{"id":55,"date":"2012-08-10T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-08-10T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T13:00:45","slug":"allergic-to-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/allergic-to-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Valuable Free Advice Money Can Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar (NOT his real name) writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I was hoping to receive more tips and free advice. I don&#8217;t want to buy anything. I just want to learn from what&#8217;s available on the net for free. If I want to pay for anything, I&#8217;ll sign up for a course at my community college to learn about copywriting.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But, not all that uncommon.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people online have this kind of &#8220;allergy&#8221; to selling.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, how can anyone possibly hope to sell their own products or services&#8230; if they shriek like scared little girls when someone sends them a sales pitch?<\/p>\n<p>How can someone be a good <em>seller<\/em> if they&#8217;re not a good <em>buyer<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Answer is you can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>At least, not long term.<\/p>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p>How else are you going to know how it feels to stare at an order form, credit card in hand, hearing those two voices in your head &#8212; one telling you to buy, the other telling you to put it off until &#8220;later&#8221;? Seems to me unless you experience that feeling yourself (and often), you won&#8217;t know how to silence the &#8220;procrastinator&#8221; voice and magnify the &#8220;buyer&#8221; voice in your prospect&#8217;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>I kinda feel sorry for Oscar, though.<\/p>\n<p>(Don&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n<p>So, Oscar, here&#8217;s some FREE advice for you, amigo:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quit being such a pussy and READ the sales pitches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ALL of them &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Good, bad or fugly.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, you might learn something.<\/p>\n<p>Heck &#8212; you may even want to BUY something.<\/p>\n<p>And when that happens, make sure you keep that ad and dissect it line by line. Figure out exactly what it did to sell you&#8230; and then start using it in YOUR ads.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be one of the best educations you get.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, unlike the community college&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t cost ya a dime.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, who knows?<\/p>\n<p>One day you may even graduate to this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar (NOT his real name) writes: &#8220;I was hoping to receive more tips and free advice. I don&#8217;t want to buy anything. I just want to learn from what&#8217;s available on the net for free. If I want to pay for anything, I&#8217;ll sign up for a course at my community college to learn about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-55","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\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}