{"id":3003,"date":"2010-02-10T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2010-02-10T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:00:06","slug":"the-goo-roo-tricks-just-keep-on-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-goo-roo-tricks-just-keep-on-comin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goo-roo Tricks Just Keep On Comin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have known.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s email about the lame goo-roo tricks prompted some more from my eagle-eyed subscribers that I&#8217;d now like to share with everyone.  <\/p>\n<p>Check &#8217;em out:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lying about scarcity. (i.e. &#8220;I only have 9&#8230; make that 5 spots left and they&#8217;re going fast!&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not unsubscribing people from lists when they try to <em>leave<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bogus pricing schemes where they can&#8217;t guarantee the price will (for example) stay at $997 and may HAVE to go up to $5,000 or whatever. (They don&#8217;t control the pricing of their products?  Who wears the pants in their business?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saying (in every. single. offer) &#8220;But wait &#8212; there&#8217;s more!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Claiming people can make money with their magic goo-roo system without doing a lick of work. (Unless they&#8217;re selling an info product on how to nab a government jobby-job, of course.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over use of the word &#8220;buddy&#8221; or the prospect&#8217;s name in emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using the ol&#8217; &#8220;Ooops, I made a mistake&#8230;&#8221; email when there was no mistake and they just wanted a gimmick for following up (lack of real sales skills and substance must make that one <em>especially<\/em> appealing).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hey, I just thought of something.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should opt-in to all the goo-roos lists?  <\/p>\n<p>What better way to find out what <strong>NOT<\/strong> to do than by watching these yahoos systematically use the same, tired old phrases, tricks and schemes?<\/p>\n<p>On second thought&#8230; maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>After all, I may not be able to unsubscribe later.<\/p>\n<p>Dang.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to see how the &#8220;for real&#8221; sales and marketing masters get the job done (without tricks or scheming), zip on 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<p><strong>P.S<\/strong>. Hat tip to Jason, Andrea, Marya and Paul for sending the above examples in, very amusing stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have known. Yesterday&#8217;s email about the lame goo-roo tricks prompted some more from my eagle-eyed subscribers that I&#8217;d now like to share with everyone. Check &#8217;em out: Lying about scarcity. (i.e. &#8220;I only have 9&#8230; make that 5 spots left and they&#8217;re going fast!&#8221;) Not unsubscribing people from lists when they try to [&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-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","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=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}