{"id":5400,"date":"2012-02-17T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2012-02-17T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:00:19","slug":"i-shot-the-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/i-shot-the-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"I Shot The Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reject the &#8220;guru&#8221; label.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever someone refers to me as a guru or whatever &#8212; I quickly correct them.<\/p>\n<p>I never have been one.<\/p>\n<p>And never will be one.<\/p>\n<p>Just ain&#8217;t my bag, baby.<\/p>\n<p>But, that&#8217;s not to say &#8220;Guru Ben&#8221; never existed.<\/p>\n<p>He did at one time (briefly).<\/p>\n<p>There actually was once a Guru Ben and a regular Ben.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, regular Ben (the person you hear from every day) shot Guru Ben a LONG time ago. So theres&#8217;s no chance of Guru Ben doing something dumb like selling information he&#8217;s never actually used&#8230; making BS claims that have no basis in reality&#8230; or trying to &#8220;sucker&#8221; people into buying with manipulation tricks and hokum.<\/p>\n<p>Regular Ben don&#8217;t play that.<\/p>\n<p>And regular Ben knew he and Guru Ben could never co-exist.<\/p>\n<p>Only ONE Ben can occupy the same space.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, only ONE Ben could survive.<\/p>\n<p>A Ben divided against itself CANNOT stand!<\/p>\n<p>And so Guru Ben had to go.<\/p>\n<p>Since then it&#8217;s just regular Ben &#8212; an ordinary guy who happens to kick ass at writing emails and sales letters, and who shares his methods in &#8220;Email Players&#8221; over at:<\/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>Anyway, so what&#8217;s the point?<\/p>\n<p>The big lesson here?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I&#8217;m not sure there is one.<\/p>\n<p>But have a great weekend all the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reject the &#8220;guru&#8221; label. Whenever someone refers to me as a guru or whatever &#8212; I quickly correct them. I never have been one. And never will be one. Just ain&#8217;t my bag, baby. But, that&#8217;s not to say &#8220;Guru Ben&#8221; never existed. He did at one time (briefly). There actually was once a [&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-5400","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\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}