
Decades ago I gave a talk on marketing for PBS television in Houston. It was recorded in their TV studio, complete with a studio audience, and later sold.
That very video has changed many lives, including that of Internet guru Mark Joyner, who said the presentation was the first to teach him about direct marketing.
One of the most popular aspects of my talk was a quiz show. I showed two different ads for the same product and asked people to vote on which ad pulled best. It was a big hit.
I jokingly said I was going to turn that quiz into a weekly game show. I never did (not yet), but someone just released something like it online.
Go to this cool site and take the quiz: http://tinyurl.com/s47y7
I think games and quizzes are proven ways to teach concepts and install change in people. This new site does both, right online, and is an educational and fun learning experience.
Check it out.
Ao Akua,
Joe
www.mrfire.com
PS – News Flash: A terrific way to learn how to get more results using principles from the movie The Secret and my book The Attractor Factor is at http://www.chosensecret.com/cmd.php?af=495657 This site is worth a review, too, so please go see it right now.
PPS – The above old Charles Atlas comic book ad is a classic direct response type advertisement. Notice how the headline grabs you, the copy tells a story, and the ad has a coupon to encourage a response. Ah, those were the days!
PPPS – If you are trying to get yourself and your business in shape, here’s a way to do it. http://yourbusinessbody.blogspot.com/ Go see.
I got a round of appplause last weekend when I told everyone at Pat O’Bryan’s Un-Seminar II that I bought a Rolex.
That confused me.
Why did they applaud?
Later, at lunch, I asked the folks at my table why they applauded my buying a Rolex watch.
“Because you proved you are still stretching yourself,” one person said.
“Because you were once homeless and in poverty and you are showing us we all can change,” said another.
I was impressed. Still am. I had no idea my investing in a Rolex would become an inspirational learning experience to everyone else around me.
Had I known that, I might have bought two.
Ao Akua,
PS – The official Rolex website is at www.rolex.com/en/. I just learned that my Rolex will come from Switzerland in about three months — in time for either Christmas or my birthday (December 29) — or to start 2007 on the right foot. As Rocky Balboa once said, if you want to have a good time, you need a good watch.
PPS – If you want to know how to speed up manifesting things — so you, too, can order a new Rolex — you might want to look into the package that reveals a “lazy way” to get whatever you want. Go see www.milagromethod.com
PPPS – If you want to hear Pat O’Bryan and me play some blues music — me on harmonica and him on guitar while a rainbow forms above us and people cheer us on — you can now see a short bootleg video of us from this past weekend’s Un-Seminar II. This sweaty blues-rock rare performance of “Crossroads” will leave you smiling. I think the song is a metaphor for our lives. See http://www.imbluesband.com/ It rocks!
PPPPS – Notice the power of a PS? Notice you read every one of them?
I’ve been mentioning Karmic Marketing for a decade or more. It’s high time that I explain what it means.
Here’s a quick definition:
Karmic Marketing is giving now knowing that in some way, shape or form you will be getting later.
Here’s how it works:
You’re rewarded instantly when you give because of the good feelings you get. Those feelings act like magnetizers that will attract more good feelings.
You’re rewarded later because of the invisible law that says you will get from giving.
I looked at this topic in my books, The Greatest Money-Making Secret of All Time and Life’s Missing Instruction Manual, but I didn’t look at it from a Karmic Marketing perspective.
So let me give you an example or two:
This weekend, at Pat O’Bryan’s Un-Seminar II, I gave everyone a copy of the DVD of the movie The Secret.
I bought the DVD’s out of my own pocket. I didn’t ask any money for them. I didn’t expect any money for them. I gave from my sincere desire to share.
Later that same night I received an email from Rhonda, the producer of The Secret. She said she was sending me, as a gift, a box of 50 DVD’s of the movie.
That’s almost twice as many DVD’s as I gave out.
That’s Karmic Marketing.
At one point during Pat’s event, I magically turned a roll of life savers into a hundred dollar bill, and then gave the money to an astonished woman in the audience.
I didn’t ask for anything in return.
Two days later, that same woman asked me a question in front of everyone that let me plug my next Beyond Manifestation weekend.
That plug led to my making two thousand dollars in one minute.
That’s Karmic Marketing.
The idea is to give freely, from your heart, wanting to share and wanting to help, and not expecting anything in return at all from the people you are doing it for.
You simply trust that your good deed will come back to you tenfold, in time, in some surprising and wonderful ways.
I practice Karmic Marketing here on the Internet by giving people things that I believe they will love, such as an ebook, or a course, or an audio, or a coupon.
On one level it strengthens our relationship.
But on the unseen level, it starts a spiritual circulation.
My giving now — done from my heart, with no expectation from the people I am doing it for — leads to getting later.
Karmic Marketing is not done much because too many people are into survival. They are afraid to let go. To trust. They are desperate and they stay desperate because of this lack of trust in life. But once you let go and trust, you step into a flow that is prosperity itself.
This very blog is Karmic Marketing at work.
I write posts here about whatever I want, doing my best to entertain, educate, inspire and inform. No one pays me for this. I could make more money writing a sales letter or a book or a website. But here I am, writing for you.
What comes to me as a result of doing this?
Increased business.
Increased sales.
Increased fans.
Sometimes an Amazon gift certificate.
But I’m not doing it for the end result.
I’m doing it because I want to.
Because I love to.
Because I love you.
Ao Akua
PS — I enjoy the TV show Desperate Housewives, mostly because I love watching Teri Hatcher. (Don’t tell Lindsay Lohan.) But Desperate Housewives, like Desperate Marketers, are never satisfied. There’s a reason why so many of the episodes revolve around murder and deception. Desperation leads to more desperation. It’s The Attractor Factor at work. A better choice would be Karmic Marketing. Give from love. Receive in love.
PPS – This just in: See some cool pictures from Pat O’Bryan’s Un-Seminar II over at www.patobryan.com/blog.htm. It was a wonderful time with wonderful people. Thank you, Pat, and everyone who attended. Talk about love. It was in the air.
PPPS – I don’t have all the details on my appearance on Larry King. I’ll fly out to LA on Oct. 12 for the taping. Jack Canfield will be on the show, too. Larry King may do a two-parter with John Assaraf on another segment. The show is about how to change your life by changing your mind. I’ll let you know as I learn more.

Pat O’Bryan’s un-seminar was a smash hit.
Whether it was Bill Hibbler talking about master minds, or Craig Perrine talking about the inner game of success, or me putting everyone into a group trance with a few stories in order to teach them Hypnotic Copywriting … the entire weekend was off the charts wonderful.
One of my favorite moments was blowing my brains out playing the harmonica with Pat on the guitar, while the Austin sky turned colors and lit up with a thunder storm percolating off in the distance. A small crowd watched us and cheered us on. A rainbow showed up, too.
I liked the jam session so much that I told Pat we need to record a CD. Being the smart opportunist that he is, he instantly agreed. But we’ll record something with a “twist”. (Don’t ask. I’m not telling — yet.)
I think some of our fiery music session was caught on video. We’ll release it some day.
A lot of photos were taken. One is above.
Pat’s entire un-seminar event was recorded, so be looking for it soon.
It rocked.
Ao Akua,
Joe
www.mrfire.com
PS — I told the attendees the news no one else has heard yet: I’ll be on Larry King next month. (!) Stay tuned for details. Learn about Larry King at http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/king.larry.html Is life exciting or what?
I’m at Pat O’Bryan’s unseminar. Right now Craig Perrine is speaking. He’s a great speaker but I’ve heard him before so I’m typing this in the back of the room on my Blackberry.
Earlier I told the group about the mindset for success. I mentioned the movie The Secret and my book The Attractor Factor.
I then showed them a roll of Lifesaver candy. I pointed out it was once a thought. Now it’s a product.
I dropped the roll into a brass tube. I said the tube was an Intention Accelerator. I asked the group what would be better than candy. Most people said money.
Money became the new intention.
I asked a woman to come up front with me. I let her see the transformation. I opened the tube which contained the roll of lifesavers. Her eyes grew wide as she watched me pull a one hundred dollar bill out of the cannister. I then gave her the money.
Intention is powerful. It changes current reality into a new reality.
What’s your intention?
Ao Akua
PS – Almost everyone here has seen the movie The Secret. I gave everyone a copy of the DVD so soon they will all see it. Magic lives. Got magic?
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(I could be anywhere) 🙂