{"id":13718,"date":"2019-06-28T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13718"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:10:16","slug":"how-to-foil-expose-loser-content-thieves-and-copycat-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-foil-expose-loser-content-thieves-and-copycat-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to foil &#038; expose loser content thieves and copycat hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True story:<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, the late, great comicbook creator Stan Lee noticed when he started signing off his Stan\u2019s Soapbox articles with things like \u2018nuff said and some of his other clever little endings\u2026 the idiots at DC Comics and other comicbook companies started doing the same thing, making everything look derivative.<\/p>\n<p>i.e. fans who saw other companies do it, probably thought Stan was copying them.<\/p>\n<p>Stan\u2019s solution?<\/p>\n<p>He started using the word \u201cExcelsior!\u201d which nobody copied.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if they did, they were so insignificant \u2014 even for copycats, who are inherently insignificant anyway \u2014 nobody knew.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, why am I regaling you with this tale?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is simple:<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing that\u2019ll piss you off once you start knocking out lots of content \u2014 especially using the ways I reveal in the July \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue \u2014 it\u2019s the incessant copycatting nature of the internet and marketing world.<\/p>\n<p>It not only is stealing your ideas and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>But, it also waters things down for you to new people who see it going on.<\/p>\n<p>But, there is a secret content-protection secret based on an old, mostly-obscure Superman villain that not only foils these idiot content thieves and copycats\u2026 but exposes them as the hacks they are. Plus, it also lets you tap into something the late, great copywriter Gene Schwartz did in his mailings that can make your content inherently more profitable, too.<\/p>\n<p>I talk about this in detail on pages 5 &amp; 6 in the July \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>The entire issue is about how to quickly &amp; painlessly create profitable content like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emails<\/li>\n<li>Social media posts<\/li>\n<li>Books (non-fiction or fiction)<\/li>\n<li>Courses<\/li>\n<li>Videos<\/li>\n<li>Podcasts<\/li>\n<li>Articles\/blog posts<\/li>\n<li>Newsletters<\/li>\n<li>Membership site content<\/li>\n<li>Premiums &amp; bonuses<\/li>\n<li>And any other kind of content you might sell or sell with<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But that rascally old deadline is almost upon you.<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe in time to get it, go here immediately:<\/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>True story: Once upon a time, the late, great comicbook creator Stan Lee noticed when he started signing off his Stan\u2019s Soapbox articles with things like \u2018nuff said and some of his other clever little endings\u2026 the idiots at DC Comics and other comicbook companies started doing the same thing, making everything look derivative. i.e. [&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":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","category-email-marketing","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"True story: Once upon a time, the late, great comicbook creator Stan Lee noticed when he started signing off his Stan\u2019s Soapbox articles with things like \u2018nuff said and some of his other clever little endings\u2026 the idiots at DC Comics and other comicbook companies started doing the same thing, making everything look derivative. i.e.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ben Settle\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-foil-expose-loser-content-thieves-and-copycat-hacks\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.8\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ben Settle -\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to foil &amp; 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