{"id":10936,"date":"2016-07-11T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2016-07-11T06:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:30:54","slug":"inglorious-midwest-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/inglorious-midwest-bastards\/","title":{"rendered":"Inglorious Midwest Bastards"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m out of the Midwest. It was a good place to come from. It gives you a sense of right or wrong and fairness, which is lacking in our society.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2013 Steve McQueen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s discuss one of my favorite topics:<\/p>\n<p>Anti-professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnti-professional\u201d is a term I started using about 4 or 5 years ago to describe a certain kind of businessman who\u2019s like the old school cowboy on his horse going it alone, living by his own code of honor and following his own rules \u2014 the dude who doesn\u2019t try to impress the customers (or anyone else, for that matter), but always gets the sale.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it could be just a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>(Or, just blatant bias.)<\/p>\n<p>But, when traveling to my home town to see the family in Illinois last time, it dawned on me how many of my favorite anti-professionals have midwest \u201croots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gary Halbert<\/li>\n<li>Steve McQueen<\/li>\n<li>John Hughes (the filmmaker)<\/li>\n<li>Dan Kennedy<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Carson<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Barton<\/li>\n<li>Rush Limbaugh<\/li>\n<li>Marlon Brando<\/li>\n<li>Ted Nugent<\/li>\n<li>Sam Childers (the machine gun preacher)<\/li>\n<li>Hellz, even Captain Kirk\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, those are just a few of a very looooong list.<\/p>\n<p>And again, yes, I readily admit this is probably just bias.<\/p>\n<p>But, I will also say this:<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a huge difference between the West coast (where I\u2019ve lived the past 10 years) and Midwest (where I grew up) mentality. I noticed it even when I was home for a few days last time. I never liked living in the Midwest (and FAR prefer living on the ocean and away from all the congestion and strangling urban sprawl where I grew up), and only visit there when I have to&#8230; but, it&#8217;s as night &amp; day a difference as the weather between the two regions.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>Methinks those who\u2019ve lived in both areas know what I speaketh of.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019nuff said.<\/p>\n<p>On to business:<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEmail Players\u201d newsletter has been attracting some fine blokes over the past couple years. From \u201cA List\u201d direct mail copywriters\u2026 to old school Internet marketers who were doing 6 &amp; 7 figures online before many of us even had a computer\u2026 to \u201cgurus\u201d who even the rawest of newbies would recognize\u2026 and everyone in between.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason for that.<\/p>\n<p>To see what the fuss is about, go 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>\u201cI\u2019m out of the Midwest. It was a good place to come from. It gives you a sense of right or wrong and fairness, which is lacking in our society.\u201d \u2013 Steve McQueen Let\u2019s discuss one of my favorite topics: Anti-professionals. \u201cAnti-professional\u201d is a term I started using about 4 or 5 years ago to [&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-10936","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\/10936","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=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}