{"id":2051,"date":"2008-01-23T21:25:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2008-01-24T04:47:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T12:47:05","slug":"ive-always-hated-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2051","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Always Hated Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I&#8217;ve come out with a new book, about half of Americans ask me, &quot;How are you going to market it?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I hate that. I&#8217;m not into marketing. I just want to do the work and let my work finds its natural level. I think of my reporting as deconstructing &quot;marketing&quot; and getting to the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Well, how&#8217;s it working for me?<\/p>\n<p>Not well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m alone, I live in a hovel and everybody hates me.<\/p>\n<p>So in my quest to earn an honorable livelihood, I&#8217;ve been studying internet marketers. And I&#8217;ve found I&#8217;m loving it. I find it hard to go to bed before midnight and I like to be up by 7 a.m (about half the time in between is sleep and the rest of the time I&#8217;m listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laplo.org\">books on CD<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragerradio.com\">Dennis Prager radio shows<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Here are my favorite marketers. I think they important things to say to everybody:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelcomm.com\">Joel Comm<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/masscontrolsite.com\">Frank Kern<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilstrauss.com\">Neil Strauss<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/InternetMarketingExplained.com\">Armand Morin<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abraham.com\/\">Jay Abraham<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m learning about human nature and it&#8217;s exciting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m up to $10 a day from my Adsense.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I&#8217;ve come out with a new book, about half of Americans ask me, &quot;How are you going to market it?&quot; I hate that. I&#8217;m not into marketing. I just want to do the work and let my work finds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}