{"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. His teachings state that \u2018[this person] in [this book] once said you should do this only that way and also.. my mum&#8217; says I am greatest\u2019 He goes by the name of elBimbo.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>I likey.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly does explain the copycats passing my work off as theirs.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some internal foes inside my psyche:<\/p>\n<p>There is also <strong>elBannedbo<\/strong> &#8212; which happened to me on Facebook ads.<\/p>\n<p>And <strong>elBurnedbo<\/strong> who has gotten himself into bad deals and relationships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>elBrokebo<\/strong> who was the chief personality of my biz for too many years.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, <strong>elBendoverbo<\/strong> \u2014 who used to give away all his ideas free to would-be clients and customers, only to find the majority of those clients and customers hiring or buying from someone who knew how to sell.<\/p>\n<p>(Something you won\u2019t ever have to do when you learn my wicked email ways\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019re babbling about names:<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>elBabblebo<\/strong>?)<\/p>\n<p>Tellman Knudson taught me a way to profit from all these alter egos I still have not had a chance to implement. 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. 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. His teachings state that \u2018[this person] in [this book] once said you [&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-10914","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\/10914","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=10914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}