{"id":4940,"date":"2014-11-01T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=4940"},"modified":"2014-11-01T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:30:25","slug":"why-nobody-likes-you-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-nobody-likes-you-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Nobody Likes You No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before, I&#8217;ll say it again:<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in the &#8220;age of the skeptic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter how great your advertising is, how polished your websites look or how &#8220;killer&#8221; your product\/offer is. In fact, even if you&#8217;re honest as the day is long, they see your great offer and they&#8217;re like the guy in the old adage who smells flowers and immediately starts looking around for the coffin!<\/p>\n<p>They just don&#8217;t trust you.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, boss, that&#8217;s just how it is.<\/p>\n<p>And who can blame them?<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years your customer has been conned, lied to or in some way hurt by everyone she&#8217;s trusted &#8212; bankers, mortgage brokers, investment advisors, teachers, politicians and, yes, goo-roos selling them with &#8220;killer&#8221; advertising.<\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your customers no longer have access to &#8220;easy money.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Which means they&#8217;re FAR more protective of the money the DO have, and aren&#8217;t just going to buy because you have a cool headline and a &#8220;killer&#8221; offer.<\/p>\n<p>What else do you want me to say?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bleak out there.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also a HUGE opportunity if you know how to sell to the skeptic.<\/p>\n<p>The hyper buyers (who buy anything) are a very small part of most markets compared to the skeptics (which can be as many as 2-5 times bigger).<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s &#8220;Ben Settle Show&#8221; reveals how to sell to them.<\/p>\n<p>How to make outrageous (but true) claims without sounding like a con artist.<\/p>\n<p>And, how to leave your hypey competitors in the dust.<\/p>\n<p>So keep an eye out for the link tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, download past shows here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/itunes\"><strong>www.BenSettleShow.com\/itunes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before, I&#8217;ll say it again: We&#8217;re in the &#8220;age of the skeptic.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t matter how great your advertising is, how polished your websites look or how &#8220;killer&#8221; your product\/offer is. In fact, even if you&#8217;re honest as the day is long, they see your great offer and they&#8217;re like the guy [&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":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","category-sales-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","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=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}