{"id":6986,"date":"2013-04-01T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2013-04-01T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T09:00:41","slug":"the-godfather-of-internet-marketing-speakeths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-godfather-of-internet-marketing-speakeths\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Godfather&#8221; Of Internet Marketing Speakeths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta a nice little goodie for you today:<\/p>\n<p>An interview I did with one of the &#8220;founding fathers&#8221; of Internet marketing &#8212; Ken McCarthy. Ken (if you don&#8217;t know him) was one of the small (VERY small) handful of people back in the early 1990&#8217;s who even foresaw the commercial potential of the Internet. In fact, you could fit the number of people who believed in it around a small table. (And no, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were not part of that group &#8212; despite their PR guys rewriting things, they&#8217;re actually on record as saying the Internet was just a flash in the pan&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Ken was also Dan Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;go-to&#8221; Internet guy.<\/p>\n<p>Has consistently been ahead of the guru curve for years.<\/p>\n<p>(A lot of gurus got started under Ken&#8217;s tutelage).<\/p>\n<p>And, his copywriting has gotten &#8220;fan mail&#8221; from guys like Gary Bencivenga (considered the world&#8217;s greatest living copywriter) and Marty Edelston (founder of Boardroom &#8212; $100+ million dollar info publishing empire).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, lots of valuable content on this call.<\/p>\n<p>And not just marketing\/copywriting, neither.<\/p>\n<p>But economic informaton, too.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Ken is (and I agree with him, which means he&#8217;s right&#8230;) a deflation guy.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, while everyone is crying out about hyperinflation, guys like Ken are betting their own money on the U.S. entering deflation (in certain ways) &#8212; and if you know what you&#8217;re doing, you can profit from it handsomely.<\/p>\n<p>So lots of good (controversial) stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And it was originally just for &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>But dang it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This info is just TOO important.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s freely available to all.<\/p>\n<p>(With nothing for sale, either &#8212; can you believe it?)<\/p>\n<p>OK, without further ado&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bensettle.com\/media\/Ken.McCarthy\/Ken_McCarthy.mp3\">Click Here To Listen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta a nice little goodie for you today: An interview I did with one of the &#8220;founding fathers&#8221; of Internet marketing &#8212; Ken McCarthy. 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