{"id":7391,"date":"2013-07-24T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7391"},"modified":"2013-07-24T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T13:00:13","slug":"how-to-profit-from-plain-vanilla-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-plain-vanilla-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Profit From &#8220;Plain Vanilla&#8221; Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I speaketh the truth here:<\/p>\n<p>Probably the single biggest &#8220;mistake&#8221; I see in emails I critique is being too plain vanilla. By that I mean, the email isn&#8217;t &#8220;bad&#8221; and WILL nab any low hanging fruit (i.e. people ready to buy without needing any extra persuasion). But as Ken McCarthy said in his copywriting course (and I believe it is true after studying multiple different markets) about 5% of most markets will buy anything.<\/p>\n<p>They are the hyper buyers.<\/p>\n<p>They are ready to go, with their credit card out.<\/p>\n<p>And mailing daily can often nab that 5% relatively quickly.<\/p>\n<p>BUT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also another 10%-25% wanting to buy but are hesitant.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;re skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;re procrastinators.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe they have &#8220;analysis paralysis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason this is 2-5 times bigger than the hyper buyer section of your market. And so, it is very wise to target them in your emails by going beyond the &#8220;plain vanilla&#8221; email approach and adding some flavor in there.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so can be like night and day for your sales.<\/p>\n<p>And, put a big, fat, sloppy smile on your face.<\/p>\n<p>And guess ye what?<\/p>\n<p>In the August &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue I show you how to go back through any plain vanilla emails you&#8217;ve written and give &#8217;em some spice to get sales from them.<\/p>\n<p>(With a real life &#8220;before and after&#8221; example)<\/p>\n<p>It can save you lots of time, too.<\/p>\n<p>Simply go through old emails and spice &#8217;em up.<\/p>\n<p>No &#8220;new&#8221; email writing required.<\/p>\n<p>Subscription details at:<\/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>I speaketh the truth here: Probably the single biggest &#8220;mistake&#8221; I see in emails I critique is being too plain vanilla. 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