{"id":11162,"date":"2016-09-06T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=11162"},"modified":"2016-09-06T06:30:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T13:30:03","slug":"how-to-keep-the-riff-raff-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-keep-the-riff-raff-out\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Keep The Riff-Raff Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I wrote to you about the anti-professional wine bar I like to frequent near my seaside beach town lair.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who does business on HIS terms.<\/p>\n<p>Has no problem kicking out would-be customers on a dime.<\/p>\n<p>And, even goes so far as to put \u201creserved\u201d signs on *all* his tables so that if someone he deems unqualified to dine or drink wine in his establishment enters, he tells them the tables are all full, and to scram.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I take a similar attitude for my private Facebook group.<\/p>\n<p>Once in a while a POS spammer gets in.<\/p>\n<p>But, lately, I\u2019ve been putting safeguards in to keep the number low.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I don\u2019t let in riff-raff like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anyone who is an obvious spammer\/scammer (i.e. photo of a slutty girl who just joined fb yesterday)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>No photo or a photo of some dorky object, cartoon, logo, yada yada yada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>They don\u2019t speaky English or have some weird name of bizarre characters<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>People I simply don\u2019t like (for any reason, or no reason at all)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Known trolls and agitators<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>People who have joined dozens of other groups and are just loiterers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>And the list goes on<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>So far, doing so has helped keep a lot of the riff-raff out of my valuable group. (Where I often share ideas, tips, strategies, ads, etc that you\u2019ll never see just being on my free email list or by reading my blog.)<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>You want in my free private Facebook group?<\/p>\n<p>And, you insist you aren&#8217;t riff-raff?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you\u2019re welcome to try.<\/p>\n<p>But, just know, there are reserved signs on all my tables just in case\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where it\u2019s at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elBenbo.com\"><strong>www.elBenbo.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I wrote to you about the anti-professional wine bar I like to frequent near my seaside beach town lair. The guy who does business on HIS terms. Has no problem kicking out would-be customers on a dime. And, even goes so far as to put \u201creserved\u201d signs on *all* his tables [&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-11162","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\/11162","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=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}