Why We Live 80 Years

On the first day, God created the dog and said, “Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years.”

The dog said, “That’s a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I’ll give you back the other ten?”

So God agreed……

On the second day, God created the monkey and said, “Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I’ll give you a twenty-year life span.”

The monkey said, “Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?”

And God agreed……

On the third day, God created the cow and said, “You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer’s family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years.”

The cow said, “That’s kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I’ll give back the other forty?”

And God agreed again……

On the fourth day, God created humans and said, “Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I’ll give you twenty years.”

But the human said, “Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the monkey gave back, and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?”

“Okay,” said God. “You asked for it..”

So that is why for our first twenty years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves. For the next forty years, we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren. And for the last ten years, we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

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Brooke Shields has been an incredibly sexy and good spokes woman for many products. She has gone from Sex symbol as a young woman to sexy mom as a mom. This is not a bash on her specifically… I have to honestly say I like the woman a lot.

However, what a company is now selling as an eyelash grower was once really used to cure glaucoma. And are ya ready for this?

IT HAS MAJOR SIDE EFFECTS

It um well how can I say this? If you have blue eyes or light eyes and want permanent brown eyes go ahead and use it. So for only a few hundred dollars you too can have brown eyes. But it will also grow your eyelashes longer.

I wonder what is in it? Nuclear Radiation?

Well What can we expect from a company that uses Fear Marketing Tactics? The cosmetic and personal health industry is most guilty of making us feel inadequate in one way or another so we buy buy buy.

I am sorry to say that it is working very well.

Scare Tactics Do Not Make Sense

Author: Scott Holden – TrafficEraBlog

Website Marketing Shouldn’t Be Rocket Science

The more internet marketing training I study the more I often see people who talk like it is something mystical and difficult to interpret. When you can’t understand what is being presented you have two choices. You can just shake your head in acknowledgement proud to be a new believer in jilted language or you can ask yourself one question.

If this person can’t even present the information in a simple enough manner for me to completely and easily grasp what they want me to do, then why should I continue to listen?

Internet Marketing Can Make Sense or it can sound like this:

Advertising Isn’t All Smarts: Sometimes It’s Just A Matter Of How Crazy You Are

This is of course just a movie called “Crazy People” with Dudley Moore back in the eighties but it shows how totally off the wall and weird ideas can become better advertising methods than using classic marketing models.

I know I have certainly seen some completely stupid commercials which I just can’t seem to get out of my head while really elaborate ads seem to fall out of my memory all the time. Remember that all you are doing in many of your advertising efforts is getting a person to take a look at your product or think about it. Now this is an exercise in branding through tv commercials but think about how it applies in other forms of advertising.

When writing an ad you are often just trying to push the curiosity button of people so they go to the next part of your sales funnel. When writing a headline or making a splash or squeeze page your main goal is to get the viewer to the next part of the sales funnel not trying to convince them to buy anything in one paragraph or sentence. Push their curiosity, greed, and emotional buttons and you will achieve that goal.

Crazy Internet Marketing Can Make Sense

Author: Scott Holden – TrafficEraBlog

Why Is A Good Good Question… So Is Why Did You Screw Us?

Three Little Words

The words we use either encourage us to be creative and
optimistic or they shut us down, give us a smaller view of
possibilities, and weaken us.

The words we use define our personal reality to ourselves as
well as to others, and they have a very real effect on what we
allow ourselves to think. The words we use are the way we
tell ourselves what we deserve from life.

BUT

Have this ever been said to you? “This is a good idea, but –”

Get it? When I said “This is a good idea” you were probably
sorting for some time when you got complimented on an idea.

Then I said “but –” and you had to cringe a little.

We’ve all been taught that no matter what someone says, if they
add a “but –” we know to brace ourselves, here comes the little
twist that takes away most of the meaning from the beginning of
the sentence.

Happens all the time, doesn’t it? I mean, I know that you and I
would NEVER do that to others, yet people sure do it to us on a
constant basis.

And what’s even more interesting, people do it to themselves!
Just listen the next time a discussion comes up about what
someone wants, for example:

“I’d like to lose weight, but –”

“I’d like a promotion, but –”

“We could go see your parents on Saturday, but –”

Interesting, huh? What follows “but” is almost always either
something that wipes out a compliment, or an excuse for why
people can’t get what they want.

So here’s a little tip for you. What happens to these sentences
if we substitute “and” for “but”?

“This is a good idea, and –” Sounds like the idea may even be
accepted, doesn’t it?

“I’d like to lose weight, and –” And here’s how I’m going to do
it!

“I’d like a promotion, and –” And this is how I’m going to get
it and why I’m worth it.

“We could go see your parents on Saturday, and –” And we can have
dinner by the river on the way home, or we can stop at the new
shop you wanted to see on the way there, or whatever alternative
comes to mind.

“But” limits possibilities, and tells you what’s wrong and WHY
you can’t do something. “And” includes more choices, and leads to
thoughts of HOW you will do something.

They are the language of two different worlds, two different ways
of life.

Which world’s language do you prefer??

Which leads us to the next “little word.”

WHY

The problem with “why” is that it leads to “because.”

When you ask “why?” You are almost demanding a story that will
explain “why” things are as they are. And you’ll answer that
question with a story of why things are that way, whether they
are really like that or not!

“Why are people such rude drivers?” — Because if I accept the
assumption that “all people are rude drivers” I can complain and
whine and be miserable instead of just dealing with the reality that
some people don’t handle traffic pressures very well.

“I just don’t understand why you would want that –” — Because if you
agree to explain why you want that and I don’t want you to have it and
you can’t persuade me to accept your choices I get to control you.

“Why can’t I get a break?” — Because I already decided that I will
never get a break, so I must be a loser.

The question “why” is useful to two year olds, and perhaps detectives on a
case or scientists in the lab.

Not so much for adults.

You want to know what’s an even more useful word for most of us,
most of the time?

The word is “how.” As in, “How can I create a break for myself?”

Or, “How can I best deal with a rude driver when I encounter one?”

Or, “How can what I want have any impact on you, and what can I
do to ease that?”

Again, two different words from two different outlooks. “Why”
invites you to accept whatever the stated reality is, and then
demands that you make up a story that explains it.

Probably a waste of time, unless you get your jollies making up
stories about unimportant stuff. “Why” turns our view to the past,
looking for causes and for people to blame.

On the other hand, “How” is an action word. It looks to the
future. “How” can I get what I want?” Or, “How can I mesh my
desires with another person’s desires?”

Good question. And it leads you in a direction of action. And
actions are the stuff of life.

Okay, here’s the next “bad boy” little word that shuts down thinking.

SHOULD

“I should have done it differently.”

“You should do it like they do.”

“What should I do?”

This time I have no suggestion for an alternative word. Well, actually
I do, a bit later. First I want to express a big caution about this word
because it comes so often from childish assumptions.

We all have a parent’s voice in our heads, treating us like we’re still
wearing diapers. And this word is surely a parent’s word, telling
us what we “should” do.

“Should” and even worse, “should have” will make you miserable.
They are the words of dissatisfaction and helplessness and regret
and guilt.

Try this. “I want” instead of “I should.” Even if you add the
same ending, you get more power — more ADULT power, from saying
“I want to do it differently next time” or, “I want to be on time” Instead
of “I should be on time” or “I shouldn’t be late.”

Think about the words you use — both to others and more importantly,
to yourself.

Especially these three thought-stopping little words.

These Brilliant Ideas were taken directly from >>>Tom Hoobyar

Enron Can Make Sense?

Author: Scott Holden – TrafficEraBlog

How Does Mind Control Psychology Work?

Since his first Channel 4 television show Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, he has reached well known status by many marketing experts. Brown known for his “mind-reading” act says at the start of each of his Trick of the Mind shows that he gets his results by combining a combination of “magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship”. He uses his skills and seems to be able to predict and change people’s thoughts with simple suggestions and manipulate their decisions. He basically reads their small physical signs and body language to determine what a person is thinking.

Derren began his television work with a series of one hour specials during a two year stint which led to the production of a six part series Mind Control. This included new footage of how he is able to perform his apparent mind influence and psychological psyop techniques. As a marketer we can take some real powerful insights into how the human psychology works and how we can use this to influence prospects of our sales marketing online.

Psychological Illusions

Darren was interviewed in New Scientist and said that he learned many of his psychological influencing skills from his training in hypnotherapy before he got involved in learning face to face magic. When asked how he was able to create some of his mental illusions such as: mind reading, hypnotic induction and lie detection, Brown said he was able to rely on subtle clues such as small muscle movements which tell him is someone is lying or withholding information. He admits his participants are selected based on their receptiveness to be hypnotized and also feels the presence of a t.v. camera increases a person’s responsiveness.

NLP

Many authors have stated Derren uses Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) in his shows which use magical tricks, misdirection, and also setting up audiences to give him the responses he is looking for by using small subliminal cues in his conversations with them. His response to be unfairly using NLP in his performances Brown states, “The truth is I have never mentioned it”.

Brown does have an off stage interest in the system and he talks about it in relation to hypnotism and suggestion. In the book “Tricks of the Mind” he says he attended a course on NLP by Richard Bandler one of the creators of NLP, but he claims the unflexible methods for body language interpretation used by NLP are not as effective as its users say. Brown also says the concept of eye cues as a method have limited use and his language patterns used on subjects are highly similar to the ones used by Richard Bandler and the hypnotist who Bandler learned his skills from, Milton Erickson.

So what can we as internet marketers take from the lessons of Derren Brown? It’s hard to incorporate some of his methods because he is using a physical presence to gain reaction from people, but we can see how receptive and suseptable people are to mind influence overall. This can be applied to our language and sales writings in all forms of online marketing we produce.

Maybe you are like me when I first saw this and thought it was completely staged? I think it is more real than you might believe and that we all have certain triggers which can be ployed upon to get us to react in specific ways and any adcopy writer would agree with that.

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Mind Control Marketing Can Make Sense

Author: Scott Holden – TrafficEraBlog

I just watched a video about a new Technology or should I say combination of social mashup and communication tools all rolled into one from suggestion of a good programmer friend of mine. To say I am absolutely FLOORED would be an understatement.

Every time I think Apple has topped the technology cherry on the whipped cream along comes Microsoft with their really cool new browser Bing. Then I begin to remember hey Microsoft does have tons of pull still don’t they?…Now I am a Linux Ubuntu operating system user and when I first started using it like all former Windows users I thought:

Well this certainly is a nice clean fast and secure operating system?

But then I grew tired because I have like so many others been spoon fed with the ease of use of Windows and just how handy it really is when it’s not getting the occasional virus. I had grown lethargic with my lack of needing to do much to get programs to run properly. Ubuntu was a new mountain and seemed like I would not ever be able to type some scripts into the console for the occasional need to add or move something….Please see: Totally incompetent non-programming marketer.

Then just when I finally feel after a year that I have been sitting on what is possibly the most advanced OS on the planet and I am just beginning to really see how much it can do…along comes Ole You Know Who. Yes that’s right I’m talking about the big G “lion of the domain” Google.

Bam, Smash, Zap, Zoom…will they never stop to make our jaws drop? Google Wave is the sickest thing I have never seen until today. Combine Social Marketing, Twitter, Mashable Media Content, Email, Instant Messenger all served up on an html 5 platform. What is html5? Ah that’s another conversation for another day.

If you cannot see the value of Google Wave then you definitely aren’t using the Google Internets thing rightly. It’s all unfolding before us now and some of the tools I will be getting into soon will explain why now is the time of the you marketer more than it has ever been since the Internet began.

Enjoy the web playground.

Google Wave and New Social Media Platforms Can Make Sense

Author: Scott Holden TrafficEraBlog

Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.

This talk was taken directly from and can be found here… www.ted.com

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I was away for the last couple weeks moving my house, but I remembered one thing which kept me focused on my marketing efforts ahead.

There will be bad and good efforts, but good marketing is like a Sledgehammer.

I have recently uncovered a new type of music which could increase your sales page conversion.

What do you think? Would you be persuaded to buy if you heard this entry music on my web page?

My thought is it might psychologically cause you to react by buying everything on site.

I’ll call this guy the site conversion dominator.

THEN AGAIN Probably not.