{"id":8050,"date":"2014-01-24T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2014-01-24T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T14:00:09","slug":"the-exciting-misadventures-of-ben-juan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-exciting-misadventures-of-ben-juan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exciting (Mis)adventures Of Ben Juan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is a cautionary tale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The name has NOT been changed to protect the guilty (in this case, yours truly). And, if you take it to heart, I think you will understand yet another reason why you must email your list daily, keep them constantly engaged and reassure them you care about and are thinking about them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<p>Few months ago I started dating a doctor chick.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool girl.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of fun.<\/p>\n<p>And, a blast to hang with.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the holidays hit, we lost touch and, well, these things happen. A few weeks ago we finally reconnect and she says she&#8217;s been seeing some dude over the past month because she thought I only liked her as a friend,\u00a0but could she still hang out with me, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I told her it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t even sweat it.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, go ye forth and pursue the other guy with my blessings (as readers of the February &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue will discover, attracting new women &#8212; and customers, if you&#8217;re married or a chick &#8212; in your life is cake if you use my system to do it, you simply don&#8217;t worry about it).<\/p>\n<p><strong>But, it was a great learning lesson.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not just for dealing with chicks.<\/p>\n<p>(And their <em>strangling<\/em> need for reassurance and communication&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>But, even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span> importantly, for bid&#8217;niz.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I mean:<\/p>\n<p>Most marketers are afraid to mail regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Or, they simply don&#8217;t have anything to say.<\/p>\n<p>Or, they don&#8217;t think it &#8220;works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, I&#8217;m here to tell you:<\/p>\n<p>Just like how doctor chick thought I wasn&#8217;t that &#8220;in&#8221; to her (i.e. only liked her as a friend and not romantically due to neglect and lack of communication), your list is thinking you don&#8217;t really like them &#8220;that&#8221; way, either, if you (1) only mail them when you launch new products (2) rarely talk to them or (3) don&#8217;t know how to communicate with them in a way where it&#8217;s obvious you both like and respect them, and want their business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That, Romeo, is where &#8220;Email Players&#8221; can help.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what my system does:<\/p>\n<p>Keeps your list engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Interested.<\/p>\n<p>And, when ready, eager to buy.<\/p>\n<p>(If you have something they want.)<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line:<\/p>\n<p>Show your list some lovin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Go here to learn how:<\/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>Following is a cautionary tale&#8230; The name has NOT been changed to protect the guilty (in this case, yours truly). And, if you take it to heart, I think you will understand yet another reason why you must email your list daily, keep them constantly engaged and reassure them you care about and are thinking [&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-8050","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\/8050","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=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}