{"id":3626,"date":"2010-07-30T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2010-07-30T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T07:00:59","slug":"faq-for-the-uninitiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/faq-for-the-uninitiated\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ For The &#8220;Uninitiated&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s email doesn&#8217;t apply to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, most people can safely delete it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for the &#8220;uninitiated&#8221; only.<\/p>\n<p>And it is basically an unorthodox &#8220;FAQ&#8221; for the influx of newer subscribers I&#8217;ve gotten over the past few months, answering common questions I&#8217;ve already addressed in the past. Like, for example, why I don&#8217;t sell eBooks, which copywriting products I recommend, my opinion of NLP, do I ever have sales, which marketing gurus do I trust (and which ones do I avoid), and so on, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s no real &#8220;tip&#8221; today.<\/p>\n<p>Just links to prior emails that are now on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>And a way we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/3-reasons-not-to-sell-ebooks\">Why I don&#8217;t sell digital products<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/8-underrated-marketing-books\">Underrated marketing books I recommend<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-i-dont-usually-do-sales\/\">Why I don&#8217;t (usually) hold sales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/my-favorite-marketing-gurus\">Marketing gurus I like<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/marketing-gurus-i-avoid\/\">Marketing gurus I avoid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/top-10-copywriting-resources\/\">Top 10 copywriting courses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/symphony-of-slang\/\">My lexicon of terms and words<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-i-dont-do-affiliates\">Why I don&#8217;t (usually) sell products via affiliates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/movies-for-marketers-who-like-movies\/\">Movies I recommend for marketers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/top-10-swipe-file-ads\/\">Top 10 swipe file ads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/my-uncensored-opinion-of-nlp\/\">My uncensored opinion of NLP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/email-cage-match-full-emails-vs-teasers\">Why I send full emails instead of teasers to a blog<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/strong><\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s all for now.<\/p>\n<p>Have a GREAT weekend, my friend.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s email doesn&#8217;t apply to everyone. 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