{"id":3806,"date":"2010-09-30T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2010-09-30T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:00:59","slug":"big-steamy-pile-of-goo-roo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/big-steamy-pile-of-goo-roo\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Steamy Pile Of Goo-roo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I did a special coaching training.<\/p>\n<p>It was for a friend of my brother&#8217;s who&#8217;s new to Internet marketing, wanted some guidance, and so I figured it&#8217;d be fun to record the call and let other people hear the advice I gave him.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the MP3 up yet.  <\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s one thing from the call I can share now.<\/p>\n<p>And that is about ye olde goo-roos.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, he wanted to know WHO to believe?<\/p>\n<p>Which ones are full of you-know-what?<\/p>\n<p>And did I have any advice on the matter?<\/p>\n<p>My answer:<\/p>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re ALL full of crap until proven otherwise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And lest you think I&#8217;m &#8220;goo-roo bashing&#8221; or whatever, let me add that while I am NOT a goo-roo (or a guru) and never will be one (I reject the dorky label altogether), I include holding me and anyone else who sells &#8220;how to&#8221; info to the same standard.<\/p>\n<p>Watch ALL of us like hawks.<\/p>\n<p>And this is especially true of anyone making crazy <em>income<\/em> claims.<\/p>\n<p>Fact is there&#8217;s a lot of lying going on.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of exaggerations, too.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, one IM goo-roo who claims to make millions of smackeroos per year wanted to hire me to write an ad, but then said they could not afford my copywriting fee. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, trust nobody until they&#8217;ve EARNED it.<\/p>\n<p>And assume we&#8217;re all guilty until proven innocent.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it pays to be a little paranoid.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as Daniel Levis once told me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Only the paranoid survive&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;ll add, <em>thrive<\/em>, too.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Alrighty, I am sending the October <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.CryptoMarketing.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Crypto Marketing Newsletter<\/a><\/strong> issue to the printer tomorrow.  So if you want it (it&#8217;s all about how to get clients) there&#8217;s no time to lose. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where to get your Crypto Marketing on:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.CryptoMarketing.com\">www.CryptoMarketing.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I did a special coaching training. It was for a friend of my brother&#8217;s who&#8217;s new to Internet marketing, wanted some guidance, and so I figured it&#8217;d be fun to record the call and let other people hear the advice I gave him. I don&#8217;t have the MP3 up yet. But there&#8217;s [&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":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","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=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}