{"id":9565,"date":"2015-02-17T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2015-02-17T06:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T14:30:31","slug":"email-players-is-like-my-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/email-players-is-like-my-period\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Email Players&#8221; Is Like A Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a website reader will ask why I don&#8217;t sell a one-shot\u00a0product on email marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Something easily pimped out via affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>Easily accessible.<\/p>\n<p>And, easily downloaded in pdf.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve rapped about this many times before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But, there&#8217;s one reason I&#8217;ve never revealed:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have to teach month-to-month because it is, in many ways, like a professional monthly period. What I mean by that is, it&#8217;s\u00a0uncomfortable making sure I don&#8217;t phone anything in. (I&#8217;ve\u00a0rewritten entire issues from scratch because they didn&#8217;t meet my\u00a0standards.) It <em>cramps<\/em> my fingers on the keyboard writing it. (Ask\u00a0any subscriber&#8230; each 16-page issue is wall-to wall text, very\u00a0little white space and zero filler). I get <em>irritating<\/em> hot flashes\u00a0of ideas for other emails, products, ad copy, etc I have to\u00a0constantly pause to write down before continuing, which slows my\u00a0momentum while writing it.\u00a0I become <em>moody<\/em> and lash out at anyone bothers me while writing it.\u00a0My conscious gets <em>bloated<\/em> with anxiety in making absolutely SURE\u00a0I&#8217;m delivering information that, for someone who implements, will\u00a0*easily* make back their monthly investment (many times over in the\u00a0short term, and hundreds and thousands of times over, over time&#8230;)\u00a0And, it cleans out my mind of all the lessons and ideas always\u00a0<em>hatching<\/em> in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, I know.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Ben that&#8217;s such a crude analogy!!!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meh.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine me rubbing my fingers together.<\/p>\n<p>You know what this is?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the word&#8217;s smallest violin.<\/p>\n<p>Save the complaining for someone who cares.<\/p>\n<p>It may be crude, but it&#8217;s accurate.<\/p>\n<p>In fact:<\/p>\n<p>I can tell right now, just by own tone in writing this (as I read\u00a0it over) it&#8217;s time to start writing another issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ll even give you a &#8220;sneak preview&#8221; of what&#8217;s in March&#8217;s issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One thing I cover is how to sell in virtually ANY market you\u00a0want&#8230; even if you know zilch about that market now&#8230; using plain\u00a0old, &#8220;retro&#8221; email, and in just 60-minutes or less.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used this secret several times.<\/p>\n<p>And, each time I made out like a bandit.<\/p>\n<p>Methinks you will, too.<\/p>\n<p>That is, if you&#8217;re a subscriber.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you implement the info.<\/p>\n<p>(Which is very &#8220;newbie friendly, good jumping-on issue.)<\/p>\n<p>Subscription details 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>Sometimes a website reader will ask why I don&#8217;t sell a one-shot\u00a0product on email marketing. Something easily pimped out via affiliates. Easily accessible. And, easily downloaded in pdf. I&#8217;ve rapped about this many times before. But, there&#8217;s one reason I&#8217;ve never revealed: I have to teach month-to-month because it is, in many ways, like a [&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-9565","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\/9565","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=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}