{"id":8666,"date":"2014-06-29T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2014-06-29T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T13:30:48","slug":"why-giving-away-lots-of-free-stuff-is-a-fools-errand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-giving-away-lots-of-free-stuff-is-a-fools-errand\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Giving Away Lots Of Free Stuff Is A Fool&#8217;s Errand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s (reluctantly) free Ben Settle Show podcast&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2 things Gary Halbert used to do on his website that will destroy\u00a0your sales. (Gary was one of the single best marketing minds in\u00a0human history &#8212; but if you are doing these 2 things he advocated\u00a0you are basically setting fire to your sales.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to use email to get twice as many podcast downloads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why moving the free line is one of the worst ways to sell. (And\u00a0what works 10x&#8217;s better.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to &#8220;draw out&#8221; the most hostile members of your list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The danger and violence you can expect to happen when the\u00a0government can no longer pay out welfare checks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How I &#8220;prep&#8221; new subscribers on my list to be buyers. (I learned\u00a0this from one of the founding fathers of Internet marketing &#8212;\u00a0Terry Dean &#8212; and it makes business a lot more fun and profitable.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Where to get a free &#8220;crash course&#8221; in direct marketing online\u00a0from one of the highest earning marketers who ever lived.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How giving away a lot of free stuff hurts (not helps) your list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why so many freebie seekers are broke and desperate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And a ho&#8217; bunch mo&#8217;&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download it all (free) here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/itunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.BenSettleShow.com\/itunes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s (reluctantly) free Ben Settle Show podcast&#8230; 2 things Gary Halbert used to do on his website that will destroy\u00a0your sales. (Gary was one of the single best marketing minds in\u00a0human history &#8212; but if you are doing these 2 things he advocated\u00a0you are basically setting fire to your sales.) How to use email [&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-8666","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\/8666","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=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}