{"id":2703,"date":"2009-12-10T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2009-12-10T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T15:40:14","slug":"its-a-profitable-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/its-a-profitable-life\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Profitable Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently got this question about selling on the Internet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>&#8220;Ben, I&#8217;m just not having any success selling online.  I&#8217;ve tried everything but no luck.  Any advice?<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really help you without more info.<\/p>\n<p>But usually people who ask this are <em>complicating<\/em> things.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, people who say they&#8217;ve &#8220;tried everything&#8221; are simply not taking marketing and sales to the <em>primal<\/em> level the great persuasion expert Bernard Baruch did when he said:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE WANT,<br \/>\nAND SHOW THEM HOW TO GET IT&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of like the movie &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George Bailey got himself in quite a mess, didn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>Old man Potter put him in a financial bind and he was facing scandal and jail and worse.  The dude was so scared and miserable he even considered suicide!<\/p>\n<p>But remember what happened?<\/p>\n<p>George got paid a visit by his guardian angel: Clarence.<\/p>\n<p>And while Clarence may not have been the &#8220;coolest&#8221; cat in heaven, he knew how to help George out by showing him what the world would be like had he never been born.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Clarence saved George&#8217;s bacon.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s all you have to do when you&#8217;re selling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You just gotta be like Clarence looking around for &#8220;George Bailey&#8217;s&#8221; to help.  Prospects who are <em>desperate<\/em> to end a problem your product solves.<\/p>\n<p>And once you find your George Baileys, go after &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>Show them you understand their problem and demonstrate how your product or service is the best way to solve it.<\/p>\n<p>Do that enough times and you can&#8217;t help but be successful.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t matter if you sell online, offline or on the sidelines, either.  In fact, when you get this, and I mean really &#8220;get&#8221; it, I think you&#8217;ll find sales and marketing easy.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe even &#8220;routine&#8221;, in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s it for today, my friend.<\/p>\n<p>See ya in the funny papers.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> I feel like plugging a product.<\/p>\n<p>One of my best selling products (that I hardly ever promote) is my <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.affiliatetrumpcard.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Affiliate Trump Card<\/a><\/strong> product.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more at:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.AffiliateTrumpCard.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.AffiliateTrumpCard.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently got this question about selling on the Internet: &#8220;Ben, I&#8217;m just not having any success selling online. I&#8217;ve tried everything but no luck. Any advice?&#8220; I can&#8217;t really help you without more info. But usually people who ask this are complicating things. In most cases, people who say they&#8217;ve &#8220;tried everything&#8221; are simply not [&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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}