{"id":8983,"date":"2014-09-30T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2014-09-30T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:30:07","slug":"the-blatant-selling-will-continue-until-morale-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-blatant-selling-will-continue-until-morale-improves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blatant Selling Will Continue Until Morale Improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside the October &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to use email to give your competition &#8220;penis envy&#8221; (figuratively speaking, get your mind outta the gutter) in affiliate marketing contests.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to get paid to argue with nitwits online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One of my favorite email openings. (If you can&#8217;t think up a good opening line for your emails, just use this &#8212; it&#8217;s naturally intriguing, interesting, and gets people eagerly reading.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An example of how to write a &#8220;rant&#8221; email without looking like a blowhard or an idiot. (i.e. how to do it so you make sales, not make people feel sorry for you &#8212; including a word-for-word example of how my copywriting apprentice did it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to build a business around giving stuff away free. (What? Ben Settle blasphemy?? Not if you do it like this&#8230; plus, there won&#8217;t be a freebie seeker in sight.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to (ethically) use email to milk money from misery. (And have your list love you for it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A swipe file of proven emails (i.e. they made lots of sales) to model, adapt, and study (not plagiarize) for your affiliate campaigns.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to pick the best (and most profitable) products to sell as an affiliate. (Do this, and you put the odds in your favor before writing a single email &#8212; and no, it has nothing to do with a product&#8217;s sales ranking on clickbank or whatever.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The exact best time to pitch in an email. (You&#8217;ll know exactly when to put that first link in your email &#8212; regardless of what you&#8217;re selling or who you&#8217;re selling to.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And lots more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This issue is packed stem to stern with info.<\/p>\n<p>But it goes to the printer tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Nab it here while you still can:<\/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>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside the October &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue: How to use email to give your competition &#8220;penis envy&#8221; (figuratively speaking, get your mind outta the gutter) in affiliate marketing contests. How to get paid to argue with nitwits online. One of my favorite email openings. 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