{"id":7218,"date":"2013-05-22T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2013-05-22T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T13:00:06","slug":"storytelling-aint-the-only-way-to-write-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/storytelling-aint-the-only-way-to-write-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytelling Ain&#8217;t The Only Way To Write Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was an interesting question&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Hello Ben, I enjoy receiving your email daily and have a question for you. Would it make sense for a restaurant to send daily email using stories? The stories would revolve around the restaurants&#8217; customers and all of \u00a0the customers would end up at the restaurant for one reason or another. There would be a subtle sales pitch in the middle of each story selling the different parts of the menu.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, mail daily fo&#8217; sho&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But, I would NOT just tell stories.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d switch it up.<\/p>\n<p>A new surprise every day.<\/p>\n<p>Just like I teach in the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Only I&#8217;d be DOUBLE aggressive sending at least 2 emails 7 days per week &#8212; probably even 3 (one for each meal &#8212; breakfast, lunch, dinner).<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;d be no &#8220;subtle&#8221; pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Screw that sideways.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>There&#8217;s no time to jerk around.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You gotta get those tables reserved.<\/p>\n<p>So, they&#8217;d get a new offer each day. A new reason to stop in. A new &#8220;excuse&#8221; to dine (ideally multiple times per week\/day) in my not-so-humble establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line?<\/p>\n<p>Restaurants, info products&#8230; services&#8230; it&#8217;s ALL the same.<\/p>\n<p>The peculiars are different.<\/p>\n<p>But frequent emails kick gluteus assimus.<\/p>\n<p>This is why &#8220;Email Players&#8221; is so important. The free &#8220;Email Players Playbook&#8221; that comes with your subscription, and the monthly ongoing training (which includes different email formats &#8212; storytelling is just ONE of many) keep you from ever running out of ideas or different ways of approaching your list.<\/p>\n<p>Next issue is related to this question.<\/p>\n<p>It talks not about a restaurant using email.<\/p>\n<p>But an independent wine maker.<\/p>\n<p>A dude who does over $30 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>JUST using email.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here while there&#8217;s still time:<\/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>This was an interesting question&#8230; &#8220;Hello Ben, I enjoy receiving your email daily and have a question for you. Would it make sense for a restaurant to send daily email using stories? 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