{"id":10397,"date":"2015-11-26T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2015-11-26T06:30:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:30:08","slug":"grateful-to-drug-addicted-meth-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/grateful-to-drug-addicted-meth-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful To Drug Addicted Meth Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it\u2019s Thanksgiving here in ye Olde US.<\/p>\n<p>And, weird as it sounds, the people I\u2019m MOST grateful to this Holiday season are the POS drug addicted meth heads who robbed my place in Roseburg, OR (what I call &#8220;The Burgle&#8221; &#8212; how poetic!) the day before Labor Day, and stole well over $50k worth of precious metals and firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Why would I be grateful for those idiots?<\/p>\n<p>Because it motivated me into doing things I\u2019ve put off for years.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p>In the past 50 days alone your pal elBenbo has\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Finished my latest novel \u201cDemon Crossfire\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Moved back to the Oregon coast which I\u2019ve been procrastinating on for two solid years (since the day I moved inland to The Burgle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Got\u00a0a house across the street from the beach (a goal of mine for over two decades)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Built a whole new business via installing a product line (and writing all the ads for those products) into my podcast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Started a whole new wing of my business doing consulting<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Have spent more time with family than I have the past 10 years (been living in my dad\u2019s basement like an Internet marketing troll for last couple months, until I close on the new place in a few weeks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Created and wrote the sales letter for a copywriting product I\u2019ve been putting off for years teaching my \u201cslacker friendly\u201d way of writing ads that have pulled tens of millions of dollars<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Got invited to teach a webinar with one of my copywriting \u201cheroes\u201d: the great Clayton Makepeace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Got invited to teach email at the prestigious AWAI<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, a handful of other cool things, but you get the idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All that in the past 50 days.<\/p>\n<p>Not too shabby for someone who used to do the bare minimum writing an email per day and then screw off the rest of the time doing God-knows-what (I don&#8217;t even know, all that time wasted&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s the point:<\/p>\n<p>NONE of this would have been possible but for two things:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. The evil meth heads who broke into my house<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">2. The email methodology I have been honing for almost a decade now<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say\u2026 I\u2019m ultra grateful for both those things.<\/p>\n<p>(And that the meth heads didn&#8217;t hurt my dog during the break-in)<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not going to burgle your place, what I can do is teach you my email ways, so you can start achieving your goals at breakneck speed at will, too, and with a lot less effort than you might think.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where my \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter comes in.<\/p>\n<p>To see what the fuss is about go here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Here\u2019s a \u201ctaste\u201d of how my email methods change lives:<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscribers and my paid advertising guy Shane Hunter posted on Facebook that he used my system to make $300 in 3 minutes selling his consulting services, and then spent the rest of the day playing with the horses him and his wife train on their property. Then, a few minutes later he \u201cretracted\u201d his testimonial since he made a mistake. He had actually made double that \u2014 $600 in 3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as he put it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201conly $12,000 \/ hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where to subscribe:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it\u2019s Thanksgiving here in ye Olde US. And, weird as it sounds, the people I\u2019m MOST grateful to this Holiday season are the POS drug addicted meth heads who robbed my place in Roseburg, OR (what I call &#8220;The Burgle&#8221; &#8212; how poetic!) the day before Labor Day, and stole well over $50k worth [&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-10397","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\/10397","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=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}