Dr. Joe Vitale’s Blog

8
Apr

The Space You Forget to Look At


Several people said they couldn’t see my profile in the photo of the “optical illusion sculpture” I posted here yesterday. This edited picture is to help those people out.

Hopefully they can now see the optical illusion in my Pirolette (the name of the clever wooden sculpture created by the wonderful people at www.turnyourhead.com)

The Pirolette is, as the Turn Your Head website explains in all caps —

“…A SOLID ARTIFACT OF A SPACE WE FORGET TO LOOK AT. “

I love my little Pirolette. Not only does it look good sitting anywhere I put it, but every time I see my profile in that “space we forget to look at,” I smile.

I also like what it teaches about perception: Look at it one way and you see a wooden sculpture; look at it another way and you see my profile.

I think it’s just like life: You can see the glass as half full or as half empty. The glass doesn’t care.

It’s all your choice.

What do you see when you look around your life?

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – If you haven’t seen the movie The Secret yet – which stars Esther Hicks/Abraham, Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, John Assaraf, me and a long list of other authors and teachers – then zip over to www.whatisthesecret.tv This inspiring movie is sure to help awaken you to seeing new possibilities and opportunities everywhere — even in blocks of wood.

PPS – This morning I received a warm email from Germany, from Cortney Langenegger, Sales Manager/Webmaster for www.turnyourhead.com She wanted to thank me for yesterday’s blog post — apparently it’s bringing their site lots of traffic — and she wanted to apologize for not sending me an email confirmation when I placed my order. I love that she wrote me and plan on buying more from their site. (I want to get a Pirolette for Nerissa. Don’t tell her!) You can’t beat a business that offers a unique product and personal service, as well. Note: Mother’s Day is coming up. Get a Pirolette for her of either your profile or hers – or both. (I don’t make a dime from urging you to get the product. I just – as should be clear by now – love it.)

7
Apr

Is this a beautiful hand-carved sculpture or Joe Vitale's head in wood?

Take a good look at the picture…

Is that a beautiful hand-carved wooden sculpture, or is it my profile?

I love creativity. You never know what someone is going to invent that the rest of us will rush to buy.

A while back I heard about a company that takes a photo of your head’s profile and turns it into a wooden sculpture.

I thought it was a wild idea but I’ve always loved optical illusions (and wild ideas). Plus my parents had my baby shoes set in bronze back in 1954. I thought having my face set in wood in 2006 might be cool.

So I had Nerissa take a picture of my head from the side, and I sent it over to www.turnyourhead.com/

I had to let go and trust at that point, because I never heard from the company about my order until today — when it arrived. That’s a photo of it above.

It’s the classic optical illusion: At first glance it looks like a vase. But relax your eyes and look a little longer and you begin to see the profile. (Hint: Look at the outline of the sculpture. The deepest part of the center of it is my nose. Yes, my nose.)

Once your brain sees both images, you’ll easily see either one from that point forward.

Maybe marketing is like that.

Once you take on the eyes of a marketer, a new part of your brain awakens and you begin to see marketing opportunities everywhere.

The people at http://www.turnyourhead.com/ once saw wood. They now see ghostly profiles in wood. And most likely they are seeing lots of orders, as well.

Don’t you love it?

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – A great way to begin to awaken your mind to marketing possibilities is by soaking up my Nightingale-Conant audioprogram, The Power of Outrageous Marketing. Search for it at www.nightingale.com It’s been a popular educational and inspiring program for about seven years now. I’m proud of it, too. Hey, maybe I’ll have it set in wood.

PPS – Grab your dog and listen up: I just read Cesar Millan’s book, Cesar’s Way: The Natural Everyday Guide to Understanding & Correcting Common Dog Problems. I love watching Cesar on his National Geographic Channel TV show, Dog Whisperer. This guy looks, acts and exudes pack leader behavior. No wonder all dogs fall in line whenever he appears. Even Hollywood stars are following him. He sends out an invisible message that he’s the boss. I don’t know if Cesar has read my book The Attractor Factor but he sure knows about the power of intention. His book, his show, and his message, are terrific. His site is www.cesar-millan.com/ or www.cesarmillaninc.com/ Go fetch it! Good girl!

6
Apr

A fan letter from a Fortune 500 psychic

I love fan email. Here’s one I received the other day (and using here with her permission):

Joe, I’ve written you before thanking you for all that you do.

You and your work have been a great inspiration to me, my husband, and my business partner. I wanted to pass alone some more praise because you really deserve it.

I am so entertained and jealous of all that you do. Having been in the marketing industry for 25 years myself I am always delighted by your new ideas and how you are just like a creative fountain that keeps flowing.

My husband is an internet junkie – and he receives all kinds of similar offers mimicking programs like yours. I too, am on about 25 email lists, newsletter and offer programs. We constantly compare and veto a lot of free offerings because they don’t even come close to what you offer.

No one – I mean NO ONE can compare to the quality of your offerings and guarantees.

Yesterday, my husband I had signed up to listen to an interview about selling on the web and how to have a web based business. Joe, it was so bad that after 30 minutes we hung up. The only reason we stayed on for 30 minutes is we kept waiting to hear what the “secrets” were or the new ways to do business on the web.

In 30 minutes they did not give one piece of program information – they kept up with that chatter “we have a new car, we’ve made millions, we did 2 million in one day, we’re so great blah, blah, blah.”

After 5 minutes it gets old. Now don’t get me wrong, I am very interested in being much more prosperous than I am now. And with a lot of your products I am improving my abundance day by day.

My biggest challenge is staying focused and not getting distracted. I realized that listening to your programs, reading your emails, and sales promoting has ruined me from listening or even believing anyone else.

I think your hypnotic programs have truly tranced me!

So, I wanted to share my perspective as a customer – I’m sure you know this and it’s probably validated by the dollars flowing into your bank accounts but here’s one customers perspective that I share with anyone who willl isten to me about your programs.

1. You are totally entertaining and captivate your audience immediately with fresh new stories

2. You’re not pushy – you truly know the value of saying “next”

3. You do what you say you’re going to do

4. You deliver on your promises and I suspect you make it right if a customer is too thick to see the value of your products

5. You give more than one expects (I have tons of download bonuses that I have benefited from over and over)

6. You love what you do and…

7. You’re out there giving more than you receive.

Oh and lastly, any man that loses 80 lbs and transforms like you have deserves a standing ovation.

So, thanks again Joe – you deserve every dollar that flows in…we think you’re the best!

Sharron
www.sharronragan.com

Thank you, Sharon!

I predict great things for you!

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS – The famous hoaxer Alan Abel – who orchestrated my now famous Great Lotto Hoax to help promote my #1 bestselling book The Attractor Factor – has a new site up. It’s worth a look. This true genius has been doing publicity stunts for about six decades. See www.AlanAbel.com

4
Apr

How to hit Alexa's Top 10 list

I almost never look at my Alexa rankings — I’m too busy creating and promoting my sites to worry about how they are ranked — but a subscriber to my ezine at www.mrfire.com just told me I am in the Top 10 of all the “movers and shakers” sites in the world right now. He sent me this link –

http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/movers_shakers?lang=en

The #1 top site is the movie The Secret www.whatisthesecret.tv which of course I’m in and highly endorse.

The #10 site is for my Hypnotic Library www.hypnoticlibrary.com/secret.o/10386 which has my now famous before and after pictures at the top of it.

Why are these sites in the top 10 of the movers and shakers at Alexa?

The Secret has been promoted with a hypnotic teaser for months. The buzz for it is off the charts. And every teacher in it – from me to Esther Hicks and Bob Proctor and a long list of other authors and teachers – are promoting the site. The marketing is working and the viral marketing aspect is alive and well.

Hypnotic Library has been heavily promoted to my list as well as a few others, but that can’t by itself explain why it hit the Top 10 Alexa movers list. I can’t help but wonder if my before-after weight-loss pictures are the draw. From a viral marketing standpoint, everyone wants to see those pictures. And all who do, tell others. Pictures can be very hypnotic and are an overlooked tool by copywriters.

In both cases, non-paid marketers are making the sites popular.

In other words, fans of The Secret are spreading the word about it.

Fans of my before-after pictures are spreading the word about Hypnotic Library.

Whenever you can get people talking about your site, you’ll see action.

And it might one day lead to the Alexa Top 10 movers and shakers list.

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — Nerissa www.thevideoqueen.com opened up a cool Cafe Press store for me. Go take a look at www.cafepress.com/drjoevitale/ You’ll probably be seeing superstars wearing clothes from that store – maybe even Lindsay Lohan.

2
Apr

A new way to make sales online


As a copywriter and an author, I sometimes limit my thinking to the written word. But that’s not the only way to make online sales. See for yourself at–

www.infomercialtoolkit.com/mrfire

I found it eye-opening. And since I’ve written, promoted, and even been in televised infomercials, I found it exciting to see how to apply them to the Internet.

We sure live in exciting times, don’t we?

I wonder what’s next…

Ao Akua,

Joe
www.mrfire.com

PS — If you’d like to have a crazy t-shirt like the one I’m wearing above — or any of the other original designs on my Cafe Press store (created by my beautiful Nerissa of www.thevideoqueen.com) — just go to http://www.cafepress.com/drjoevitale/ Don’t you want to look sexy, too?