{"id":7616,"date":"2013-09-26T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7616"},"modified":"2013-09-26T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T13:00:51","slug":"id-be-on-this-like-white-on-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/id-be-on-this-like-white-on-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Be On This Like White On Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got an email from &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Jonathan Rivera saying he and his buddy did $10g&#8217;s using nothing but good old fashioned email and the telephone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they didn&#8217;t even have a sales page until the last day.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, eh?<\/p>\n<p>But riddle me this:<\/p>\n<p>Remind me why everyone is toiling away their lives creating long, droning sales pages and\/or videos, killing their backs and going blind looking at a computer screen all day again?<\/p>\n<p>Not to say a good sales page doesn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>It definitely does.<\/p>\n<p>But, don&#8217;t waste time obsessing over one, either.<\/p>\n<p>Get those emails out.<\/p>\n<p>Make sales.<\/p>\n<p>And, while you&#8217;re doing that, optimize your funnel.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of copywriters and emails&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Monday I helped teach a mastermind\/workshop in San Diego. One of our clients who got BBQ&#8217;d on the &#8220;hot seat&#8221; was Ryan McGrath representing Agora. I got to talking with him and it turns out Agora has a TON of copywriting gigs &#8212; even if you&#8217;re a newbie who has no reputation and hasn&#8217;t figured out all the butts to kiss yet at seminars.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he sent me a LONG list of job openings.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a newbie copywriter&#8217;s wet dream.<\/p>\n<p>If I was a new copywriter I&#8217;d be on this like white on rice.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me the tests you&#8217;d get to see, the experience you&#8217;d gain, the contacts you&#8217;d make&#8230; would be like getting a 10 year copywriting &#8220;crash course&#8221; in a matter of weeks and months. And, getting freelance opportunities like this is a &#8220;perk&#8221; of being an &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>No, don&#8217;t subscribe JUST for that.<\/p>\n<p>(Only a fool would do that, and a few have to their shame&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But, if you&#8217;re a freelancer on the fence about subscribing anyway, and want access to this big ol&#8217; fatty list of Agora job openings (and, more importantly, &#8220;fast track&#8221; Ryan McGrath&#8217;s attention when applying), then do this:<\/p>\n<p>1. Subscribe to &#8220;Email Players&#8221;<\/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>2. A day later you&#8217;ll be invited to a private Google group.<\/p>\n<p>Join it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, read the archives to see it.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got an email from &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Jonathan Rivera saying he and his buddy did $10g&#8217;s using nothing but good old fashioned email and the telephone.\u00a0 In fact, they didn&#8217;t even have a sales page until the last day. Pretty cool, eh? But riddle me this: Remind me why everyone is toiling away their lives [&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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}