{"id":9422,"date":"2015-01-07T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2015-01-07T15:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:30:30","slug":"in-defense-of-sex-crazed-grandmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/in-defense-of-sex-crazed-grandmas\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense Of Sex-Crazed Grandmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since following the esteemed Matt Fury&#8217;s sage advice about\u00a0relentless, daily emails (rain or shine) I have seen near magical\u00a0things happen in my business.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, sales have gone up exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>(Not just mine, but clients, when I did client work).<\/p>\n<p>But, also market influence. Opportunities springing up out of\u00a0nowhere. And, even access to events, products, ideas, masterminds,\u00a0etc you won&#8217;t be privy to just lobbing tweets all day.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, mailing daily has another &#8220;perk&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Selling things to people they thought they didn&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:<\/p>\n<p>A couple days ago I got this email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Though I have no intention of buying your Zombie Books (we&#8217;ll see if your emails can convince me otherwise!) but I am enjoying your podcasts and emails.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, the very next day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I originally told you I had no intention of buying either of your books. I lied. You won me over with the bit about the sex-crazed grandma. Both books \u00a0downloaded and ready to be read.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turned to the Ben-side of the Force with 3 words.<\/p>\n<p>(Sex-crazed grandma heh)<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not the only one.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Zombie Cop&#8221; (my first novel) reviews are peppered with &#8220;I\u00a0don&#8217;t normally read these kinds of books&#8230;&#8221; comments. But, because\u00a0I relentlessly, ruthlessly and, yes, obnoxiously mailed about it\u00a0day in, and day out when launching&#8230; their asses belonged to me.<\/p>\n<p>My point?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s power in persistency.<\/p>\n<p>In consistency.<\/p>\n<p>And, in insistency.<\/p>\n<p>All right enough.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I&#8217;d plug &#8220;Email Players&#8221; here.<\/p>\n<p>Which shows you how to pump out all the emails people love to read\u00a0and buy from your greedy little heart desires.<\/p>\n<p>(And, do it daily.)<\/p>\n<p>But, I&#8217;m gonna plug my new novel, instead.<\/p>\n<p>See what all the fuss is about here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EnochWars.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EnochWars.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since following the esteemed Matt Fury&#8217;s sage advice about\u00a0relentless, daily emails (rain or shine) I have seen near magical\u00a0things happen in my business. Yes, sales have gone up exponentially. (Not just mine, but clients, when I did client work). But, also market influence. Opportunities springing up out of\u00a0nowhere. And, even access to events, products, [&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-9422","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\/9422","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=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}