{"id":6897,"date":"2013-03-01T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2013-03-01T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:00:53","slug":"pick-any-email-players-back-issue-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/pick-any-email-players-back-issue-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Any &#8220;Email Players&#8221; Back Issue You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALL week I been doing this dog fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>And, ALL week the donations have been flowing like lies from a Chicago politician&#8217;s lips.<\/p>\n<p>But, methinks we could do better.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe even a LOT better.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, I&#8217;ve decided to do this:<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who donates $50 (or more) will get a very special bonus.<\/p>\n<p>A bonus worth $97.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;For real&#8221; retail value, not phony goo-roo value.)<\/p>\n<p>And that is:<\/p>\n<p>A pick of ANY back issue of the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter &#8212; hard copy, sent right to your mailbox so you can hold it in your hot little hand.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<p>You donate $50 (or more).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll then email you the latest catalog of &#8220;Email Players&#8221; back issues. Look through it, see one you like, and then let me know, and I&#8217;ll have it shipped (on my dime) to you. (NOTE: If you wish to purchase any other back issues, you must be an &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber, but it doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a subscriber or not to get one back issue free if you donate $50 or more to my local dog shelter.)<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p>If you already donated, just subtract it from the $50.<\/p>\n<p>In other words:<\/p>\n<p>If you donated $5 just donate another $45.<\/p>\n<p>If you donated $10 just donate another $40.<\/p>\n<p>And so on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Easy.<\/p>\n<p>So, so easy.<\/p>\n<p>But the buzzer&#8217;s about to go off.<\/p>\n<p>You have until midnight tonight.<\/p>\n<p>(Easter Standard Time)<\/p>\n<p>If you want in on this, hop to it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<p>1. Click the link below<br \/>\n2. Donate at least $5 (preferably more) via PayPal<br \/>\n3. Forward your PayPal receipt to ben [at] bensettle.com<\/p>\n<p>Do that and get the 4 gifts I&#8217;ve been promising all week.<\/p>\n<p>And remember:<\/p>\n<p>Donate at least $50 and I&#8217;ll send you all them bonuses, PLUS the catalog of &#8220;Email Players&#8221; back issues where you can pick any back issue you want and I&#8217;ll have it shipped directly to your home.<\/p>\n<p>But, a few may wonder:<\/p>\n<p>What if you have been a subscriber since day 1?<\/p>\n<p>And have ALL the back issues already?<\/p>\n<p>Then your next issue is free.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ALL good.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where to donate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\/dogz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com\/dogz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> A summary of the gifts you get for donating $5 (or more):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.) An *advanced* email marketing training I did with Perry Marshall&#8217;s marketing manager Jack Born recently, for Jack&#8217;s Aw Pro Tools customers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside this interview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A clever (and very &#8220;sneaky&#8221;) way of using email to profit from whiners and drama queens on FaceBook.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to almost eliminate spam complaints by sending MORE email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The only known way to get zero (or near zero) unsubscribes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Where to find a secret stash of &#8220;field tested&#8221; email subject lines you can use almost verbatim &#8212; regardless of what product you sell or what market you sell to. (Hint: It costs nothing to access this resource which is almost like the smurf village &#8212; sitting there in the open forest, but nobody ever stumbles upon it. I didn&#8217;t really want to give this one away, but oh well&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The exact &#8220;magic&#8221; time to ask for the sale in emails.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A popular TV show that can dramatically increase your sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to sell in emails without making a single claim (or even mentioning your product).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why &#8220;educating&#8221; in emails is guaranteed to kill your sales.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A secret &#8220;battle tested&#8221; way (first seen in an advice column many years ago) for banging out emails people love to read and BUY from.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>3 &#8220;no brainer&#8221; ways for being entertaining in email.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An old school copywriter (not one of the &#8220;usual suspect&#8221; copywriters in any of the popular copywriting books) who was the best in the world at writing subject lines&#8230; even though he probably never sent an email in his entire life. (Once you learn this guy&#8217;s name, get your hands on everything he&#8217;s written &#8212; you&#8217;ll have a huge file of subject line &#8220;templates&#8221; you can use for virtually any email you ever write for the rest of your days&#8230;)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to use &#8220;micro-riddles&#8221; to get your emails EAGERLY read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The #1 most powerful psychological tactic (taught by the late Gary Halbert) ever invented for getting emails opened.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Exactly what to say at the end of an auto-responder sequence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>My &#8220;secret weapon&#8221; for building iron-clad credibility using email &#8212; even if you&#8217;re brand spanking new in your market.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A surprise finding: How to turn *unsubscribes* into sales!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>And a ho&#8217; bunch more&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2.) &#8220;Obvious Adams&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the pdf of a short book Gary Bencivenga (universally considered the world&#8217;s greatest living copywriter) said his mentor David Ogilvy (the great ad man) gave his employees, and suggested they read once per year.<\/p>\n<p>It teaches a cool &#8220;mindset&#8221; you won&#8217;t find in other business books.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read this puppy well over 30 times.<\/p>\n<p>And, each time I get something new from it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.) &#8220;Secrets Of A Text Marketing Player&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an interview with my droog Trevor Mauch.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor is a fascinating guy.<\/p>\n<p>And, he has a real passion for helping entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>I know this first hand.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s helped get me thinking about ways to build my business that never would have occurred to me before. Anyway, one of the things he&#8217;s a master at is using text messaging to make sales with (relax&#8230; not spam texting, but permission based texting). And this interview transcript explains exactly how to integrate email marketing with text messaging.<\/p>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll find this interview extremely fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>(I know I did!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.) &#8220;How To Explode Your Opt-Ins (And Your Sales!) With A Simple 5-Minute Change To Your Website&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the transcript of an interview I did with Jim Yaghi.<\/p>\n<p>Jim is a computer scientist and world class marketer who has been responsible for the lead generation for some of the richest and most successful people in the home business niche (amongst others).<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also figured out some cool ways to build a list.<\/p>\n<p>Ways you probably have never heard before.<\/p>\n<p>Ways I&#8217;ve used to as much as double my opt ins quickly.<\/p>\n<p>(With my existing website traffic.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, only paying &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscribers were sent it.<\/p>\n<p>But, you can have it today for the bargain basement price of donating $5 to my local dog shelter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.) Free &#8220;Email Players&#8221; Back Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you donate $50 (or more) you get a free back issue of the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter. These sell for $97 (real retail value), but you can have one back issue free with your donation of $50+<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<p>1. Click the link below<br \/>\n2. Donate at least $5 (preferably more) via PayPal<br \/>\n3. Forward your PayPal receipt to ben [at] bensettle.com<\/p>\n<p>(Do not ask the shelter about these bonuses, they don&#8217;t know)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where to donate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\/dogz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com\/dogz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ya got until midnight tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Hurry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALL week I been doing this dog fundraiser. And, ALL week the donations have been flowing like lies from a Chicago politician&#8217;s lips. But, methinks we could do better. Maybe even a LOT better. Thus, I&#8217;ve decided to do this: Anyone who donates $50 (or more) will get a very special bonus. 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