{"id":4924,"date":"2011-10-05T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2011-10-05T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T13:00:39","slug":"goo-roo-evangelists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/goo-roo-evangelists\/","title":{"rendered":"Goo-roo Evangelists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s my theory.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure it holds water.<\/p>\n<p>So if you see some &#8220;holes&#8221; in my theory, feel free to treat it like a George Lucas movie and ignore the plot holes and just enjoy the show. Anyway, so I was talking to my pal Jim Yaghi about why people will go around and promote really bad and complicated products for goo-roos even when they don&#8217;t get a commission.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s practically an epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Mayhaps you&#8217;ve seen it?<\/p>\n<p>Some goo-roo comes out with a shiny new object product, the gullible (predictably) snatch it up and start telling everyone how great it is&#8230; even though the product sucks, and even though the goo-roo &#8220;evangelist&#8221; knows it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why would they do that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Especially when it hurts said goo-roo evangelist&#8217;s rep?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my theory:<\/p>\n<p>Misery loves company, right?<\/p>\n<p>So the goo-roo evangelist bought a bad product and spent a TON of money on it. Now in order to justify his purchase and not feel like a fool, he warps everything around in his tired, confused brain (Google &#8220;cognitive dissonance&#8221; for more on this) to make it sound like the best thing since sliced watermelon.<\/p>\n<p>He then goes forth and tells everyone about it.<\/p>\n<p>Raves about it on forums.<\/p>\n<p>And sells it HARDER than the product author does!<\/p>\n<p>This happens a lot in MLM.<\/p>\n<p>People get into a bad deal, drop a lot of money, and then feel compelled to get other people in so they won&#8217;t be alone in their misery.<\/p>\n<p>Jinkies!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s my theory.<\/p>\n<p>Take it for what it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>(About 100 &#8220;bytes&#8221; of info).<\/p>\n<p>For something far more valuable, go to:<\/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>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s my theory. Not sure it holds water. So if you see some &#8220;holes&#8221; in my theory, feel free to treat it like a George Lucas movie and ignore the plot holes and just enjoy the show. Anyway, so I was talking to my pal Jim Yaghi about why people will go around and [&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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}