{"id":7187,"date":"2013-05-14T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2013-05-14T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T13:00:18","slug":"riding-the-goo-roo-carousel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/riding-the-goo-roo-carousel\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding The Goo-roo Carousel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Mathew Kimberly writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I started emailing my tiny 1200 person list daily in January. People love it. Open rates have gone UP. But most importantly, I sent a single email this month promoting a $497 product I created. Within 48 hours I&#8217;d had 17 buyers. That&#8217;s $7 a name. Never had results like it before. I have daily emails to thank. Without them, the trust wouldn&#8217;t have been there. (Also had much stronger responses when I promote other people&#8217;s stuff.)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I have a theory about daily emails.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, why so few people do it.<\/p>\n<p>And, why they resort to quoting studies by Mailchimp or whatever that say daily emails are bad, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my theory:<\/p>\n<p>Most people are too lazy to write an email per day.<\/p>\n<p>Sad, but true.<\/p>\n<p>They prefer pissing away their lives on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Debating nonsense on forums.<\/p>\n<p>And, riding the &#8220;goo-roo carousel&#8221; &#8212; buying one BSO (bright shiny object) after another perpetually&#8230; safely blaming their lack of sales on everything but their unwillingness to commit 20 minutes of their precious Flakebook stalking time to writing an email designed to, you know, sell their product.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>It is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Just means more sales for me.<\/p>\n<p>And, for everyone else who mails daily (the right way).<\/p>\n<p>If you want in on these sales, go to:<\/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>&#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Mathew Kimberly writes: &#8220;I started emailing my tiny 1200 person list daily in January. 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