{"id":6097,"date":"2012-07-23T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2012-07-23T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:00:18","slug":"fugly-time-trolls-on-your-email-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/fugly-time-trolls-on-your-email-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Fugly &#8220;Time Trolls&#8221; On Your Email List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got trolls afoot.<\/p>\n<p>Big, fugly trolls.<\/p>\n<p>Trolls who have absolutely nothing better to do with their time than join lists and complain about anything and everything.<\/p>\n<p>You think I&#8217;m joking?<\/p>\n<p>Check out this blue flame special:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Hi Ben as you know I receive many emails from you offering the products and services you sell and I must tell you I take everyone of them very seriously but then the thought occurred to me why couldn&#8217;t I ask the same of you after all we are both in this business and are always on the look out for new opportunities (or at least should be). So I think it is only fair that you give my opportunity the same attention I give yours, so I am asking you to take a few minutes of your precious time and have a look at [LINK REMOVED] your response positive or negative would be appreciated, if you prefer to ignore this then regrettably I must opt out of my subscription with you, since there is only a one sided interest in building a future relationship.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To paraphrase my boy Tallahassee from &#8220;Zombieland&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal, dude&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not easy to get along with and I&#8217;m sensing you&#8217;re a bit of a bitch.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve already taken the time out of my busy schedule to unsubscribe you.<\/p>\n<p>(You&#8217;re welcome!)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where these trolls come from.<\/p>\n<p>But I do know this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I wouldn&#8217;t give guys like this one second of my time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And neither should you.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people have a scarcity mentality where they think they need everyone and anyone on their lists.<\/p>\n<p>That they should kiss everyone&#8217;s bootay.<\/p>\n<p>And that they should reply to every email.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a recipe for failure.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t be all things to all people.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I don&#8217;t answer questions except for &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscribers &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; where asking me questions via email is one of the perks of subscribing.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have time.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do I have the time to join 5k+ lists, either.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, your time is valuable.<\/p>\n<p>But if you give it up for free, what&#8217;s it worth?<\/p>\n<p>Something to think about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got trolls afoot. Big, fugly trolls. Trolls who have absolutely nothing better to do with their time than join lists and complain about anything and everything. You think I&#8217;m joking? Check out this blue flame special: &#8220;Hi Ben as you know I receive many emails from you offering the products and services you sell [&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-6097","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\/6097","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=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}