{"id":2370,"date":"2009-09-14T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2009-09-14T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:02:06","slug":"beware-cobweb-hotel-marketing-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/beware-cobweb-hotel-marketing-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Cobweb Hotel Marketing Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Spend a night at the Cobweb Hotel,
\nyou’ll find that the service is swell.
\nNow you needn’t be shy, I won’t harm a fly,
\nspend a night at the Cobweb Hotel.”<\/div>\n

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The above is from a 1936 cartoon called “The Cobweb Hotel.”<\/p>\n

I doubt if 1 in 10,000 people have heard of it.<\/p>\n

But it’s kind of a helpful resource if you’re tempted to buy the latest goo-roo-of-the-week’s “killer” mega-expensive marketing course.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I mean:<\/p>\n

Back when I worked for “the man” duplicating videos, we had a client that sold these old, vintage cartoons rarely ever seen on TV anymore. <\/p>\n

One of these cartoons was “The Cobweb Hotel.”<\/p>\n

It was about newly-wed flies who go to stay at a makeshift “hotel” run by a hungry spider.<\/p>\n

He was one sharp cookie, too.<\/p>\n

This devious spider did everything from disguising his true “form” to putting a sign outside the hotel that said “For Flies Only” (nice target marketing) to giving exceptionally good customer service.<\/p>\n

And his “customers” never knew what hit them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As soon as these flies laid down in their comfy little beds (made of sticky spider webs<\/em>), they were instantly stuck and at the blood-thirsty spider’s mercy.<\/p>\n

It’s a lot like today’s Internet marketing shenanigans. <\/p>\n

You know of what I speaketh, yeah?<\/p>\n

The people constantly peddling “must have” how-to-make-big-bux-on-the-Internet products by putting on a great show (using all the sexy marketing tricks) and then — WHAM! — whacking peoples’ credit cards in exchange for a high priced box of junk<\/em> filled with information just slightly different than their LAST product.<\/p>\n

My point?<\/p>\n

There are LOTS of “Cobweb Hotels” online.<\/p>\n

Especially in the “how to make muney online” niches.<\/p>\n

Before getting seduced by the latest marketing rock star’s song and dance, make sure you’re not dealing with just another two-bit spider<\/em> herding flies into his web.<\/p>\n

I mean, let’s face it:<\/p>\n

Time is short and we’re in some spooky economic times.<\/p>\n

And while I don’t have a crystal ball, I suspect the smart marketers will make out like bandits in the coming months, while everyone else suffers the same fate as the Cobweb Hotel flies:<\/p>\n

Scared, vulnerable and screaming for help.<\/p>\n

Ben Settle<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> For 101+ ways to avoid being a trapped little fly, check out:<\/p>\n

www.CrackerjackSelling.com<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Spend a night at the Cobweb Hotel, you’ll find that the service is swell. Now you needn’t be shy, I won’t harm a fly, spend a night at the Cobweb Hotel.” The above is from a 1936 cartoon called “The Cobweb Hotel.” I doubt if 1 in 10,000 people have heard of it. But it’s […]<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t