{"id":6051,"date":"2013-06-10T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6051"},"modified":"2013-06-10T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:00:25","slug":"did-she-just-call-me-a-simp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/did-she-just-call-me-a-simp\/","title":{"rendered":"Did She Just Call Me A SIMP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love UrbanDictionary.com.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people wince at it and think it&#8217;s uncivilized or whatever, but I kinda dig it. It&#8217;s got lots of edgy terms with great plays on words\/letters that are awesome for emails. <\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite terms on there is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;SIMP&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is guy who&#8217;s really a sissy, but acts like a pimp.<\/p>\n<p>In other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll talk about how he&#8217;s the man, doesn&#8217;t care about his girl, is a stud, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But, in reality, he kisses her bootay.<\/p>\n<p>Worships her.<\/p>\n<p>And, is basically whipped.<\/p>\n<p>We got some online SIMPS, too. I speaketh of people who act like they&#8217;re super experienced and know what they&#8217;re talking about with emails, sales letters, marketing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But really, they&#8217;re just amateurs.<\/p>\n<p>With no real experience.<\/p>\n<p>No real successes.<\/p>\n<p>And, no real reason to be teaching anything.<\/p>\n<p>Someone recently tested me to see if I&#8217;m just a SIMP online. She made the comment that, yeah, selling &#8220;how to make money&#8221; stuff (like email training, for example) is easier than other products. But what else outside this niche have I been successful selling?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame people for asking this.<\/p>\n<p>I think more people should.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is hellz yeah I have.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve successfully sold products for weight loss, prostate problems, golf, self defense, fitness, health supplements, dog training, dressing for style, and a bunch more. (Frankly, I&#8217;ve lost track).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also argue golf and weight loss are much easier sells, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Those two markets are as rabid as Cujo.<\/p>\n<p>So there ya have it.<\/p>\n<p>I may be a lot of things &#8212; good &amp; bad.<\/p>\n<p>But I ain&#8217;t no SIMP.<\/p>\n<p>And I prove it in &#8220;Email Players&#8221; each month.<\/p>\n<p>Get the scoop at:<\/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>Word up.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love UrbanDictionary.com. A lot of people wince at it and think it&#8217;s uncivilized or whatever, but I kinda dig it. It&#8217;s got lots of edgy terms with great plays on words\/letters that are awesome for emails. One of my favorite terms on there is: &#8220;SIMP&#8221; This is guy who&#8217;s really a sissy, but acts [&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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051","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=6051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}