{"id":12432,"date":"2017-10-02T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=12432"},"modified":"2017-10-02T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T13:30:01","slug":"persuasion-secrets-of-the-king-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/persuasion-secrets-of-the-king-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Persuasion Secrets Of The King Of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI am a monster and I&#8217;ve done bad. I&#8217;ve done things you can&#8217;t even imagine. Horrible, evil, messy things. And I&#8217;ve loved every damn minute!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014 Crowley<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> King of the Crossroads\/King of Hell<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u201cSupernatural\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve decided to make October:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cCrowley Month\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crowley being the King of Hell\/King of the Crossroads (the #1 crossroads demon salesman who sells people their greatest desires in exchange for collecting their souls in 10 years) from the hit TV show \u201cSupernatural\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019ll be talking about him a lot this month.<\/p>\n<p>And, he is easily one of my all-time favorite TV characters.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there are many business lessons he teaches.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Master salesmanship \u2014<\/strong> Drawing upon the same persuasion methodology used by the late Bernard Baruch (called \u201cThe Most Persuasive Man Of The 20th Century according to the great Gary Bencivenga) \u2014 Crowley finds out what people want, and shows them how to get it, and does it in such a way that he bypasses all reason, rationality, and, yes, even price resistance. (i.e. whatever they want in exchange for their souls)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Branding \u2014<\/strong> Crowley drinks his alcoholic beverage of choice out of a glass with an umbrella and a devil\u2019s pitchfork, and the number 666 and a devil emoticon pops up on the phones of people he calls.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ambition \u2014<\/strong> In the span of 300 years\u2026 from his mortal death to his soul burning in hell, to it being twisted into a demon, Crowley rose up through the ranks to be the top crossroads demon salesman (and king). Then, later, he seized the title of King of Hell as soon as the position opened. Considering there must be demons with hundreds, if not thousands, of years of more experience being a demon than him, that\u2019s no small feat\u2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diligence \u2014<\/strong> You could say he\u2019s also the King of Gary Halbert\u2019s \u201cOperation Moneysuck\u201d \u2014 as he does only the tasks only he can do, while delegating the rest to his minions and, in some cases (without them knowing) his enemies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Integrity \u2014<\/strong> His love of loopholes notwithstanding, Crowley is also the King of Consumer Confidence, making sure his crossroads demons hold up their bargains with mortals, and severely torturing those who don\u2019t. After all, if word got out that the crossroads demons were reneging on their deals, why would any humans even entertain the idea of doing business with them?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Loyalty \u2014<\/strong> Crowley is loyal to a fault to his joint venture business partners (and even his treacherous witch mother who tries to use, manipulate, and eventually kill him), even as their moronic incompetence and bad decisions put his own operations and machinations in peril.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visionary \u2014<\/strong> Crowley\u2019s first act as King of Hell was to upgrade hell \u2014 including turning it from a torture chamber to an endless waiting line souls never get to the front of for eternity. Although that later gets tossed to the side, the fact he was thinking that far outside the box is impressive, to say the least.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crowley has many more valuable business attributes.<\/p>\n<p>But, that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s without his flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Like, for example, he sometimes shows very little patience.<\/p>\n<p>Especially for a king.<\/p>\n<p>And, frankly, that\u2019s why it\u2019s such a pity our postal workers are such poosies they won\u2019t grant my request to deliver a signed copy of my \u201cPersuasion Secrets Of The World\u2019s Most Charismatic &amp; Influential Villains\u201d book to him in hell, in his throne room.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big lessons inside is about Patience.<\/p>\n<p>How it\u2019s more rare than gold and a million times more valuable.<\/p>\n<p>You, on the other hand, can read it, my little Minion.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it inexpensive, but it can be read in one sitting, and has gotten rave reviews not only on Amazon, but also from people like the Founding Father of Internet marketing as we know it \u2014 Ken McCarthy, who all pretty much say the same thing:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the book they wish someone had handed them in their yutes.<\/p>\n<p>One guy I know (who asked I don\u2019t reveal his name for obvious reasons, but many an Internet marketer knows him) told me it even helped him pick up a hot chick he\u2019d just met.<\/p>\n<p>He simply handed the book to her and said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI do everything this guy talks about in here\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Something like that, but that was the gist)<\/p>\n<p>Again, I\u2019ll be writing a lot more about Crowley this month.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, check out my Villains book here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\/villains\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com\/villains<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am a monster and I&#8217;ve done bad. I&#8217;ve done things you can&#8217;t even imagine. Horrible, evil, messy things. And I&#8217;ve loved every damn minute!\u201d \u2014 Crowley King of the Crossroads\/King of Hell \u201cSupernatural\u201d I\u2019ve decided to make October: \u201cCrowley Month\u201d Crowley being the King of Hell\/King of the Crossroads (the #1 crossroads demon salesman [&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-12432","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\/12432","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=12432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}