{"id":10914,"date":"2016-06-16T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10914"},"modified":"2016-06-16T06:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:30:58","slug":"elbendoverbo-and-his-not-so-amazing-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/elbendoverbo-and-his-not-so-amazing-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"elBendoverbo And His Not-So-Amazing Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Edgar Rutkis says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cNot sure if you&#8217;ve used this term anywhere. I read about that person who thinks you NEED to keep your podcast free. elBenbo should introduce his arch enemy. A nemesis. He cries about the unconventional marketing ways of elBenbo. 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I was tempted to use it in *this* email but didn&#8217;t want to steal his thunder (plus, it takes a few tweaks in the auto-responder and I am not that motivated to do it today &#8212; so sayteth <strong>elBumbo<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>But, worry ye not:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to be interviewing him sometime in the upcoming months for \u201cEmail Players\u201d subscribers about it. It\u2019s pure genius. And, when I heard him reveal this at an event we both spoke at in April, I was floored.<\/p>\n<p>But, that\u2019s sometime down the line.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, check out \u201cEmail Players\u201d here:<\/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>Reader Edgar Rutkis says: \u201cNot sure if you&#8217;ve used this term anywhere. 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