{"id":2854,"date":"2010-01-11T00:09:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:09:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:09:55","slug":"why-so-much-marketing-goes-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-so-much-marketing-goes-to-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why So Much Marketing Goes To The Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a domestic battle raging at Casa de Settle.<\/p>\n<p>A battle that, believe it or not, holds the key to one of the most <em>reliable<\/em> and <em>powerful<\/em> selling &#8220;secrets&#8221; you can ever possess.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the scoop:<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes Tanna and I have a little &#8220;tiff&#8221; about when our dog Zoe has to go, er, &#8220;number 2.&#8221;  Due to Zoe clawing for her attention all day, Tanna often gets tricked <strong>(Zoe is VERY good at tricks)<\/strong> into thinking the dog has to go when she doesn&#8217;t. And thus, every few hours she takes Zoe out, paces her around for 15 to 20 minutes, only to come back mission un-accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Not so when I take Zoe out.<\/p>\n<p>When I take her, she often goes right away (within minutes).<\/p>\n<p>Is it because I&#8217;m a good trainer?  <\/p>\n<p>Do I know some secret trick to get her to go faster?  <\/p>\n<p>Am I some kind of &#8220;dog whisperer&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>No, no and nope (not even close).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simply a matter of <strong>TIMING<\/strong>, mi amigo.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Tanna tends to take Zoe out when SHE thinks she has to go. But because I&#8217;m unrepentantly <em>lazy<\/em>&#8230; I just wait for Zoe to come tell me when she has to go. <\/p>\n<p>Usually, I get the deed done within a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And you want to know something?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marketing is the same way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can do it the HARD way and <em>guess<\/em> what people want to buy, when they want to buy it, and how they prefer to have it). Or you can do it the EASY way &#8212; and let them <em>tell<\/em> you.<\/p>\n<p>Obvious?<\/p>\n<p>No &#8220;duh&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s so obvious just about every single marketer I&#8217;ve ever met (including myself) has made this mistake not just once&#8230; but <em>multiple<\/em> times.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, never hurts to hear it again, does it?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s all I got for today.<\/p>\n<p>For more easy and painless selling strategies, zip over to:<\/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>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a domestic battle raging at Casa de Settle. A battle that, believe it or not, holds the key to one of the most reliable and powerful selling &#8220;secrets&#8221; you can ever possess. Here&#8217;s the scoop: Sometimes Tanna and I have a little &#8220;tiff&#8221; about when our dog Zoe has to go, er, &#8220;number 2.&#8221; [&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-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}