{"id":7913,"date":"2014-12-08T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:30:15","slug":"grandma-got-run-over-by-a-goo-roo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/grandma-got-run-over-by-a-goo-roo\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma Got Run Over By A Goo-roo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard my 2nd favorite Christmas song last night.<\/p>\n<p>My #1 favorite is the Grinch song.<\/p>\n<p>But this 2nd favorite song I heard is &#8220;Grandma Got Run Over By A\u00a0Reindeer.&#8221; And while listening to it, something occurred to me\u00a0about grandmas and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I mean:<\/p>\n<p>I lost my grandma a couple years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But, weird as it sounds, she helps me create my products.<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you listen to certain goo-roos out there, you may be\u00a0tempted to think the best way to generate income on the Internet is\u00a0by slapping some crappy product together and then &#8220;throwing&#8221; it up\u00a0&#8212; whether it&#8217;s any good or not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no goo-roo, but methinks there&#8217;s a better way.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s good to create products fast.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also good to use the &#8220;grandma test&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>If the product I&#8217;m selling isn&#8217;t good enough where I&#8217;d want my own\u00a0grandma (assuming she had the problem my product solves) to have\u00a0it, then it&#8217;s not good enough to sell to the public, either.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, maybe that sounds lame.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;ll keep you out of a lot of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>And you want to know something else?<\/p>\n<p>This simple test can serve you very well not only for making happy\u00a0customers&#8230; but also for making happy customers that look forward\u00a0to buying your NEXT product.<\/p>\n<p>In other words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They like you FIRST product.<\/p>\n<p>And that trust carries the sale of your NEXT one.<\/p>\n<p>Easy selling.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, more training 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>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard my 2nd favorite Christmas song last night. My #1 favorite is the Grinch song. But this 2nd favorite song I heard is &#8220;Grandma Got Run Over By A\u00a0Reindeer.&#8221; And while listening to it, something occurred to me\u00a0about grandmas and marketing. Here&#8217;s what I mean: I lost my grandma a couple years ago. But, weird [&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-7913","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\/7913","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=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}