{"id":8986,"date":"2014-09-29T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8986"},"modified":"2014-09-29T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:30:00","slug":"are-the-back-issues-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/are-the-back-issues-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Are The Back Issues Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Ben, if I subscribe to &#8216;Email Players&#8217; do I get all the back issues free?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I had a penny every time someone asked this question, I&#8217;d be a\u00a0filthy &#8220;hog nasty&#8221; rich mo&#8217; fo.<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Back issues are not free.<\/p>\n<p>They never have been free.<\/p>\n<p>They never will be.<\/p>\n<p>They cost the same price everyone who was subscribed at the time\u00a0they were published paid. And, only current subscribers can buy\u00a0them (via a catalog that comes with each issue.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moral of the story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t subscribe just for &#8220;the free stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll just waste your money &amp; time.<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, paying for valuable info is GOOD.<\/p>\n<p>You should want to pay for things.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll make FAR more $$.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, because when you have skin in the game, you&#8217;re more likely to\u00a0use whatever you bought. That&#8217;s why I prefer paying. Even when\u00a0offered free stuff I usually insist on paying.<\/p>\n<p>Loco?<\/p>\n<p>Not at all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s smart.<\/p>\n<p>And, only smart marketers &#8220;get&#8221; why.<\/p>\n<p>Next &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue goes to the printer in a couple days.<\/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>&#8220;Ben, if I subscribe to &#8216;Email Players&#8217; do I get all the back issues free?&#8221; If I had a penny every time someone asked this question, I&#8217;d be a\u00a0filthy &#8220;hog nasty&#8221; rich mo&#8217; fo. Answer: No. Back issues are not free. They never have been free. They never will be. They cost the same price [&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-8986","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\/8986","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=8986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}