{"id":4229,"date":"2011-03-30T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2011-03-30T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:00:43","slug":"crazy-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/crazy-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do much consulting these days.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have a little <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/services\" rel=\"noopener\">blurb on my site for consulting<\/a><\/strong> but I rarely do it (and turn down probably 9 out of 10 requests, even when they have money in hand).  Some people have even offered to fly me to their location and do all day consults with them.<\/p>\n<p>Those requests are always <em>denied<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Am I crazy?<\/p>\n<p>No&#8230; I&#8217;m just too pressed for time. <\/p>\n<p>I know that sounds strange, but I routinely have something like 5 or 6 different writing projects going on at all times (including 2 of my own sites, an ongoing JV, and a client who has me on retainer), and just don&#8217;t have the time. <\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what?<\/p>\n<p>I could use a break.<\/p>\n<p>A little change of routine to recharge my batteries.<\/p>\n<p>So next week, I&#8217;m shelving a few of my writing projects, and doing consults for those interested.  Plus, as a &#8220;hat tip&#8221; to the would-be consulting clients I&#8217;ve shot down, I&#8217;ll do them at 50% off.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal:<\/p>\n<p><strong>For next week <em>only<\/em>, I&#8217;m doing 60 minute consults for $250.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one solid hour, each.<\/p>\n<p>And they can be about anything I&#8217;m qualified to discuss &#8212; emails, marketing, copywriting, publicity (offline), article marketing, Internet marketing, audio marketing, affiliate marketing, positioning, selling, product creation, book marketing, launching your products&#8230; and anything else I&#8217;m qualified to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>We can discuss your emails.<\/p>\n<p>We can discuss your ads.<\/p>\n<p>We can discuss your product.<\/p>\n<p>We can rap about launching your product.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all up to you and again, as long as I&#8217;m qualified to discuss it (i.e. anything I have written about in these emails over the years or that you&#8217;ve observed and wonder how you can do it, too) we can.<\/p>\n<p>And, next week, it&#8217;s 50% off my normal rate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But, there is one small &#8220;catch.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have no clue how many people are interested in this.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe nobody is.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe dozens of people are.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m &#8220;capping&#8221; the number of people to 5 (just one person per day next week, and next week ONLY &#8212; if you can&#8217;t do this next week then you&#8217;re out of luck).  <\/p>\n<p>So if you want in, email me immediately.<\/p>\n<p>As for the details&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Just send me a brief (one paragraph or less) description of your business &#8212; who you are, what your URL is, what you sell, and what kind of questions you have. If I can help you, I&#8217;ll give you payment instructions (all payments are due up front) and we&#8217;ll set a time.<\/p>\n<p>Also, one more thing:<\/p>\n<p>There are some businesses I cannot help.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s your case, I&#8217;ll let you know upfront. <\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> For ongoing &#8220;virtual&#8221; coaching (via my print newsletter) for just 90 cents per day, check out The Crypto Marketing Newsletter at:<\/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>I don&#8217;t do much consulting these days. Yes, I have a little blurb on my site for consulting but I rarely do it (and turn down probably 9 out of 10 requests, even when they have money in hand). 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