Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Do people find your site through search engines?

Wanna learn how to make this more likely?

Listen up! Last night's recording of Michelle chance teaching SEO techniques can be heard by clicking here.

Here's an example of my applied learning...
Michelle Chance's Search Engine Optimization tips can be found at that hyperlink. Google will now associate http://www.AskMich.com with Search Engine Optimization.

Our lesson? Hyperlink the key words we want associated with our site to our site. Yes, this tip is very, very basic. I like those tips. Michelle goes way deeper.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Click here to listen to Michelle Chance teach me about easy Search Engine Optimization.

Homework for next week...

1) Please help us move the needle on Dave Navarro's ranking by posting a link anywhere to www.DaveNavarro.com and take a few words to say he's a great success coach (see comments for a prize if you do this)

2) ask Michelle Chance an SEO question for next week at http:www.AskMich.com

The direct MP3 link for Michell Chance's training is http://podcast.liveoffice.com/telcorecordings/0/938678/1057795.mp3

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

My dear reader,

I received an email this morning that knocked the wind out of me...

"Ben, Bernays will go down in the footnotes of history as a complete s.o.b. and precursor of Dubya. You should be ashamed of trying to sell Barnays as any kind of role model." -Probir G.,

I AM NOT ASHAMED. How dare Probir tell me I should be ashamed. Shame is such an ugly emotion to wish upon another.

Persuasion has many faces, few of them are pretty.

I'm TEACHING you to learn the mechanisms of persuasion primarily for two reasons:

1) I see the world as more stable when there are more small business owners as opposed to a few large centers of power; and...

2) The more people that see through these mechanisms the more people we have calling B.S. on the governments of the world.

Tonight at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific I'll do my best along with the lovely and talented Michelle Chance on our teleconference... Dial-In to the Conference 1 (712) 432-3000 Enter your Bridge number 938678

We'll discuss tricks that make search engines rank you higher. This helps your online exposure.

This may seem like a small technique, but it can be used to manipulate reality.

Sixty years ago Hitler made a go for world domination. The techniques of persuasion you learn from me and from my friends come the most extreme sources.

I'm getting my PhD from RPI and one of my teachers did a rhetorical analysis of a Nazis propaganda film...hers was far better than most I have read, and it still felt way behind what Dave Lakhani, Kevin Hogan and Blair Warren are studying and proving and demonstrating.

It is foolhardy to imagine that my friends are the only ones studying the mechanisms of persuasion. NO, IT IS NAIVE AND DANGEROUS to imagine that governments and corporations aren't studying these tools and techniques.

On tonight's call, we take things slow and easy. 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific I'll
Dial-In to our Conference 1 (712) 432-3000 Enter your Bridge number 938678

If you think the techniques of hegemony are limited to governments, then WAKE UP and read books like "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of Brainwashing in China" and compare these techniques with P&G sales techniques...Is it a coincidence they both employ having somebody write down statements? NO!

So, somebody telling me I should feel shame for teaching these techniques to small business owners is clueless!!! The BIG BUSINESSES are already using these techniques!

I focus on making you money. I'm teaching how these techniques of mass persuasion get used.

My biggest qualm with what Probir wrote is that he speaks the truth: "Bernays will go down in the footnotes of history..."

BERNAYS deserves whole books written about him!

Do me this favor, if you want to tell me I should be ashamed for what I'm teaching first read The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do by Clotaire Rapaille



AND COMPARE THIS BOOK TO THE BERNAYS
video
I suggested was worth watching.

Come on the call tonight, ask questions, learn how to make more money.

Ben

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Edward Bernays Is the father of modern advertising. His seminal book has a controversial title...controversial today, but not when it was published 90 years ago, Propaganda.

Why care? Edward Bernays made it okay for women to smoke, invented product placement and made billions of dollars for banks.

Link

How did Edward Bernays do so much? His uncle was Sigmond Freud... Bernays leveraged Freud's ideas for business. In fact, Edward Bernays popularized the ideas of Freud in order to sell Freud's books.

Watch a documentary on Bernays here:

http://www.archive.org/details/AdaCurtisCenturyoftheSelf_0

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Instructions for listening to this week's call are below, but first, a couple links of interest...

1) Download my novel, Poker Without Cards, and one of our promotional podcasts that cuased a stir.

2) My school paper on Vonnegut & hegemony.

To listen to Michelle Chance, some friends and me ROCK ON about new marketing ideas from our Tuesday night call...

you must have the bridge number 938678...PLEASE NOTE: after you enter your info, the top of the page has a confusing form asking for members to sign in...just scroll down the page and you'll see the recordings, then click on the play buttons. Thank you.

1. To listen past conference calls online, go to the following link: http://freeconferencing.liveoffice.com/free-conferencing-recording.html
2. Enter your information along with the bridge number and this logs you in and takes you to the page with the recordings...just scroll down and look on the left (please ignore the blanks asking for phone number here)
3. Click on play button > to listen, or download the MP3 to your desktop

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Tuesday Night Teleseminar...Same Bat Channel
Tuesday at 9pm Eastern 6pm Pacific
Dial-In to the Conference number 1 (712) 432-3000
Enter your Bridge number 938678

We'll be discussing this book...