{"id":10351,"date":"2015-12-13T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10351"},"modified":"2015-12-13T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:30:09","slug":"the-not-really-a-church-of-elbenbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-not-really-a-church-of-elbenbo\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Not Really A) Church Of elBenbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago someone on Flakebook asked their friends what podcasts they listen to and why.<\/p>\n<p>I am not friends with this particular bloke.<\/p>\n<p>But, one of my podcast listeners tagged me in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>(A cool thing for him to do, I might add.)<\/p>\n<p>So I click over there to see what\u2019s going on\u2026 and right under the comment recommending my show some chick goes (paraphrased) \u201cI tried listening to Ben\u2019s podcast but all he did was talk about Jesus and the Bible\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Something like that, you get the gist.)<\/p>\n<p>Which is kind of amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Especially since, there have only been but two shows (out almost 100) where I pulled business lessons from the Bible (each of which has put many a shiny sheckel into elBenbo\u2019s money bag). And, both couldn\u2019t have been more clear that those episodes weren\u2019t church, I couldn\u2019t care less what you believe, and there was no evangelizing going on.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, why do I bring this up?<\/p>\n<p>Because today I\u2019m doing something similar:<\/p>\n<p>Pulling profitable business lessons out of the book of Luke.<\/p>\n<p>But, not just any ol\u2019 business lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Extremely profitable lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Including one lesson that, if you *only* learned this one lesson about persuasion and selling, you would be able to make a lot of sales even if you struggle with selling now.<\/p>\n<p>These lessons work for anyone:<\/p>\n<p>Christian, pagan, and fire-breathing atheist alike.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re like the law of gravity:<\/p>\n<p>They \u201cwork\u201d whether you believe in them or not.<\/p>\n<p>And, these same lessons have been used for thousands of years in all kind of sales and persuasion situations. Thus, it\u2019d be foolish to not use them just because I teach them from (gasp! oh no!!!) the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>All right.<\/p>\n<p>Enough.<\/p>\n<p>You can download this bad-boy here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago someone on Flakebook asked their friends what podcasts they listen to and why. I am not friends with this particular bloke. But, one of my podcast listeners tagged me in the comments. (A cool thing for him to do, I might add.) So I click over there to see what\u2019s going on\u2026 [&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-10351","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\/10351","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=10351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}