{"id":9234,"date":"2014-12-01T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2014-12-01T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T14:30:08","slug":"you-smell-that-smells-like-a-blatant-sales-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/you-smell-that-smells-like-a-blatant-sales-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cfake cocaine\u201d secret to multiplying the sales from your emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the deadline for the December &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>37 email subject line templates served up on a silver platter. (Some can be used &#8220;as is&#8221; as subject lines, the rest are easily adapted to virtually any product, market, or service.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to use email to persuade people to happily buy expensive products they didn\u2019t even know existed 5 minutes earlier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The &#8220;fake cocaine&#8221; secret to multiplying the sales of your emails.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A secret way the late (great) copywriter Eugene Schwartz used to make his ads almost irresistible to buy from. (Works just as well &#8212; if not better &#8212; in emails.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to &#8220;embed&#8221; another dimension of persuasion to your emails. (Giving you a solid edge over any competition sending emails to the same people selling similar types of products or services.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An almost laughably simple way to turn stray brain farts into high selling emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>And lots more&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Including a new book about list building for newbies.)<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s the deadline to get in on this issue.<\/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>Today&#8217;s the deadline for the December &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside: 37 email subject line templates served up on a silver platter. 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