{"id":9325,"date":"2014-12-19T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2014-12-19T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:30:07","slug":"the-force-is-strong-with-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-force-is-strong-with-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The Force Is Strong With This One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, someone &#8220;gets&#8221; it&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hey Ben!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The name is Trey, and I&#8217;ve been receiving your emails for a short\u00a0amount of time now and just wanted to say, thanks!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for being one of the &#8220;rare&#8221; people on my list that I can\u00a0depend on for realism!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Realism in the way the you write, approach an idea, and the way\u00a0that you don&#8217;t put any fluff on it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s in your face, un-censored writing that a person like me can\u00a0appreciate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And I love the end of every email too!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If you are even thinking about swiping or stealing this\u00a0email, I suggest&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(I have no intentions of coping them either, just saying)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks so much for doing what you do and I look forward to the next\u00a0email I gat from ya!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hang loose man!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Force is strong with this one.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I cannot tell you how much it amuses me when someone\u00a0takes that signature at the end of each email personally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oooooh I&#8217;m so insulted!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do you keep threatening me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or, my favorite, the blue-light special who recently seethed about\u00a0what a &#8220;douche&#8221; I am&#8230; how no other marketer does that&#8230; and a\u00a0bunch of other self loathing projection and babble.<\/p>\n<p>My entire mastermind group laughed our asses off at it.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when we saw his &#8220;IM scammer&#8221; site.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Anyway, I looooove when people whine about that letter<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can imagine them now:<\/p>\n<p>They land on my site.<\/p>\n<p>They see the &#8220;swipe file&#8221; tab at the top.<\/p>\n<p>They get a boner at the thought of all the copy they can plagiarize\u00a0and steal and make money with the so-called &#8220;lazy way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then&#8230; boom:<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no swipe file.<\/p>\n<p>Just a letter about how it&#8217;s illegal to plagiarize emails\u00a0word-for-word. Why they should sac up and write their own copy &amp;\u00a0content. And, the legal consequences of stealing. (Can&#8217;t wait to\u00a0hear the squawks when I publish a JUDGEMENT letter. Heh.)<\/p>\n<p>Good times.<\/p>\n<p>Good times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All right.<\/p>\n<p>On to business:<\/p>\n<p>The next &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue shows you all kinds of ways to write\u00a0stories in your emails that&#8217;ll make you a helluva lot more sales\u00a0than swiping ever will.<\/p>\n<p>She goes to print in less than 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Get in while you can, 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>Finally, someone &#8220;gets&#8221; it&#8230; Hey Ben! The name is Trey, and I&#8217;ve been receiving your emails for a short\u00a0amount of time now and just wanted to say, thanks! Thanks for being one of the &#8220;rare&#8221; people on my list that I can\u00a0depend on for realism! Realism in the way the you write, approach an idea, [&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-9325","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\/9325","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=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}