{"id":9228,"date":"2014-11-26T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2014-11-26T06:30:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T14:30:27","slug":"mooney-talks-and-bull-crap-walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/mooney-talks-and-bull-crap-walks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooney Talks And Bull Crap Walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for people who wonder if they can &#8220;for realz&#8221; get out of their job\/a business they hate\/or radically change their lifestyle using my email methodology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Matt Mooney writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Yo Ben<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I emailed about 8 weeks ago and mentioned I was quitting being a Personal Trainer and finally working full time on my Online Female Weightloss Business.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well &#8211; I&#8217;ve done it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WAY scarier and more stressful than I could have every imagined, but things are settling down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking a \u00a330k ($47k) drop in salary was TERRIFYING. Especially because I spent the last 3 years building my client base, and working from 7am-9pm everyday to get there. And I knew in the short term, I&#8217;d be swapping not ever really worrying about money &#8211; to counting every penny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>However &#8211; I&#8217;m now working from coffee shops everyday, working from 9-4ish pm, so all is good! Freedom tastes sweet! No more 2 hour commute each day! And no more trading my time for money.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I finally feel like I&#8217;m moving towards my ultimate goal each day, rather than pissing my time away. And I get to spend each evening with my Girlfriend rather than working late.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just wanted to say thanks &#8211; without your email system it would NEVER have been possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the last 6 weeks (since leaving), I&#8217;ve signed up 19 new customers and added \u00a3940 ($1473) in recurring monthly revenue to my business (my largest jump ever by far). That&#8217;s with a small list of 734 people and ONLY getting an average open rate of 14.3% &#8211; so I guess what you say is right about open rates not mattering.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You deserve your props, so wanted to say thanks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>15 months ago I had NO Clue how to write a sales email, didn&#8217;t have any form of online business or audience and I thought &#8220;copywriting&#8221; was some kind of legal trademark like (C) haha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep smashing it man and thanks again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Mooney<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The caveat here is this:<\/p>\n<p>Matt WORKED hard.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote a lot of emails.<\/p>\n<p>Probably went through a lot of bull crap.<\/p>\n<p>And, paid his dues.<\/p>\n<p>In other words:<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t just subscribe, put each issue under his pillow, and wait for the magic email fairy to touch him in his typing fingers with its twinkle pole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why am I saying this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because I don&#8217;t want opportunity-minded subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>I only want investment-minded people.<\/p>\n<p>There is no overnight success.<\/p>\n<p>It takes work.<\/p>\n<p>A decent offer (and list to send your offer to).<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, persistence.<\/p>\n<p>It also takes the mindset where you are going to invest your time, money, and resources over the long haul, not buy one issue and think you know it all.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Boss.<\/p>\n<p>Just doesn&#8217;t work that way.<\/p>\n<p>(Despite what ye olde goo-roos claim.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this ain&#8217;t fantasy land.<\/p>\n<p>And, I want to make sure that&#8217;s clear.<\/p>\n<p>If you still want in, the next issue mails shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here in time:<\/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>This is for people who wonder if they can &#8220;for realz&#8221; get out of their job\/a business they hate\/or radically change their lifestyle using my email methodology. &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Matt Mooney writes: Yo Ben I emailed about 8 weeks ago and mentioned I was quitting being a Personal Trainer and finally working full time [&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-9228","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\/9228","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=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}