{"id":8586,"date":"2015-05-15T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2015-05-15T06:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T13:30:04","slug":"how-to-profit-from-social-media-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-to-profit-from-social-media-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Profit From Social Media Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my humble (but accurate) opinion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of the big problems for entrepreneurs haunting social media\u00a0sites (as well as forums, blog comments, etc) is wasting time\u00a0countering accusations, passive-aggressive attacks, and cheap shots\u00a0the trolls who have nothing better to do like to make on people.<\/p>\n<p>I see it on flakebook all the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Entire THREADS of mindless debate<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Someone says something about someone, and suddenly Flakebook 90210\u00a0starts a new season, with dozens (even hundreds) of comments.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody actually &#8220;winning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nobody actually changing any minds.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody actually valuing their time.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I get it.<\/p>\n<p>It can be like acid in your veins when some troll spouts a lie\u00a0or dumb opinion about something you say or write or whatever. But,\u00a0it&#8217;s a waste of time wrestling with pigs. You both end up dirty and\u00a0the pigs like it, yo?<\/p>\n<p>I got a much better way for ya, babycakes.<\/p>\n<p>Are the flakebook trolls accusing you of something?<\/p>\n<p>Feel the need to defend your honor?<\/p>\n<p>Want to spell out how a naysayer was wrong about something they\u00a0said about you in a forum?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take the fight to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bring the fight to you<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To your cage.<\/p>\n<p>And, in front of YOUR audience.<\/p>\n<p>(Not theirs.)<\/p>\n<p>How?<\/p>\n<p>With email, babycakes.<\/p>\n<p>I do this ALL the time.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever one of the trolls says something stoopid (or outright\u00a0lies) about something I teach or takes a cheap shot (it happens) or\u00a0haunts one of my amazon book reviews&#8230; I use a secret way to\u00a0&#8220;flip&#8221; their attacks into sales for my products.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays I practically look <em>forward<\/em> to inane attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because I profit from &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p>You can, too.<\/p>\n<p>Just as easily.<\/p>\n<p>And, with just as good results.<\/p>\n<p>Learn my system 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>In my humble (but accurate) opinion&#8230; One of the big problems for entrepreneurs haunting social media\u00a0sites (as well as forums, blog comments, etc) is wasting time\u00a0countering accusations, passive-aggressive attacks, and cheap shots\u00a0the trolls who have nothing better to do like to make on people. I see it on flakebook all the time. Entire THREADS of [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}