{"id":9031,"date":"2014-09-21T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9031"},"modified":"2014-09-21T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T13:30:11","slug":"time-whores-clients-and-anti-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/time-whores-clients-and-anti-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Whores, Clients, And Anti-professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this anti-professional &#8220;Ben Settle Show&#8221; episode, Producer Jonathan and I natter on about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The one time it&#8217;s okay to kiss ass.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why being a &#8220;time whore&#8221; is basically like robbing yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How Dan Kennedy forces people to value his time (I once heard him say he only talks to people who are 80% &#8220;sold&#8221; on him before talking to them, here&#8217;s how he does it).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to make more sales by NOT letting people buy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to deal with serial refunders (the blue flame specials who buy and refund ebooks over and over&#8230;)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The dangers of imitating your favorite gurus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to be successful if you have a repulsive personality.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Atkins&#8217; secret to being wildly successful even if everyone thinks you&#8217;re full of crap about whatever you teach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A warning to clients who screw copywriters over.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clients I forbid my copywriting apprentice to work for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>And mucho more&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Giddy-up on over here to download it:<\/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>In this anti-professional &#8220;Ben Settle Show&#8221; episode, Producer Jonathan and I natter on about: The one time it&#8217;s okay to kiss ass. Why being a &#8220;time whore&#8221; is basically like robbing yourself. How Dan Kennedy forces people to value his time (I once heard him say he only talks to people who are 80% &#8220;sold&#8221; [&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-9031","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\/9031","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=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}