Dan Kennedy wants me to speak at his event?

It's just a 90 second video. It can be created and distributed in an hour.

With just a couple of days to do it, you can't procrastinate. And also, they will see how many votes you got in a day or so. And that will tell them who has the best list.

My guess is that everyone on the Kennedy mailing list got this invite. If only ten good gurus participate, it's a way to essentially do a joint venture with them all...while paying them nothing for the effort.

How to get everyone on your list, to promote your event and product to their lists....for free.

Kennedy always filled his events by using affiliates. Now they can do it all for free. Abracadabra!

honestly, I don't think there is a "Catch". It was fairly well explained.

The people who even have a remote chance of getting the speaking slot already know the drill. They are already successful marketers, and have used techniques similar to this to grow their list.

I do know this...they really didn't need to fill a speaking slot. They are trying to build their list to whom they can market the event .

It just dawned on me that they didn't say how long you could talk to the crowd. It could be just a ten minute testimonial. On the other hand, if you are a proven platform salesperson, they may give you 90 minutes to really sell your package..

Mark: Dan Kennedy and I have three things in common. We are almost exactly the same age, we grew up in the same area, and we are both jaded, grumpy old men.

Speaking to a Russell Brunson group of screaming young inexperienced wannabes would cause me to blow my brains out.

The video shows them rushing through the door. That isn't an exaggeration. They are so full of excitement that their brains have no space left for thinking.

I have severe allergies to "Rah Rah" and "Woo Woo". And those events are supported by this duo of fantasy and hope.

My biggest paydays came from speaking to these kinds of groups. But I just don't have the stomach for it anymore.


I think "Who's Who" did the same thing. A funny thing about authors (except for the ones that know better). They will pay retail for books, directories, magazines...that even mention them. And getting a page of your content in print? Now they buy multiples.

I have several relatives that have bragged that they were "published"....and I knew that they were simply paying for editing, layout, art, printing services offered by a Vanity publisher.

I didn't have the heart to tell them that writers get paid by publishers. They don't pay to get their book published.

Interesting. Or is it? Not about you and Brunny, isn't that fairly common? Anyhow...

I like cults. Or at least I like to use that word; it resonates better than secret societies, circle jerks and huddled masses.

In the video we see the screaming fans, as if they were at a Beatles concert (believe me, there was a lot of screaming there). 7,000 fanatics packed into a small arena. Well, I often wonder how big these things are, OUTSIDE of the cult.

Take POLITICS (please). Are there more than a few million Americans who actually care about what happens inside the beltway? They are called political "junkies" for a reason.

Marketing junkies. Automobile junkies. Or I guess, raving fans. Having paid my dues, long ago, in the Dawg Pound of the Cleveland Browns, I get conditional obsession, really.

I suppose it is one of the main principles of successful business; finding and keeping fans. Jobs knew it. Trump knows it. Some Warriors do too.

Isn't it somewhat odd that supposedly PUBLIC SPEAKING is fear #1 for most people, yet there are those who crave to be on the stage, if they are qualified.

What would be really interesting, after all is said and done, to know how many of those 7,000 tickets were sold to people either participating in this, or following along.

It is a good lesson to see unfold, getting your buyers to do some selling while giving testimonials. Got to hand it to them, they run their cults as efficiently as L. Ron Hubbard did back in the day.

Thanks for the share. I think I have some RB supplements laying around, but I don't yet need a cure for cancer? was it?

GordonJ

Groovy. I say they all know marketing, and at its very foundation is knowledge of people...and their mighty lizard brains.

You remind of the OLD guys, and from afar, we all thought they were buddies, friends and had a secret handshake they shared. I think today, we may have that same view of the all the IM gurus being in the club, having secret meetings at Tony Robbins castle, waiting on surfer boy Frank to show up.

I suppose an inside view today, would be like seeing how so many of yesteryears Masters and Gurus shunned the likes of a Jay Abraham and his escapades into the diamond market. Ah, they learn from their "mistakes" though.

I guess we all get to choose whom we like, and follow, and to that, to each his own. Whatever happened to that salty little droid? He won a few battles but lost the war?

GordonJ

Yes. The world's first hypnotic copywriter.

He took words and phrases from leading hypnotists and claimed if you used them in your writing you could hypnotize your reader. You can't. You can learn how to keep their interest, but you can't hypnotize them through reading.

His secret...if you plant the suggestion they'll be hypnotized when you read his stuff, you begin to check yourself as you read...it's a mind thing, but the person isn't hypnotized.

I remember when he bought a Rolls Royce and was selling brainstorming sessions in his car to talk about your business and he'd give you ideas. Of course, there were takers.

Now I think he's more into meditation and other stuff like that. Don't think he has anywhere near the following he used to have.

But yes, he used to recommend just about everything...quite sure it was in exchange for the favor with his stuff.

Hansen and Canfield got uber rich with their Chicken Soup franchise, all via collaboration. Sure let others do the work, take a piece of the pie.

OLDEN days, "Congratulations, your Poem has been accepted by the Americana Poetry Society, and will be included in the upcoming ANTHOLOGY, get your copy for only 59 bux." Gee, I must have a dozen of those laying around, so I am a published poet (sort of).

On the submarine, Weds were circle jerk night, I never did join in. A one man band can do as much as he wants with leverage, however, especially with IM, it doesn't hurt to have friends in a syndicate, or a group of like minded objectivists, if the main objective is money at any costs. Wonder if Vitale got his woo woo from his Aikido days, remember it from my Kent State days. Not that Aikido is woo woo, but the whole Chi-Ki-Qui part gets close to that line.


As a self appointed guru, I feel a little left out. I may have to pick a fight with you just for the sake of argument. I mean Kay, some days are only 23 hours and 56 minutes. That extra four minutes to a guy like Joe, he can manifest some really nifty ideas. I love how he transformed into Mr. T over the years, all that bling. YIKES.

Which Dan Kennedy died? Cause the B.S. author and marketer, referred to in OP, is alive and well.

GordonJ