{"id":12688,"date":"2018-01-13T08:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=12688"},"modified":"2018-01-13T08:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T16:06:49","slug":"elbenbos-feminist-friendly-business-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/elbenbos-feminist-friendly-business-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"elBenbo&#8217;s &#8220;Feminist-Friendly&#8221; Business Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cJanine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014 Dr. Peter Venkman<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u201cGhostbusters\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Recently, I was reading about a chick with some community college business course experience who is so fed up with the male patriarchy and capitalism running the business world, she decided to bewb-up and make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Her big idea?<\/p>\n<p>To start a feminist business school to fight masculine capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news story, she said it\u2019s much better to have businesses run on feminine traits \u2014 like mindfulness, gratitude, and generosity, to promote the \u201credistribution of money and power\u201d (exact quote) \u2014 than it is to have businesses run on masculine traits \u2014 like individualism, speed, and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion?<\/p>\n<p>I may be gender-biased.<\/p>\n<p>But, I think feminists would do better listening to their uncle elBenbo.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, here\u2019s my 100% \u201cfeminist-friendly\u201d 3-step business plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build an email list of people who have money to spend<\/li>\n<li>Mail it daily with offers they want to buy<\/li>\n<li>When they buy something, deliver it a timely and efficient manner, and then sell them something else<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, I\u2019ll admit:<\/p>\n<p>My ways are 100% based on capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>And, also, individuality, speed, and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>(Mindfulness, gratitude, and generosity don\u2019t exactly pay the bills in my experience.)<\/p>\n<p>So probably a non-starter for many feminists.<\/p>\n<p>For everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>Go here to learn my evil, toxic-patriarchal email copywriting ways:<\/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>\u201cJanine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.\u201d \u2014 Dr. Peter Venkman \u201cGhostbusters\u201d Recently, I was reading about a chick with some community college business course experience who is so fed up with the male patriarchy and capitalism running the business world, [&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-12688","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\/12688","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=12688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}