{"id":9358,"date":"2015-01-05T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2015-01-05T06:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:30:36","slug":"you-cant-scale-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/you-cant-scale-free\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Scale Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Came a question about my New Year&#8217;s email last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Ben why the decision to do paid traffic? Are you finding free\u00a0traffic not converting anymore or not converting well. Thanks.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<p>Free converts extremely well for me.<\/p>\n<p>Especially using my email tactics.<\/p>\n<p>But, it comes down to something I heard last October when I was a\u00a0guest trainer at Ray Higdon&#8217;s elite mastermind event in Florida.\u00a0Ray was asked about traffic and he said in his infinite wisdom:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;You can&#8217;t scale free.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Very true.<\/p>\n<p>Very, very, very true.<\/p>\n<p>And I realized how many sales I&#8217;m leaving on the table by not doing\u00a0paid traffic. Thus, I&#8217;m hard at work putting some paid traffic into\u00a0play.<\/p>\n<p>You should, too.<\/p>\n<p>That is, if you want to scale your business.<\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s just a matter of converting them to buyers.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>When you know how to wield the email sword the way I teach you in\u00a0my &#8220;dojo&#8221;, you can convert traffic &#8212; paid and free &#8212; all day\u00a0long, while your competition is still lobbing tweets and spending\u00a0all day haunting facebook groups or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing wrong with those things.<\/p>\n<p>But, they ain&#8217;t scalable.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, that&#8217;s the story with that.<\/p>\n<p>Check out &#8220;Email Players&#8221; 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>Came a question about my New Year&#8217;s email last week: &#8220;Ben why the decision to do paid traffic? Are you finding free\u00a0traffic not converting anymore or not converting well. Thanks.&#8221; Answer: Free converts extremely well for me. Especially using my email tactics. But, it comes down to something I heard last October when I was [&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":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing","7":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358","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=9358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}