{"id":8137,"date":"2014-02-11T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2014-02-11T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:00:48","slug":"if-you-dont-buy-from-me-the-terrorists-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/if-you-dont-buy-from-me-the-terrorists-win\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Don&#8217;t Buy From Me, The Terrorists Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got to rapping with my pal Doberman Dan Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, about how people are more likely to buy when in an emotional state &#8212; including when they are mad.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p>Last week a guy got mad at my &#8220;Night Of The Living Ben&#8221; email.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>(That was a &#8220;tame&#8221; email.)<\/p>\n<p>But, I&#8217;d bet your kidney he bought something somewhere. Yes, that blind, seething hatred probably caused that dude to go out and buy something from someone somewhere &#8212; thereby helping the economy and capitalism. My making him angry was doing my part to help the US beat the terrorists!<\/p>\n<p>(So we joked, at least&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the point?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I would MUCH rather people be mad at me than indifferent<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All I have to do is look at the passive aggressive emails, facebook messages I get, and what people snark about in forums, and I know I&#8217;m doing it right.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, when I call them them on it they suddenly pretend not to be mad.<\/p>\n<p>But I got &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Their anger belongs to me<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And, because they are emotional, they will likely go buy from someone somewhere (or, one day, realize their wicked ways and buy something from me &#8212; I take back all the prodigals).<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t worry if people hate you.<\/p>\n<p>You want &#8217;em hot or cold.<\/p>\n<p>But never <em>indifferent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the terrorists win&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, on to bid&#8217;niz.<\/p>\n<p>Next &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue contains a 10 step guide on how to become a master at selling with email in just 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>This is no joke, my little droogie.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t say it&#8217;s easy.<\/p>\n<p>But, it IS simple.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you are willing to pay the price, works.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here:<\/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>Got to rapping with my pal Doberman Dan Friday. Specifically, about how people are more likely to buy when in an emotional state &#8212; including when they are mad. For example: Last week a guy got mad at my &#8220;Night Of The Living Ben&#8221; email. Why? I have no idea. (That was a &#8220;tame&#8221; email.) [&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":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing","7":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","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=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}