I once read a Twitter post by a chick saying the block function is inferior to the mute function. The reason? Someone muted has no idea heâs muted, and so is likely still engaging with and boosting your posts, but has never gotten a response from you. And so, youâve basically turned him into a (as she amusingly called it)⦠âVirtual Cuck Ghost.â i.e., you benefit from their engagement (algorithms crave engagement) and give them nothing at all in return except ignoring them. Extremely useful advice. And not just for social media. Itâs also extremely useful advice for email, too. Simply create a rule in your email reader to send reply guys or whoever it is saying dumb shyt nobody cares about right into trash. Then, every now and then, check it out to see whoâs in there. Sometimes youâll find multiple (even dozens, as I have found when doing this) wall-of-text replies from some dork who clearly put a lot of time into writing them, but his emails are just sitting there, unread, with them no double hoping youâll argue back or something. The entertainment factor alone is worth it. Take this virtual cuck ghost weeping & gnashing his teeth in my deleted folder: === Reading the Bible. Waste of fkin time. Oof. What a list of charitiesâ¦lol. looks like you are into the BuyBull and Republican Jesus. Youâre obviously uneducated with the belief system of a child. Grow up. The Bible? ðððððð Youâre a Bible Thumper? Yes. You are a idiot! === Best part: Incidentally, the charity bit was a response to a list of non-profits I wrote about. Creepy little virtual cuck ghost really thought it was a âwinâ to mock a list of charities that literally: * Help abused & molested children * Rescue abandoned & mistreated animals * Give financial assistance to single & pregnant teen moms who live on the street * Provide legal & other counsel to people/businesses who are routinely harassed, threatened, and imprisoned by government bureaucrats He wasnât totally useless, though. As it got me to thinking about copywriting, marketing, & business lessons embedded in the Bible. And those thoughts were written down into a special Email Players âAnnualâ edition (that exists outside the continuity of the main issues) called âCopywriting Conversations with Godâ that has some of my favorite of those lessons for your business to profit from â whether youâre a sinner or saint, or even if youâre a hellbound little virtual cuck ghost on the rotisserie like my pal above who hates women and children. Anyway, this 68-pager will sell on its own in the future. But for now, I am giving it away free to Email Players subscribers along with the double-sized (40 pages) 13-year anniversary August issue next month to commemorate the occasion, and do something special for my best boys & ghouls (i.e. Email Players subscribers). Some of the secrets found inside the bonus include: * A line in the book of Exodus that is, word-for-word, arguably the single most profitable marketing lesson ever written. (I first learned about this in 1999 when selling MLM and foolishly ignored it. But when I got into daily emails years later, it helped propel my business forward in ways and at a speed that, speed that, frankly, I still don't believe sometimes..) * How to trick your trolls & haters into ramping up your email inbox deliverability⦠and without them even realizing it. * Denzel Washingtonâs creepy insight into whether trolls and reply guys are just assholes or are actually possessed by demons. * The CS Lewis method to converting scoffers, doubters, and even hostile unbelievers in your offers to becoming some of your best and most loyal customers/clients. * A little-talked about way (discovered by brain scientists some years back, I believe, but donât quote me on that) to write headlines and subject lines that are almost neurologically impossible to ignore. * The angry boomer secret Jesus Christ used to go viral â where people told everyone they knew about Him, spread the word about Him, and got people talking about Him. (I donât know if he does it on purpose, but I notice Dan Kennedy does the exact same thing these days.) * A secret way of using Biblical genealogies to find out if a guru you want to buy from or hire is full of crap or not. * Persuasion secret of an Old Testament prophet who converted a bunch of devil worshippers who wanted to kill him. * How to get away with teaching and saying controversial things on woke and converged platforms (like YouTube, Facebook, the ever-growing list of ESPS, etc) that kick people off for saying anything that goes against the Narrative. * A Biblical persuasion method Jesus taught in the book of Luke that, 2000 years later, Bruce Barton (son of a preacher and the second âBâ in the billion dollar BBDO advertising agency) used to convince US Steel to keep paying his company through the nose for advertising when they insisted on killing the contract. * The ingenious secret Jesus used to create the biggest and most influential religion in world history that has also been used by a controversial filmmaker to create some of the biggest and most influential films in cinema history. * A powerful secret for growing a better and more response email list that Old Testament farmers used for growing better and more abundant crops. * A totally violent & disturbing copywriting tactic that works like gangbusters to get attention⦠but that you should avoid reading if you have a weak stomach. * Ezekielâs âdung eatingâ lesson for how to sell with stealth â and in a way that can work far better than just lobbing benefits and claims at your list. * What Genesis chapter 5 teaches about how to preserve your business and protect it from being âRings of Powerâdâ by your heirs. * An eerie red flag (straight out of the book of John) to look for if you want to identify the rats, bad actors, and other treacherous âJudasâ types when choosing who to do business with. * What to do if you want to âexorciseâ trolls and reply guys off your list. (Hint: Jesus, the Apostles, and Old Testament figures were never âniceâ to evil â they always got rough with them, cast them out, rebuked them, and in Old Testament days even beheaded them!) * What the Bible says about how to go from always being scared of whatâs going on in the world to having the world scared of you. * The violent lesson found right inside the book of Revelation about having a tight, responsive, and profitable email list. * One word that can help rile up large segments of your list (and itâs not even profanity) when you have to get their attention and nothing else you try works. * Advice to businesses who sell MLM offers who donât want to be shunned and laughed at by friends, family, and peers. Real life story about this: There was once a party full of elites and A-list celebrities in Hollywood, yet everyone was gathered around a little old unassuming lady waiting in line to talk to her. The reason they loved her and ignored the celebrities? Because she was a sex therapist⦠no, Iâm not saying to talk about sex in your marketing. That would be missing the point. But inside youâll see a way to tap into the same force of persuasion the old lady did to potentially be âthe personâ people wants to consult about whatever your offers do vs being the person everyone avoids.) Anyway, thereâs a lot more in this 68-page âAnnualâ edition. And you can read it free, my 13-year Email Players anniversary gift to you, simply by being subscribed to Email Players by tomorrowâs deadline. That being when I send the list into the printer, after which itâll be too late. To get in on time thou must smasheth this linketh below: []( Ben Settle This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2024 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. Click here to
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