{"id":8765,"date":"2014-07-30T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2014-07-30T06:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:30:34","slug":"if-you-dont-want-to-invest-in-yourself-or-a-business-get-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/if-you-dont-want-to-invest-in-yourself-or-a-business-get-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Don&#8217;t Want To Invest In Yourself Or A Business, Get A Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoda thunk it?<\/p>\n<p>Someone actually said something intelligent on Flakebook.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:<\/p>\n<p>Last week &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Ray Higdon posted about how he\u00a0regularly gets people asking him about a business where they don&#8217;t\u00a0have to invest any money up front.<\/p>\n<p>His reply?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you don&#8217;t want to invest in yourself or a business, get a job.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t that the troof.<\/p>\n<p>Free only gets you so far, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Which is one reason why I\u00a0spend so much time in these emails and on the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; sales\u00a0letter talking about who should *not* be subscribing.<\/p>\n<p>Like freebie seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Or goo-roo fanboys always looking for the next BSO.<\/p>\n<p>(Bright shiny object).<\/p>\n<p>Or people who want a &#8220;lazy&#8221; way to do bid&#8217;nizz.<\/p>\n<p>Yada, yada yada&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not because I think they&#8217;re bad people. Probably, they are\u00a0swell blokes and blokeses. But if someone is complaining about the\u00a0&#8220;cost&#8221; of a product instead of looking it as a long term investment\u00a0(which my newsletter is) then they have no place at my table.<\/p>\n<p>My table is for the big kids.<\/p>\n<p>The people above belong at the kiddies table.<\/p>\n<p>You know, &#8220;playing&#8221; business with all the free reports and eBooks\u00a0they accumulate, but never actually do anything with.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t say that to be a dick, either.<\/p>\n<p>Most people really should be at a job.<\/p>\n<p>They really should be taking orders.<\/p>\n<p>And, they really should be told what to do, working their entire\u00a0lives to give their boss and his family a lifestyle, instead of\u00a0themselves and their family a lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">There&#8217;s no shame in it whatsoever<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people go their whole lives happily doing the job thing.<\/p>\n<p>Patronizing?<\/p>\n<p>Not at all, babycakes.<\/p>\n<p>If all you want is &#8220;free&#8221;&#8230; then maybe you should be at a job.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you should work for &#8220;the man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, maybe you should be carrying reports to your superiors for the\u00a0next 20+ years of your time on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s your life.<\/p>\n<p>Do whatever you want with it.<\/p>\n<p>End of sermon.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s sally forth on to the good stuff:<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the last day to get in on the August &#8220;Email Players&#8221;\u00a0newsletter issue before it goes to the printer. And if you&#8217;re\u00a0prepared to work hard, follow instructions, and, yes, multiply your\u00a0sales (as a result)&#8230; then it could be just what Herr Doktor\u00a0ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>It all depends on you, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Details 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>Whoda thunk it? Someone actually said something intelligent on Flakebook. Case in point: Last week &#8220;Email Players&#8221; subscriber Ray Higdon posted about how he\u00a0regularly gets people asking him about a business where they don&#8217;t\u00a0have to invest any money up front. His reply? If you don&#8217;t want to invest in yourself or a business, get a [&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-8765","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\/8765","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=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}