{"id":10843,"date":"2016-05-17T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2016-05-17T06:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:30:50","slug":"how-to-get-lots-of-gold-card-testimonials-without-asking-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-get-lots-of-gold-card-testimonials-without-asking-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Lots Of &#8220;Gold Card&#8221; Testimonials Without Asking For Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I was interviewed for AWAI\u2019s magazine.<\/p>\n<p>And, one of their questions was about testimonials.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, they said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe testimonials on your website blow most testimonials out of the water. They\u2019re specific, unique, and from really big names in the direct response writing world. How did you get them? Did you ask for feedback? Were they volunteered?\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought this was an excellent question.<\/p>\n<p>People often buy just because of a testimonial from someone they know or recognize.<\/p>\n<p>And, even though I don\u2019t use testimonials on my sales letters all the time (due to the confusing FTC rules on the matter) I do still use them in other ways, like on my blog\u2019s testimonial page which I just recently updated with a bunch more. And, even then, I didn\u2019t put *all* of them up yet.<\/p>\n<p>(It is getting to seem like overkill.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all of which begs the question:<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to know how to get a lot of testimonials?<\/p>\n<p>And, would you like to get them without having to ask for them?<\/p>\n<p>Then check ye out the upcoming June \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>It includes a bonus training where I show you a secret way I have been using for years to not only get lots of testimonials\u2026 but, get what \u201cfor real\u201d publicity guru Paul Hartunian calls \u201cgold card\u201d testimonials (i.e. celebrity-types \u2014 in my niche guys like Gary Bencivenga, Brian Kurtz, Russell Brunson, etc)\u2026 and almost always without formally requesting anyone send me a testimonial like some kind of beggar.<\/p>\n<p>Best part?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ridiculously simple.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I doubt too many people do it.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not legendary rockstar ninja enough of a tactic, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>But, it works.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you use it, I bet it can work just as easily for you, too.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where to subscribe in time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I was interviewed for AWAI\u2019s magazine. And, one of their questions was about testimonials. Specifically, they said: \u201cThe testimonials on your website blow most testimonials out of the water. They\u2019re specific, unique, and from really big names in the direct response writing world. How did you get them? Did you ask [&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-10843","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\/10843","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=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}