{"id":10654,"date":"2016-03-09T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2016-03-09T06:30:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:30:21","slug":"bad-freebie-seekers-get-spanked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/bad-freebie-seekers-get-spanked\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Freebie Seekers Get Spanked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago a few people had some delivery issues with the \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter. And, so I went into the facebook group for customers and said to tell me if theirs hadn\u2019t shown yet.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I said to send me their address.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out only a few people had delivery problems after all.<\/p>\n<p>But, one blue light special who is not a paid subscriber sent me his address thinking he\u2019d get a free issue. I bet if you were to open the dictionary and look up the definition of low class jackass, you\u2019d see a picture of this guy.<\/p>\n<p>Does he think elBenbo doesn\u2019t check these things?<\/p>\n<p>The low class jackass types are nothing if not amusingly predictable.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, over the years I\u2019ve become like the eye of Sauron \u2014 with my gaze fixed on all the silly little things freebie seekers like him do that keeps them from making it anywhere in business. Even if I had been asleep at the switch and blindly sent the issue to him, he wouldn\u2019t have benefited from it. He sure as hellz wouldn\u2019t have valued it. And, he never would have profited from it.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because the information isn\u2019t meant for him or people like him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s for doers.<\/p>\n<p>Movers and shakers.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, action takers.<\/p>\n<p>For everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase John Adams:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cIt is wholly inadequate for any other\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More info 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple months ago a few people had some delivery issues with the \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter. And, so I went into the facebook group for customers and said to tell me if theirs hadn\u2019t shown yet. Specifically, I said to send me their address. Turns out only a few people had delivery problems after all. [&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":{"0":"post-10654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","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=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}