{"id":4817,"date":"2011-08-31T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2011-08-31T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T13:00:04","slug":"whining-about-information-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/whining-about-information-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Whining About &#8220;Information Overload&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people complain about &#8220;info overload.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And really, I don&#8217;t have much patience for it.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; sales letter &#8212; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; makes it abundantly clear that people who buy <em>everything<\/em> and never actually USE the info (and just whine like mules about &#8220;info overload&#8221;) are not welcome.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, they&#8217;re buying into a myth.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean?<\/p>\n<p>Well, people who actively build their business don&#8217;t get info overload. If you&#8217;re implementing info that&#8217;s making you money then chances are you&#8217;re not overloaded with info&#8230; you&#8217;re <strong>UNDERloaded<\/strong> with it. It&#8217;s like pay-per-click&#8230; when you get an ad that makes a profit you don&#8217;t complain about spending too much, if anything you complain because you can&#8217;t spend more!<\/p>\n<p>And so it is with good information.<\/p>\n<p>If you use it, it can make you money.<\/p>\n<p>If it sits on a shelf, it won&#8217;t make jack.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s easy to tell who&#8217;s serious and who&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Serious people WELCOME good info.<\/p>\n<p>Non-serious people complain about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to understand people like that.<\/p>\n<p>But there it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> The first &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter goes to the printer tomorrow. If you want in before it ships, subscribe today while there&#8217;s still time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s PACKED with info, if that&#8217;s a problem, don&#8217;t bother&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people complain about &#8220;info overload.&#8221; And really, I don&#8217;t have much patience for it. This is why the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; sales letter &#8212; www.EmailPlayers.com &#8212; makes it abundantly clear that people who buy everything and never actually USE the info (and just whine like mules about &#8220;info overload&#8221;) are not welcome. 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