{"id":7233,"date":"2014-05-19T05:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2014-05-19T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:30:26","slug":"anti-professional-tendencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/anti-professional-tendencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-professional Tendencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niiiice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the wagging tongues of the BenSettle.com list were excited by Friday&#8217;s &#8220;anti-professional&#8221; email. And the question that kept coming in was &#8220;Ben show me some examples besides you of other anti-professionals&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My wish is your command:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soup Nazi (from &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony Stark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>David Ogilvy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Ditka<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Savage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gary Halbert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Jobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The guy who rakes in $30 million per year selling wine using JUST\u00a0email whose methods I analyzed in an &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue last\u00a0year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All are\/were anti-professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least possess(d) anti-professional tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a word of warning:<\/p>\n<p>I am NOT suggesting everyone be this way.<\/p>\n<p>One big reason why is, most (I&#8217;d guesstimate 97% of online marketers) are not &#8220;wired&#8221; for it. They&#8217;re simply way too in need of approval and afraid they might (gasp!) offend others. Nor do they have a long term vision or mind of their own (i.e. the swipe and copycat culture of cheapness online).<\/p>\n<p>And, thus, will just come off as fake.<\/p>\n<p>Phony.<\/p>\n<p>And, kinda desperate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not &#8220;in&#8221; them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the main reasons I try to repel such people from even wanting to subscribe to &#8220;Email Players&#8221; &#8212; it will do them zero good long term.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really a letter for anti-professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, professionals can (and do) benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>And no, UNprofessionals won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>(They&#8217;re always wanting to trick and manipulate people into buying, which is the exact opposite of what I teach).<\/p>\n<p>But really, it&#8217;s for anti-professionals.<\/p>\n<p>For everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>They should pass.<\/p>\n<p>And, go with more conventional training.<\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s plenty out there.)<\/p>\n<p>More info here:<\/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>Niiiice&#8230; Looks like the wagging tongues of the BenSettle.com list were excited by Friday&#8217;s &#8220;anti-professional&#8221; email. And the question that kept coming in was &#8220;Ben show me some examples besides you of other anti-professionals&#8221; My wish is your command: Soup Nazi (from &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221;) Tony Stark David Ogilvy Mike Ditka Michael Savage Gary Halbert Steve Jobs [&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-7233","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\/7233","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=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}