{"id":3357,"date":"2010-05-21T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3357"},"modified":"2010-05-21T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:00:20","slug":"a-nightmare-on-main-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/a-nightmare-on-main-street\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nightmare On Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever see &#8220;A Nightmare on Elm Street?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen the new one yet.<\/p>\n<p>But the original basically went like this:<\/p>\n<p>A child murderer (Freddy Krueger) is burned to death by all the neighborhood parents, and then comes back to finish his evil by murdering those parents&#8217; teenaged kids in their dreams.  And so, to avoid being killed in their dreams, they desperately try staying awake lest they fall asleep and get scragged by Freddy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what?<\/p>\n<p>We kinda-sorta got this in &#8220;real life&#8221;, too.<\/p>\n<p>You see, lots of people today (specifically the people referred to by the media talking heads as <strong>&#8220;Main Street&#8221;<\/strong>) have their own &#8220;Freddy Kruegers&#8221; attacking them and keeping them awake at night, almost <em>paralyzed<\/em> with fear and frustration.  Like bill collectors, bankers, politicians, &#8220;trigger-happy&#8221; tax collectors, bureaucrats, back-stabbing co-workers, bullying bosses, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in many cases, nobody really cares about them.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody&#8217;s in their &#8220;corner&#8221;, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p><strong>That opens a HUGE opportunity for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because when you genuinely <em>care<\/em> about your customers (and demonstrate it) YOU automatically become that person in their corner.<\/p>\n<p>The one they trust.<\/p>\n<p>And the ONLY choice to BUY from.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take much, either.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, it&#8217;s just asking a few questions.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, The Nerd Girl just went through this. <\/p>\n<p>She was having trouble getting our QuickBooks software to sync up with our bank account, and went through one idiot after another on both the QuickBooks and bank side.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody &#8212; not even &#8220;supervisors&#8221; &#8212; were any help.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody seemed to care, either.<\/p>\n<p>They just went through the motions &#8212; constantly shunting her over to someone else who knew even LESS than the last person.  Until finally (hours later), a low ranking bank teller solved the problem by asking The Nerd Girl a few questions and getting the bank&#8217;s IT guy on it.<\/p>\n<p>Problem solved. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to forget people like that bank teller &#8212; people who take the time to listen and help.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s the same with <em>you<\/em>, too.<\/p>\n<p>Give good service and show you care.  <\/p>\n<p>And when it&#8217;s time to buy&#8230; you&#8217;ll be remembered, too.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the easiest way to sell ever invented.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> For dozens more easy ways to sell, and that make you the ONLY one to buy from, check out:<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever see &#8220;A Nightmare on Elm Street?&#8221; I haven&#8217;t seen the new one yet. But the original basically went like this: A child murderer (Freddy Krueger) is burned to death by all the neighborhood parents, and then comes back to finish his evil by murdering those parents&#8217; teenaged kids in their dreams. 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