{"id":3778,"date":"2010-09-22T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2010-09-22T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T07:00:25","slug":"business-people-who-dont-make-no-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/business-people-who-dont-make-no-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Business People Who Don&#8217;t Make No Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just don&#8217;t make no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Especially in the <em>business<\/em> world.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the longer I&#8217;m in business, and deal with other business people (and hear from other business people) the more &#8220;don&#8217;t make no sense&#8221; things I see and hear.<\/p>\n<p>Take the following, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>1.   People who claim they can show me how to make $10k per <em>month<\/em>, but don&#8217;t make $10 per <em>hour<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.   Goo-roos selling traffic courses with nothing but JV&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.   Testing small dinky changes and never big changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4.   People who excessively swipe other ads and then complain when someone swipes them<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.   Building a twitter following instead of an email list<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6.   Social media experts who whine when people don&#8217;t follow or friend them back<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.   Newbies paying to learn from <em>other<\/em> newbies <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8.   Entrepreneurs thinking politicians can save their business<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.   Procrastinating on doing a task because the task will take a long time to accomplish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10. Only sending out emails when you have something to promote (talk about leaving money on the table&#8230;)<\/ul>\n<p>There are probably 100 other things to tack onto this list.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I&#8217;d just belabor the point and waste time.<\/p>\n<p>And that wouldn&#8217;t make no <em>sense<\/em> either.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> The October <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.CryptoMarketing.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Crypto Marketing Newsletter<\/a><\/strong> issue goes to print soon.  It&#8217;s about finding clients (for any business) and contains all kinds of proven sales tips you can apply to any kind of selling (offline, online, products, services, etc).<\/p>\n<p>Plus, you also get 12 valuable bonuses, too.<\/p>\n<p>Details over yonder at:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.CryptoMarketing.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.CryptoMarketing.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just don&#8217;t make no sense. Especially in the business world. In fact, the longer I&#8217;m in business, and deal with other business people (and hear from other business people) the more &#8220;don&#8217;t make no sense&#8221; things I see and hear. Take the following, for example: 1. 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