{"id":7935,"date":"2013-12-30T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=7935"},"modified":"2013-12-30T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T14:00:30","slug":"does-this-rag-smell-like-chloroform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/does-this-rag-smell-like-chloroform\/","title":{"rendered":"Does This Rag Smell Like Chloroform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I got an earful from an angry customer.<\/p>\n<p>No, not one of my customers.<\/p>\n<p>Some goo-roo&#8217;s customer.<\/p>\n<p>And she was saying how she bought a product that was supposed to help with SEO (something like that) but was outdated info, didn&#8217;t have a prayer of working and she wanted her money back which she assumed she would get.<\/p>\n<p>But alas, it wasn&#8217;t so.<\/p>\n<p>For one, she had to jump through a lot of hoops.<\/p>\n<p>Then, ended up talking to half a dozen people who kept shunting her to another person and then another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And after all that, she still hasn&#8217;t gotten her money back.<\/p>\n<p>But, here&#8217;s the thing:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">She KNEW she shouldn&#8217;t have bought in the first place<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The seller had a bad reputation. 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And, she had even known someone else who had gotten burned by the exact same seller.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s loco.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, she&#8217;s reading this, but needs the tough love&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, it&#8217;s like some guy in a ski mask hopping out of the back of a windowless van with a rag in his hand, asking her &#8220;does this rag smell like chloroform?&#8221; and her agreeing to smell it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the point?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like comedian Dante Nero says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;When you feel a tingle in your nuts chances are you&#8217;re going to get kicked in the balls &#8220;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True &#8216;dat.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>especially<\/em> true buying online.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk about something else:<\/p>\n<p>The January &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue goes to the printer Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s inside:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>An email (word for word) that made a small fortune for the subscriber who sent it to me (and how you can &#8220;model&#8221; it for your own products)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When daily emails work AGAINST you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to use email to nab sales from crappy Clickbank traffic<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to use a 100-year old classified ad to make even your most outrageous claims 100% believable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gary Halbert&#8217;s &#8220;ignore proof&#8221; subject line template<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to &#8220;trick&#8221; clients into writing 80% of your emails for you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>And a ho&#8217; bunch mo&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get your New Year issue lovin&#8217; 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>Recently I got an earful from an angry customer. 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