Saturday, April 21, 2007

, i know you don't like spam

I'll only send this email out once.

I'm pimping my roommate's recent
interview here at this link I want you
to click...

Wes Unruh interview on NLP and
Meta Magickal Themas

http://thinktwoproductsahead.com/magick

...

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{!firstname},

You've received an email that has
begun something like this with 68
people in the subject line.

Please reply to them with these
two points:

1) Don't put 68 people in your To: line
--> for security purposes, your friends
may not want to be associated with me

2) Quit shaming yourself

Most people are ashamed of selling.

May I suggest they ask themselves
what they are sending in this email?
are they promoting a friend that isn't
very good? i seriously don't get this

the tone is diminishing their effectiveness

If you are ashamed of what you are
selling please stop.

If you are promoting something healthy
then selling is self expression, sharing
why you are spreading the idea you are
championing

"Hey, of all the crap that's out there...
this is pretty damn good or maybe even
great."

I trust this this man (or woman) to
steer me right. That's real world
branding.

I'm Ben Mack. I help people learn
to make more money by better
understanding themselves and how
Cooperative Superselling works.

My primary business mentor is
Tellman Knudson.

I am active in 1 mastermind group
presently.

I'm a recovering advertising executive.
I was a corporate profiler. I know more
about the differences between Crest users,
those who brush their teeth with Crest, versus
Colgate users than is probably healthy.

I escaped Corporateland where I was
paid very well but I was miserable.
Truth is, I couldn't figure out how to
make myself happy within the games
that are played by the very successful
of that sport.

I was psychologically unemployable.
I admire many I left behind.

I see myself as a rhino.

I'm doing better now. Thank you for
asking.

8 months ago I invited the best online audio
artist i knew to come live with me while I went
to school and learned new media rhetoric
which i read as online persuasion... boy,
was i mistaken

The best online audio artist & producer
I know is Wes Unruh, aka Philip K. Nixon

Wes Unruh and I have been roommates
now for about 8 months and he's moving
in with his girlfriend, a brilliant media analyst
Shira Chess

Here is Wes' recent interview on NLP and
Meta-magick

http://thinktwoproductsahead.com/magick

Ben

p.s.
i'm moving to
Brattleboro, VT to live closer to my
mastermind partners.


Swipe file is where you copy and paste
from material that works... this isn't school
copy the best... but, don't be a dick. change it
up on them a tad so you are borrowing the
structure and not the words

1) Don't put 68 people in your To: line
--> for security purposes, your friends
may not want to be associated with me
or the communist party

2) Quit shaming yourself

A:.A

please hesitate before you swipe
the above lines because you may
manifest more energy than you expected
by using the word "communist" and the
same goes for the word Propaganda

Edward Bernays, the author of "Propaganda,"
defined a practioner of the profession of
"counsel on public relations" as a "practicing
social scientist" whose "competence is like that
of the industrial engineer, the management engineer,
or the investment counselor in their respective fields."

He states that to assist clients, public relations
counselors use and apply their understanding of
behavioral sciences such as anthropology,
history, social psychology, and sociology.

In Propaganda, his most important book, Bernays
argued that the scientific manipulation of public
opinion was necessary to overcome chaos and conflict
in society:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an
important element in democratic society. Those who
manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute
an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds
are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested,
largely by men we have never heard of. This is a
logical result of the way in which our democratic
society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings
must cooperate in this manner if they are to live
together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In
almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the
sphere of politics or business, in our social
conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated
by the relatively small number of persons...who
understand the mental processes and social patterns
of the masses.

It is they who pull the wires which control the
public mind.

3 Comments:

Blogger Ben Mack said...

Friends of Magic,

I'll only send this email out once.

I'm pimping Wes Unruh, my roommate.

Please click to read Wes' interview
on NLP and Meta Magickal Themas.

http://thinktwoproductsahead.com/magick

...

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{!firstname},

Have you ever received an email that
has begun talking about spam and only
getting an email once?

Usually, for me, there are 68 people
in the To: line.

i hope that when you promote your friends
you promote them with gusto and that you
using a mailing service or at least BCC
your friends.

I really do want you to check out my
roommate's article here...

http://thinktwoproductsahead.com/magick

Wes is an amazing thinker and he gets
core guests on his programs

a great example for
people who seek to leverage
their mind or spirituality

http://thinktwoproductsahead.com/magick

If you get an email which is wussy...
where somebody is promoting with
hesitation... may i suggest

http://thinktwoproductsahead.com/magick


Ben,

You can read the original draft of this
email on my Authorsbusinessplan blog

6:14 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't understand. You have too much white space in your page. I can't keep up with your random tangenal thoughts of whatever it is you are trying to tell me.

4:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ben, you probably all ready know this, but in the polish language, propaganda and advertising are the same word.

I completely agree with what you write. Thank you for getting these words out there.

Since language represents thoughts and allows us to make connections, words or actions are seen in the head no differently and are interpreted as thoughts and thus become connections. I've learned through my own experience how easy it is to introduce new thoughts and how reinforcement and association works. It's very scary that this manipulation works on people; but I cannot fault them for being fooled unless they are educated and they then turn a blind eye to the power. When I try to educate people, often their egos do not allow them to believe that they are that gullible. I can only hope I planted a seed.

It makes me wonder if democracy, as we currently "know" it, is terribly flawed.

1:40 AM  

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