{"id":9986,"date":"2015-06-08T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2015-06-08T06:30:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:30:43","slug":"elbenbos-ego-gets-over-stroked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/elbenbos-ego-gets-over-stroked\/","title":{"rendered":"elBenbo&#8217;s Ego Gets Over-stroked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Website reader John asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Thanks for the great information you provide in your daily emails.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you please answer a question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can everybody become a marketing master like yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a recent email, your ex-apprentice is asking you questions. Will\u00a0she be as good as you one day, or are you one of the 1% with\u00a0natural marketing super-powers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If the answer is that, say in your ex-apprentice is not a\u00a0&#8216;natural&#8217;, then just how good can the rest of us get? And is it all\u00a0about hard work for us?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obviously, I&#8217;m fishing for an answer that says even plebs can get\u00a0good enough at this to make a decent buck.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Information appreciated,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>elBenbo, one of the 1% of naturals?<\/p>\n<p>Has marketing super powers?<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;marketing master&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>To quote my boy Johnny Carson:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t stop, this is America you have the RIGHT to worship!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aight.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why you think I have some kind of persuasion super\u00a0power or master marketer status. I don&#8217;t. Those attributes apply\u00a0more to the likes of the late Gary Halbert, Gary Bencivenga, and\u00a0Jay Abraham, than to fanboy copywriters with a love for writing\u00a0twisted monster novels so nutzo even my own mother won&#8217;t read them.<\/p>\n<p>To answer your question:<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to be a &#8220;natural.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Whatever that means.)<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to be some kind of super marketer.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, you don&#8217;t even need to be clever.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about hard work and consistency.\u00a0Pick something to master and work towards it.\u00a0Every. single. day.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have frustrations and plateaus.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll wonder if you&#8217;ll EVER get good at this.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, you&#8217;ll have failures.<\/p>\n<p>The key is to learn ways to shortcut the process.<\/p>\n<p>In my humble (but always accurate) opinion, this is where learning\u00a0how to write daily emails using my system and subscribing to my\u00a0paid newsletter shines like a cop&#8217;s flash light into a pulled-over\u00a0drunk driver&#8217;s eyes. (And I&#8217;ve posted many testimonials on my blog\u00a0to prove it.)<\/p>\n<p>Best part:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple.<\/p>\n<p>Ridiculously simple.<\/p>\n<p>You just have to willing to work hard\u2026 Put in the time building\u00a0your list\u2026 And, write &amp; mail that list daily.<\/p>\n<p>No jeenius necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Not super powers needed.<\/p>\n<p>More here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website reader John asks: Thanks for the great information you provide in your daily emails. Would you please answer a question: Can everybody become a marketing master like yourself? In a recent email, your ex-apprentice is asking you questions. Will\u00a0she be as good as you one day, or are you one of the 1% with\u00a0natural [&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-9986","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\/9986","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=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}