{"id":7125,"date":"2013-04-29T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2013-04-29T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:00:40","slug":"build-your-business-on-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/build-your-business-on-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Build Your Business On HATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On that webinar last week with Brian Mcleod and David Garfinkel I taught something I have never talked about publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Something I&#8217;ve thought long and hard about.<\/p>\n<p>And, in some ways, is the foundation of my email system.<\/p>\n<p>And that is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re NOT defined by the people who love and support you.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re defined by those who HATE and ATTACK you.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite example of this is Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Just mentioning His NAME pisses people off.<\/p>\n<p>(If you don&#8217;t believe me, write an email about Jesus. All the &#8220;tolerant&#8221; little mush cookies will start telling you how offended they are. But write an email about Buddha or Zeus or being &#8220;spiritual&#8221; and you won&#8217;t hear a peep.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to my droog Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>(Oh I can FEEL the seethers bristling at His name&#8230; oh yeah!)<\/p>\n<p>His &#8220;brand&#8221; is now 2000 years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And His ministry was in some ways defined by His HATERS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wicked money changers screwing people out of their money in the temple of God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The scribes who&#8217;s religious &amp; political power He threatened.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The demons who were terrified of Him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The people who mocked him when He was being crucified. (I mean, really, an innocent guy is being dragged through the streets with his guts *literally* hanging out, and you&#8217;re gonna mock the guy? Give him vinegar to drink? Nutzo.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And, of course, the devil!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bid&#8217;niz is the same way.<\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re doing it right when you outsell the conmen.<\/p>\n<p>When you anger the scammers.<\/p>\n<p>And, when you expose the shenanigans going on all around you people blindly fall for just because their favorite goo-roo does it.<\/p>\n<p>So let the bad guys hate on you.<\/p>\n<p>Means you&#8217;re doing it right.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, using my email system could eventually get the &#8220;scribes&#8221; and money-changers (in your niche) yapping and squawking at you, too.<\/p>\n<p>If that happens?<\/p>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<p>Means you&#8217;re helping your market.<\/p>\n<p>Doing people a real service.<\/p>\n<p>And, making a profit to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where to subscribe to &#8220;Email Players&#8221;:<\/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>On that webinar last week with Brian Mcleod and David Garfinkel I taught something I have never talked about publicly. Something I&#8217;ve thought long and hard about. And, in some ways, is the foundation of my email system. And that is&#8230; You&#8217;re NOT defined by the people who love and support you. You&#8217;re defined by [&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":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing","7":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","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=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}