{"id":9255,"date":"2014-12-03T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2014-12-03T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:30:57","slug":"worlds-worst-social-media-marketer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/worlds-worst-social-media-marketer\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Worst Social Media Marketer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, someone (a cousin of mine of all people!) endorsed me\u00a0on Linkedout for social media marketing.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not the first to do so, either.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s happened more times than I can count.<\/p>\n<p>And I simply don&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<p>My social media &#8220;etiquette&#8221; is awful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m as standoffish online as I am offline. Despise all the &#8220;you\u00a0scratch my back, I&#8217;ll scratch yours&#8221; favors, never thank people for\u00a0retweets, shamelessly self promote, rarely engage in threads, take\u00a0weeks to accept friend requests (I apply &#8220;fire fast, hire slow&#8221; to\u00a0most everything) even as I unfriend innocent people for even the\u00a0slightest of offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the point?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the *last* person to listen to for social media.<\/p>\n<p>(And I&#8217;m even worse to emulate on there.)<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While I suck out loud at social media, I do know a thing or two\u00a0about email marketing &#8212; with the track record of sales (in\u00a0multiple markets), training, successful students, clients, etc, to\u00a0prove it. In fact, later this month even Agora Publishing ($200\u00a0million publishing company) is flying me in to Baltimore to teach\u00a0their copywriters about email.<\/p>\n<p>I also spoke at 3 events this year about email\/copywriting.<\/p>\n<p>(Including the biggest event in the home business market.)<\/p>\n<p>And, &#8220;Oceans 4&#8221; mastermind clients have emailed me telling me how\u00a0much smackola my email advice has made them.<\/p>\n<p>I can talk about this stuff forever.<\/p>\n<p>And, I unload my best info in my &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s expensive.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bother sugar coating it.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you are willing to work hard, implement what you learn,\u00a0keep building your list, and follow my simple instructions, I\u00a0believe you can kick some gluteus assimus.<\/p>\n<p>Only one way to find out.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s to give it a whirl.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no refunds.<\/p>\n<p>And, no safety nets.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in, you&#8217;re &#8220;in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t bother unless you&#8217;re 100% committed.<\/p>\n<p>More info 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>Sigh. 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