{"id":7997,"date":"2014-01-14T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2014-01-14T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:00:18","slug":"a-settle-is-never-late-nor-is-he-early-he-arrives-precisely-when-he-means-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/a-settle-is-never-late-nor-is-he-early-he-arrives-precisely-when-he-means-to\/","title":{"rendered":"A Settle Is Never Late. Nor Is He Early. He Arrives Precisely When He Means To."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once showed up&#8230; late&#8230; for a date.<\/p>\n<p>As in about 55 minutes late.<\/p>\n<p>She was (understandably) livid with yours truly&#8230; and when she started to read me the riot act I held up my hand as if to tell her to tone it down&#8230; and said just one thing to disarm her death ray and make things right.<\/p>\n<p>What did I say?<\/p>\n<p>Simply this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;A Settle is never late.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Nor is he early.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> He arrives precisely when he means to.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did it work?<\/p>\n<p>Of course.<\/p>\n<p>She couldn&#8217;t help but crack a smile.<\/p>\n<p>And, all was good from then on.<\/p>\n<p>You see, nothing disarms an impatient angry woman (or righteously angry customer) you have accidentally wronged (hey, it happens) like some well-placed humor.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">That&#8217;s how powerful it is<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It works in emails, too.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one of my favorite Dan Kennedy quotes is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;People buy, and buy more readily, when in good humor&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True &#8216;dat.<\/p>\n<p>This is one reason people should lighten up in emails.<\/p>\n<p>But instead, most emails are limp.<\/p>\n<p>And boring.<\/p>\n<p>And either &#8220;all business&#8221; or all content.<\/p>\n<p>(Or, worse, all sales pitch).<\/p>\n<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder so many people struggle online.<\/p>\n<p>This goes for guys trying to get dates, too.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>In the February &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8221; edition of &#8220;Email Players&#8221;, I show guys how to use marketing to get all the dates you can handle. (If you&#8217;re a chick or married, worry ye not &#8212; I also show all the many business and marketing secrets embedded within my methods&#8230; and if you can&#8217;t make more sales after reading what&#8217;s in this issue you should hand in your marketing card &#8212; cuz you&#8217;re hopeless.)<\/p>\n<p>Alright enough.<\/p>\n<p>I gotta wrap this up.<\/p>\n<p>Or else I&#8217;ll be late for yet another date&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where to 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>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once showed up&#8230; late&#8230; for a date. As in about 55 minutes late. She was (understandably) livid with yours truly&#8230; and when she started to read me the riot act I held up my hand as if to tell her to tone it down&#8230; and said just one thing to disarm her death ray [&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":{"0":"post-7997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997","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=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}