{"id":7156,"date":"2013-05-07T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2013-05-07T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:00:49","slug":"mailchimp-excites-the-mail-chumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/mailchimp-excites-the-mail-chumps\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailchimp Excites The Mail Chumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this amusing Google+ post yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Email marketer +Ben Settle is known for sending messages to his list every day. He argues that if you are giving good content then people won&#8217;t be annoyed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new study by Mailchimp disagrees. A frequency of your campaigns increase, engagement tends to decrease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The exception &#8211; daily emails about a short term event, like a presidential campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The takeaway here is simple. Run for political office and you&#8217;ll have an excuse for increasing&#8230;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure who Mailchimp is talking about.<\/p>\n<p>But it sure as hellz ain&#8217;t talking about guys like me. (Sales have nearly doubled since this time last year.) Or my &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscribers. (Just yesterday I quoted a subscriber doing my 30-day challenge &#8212; which requires daily emails &#8212; who made more sales in March than in January and February combined.) Or all the other smart marketers who have long known daily is best. (Right now, for example, I&#8217;m working on the June &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter &#8212; and I&#8217;m analyzing a wine maker who nabs $30 MILLION per year sending *multiple* daily emails to his list &#8212; and sells ONLY with email.)<\/p>\n<p>But, like I keep saying:<\/p>\n<p><strong>All these chumps believing &#8220;less email is better&#8221; is good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It means (if you do it right) you&#8217;ll have zero competition.<\/p>\n<p>While your little mush cookie competitors are blindly following studies and only sending out one email per week or whatever, you can kick some gluteus assimus.<\/p>\n<p>But, you have to do it right.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise Mailchimp is correct:<\/p>\n<p>People will ignore you.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where my &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter can help.<\/p>\n<p>My system calls for daily emails.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s simple.<\/p>\n<p>And fun.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, profitable.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where to subscribe:<\/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>Saw this amusing Google+ post yesterday: Email marketer +Ben Settle is known for sending messages to his list every day. He argues that if you are giving good content then people won&#8217;t be annoyed. A new study by Mailchimp disagrees. A frequency of your campaigns increase, engagement tends to decrease. The exception &#8211; daily emails [&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":["post-7156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-email-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Saw this amusing Google+ post yesterday: Email marketer +Ben Settle is known for sending messages to his list every day. 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