{"id":112,"date":"2008-04-21T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/sociopathic-list-pimp\/"},"modified":"2008-04-21T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T01:22:15","slug":"sociopathic-list-pimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/sociopathic-list-pimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociopathic List Pimp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago, a man accused me of “pimping” my list.<\/p>\n

He said I was turning into a “vicious, soulless, profit-mongering pimp robot” because I started selling other peoples’ products as an affiliate<\/a><\/strong> — and not purely giving away endless amounts of valuable free content or, at the very least, only selling my own products.<\/p>\n

Now, personally, I think the guy’s crazy.<\/p>\n

But still… I’m curious what you think about this.<\/p>\n

Was this dude on to something?<\/p>\n

When I offer you products, do you feel like I’m “pimping” you just for a fast sale?<\/p>\n

Or… maybe you think I don’t make enough offers?<\/p>\n

I’ve actually been accused of both<\/em> (can’t please everyone).<\/p>\n

If you’re willing, I’d really appreciate hearing what you think about this (especially if you think I AM being a list pimp<\/strong>) in the comments section below…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not long ago, a man accused me of “pimping” my list. He said I was turning into a “vicious, soulless, profit-mongering pimp robot” because I started selling other peoples’ products as an affiliate — and not purely giving away endless amounts of valuable free content or, at the very least, only selling my own products. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","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=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}