{"id":5052,"date":"2011-11-16T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2011-11-16T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:00:13","slug":"your-sale-is-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/your-sale-is-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your Sale Is The Devil&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once got in a fight over sales.<\/p>\n<p>No, not a FIST fight.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is, I was debating a person who was saying having special discount sales wasn&#8217;t very fair to people who had bought the product at full price, and that there was something unethical about it.<\/p>\n<p>Like I told him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He is simply wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;, for example.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s supposedly the biggest shopping day of the year here in the US (the day after Thanksgiving). You can get HUGE deals on just about anything &#8212; clothes, gadgets, big screen TV&#8217;s, bicycles, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite the shin-dig.<\/p>\n<p>But nobody ever gets mad at the deals, do they?<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t ever see &#8220;Occupy Walmart&#8221; protests with people pooping on the assistant manager&#8217;s car in RAGE at having special deals.<\/p>\n<p>My point?<\/p>\n<p>People buy when they&#8217;re <em>ready<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or when it&#8217;s most <em>convenient<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or, simply because <em>circumstances<\/em> dictate NOW is the time, even if they know a big sale is coming tomorrow. (Not everyone&#8217;s a price shopper&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>So sales can be mucho powerful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;re not the devil.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re just smart business.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>Next month&#8217;s &#8220;Email Players&#8221; newsletter is ALL about how to do a kick gluteus assimus sale (or product launch, I use the same method for both) that brings in the dough quickly and in bigger numbers than you&#8217;ve probably ever seen before.<\/p>\n<p>A bold claim?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, the proof&#8217;s in the jello.<\/p>\n<p>People I show this to make out like bandits.<\/p>\n<p>If you want in on this info, 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>I once got in a fight over sales. No, not a FIST fight. 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