{"id":2536,"date":"2009-10-27T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2009-10-27T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:21:13","slug":"force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/","title":{"rendered":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about my favorite subject:<\/p>\n<p>Goo-roos!<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some&#8230; shall I say&#8230; <em>questionable<\/em> tactics for getting clients. <\/p>\n<p>I mean, this dude was in <em>love<\/em> with anything &#8220;black hat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions of smackeroos, and turn them into little marketing &#8220;gods&#8221; overnight.  Nor did he have any &#8220;hang-ups&#8221; accepting large sums of money from his clients, handing them a pile of crap and then acting offended when the clients objected to running his ad. <\/p>\n<p>Incredible, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Quite frankly, when I first heard about this guy, a picture of Darth Vader popped in my head doing that &#8220;force choke&#8221; thing on the clients who DARED question him, saying &#8212; <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;I find your lack of faith in my copywriting disturbing&#8230;&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, what&#8217;s the moral of the story?<\/p>\n<p>Be careful (VERY careful) of the black hat goo-roos.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve met a few of these cats before.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what I found out?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for some of these dudes to have a Mercedes in the driveway and no food in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Just something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Guess what?<\/p>\n<p>I FINALLY have a launch date for <strong>The Crackerjack Selling CD Club<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s next Tuesday (a week from today) on November 3rd. I&#8217;m also cooking up what I believe is an extremely valuable bonus lesson for anyone who buys on that day and who is on the special announcement list at: <\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.CrackerjackSelling.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.CrackerjackSelling.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more details in a day or so.<\/p>\n<p>But basically, it&#8217;s going to show you a way to prove your claims when selling (in person, online, whatever) that works BETTER than any other proof method I&#8217;ve ever used.  (Far more powerful than testimonials, demonstration or any of the other &#8220;usual suspect&#8221; proof elements.)<\/p>\n<p>It works so well that some people have told me they bought from ads I&#8217;ve written just because of seeing this in my pitches, and without even reading all the benefits, or bullets or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty groovy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some&#8230; shall I say&#8230; questionable tactics for getting clients. 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