{"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. I mean, this dude was in love with anything &#8220;black hat.&#8221; And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions [&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":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Let&#039;s talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything &quot;black hat.&quot; And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions\" \/>\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\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.9\" \/>\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=\"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let&#039;s talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything &quot;black hat.&quot; And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-10-27T15:21:13+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-10-27T15:21:13+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Let&#039;s talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything &quot;black hat.&quot; And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BlogPosting\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#blogposting\",\"name\":\"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle\",\"headline\":\"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\"},\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#webpage\"},\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#webpage\"},\"articleSection\":\"Copywriting, Marketing\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#breadcrumblist\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog#listItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"Copywriting\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Copywriting\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/\",\"nextItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo\"},\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog#listItem\",\"name\":\"Home\"}},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#listItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo\",\"previousItem\":{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/category\\\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\\\/#listItem\",\"name\":\"Copywriting\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Ben Settle\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ben Settle\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#authorImage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5b41e5a7b56ff3ef2863efb96b60feb917a13ead5504ea75e8cd43c818d75f7a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"width\":96,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"Ben Settle\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/\",\"name\":\"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle\",\"description\":\"Let's talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything \\\"black hat.\\\" And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\\\/#breadcrumblist\"},\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\"},\"creator\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/ben-settle\\\/#author\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ben Settle\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bensettle.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"}}]}\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO -->\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle","description":"Let's talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything \"black hat.\" And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions","canonical_url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/","robots":"max-image-preview:large","keywords":"","webmasterTools":{"miscellaneous":""},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#blogposting","name":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle","headline":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author"},"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#organization"},"datePublished":"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00","dateModified":"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00","inLanguage":"en-US","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#webpage"},"articleSection":"Copywriting, Marketing"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog#listItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/#listItem","name":"Copywriting"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/#listItem","position":2,"name":"Copywriting","item":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/","nextItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#listItem","name":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo"},"previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog#listItem","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#listItem","position":3,"name":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo","previousItem":{"@type":"ListItem","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/#listItem","name":"Copywriting"}}]},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Ben Settle","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/","name":"Ben Settle","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#authorImage","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5b41e5a7b56ff3ef2863efb96b60feb917a13ead5504ea75e8cd43c818d75f7a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","width":96,"height":96,"caption":"Ben Settle"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/","name":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle","description":"Let's talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything \"black hat.\" And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions","inLanguage":"en-US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#website"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/#breadcrumblist"},"author":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author"},"creator":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/author\/ben-settle\/#author"},"datePublished":"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00","dateModified":"2009-10-27T08:21:13+00:00"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/","name":"Ben Settle","inLanguage":"en-US","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/#organization"}}]},"og:locale":"en_US","og:site_name":"Ben Settle -","og:type":"article","og:title":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle","og:description":"Let's talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything &quot;black hat.&quot; And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions","og:url":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/","article:published_time":"2009-10-27T15:21:13+00:00","article:modified_time":"2009-10-27T15:21:13+00:00","twitter:card":"summary_large_image","twitter:title":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo - Ben Settle","twitter:description":"Let's talk about my favorite subject: Goo-roos! Once upon a time I knew a copywriting goo-roo who used some... shall I say... questionable tactics for getting clients. I mean, this dude was in love with anything &quot;black hat.&quot; And he had no problem telling clients his copy would solve all their problems, make them gazillions"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"2536","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":null,"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"default","og_image_url":null,"og_image_width":null,"og_image_height":null,"og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":null,"og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":null,"robots_max_videopreview":null,"robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":null,"local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":null,"created":"2023-09-10 11:54:28","updated":"2025-06-24 21:26:34","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/\" title=\"Copywriting\">Copywriting<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tForce Choked By Darth Goo-roo\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog"},{"label":"Copywriting","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/category\/copywriting-and-sales-letters\/"},{"label":"Force Choked By Darth Goo-roo","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/force-choked-by-darth-goo-roo\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","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=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}