{"id":8634,"date":"2014-06-09T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2014-06-09T06:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T13:30:30","slug":"recovering-addict-calls-me-a-dick-and-a-fag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/recovering-addict-calls-me-a-dick-and-a-fag\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering Addict Calls Me A Dick And A Fag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago I got the following email from a WSO (Warrior\u00a0Forum Special Offer) addict after I refused to let him buy my\u00a0&#8220;Copywriting Grab Bag&#8221; product.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s his message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Subject: Why Ben Settle is a FAG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Message Body:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Freakin a Genius!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because you made me feel like a girl who just got dumped at prom, I\u00a0want to share my story&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I signed up for the Email Players Club in late March and couldn&#8217;t\u00a0wait to get started. I had my website up for almost a year and a\u00a0half, but I wasn&#8217;t making a fucking dime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was the guy, WSO&#8217;s marketing guru&#8217;s love, easy prey just walking\u00a0blindly hoping this next $ product was going to be my salvation,\u00a0but that all changed&#8230;.here&#8217;s how&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* When I signed up for your email players club in late March, I\u00a0was excited to see what you offered, and then it happened..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My site crashed, lost every picture because my web developer\u00a0accidentally deleted a file, and I was left with 1400 picture to\u00a0replace, because my external hard drive was broke by my 3 year old,\u00a0and I was dead in the water ready to quit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, I cancelled every freaking subscription and said its time to\u00a0get a real job, but something I didn&#8217;t expect rolled into my lap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like the dumbass I am, I &#8220;adderalled&#8221; my pictures back in place and\u00a0started to Patrice O&#8217;neal my customers, and even discovered the\u00a0secret to testimonials&#8230;best part-neither had anything to do with\u00a0soliciting them off Craigslist and it didn&#8217;t require a rest area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because I used the tips I found in the Email Players Club (Issue\u00a0No. 33, page 1-2 and p. 15), I doubled my yearly sales on one\u00a0freaking sales page, and I did nothing but follow the 3 c&#8217;s of\u00a0successful bullets!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s when I was hooked and I couldn&#8217;t help but tell my other\u00a0marketing friends about this guy who went against everything I was\u00a0being told, but soon after, my world came crashing yet again&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just yesterday, a good friend of mine (Whom owns 3 websites and\u00a0successfully sold a startup for several hundred thousand) told me\u00a0he followed up with Ben Settle about a special event, that only\u00a0allows 8 people, and asked if I was intererested in joining him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hell yeah, and that&#8217;s when I took 1\/20th of my profits I had made\u00a0from this &#8220;anti-guru&#8221; expert, and attempted to purchase his product\u00a0that would be my salvation, but it didn&#8217;t happen. Do you know why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because he pulled the biggest dick move I&#8217;ve ever witnessed, he\u00a0destroyed my confidence, and made me fell like a prom date that was\u00a0left to dance to MC Hammer alone, AND I LOVED IT!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that you know my story, I&#8217;m asking for forgiveness, I cancelled\u00a0your Email Players Club and now I&#8221;m back where I started, lonely\u00a0and depressed, listening to John Denver as I read old Ben Settle\u00a0emails, thinking about our time together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you would allow me back in the Club, and allow me to purchase\u00a0the Copywriting Grab Bag, I gladly agree to weekly urinalysis\u00a0tests, to show I&#8217;m WSO free and to let you know how serious I am,\u00a0plus-I will never cancel again, even if my site crashes and my\u00a0daughter needs $97 to get a marriage certificate at the county\u00a0clerk&#8217;s office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Either way, you&#8217;re stuff is phenomenal, its exactly what I&#8217;ve been\u00a0looking for, and to actually block someone from buying your product\u00a0is the biggest DICK move, (Maybe you learned it at the old Checkers\u00a0club in Carbondale, I don&#8217;t know) but my respect for what you\u00a0do&#8230;exceeded levels, blew recipricocity shit out of the water and\u00a0leaves me willing to douse my genitals in hot sauce, just to get\u00a0another opportunity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whether I&#8217;m allowed back in or not, (it sucks) but&#8230;you&#8217;ve got a\u00a0fan for life!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, I got a kick out of that.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s proof you don&#8217;t necessarily &#8220;lose&#8221; sales by sticking to\u00a0your guns &#8212; in my experience, sales go up, as does the quality of\u00a0customer you attract.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, time to sell something.<\/p>\n<p>So here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The July &#8220;Email Players&#8221; includes a special bonus interview with\u00a0&#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber and one of the world&#8217;s top geniuses on\u00a0how to explode the size of your list using solo ads &#8212; Igor\u00a0Kheifets.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone asks about list building.<\/p>\n<p>About traffic.<\/p>\n<p>And, about having a huge audience.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what?<\/p>\n<p>Solo ads can do all those things.<\/p>\n<p>And, fast.<\/p>\n<p>Especially with Igor&#8217;s methods.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, get your &#8220;Email Players&#8221; fix 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>Check this out: A couple weeks ago I got the following email from a WSO (Warrior\u00a0Forum Special Offer) addict after I refused to let him buy my\u00a0&#8220;Copywriting Grab Bag&#8221; product. Anyway, here&#8217;s his message: Subject: Why Ben Settle is a FAG Message Body: Freakin a Genius! Because you made me feel like a girl who [&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":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","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=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}