{"id":10545,"date":"2016-01-26T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10545"},"modified":"2016-01-26T18:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T02:30:24","slug":"she-got-me-through-the-gloomy-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/she-got-me-through-the-gloomy-times\/","title":{"rendered":"She Got Me Through The Gloomy Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t help it, I must name drop:<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite tax-asset protection gurus (not a goo-roo), New York Times bestselling author (including being an author of one of Robert Kiyosaki\u2019s \u201cRich Dad\u201d advisors books), and who has been invited to the White House for round table discussions on business finance\u2026 Diane Kennedy (hi) writes on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I don&#8217;t want to miss an [Email Players] issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, go to http:\/\/www.emailplayers.com\/ and just sign up. He says it&#8217;s &#8220;very expensive&#8221; but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s like $99\/month or something like that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I used just a few of his techniques and increased my net monthly income by $4K per month. $99 to make $4k&#8230;pretty good.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if I ever told Diane this.<\/p>\n<p>But, she was one of my constant companions during the leanest, and most depressing times of my business career. I still have the audio cassette tape (yep, cassettes, pre-mp3\u2019s, and even CD\u2019s weren\u2019t as popular) of her and a few of her fellow brilliant business minds sitting around a table discussing how the rich invest their money.<\/p>\n<p>I found that info extremely inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>(And extremely profitable, it laid the foundation for how I run my business today.)<\/p>\n<p>It also kept elBenbo excited about my future during some pretty gloomy times.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it\u2019s satisfying to be able to give back a little.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it\u2019s just her making more sales via \u201cEmail Players\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which:<\/p>\n<p>Time\u2019s getting short to get the February issue.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not a ton of hard email training in it.<\/p>\n<p>But, everything inside can be applied to email (I do every day \u2014 this info is what makes me stick out in inboxes like a fart in a library).<\/p>\n<p>The deadline looms.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here in time while you can:<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t help it, I must name drop: One of my favorite tax-asset protection gurus (not a goo-roo), New York Times bestselling author (including being an author of one of Robert Kiyosaki\u2019s \u201cRich Dad\u201d advisors books), and who has been invited to the White House for round table discussions on business finance\u2026 Diane Kennedy (hi) [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-email-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - 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