{"id":9856,"date":"2015-04-24T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9856"},"modified":"2015-04-24T06:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:30:39","slug":"the-force-is-strong-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-force-is-strong-with-her\/","title":{"rendered":"The Force Is Strong With Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for anyone who uses &#8220;business cards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Especially freelancers.)<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year my ex-copywriting apprentice went to the Traffic\u00a0&amp; Conversion Summit, and used this game plan to get clients,\u00a0without being just another business card in their folder to be\u00a0ignored, tossed, and forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Ready?<\/p>\n<p>Set?<\/p>\n<p>OK then, here. we. GO &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Before going to traffic and conversion&#8230;I sent myself a message.\u00a0It contained a link to my Dropbox portfolio, my skype user ID, and\u00a0my email address. If someone asked me for my card&#8230;I would ask\u00a0them for their cell number and text them the copy\/pasted message I\u00a0had set up before hand. I thought it was clever.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As my hero Emperor Palpatine would say:<\/p>\n<p>Goooooooood.<\/p>\n<p>The Force is strong with her.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, some free advice.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>For paid advice (that will put lots of rupees in your hot\u00a0pocketseseses), go to:<\/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 Settl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for anyone who uses &#8220;business cards.&#8221; (Especially freelancers.) Earlier this year my ex-copywriting apprentice went to the Traffic\u00a0&amp; Conversion Summit, and used this game plan to get clients,\u00a0without being just another business card in their folder to be\u00a0ignored, tossed, and forgotten. Ready? Set? OK then, here. we. GO &#8212; &#8220;Before going to traffic [&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":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856","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=9856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}