{"id":13895,"date":"2019-09-28T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=13895"},"modified":"2019-09-28T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:55:21","slug":"elbenbo-gets-trolled-by-g-r-r-martins-doppelganger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/elbenbo-gets-trolled-by-g-r-r-martins-doppelganger\/","title":{"rendered":"elBenbo gets trolled by G R.R. Martin\u2019s doppelg\u00e4nger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time I got trolled on YouTube by a secret guru who resembles the author of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;. And, I like to pretend one of the reasons God put him on this wonderful earth is just for me, to profit from.<\/p>\n<p>I say this, because within just a few days of trolling me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He got over 30 \u201cthumbs downs\u201d &#8211; and maybe one pity thumbs up &#8211; on a video he created \u201cshredding\u201d me<\/li>\n<li>Several of my current customers bought more of my products that weekend as a direct result (I know this, because some of them took pleasure in letting me know)<\/li>\n<li>Podcast interview requests from people who wanted to make fun of the secret troll rolled in<\/li>\n<li>Some of the people who watched the video became new Email Players subscribers<\/li>\n<li>I made a lot of sales from an email I wrote about it soon after<\/li>\n<li>He got high fives from some other secret gurus on Facebook \u2014 which resulted in lurkers who watched them on facebook that night joining my list<\/li>\n<li>I am still making sales from it to this day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, it was so profitable, I kept trying to keep that fire burning.<\/p>\n<p>My woman even said she felt like a \u201c3rd wheel\u201d at the time to this mighty secret guru. And, as I told one of my customers not long after:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Trolls must be encouraged, lest they lose heart&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s why I bring it up:<\/p>\n<p>Profiting from trolls is the easiest thing in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And with the secret guru \u2014 people who are constantly rejected and reviled and believe \u201cif ONLY!\u201d people saw how great they are, they\u2019d be respected and listened to \u2014 variety of troll, it helps to know their traits so you can spot, entrap, and profit from them.<\/p>\n<p>Something I talk at length about on page 15 onward in the coming October \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the link to subscribe while you still can:<\/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>Once upon a time I got trolled on YouTube by a secret guru who resembles the author of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;. And, I like to pretend one of the reasons God put him on this wonderful earth is just for me, to profit from. I say this, because within just a few days of trolling [&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":[6,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-inner-game"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13895","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=13895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}