{"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. 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