{"id":5038,"date":"2010-07-23T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dobermandan.com\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2012-01-05T18:44:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T23:44:06","slug":"i-think-i-need-to-see-a-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dobermandan.com\/blog\/i-think-i-need-to-see-a-shrink\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think I Need To See A Shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, 7:18 PM<\/p>\n

Dear Friend,<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about seeing a psychologist.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any mental problems… that I’m aware of.<\/p>\n

It’s just that I have nobody to talk with.<\/p>\n

Nobody.<\/p>\n

Sure, I’ve got some really good friends… but the conversations are always about them.<\/p>\n

See, I realized a long time ago that nobody gives a damn about what I think, feel or believe.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s not exactly<\/em> true.<\/p>\n

It’s not that they don’t care… it’s just that they have their own problems to deal with. And I don’t feel good about dumping my<\/em> problems on them, too.<\/p>\n

So I try to spend about 95% of my time talking about what they want to talk about.<\/p>\n

Whenever I accidentally start to talk about me, I remind myself that nobody wants to hear it… and I get back on the topic of them.<\/p>\n

With one of the friends I regularly speak with, I’m lucky to even get a word in edge-wise. Even if I could<\/em> talk, he wouldn’t even hear it… because he never shuts up.<\/p>\n

So I never really get a chance to talk with anybody about what’s on my mind.<\/p>\n

Plus, none of my friends would even even understand most of my problems and concerns. They just don’t operate in the same world I do. Even if I wanted<\/em> to share that stuff, they just wouldn’t understand.<\/p>\n

Gary Halbert understood.<\/p>\n

It was always nice to know he was just a phone call away… and even if he didn’t have any solutions for me… at least he understood.<\/p>\n

But last I checked, unless somebody constructed a long distance phone line to copywriter heaven, that’s not an option any longer.<\/p>\n

So THAT is why I’m willing to pay a shrink $200 an hour… just to have someone listen to me.<\/p>\n

I’ll be the first to admit… I’m somewhat of a cheapskate. I don’t really want to spend money on a psychologist.<\/p>\n

So I MIGHT have figured out a way to save myself that $200 an hour … and maybe help YOU in the process, too.<\/p>\n

Here’s What This Is All About:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I just got Ben Settle’s newest product, The Street Smart E-mail System<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It totally kicks “boo-tay” for making money with an e-mail list.<\/p>\n

I’m already testing a couple things he recommends and they’re already (just within the past 3 days) starting to bring in a lot more sales. I think it might even DOUBLE the sales I’ve been getting from e-mail marketing.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo… one of the things Ben recommends is sending out e-mails every day. Not long articles like I’ve been writing on the blog lately, but short 300 to 500 word articles… with the entire article sent by e-mail.<\/p>\n

I’ve noticed something about this:<\/p>\n

First of all, Ben seems to have a VERY high open rate and readership.<\/p>\n

Secondly, he also posts every article on his blog every day.<\/p>\n

And Google LOVES that.<\/p>\n

In fact, he gets a nice amount of traffic and new subscribers every day because of his Google ranking.<\/p>\n

And all that traffic and new subscribers from Google is…<\/p>\n

100% Free!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like THAT. (Remember the cheapskate thing.)<\/p>\n

So here’s what I’m thinking…<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to test writing more frequent messages for my DobermanDan.com subscribers.<\/p>\n

I’ll keep them relatively brief and send them out by e-mail.<\/p>\n

I’ll also post them on the blog.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I hope to accomplish:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Writing my Doberman Dan newsletter is therapeutic.<\/strong>It makes me feel like SOMEBODY is listening to me… even if you’re not.\u00a0 So I hope this will take the place of that $200\/hour shrink I was thinking about renting once a week. \n

     <\/li>\n

  2. I’m going to do my best to bring value to your life with these more frequent messages.<\/strong>Hopefully you’ll learn some valuable stuff that will enrich your life, make you more money… or both. Even if every single message isn’t life-changing, at the very least I hope you’ll be entertained a little. <\/li>\n
  3. I’m hoping the more frequent content on DobermanDan.com will make me more popular with Google.<\/strong> I sincerely want to build my subscriber base… it’s just that it would be nice to do that without paying for it. (See “cheapskate” referenced twice above.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So that’s the plan.<\/p>\n

    I’m saying “more frequent” messages right now because I’m not sure I want to commit to a daily message.<\/p>\n

    We’ll see.<\/p>\n

    For now I’m thinking it will be about 3 times a week.<\/p>\n

    We’ll see how that goes and what kind of feedback I get. If it’s good, maybe I’ll consider going to a 5 message a week plan like Ben.<\/p>\n

    Anyhoo… if all goes as planned… THANK YOU for saving me $800 a month on that shrink.<\/p>\n

    I owe you a lunch or something.<\/p>\n

    All the best,
    \n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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