{"id":6557,"date":"2014-02-21T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2014-02-21T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:00:11","slug":"how-the-u-s-beat-the-crap-out-of-the-commies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-the-u-s-beat-the-crap-out-of-the-commies\/","title":{"rendered":"How The U.S. Beat The Crap Out Of The Commies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watched a kick assimus movie recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Miracle&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the great Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks, and how he took the US hockey team to a gold medal in 1980 Winter Olympics &#8212; kicking the Soviet commies&#8217; asses who were heavily favored to win.<\/p>\n<p>(Called &#8220;a Miracle on Ice&#8221; &#8212; thus the name of the movie.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, one scene sticks out like a fart in study hall.<\/p>\n<p>A scene that sums up success in anything:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sports<\/li>\n<li>Business<\/li>\n<li>Marketing<\/li>\n<li>Finding a job<\/li>\n<li>Learning new skills<\/li>\n<li>And anything else you wanna excel at<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s when the team is slacking during a game.<\/p>\n<p>(Looking at chicks, etc)<\/p>\n<p>And this pisses ol&#8217; Herb off something wicked. So after the game he makes &#8217;em line up on the ice and do these intense drills which are so hard, the guys are literally puking on the ice from exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>And, he KEEPS making them do them.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over and over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Even though they&#8217;re puking.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it&#8217;s so late the building is closing down.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, even though they&#8217;re ready to pass out.<\/p>\n<p>Again and again and again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the point:<\/p>\n<p>When teaching the drill, Herb tells them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Get used to this drill. You&#8217;ll be doing it *a lot*. Why? Because the legs feed the wolf, gentlemen. I can&#8217;t promise you we&#8217;ll be the best team at Lake Placid next February. But we will be the best conditioned. That I can promise you.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awesome stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ALL about conditioning in sports.<\/p>\n<p>Ask anyone who&#8217;s done it.<\/p>\n<p>Football, wrestling, track, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The best conditioned guy almost always beats out the best &#8220;trained&#8221; guy. And this, my flabby friend, is the attitude to have if you want to win at email marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Lord knows my emails are riddled with typos.<\/p>\n<p>Plagued with run-on sentences.<\/p>\n<p>And, contain a complete lack of &#8220;flair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m easily one of the best **conditioned** email copywriters on the planet making my wins FAR outweigh my losses.<\/p>\n<p>And I got that way by&#8230; writing!<\/p>\n<p>Often times multiple emails per day.<\/p>\n<p>(In addition to sales letters, articles, my newsletter, etc).<\/p>\n<p>And, by applying what I learn (from experience or studying what others&#8217; are doing) and letting all that accumulated knowledge and experience *compound* on itself over time until, today, I belt out emails and ads in a fraction of the time it takes everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all from plain old &#8220;retro&#8221; hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Persistence.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, a pursuit of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Those things (freely available to anyone) are 90% of the battle.<\/p>\n<p>Apply them and you WILL bag more of the green stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Again, those things are 90% of the battle.<\/p>\n<p>However, to win the WAR you need the skilla, strategies and tactics.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where &#8220;Email Players&#8221; comes in.<\/p>\n<p>Each month I show you what I&#8217;m doing to write emails that make lots of sales. I also hand you the same strategies I use to stay ahead of any so-called competition. And, I give you that swift &#8220;Herb Brooks&#8221; kick in the bootay you need to APPLY what you learn, and not just let it sit on a shelf so you can go chase after the next BSO (bright shiny object).<\/p>\n<p>Hey, most people never apply anything.<\/p>\n<p>Which means if YOU do, you have an instant advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re tired of diddling around trying to grow your business on social media or wasting cash on BSO&#8217;s&#8230; then give &#8220;Email Players&#8221; a look-see.<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute&#8230; what?<\/p>\n<p><strong>You want &#8220;PROOF!!!!&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I get it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Carl Harvey &#8212; Senior copywriter at the ginormous direct response company &#8220;Mindvalley&#8221; &#8212; said about &#8220;Email Players&#8221; recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been subscribed to EP for about 4 months. In short, it&#8217;s awesome and pays for itself immediately. You won&#8217;t just get better at copywriting&#8230; but at structuring offers and promos, providing value to your list, understanding the psychology of effective marketing, how to stand out and be perceived as unique&#8230; And so much more. If you use email at all in your business, you&#8217;d be silly not to give it a go. It&#8217;s dynamite and will make you more money, with happier customers, pretty much right away.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you is.<\/p>\n<p>Read it.<\/p>\n<p>Apply it.<\/p>\n<p>Profit from it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the best way to fight the commies:<\/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>Watched a kick assimus movie recently&#8230; &#8220;Miracle&#8221; It&#8217;s about the great Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks, and how he took the US hockey team to a gold medal in 1980 Winter Olympics &#8212; kicking the Soviet commies&#8217; asses who were heavily favored to win. 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