 30mins I whipped up this email\/post (attached)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I reckon this little puppy will pull in around $10K.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bare minimum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Will let you know how it goes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t thank you enough Ben.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheers legend.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If a man strapped to a hospital bed 1,000+ miles from home hooked up to an IV can make $10k from an email&#8230; well&#8230; kinda puts things in perspective, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m often amazed by my subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Some are the biggest bad asses I&#8217;ve ever known.<\/p>\n<p>Guyz (and galz) who inspire the hellz out of me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, next issue mails soon.<\/p>\n<p>Got some great list building info in it.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically:<\/p>\n<p>How to grow your list with your existing traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Great for newbies and pros alike.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here while you can:<\/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>Talk about a badass. 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An email that [&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-6481","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\/6481","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=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}