Looking for pointers on my Survey page.

Ok, You can't post a link with your 15th message...

I think the page name was case sensitive, so I the capital "H" in html might have goofed up my first post. With luck, my next post should be good to go.


- Psicat

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your comments. So black is not a good color for this sort of thing? I thought it might be more mysterious but being new to the marketing side of things, I have not yet tried those kinds of variations.

I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious before I started tweeking. Also, I hadn't considered the long survey vs. short survey thing. Maybe I'll trim it down a little and see if that helps.

And now: thank you for your question! These are exactly the kinds of things I will need to address in my sales copy when I get to that.

The honest answer to your question, is in the west, "No". Most people do not believe they can teleport, but that's very different most people believing that "tangible psychic phemonena" do not exist.

According to various polls and surveys, and depending on which one you believe somewhere between 60-90% of people believe that psychic powers exist, and somewhere upwords of 40% believe they have actually experienced one.

According to the Washington post article here:
Most Americans Believe in Higher Power, Poll Finds - washingtonpost.com

A whopping 80% of Americans believe in Miracles.

So the thing is, while most folks don't believe THEY can do anything like Teleporting, at some level they don't believe it to be impossible.

My course is about advanced spiritual development (for dummies!)... which in a very real way is about how to connect yourself to a greater power. Call it the "cosmic energy" if you are new age, call it "God" if you are religious, the name doesn't matter.

If most people believe in miracles, is it such a stretch to think that God could work a miracle through you, if you let him know you were interested by preparing yourself appropriately?

I doubt most people will ever take the information I give them far enough to gain conscious control of these kinds of abilities, just like most people who buy a book about body building will not take it far enough to enter competitions. Most people don't have that kind of discipline.

I do believe most people will be fascinated enough with the book that they will not want to return it, and that the folks that give it an honest try (even if they don't really expect anything!) will experience *something* sooner or later that will honestly rock their world... just like it did for me when I had my first experiences.

Thanks for your reply Scott!

- PsiCat

Thanks Mark,

All excellent points and I will try split testing other colors in the near future.

To your other points: Credibility is absolutely going to be an issue with my ad copy for the masses. I'm sure a 1 minute video would do wonders for my conversion, but the simple truth is that in the last 10 years, I've had 9 extraordinary events and only the very first one happened "on demand".

While I know exactly what to do and how to do it, my first experience was so dramatic (a failed teleport that resulted in a bilocation) that it scared the heck out of me.

Now when I *deliberately* get close to a psychic event, I have developed a combined fear/excitement response that shuts me down (just like what happened with my reviewer, except with him, no fear since I warned him what to expect)

Where I am now is that the dramatic events are completely spontaneous and almost a pleasant surprise that I notice after the fact. (things like seeing your keys still in the ignition of your locked car, and then turning around and hearing them clang to the ground beside your feet)

The odds of capturing one on camera are practically nil and the harder you try the less likely it is to occur. (This is exactly why these abilties are so hard to replicate in a lab)

While I know of people more advanced than myself who probably could produce these effects for film, they have absolutely no interest in convincing anyone that these abilities exist and would never use their abilities in that manner, even for me.

So... my offer has to be of the "try it for yourself and see" nature.

This may doom the marketing effort, or hopefully I can sucessfully narrow my efforts so that only the people who are already looking for this information will find it.

Your headlines are great, but in light of all I've said, probably not quite the way I'll go. I thank you for the suggestions though!

As to your item 3, I've got disclaimers all over the actual book and additional strongly worded warnings in the appropriate sections. You are correct that the exercises could be extremely dangerous in any situation where a lapse in attention could result in an accident like with driving.