{"id":18389,"date":"2025-11-20T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=18389"},"modified":"2025-11-20T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:59:02","slug":"everyones-a-celebrity-but-nobodys-got-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/everyones-a-celebrity-but-nobodys-got-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s a celebrity but nobody\u2019s got talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So wrote a Hollywood producer about the state of the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>And I not-so-humbly add to that list:<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone&#8217;s got a brand but nobody&#8217;s got a business.<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s a critic but nobody wants criticism<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone has game but nobody\u2019s in a relationship<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone has a course but nobody knows how to teach<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s got a book but nobody\u2019s got readers<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone&#8217;s efficient but nobody&#8217;s effective<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s got AI but nobody\u2019s thinking<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s a philosopher but nobody\u2019s got a philosophy<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone&#8217;s a &#8220;founder&#8221; but nobody&#8217;s found success<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone wants to lead but nobody wants to serve<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone has an audience but nobody\u2019s performing<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s talks about storytelling but nobody has a story<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s got Google but nobody knows how to search<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s a marketer but nobody understands marketing<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone has a platform but nobody says anything<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s online but nobody\u2019s connected<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone wants money but nobody wants to pay<\/p>\n<p>* Everyone\u2019s a writer but nobody wants to write<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion:<\/p>\n<p>If all, some, or any of the above apply to you, then realize this is part &amp; parcel of living in a time where everyone\u2019s got knowledge, but nobody\u2019s got wisdom. Everyone\u2019s got skill but nobody\u2019s got craftsmanship. And, yes, everyone\u2019s got an opinion but nobody\u2019s got a solution..<\/p>\n<p>All right I think I\u2019ve pontificated enough about that.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, there is something else I want to teach here.<\/p>\n<p>Currently I have ownership in 4 businesses:<\/p>\n<p>(1) My print book &amp; newsletter business of course<\/p>\n<p>(2) A software company selling our BerserkerMail ESP &amp; Learnistic mobile app technology<\/p>\n<p>(3) A \u201chybrid\u201d software\/coaching company for businesses about selling options trading education with a stock scanner\/tracking\/courses\/community<\/p>\n<p>(4) A print newspaper which is an anomaly in and of itself these days, and I admittedly don&#8217;t put much time into yet, though that\u2019ll change as the next round of elections ramps up<\/p>\n<p>I also write, publish, market, and sell my own fiction\/novels, too.<\/p>\n<p>I bring all this up because of this important detail:<\/p>\n<p>And what I write about in my paid Email Players newsletter is ultimately based on the experiences of building\/growing\/sustaining\/exploiting the craziness amongst the businesses mentioned above, and is essentially how I do that prepping and also profiting from it. And the info I have prepared in 2026 especially in Email Players, is amongst the most important &amp; timely info I have to share.<\/p>\n<p>Info not learned from \u201cbooks and courses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And certainly not from any mastermind\/seminar\/coach\/consultant.<\/p>\n<p>But from 24 years of raw experience &amp; pain, setbacks &amp; triumphs, discoveries &amp; accidents, good timing &amp; bad timing, and clawing my way out of the pits of despair when it looked like nothing was happening or worth continuing and it was all going to hell.<\/p>\n<p>At the risk of sounding like some idiotic fapGPT-prompted analogy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cEmail Players is not just knowledge it\u2019s wisdom!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, August 2026 will mark the 15th year of Email Players.<\/p>\n<p>A print newsletter like mine, especially at its price (which would cost FAR more if I&#8217;d kept up with inflation) simply does not last that long if it&#8217;s not delivering far MORE than what is promised, or if it merely regurgitates someone else, or if it does not legitimately change businesses over time for the better.<\/p>\n<p>I keep hearing about even long-running subscriptions\/memberships closing down in this space.<\/p>\n<p>But mine is still going strong, and there are reasons for that.<\/p>\n<p>More info here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\">www.BenSettle.com\/alt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So wrote a Hollywood producer about the state of the entertainment industry. 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