{"id":9544,"date":"2015-03-22T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2015-03-22T06:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T13:30:52","slug":"the-worlds-simplest-marketing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-worlds-simplest-marketing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Simplest Marketing Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s simplest marketing plan<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s &#8220;meat &amp; potatoes&#8221; Ben Settle Show, Producer Jonathan and I wrestle over such complicated concepts as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why a certain 8-figure business studies my business model.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why I don&#8217;t take coaching students on (with one exception)&#8230; and why you wouldn&#8217;t want to be a coaching student of mine anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5 steps to running a simple &#8220;steak and eggs&#8221; online business that pays you lots of money with minimal time investment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A simple diet (created by an old school body builder) that quickly melted a bunch of fat off my righteous bootay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The one time it makes zero sense to &#8220;test&#8221; anything in your marketing (despite what people who profit off of making things complicated will tell you).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Why I don&#8217;t trust Google&#8217;s testing software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What a professional statician says about testing online. 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