{"id":10168,"date":"2019-09-20T06:45:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2019-09-20T06:45:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:45:56","slug":"nlp-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/nlp-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"NLP Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A self described \u201cNLP guy\u201d once made elBenbo an offer he could easily refuse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWhat I&#8217;d like to propose to you is a case study that can be very beneficial to both of us. Teach me your stuff, show me how to develop a saleable package, and how to market it with email and use my success in your own marketing as proof of your pudding. \ud83d\ude42 I think you can easily see how this could be a boon for you and myself, can you not?\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not really, Chuckles.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, was that last question NLP he was running on me?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m always amused at offers like this from various ex-spurts.<\/p>\n<p>I remember waaaaay back when I first published \u201cEmail Players\u201d this guy subscribed and cancelled, wrote a lame review about it (admitting he never implemented a single thing he learned) then made me an offer where I would \u201cget\u201d to write a bunch of his emails, and if they made more money than his current emails, he\u2019d pay me a percentage of the increase in sales.<\/p>\n<p>Mighty generous of him!<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the point:<\/p>\n<p>I often get asked for critiques and to review emails from paying \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscribers, which I don&#8217;t do either of. There are both logistical and practical reasons why &#8211; plus, I hate doing critiques anyway, and 99% of the time people don&#8217;t have a &#8220;copy&#8221; problem, but an offer or list problem that can&#8217;t be solved by a copy critique anyway. Whatever the case, those paid Email Players of the Horde members are my priority. And yet, if I won\u2019t even give their copy so much as a cursory glance&#8230; what makes these special little internet snowflakes think I\u2019m going to write copy for them or teach them something free?<\/p>\n<p>It takes a lot more than NLP, I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>OK, enough of this clacking, on to the business.<\/p>\n<p>To get your hands on my non-NLP ways, go here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self described \u201cNLP guy\u201d once made elBenbo an offer he could easily refuse: \u201cWhat I&#8217;d like to propose to you is a case study that can be very beneficial to both of us. Teach me your stuff, show me how to develop a saleable package, and how to market it with email and use [&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":[9,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing","7":"category-inner-game","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","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=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}