Wow, financial gloom 'N' doom book #1...

Hi,

A new financial gloom 'N' doom book is #1 at Amazon. I remember Bill Myers talking about deflationary depressions. What do you think the back stage reasons for the #1 status of this book are?

Link is below....

Best,

- Boyd


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...077678-6832902

I think our easier access to news is sort of twisting our outlook in rather glum directions. Take yesterday, for instance... no major bad financial news, yet almost everything on the stock market bolted downwards for no reason (except Palm, which, contrary to expectations, rose. Go figger.) But I recall some books from years ago on HOW TO SURVIVE THE COMING GREAT DEPRESSION that sold a bazillion copies and must have worked because we didn't have a great depression. :)

I'd blame the current pessimism on the fact that the economy just didn't bounce back quickly from the dot-bombs. And now with Arthur Andersen and Enron and other once-greats on the skids, it's easy to stand up and shout WE'RE IN TROUBLE!!! and get people to pay to listen to that.

There's no doubt that the stock market is a difficult beastie these days. Give it eight years, Boyd, and we'll be back in the clover again. :)

(actually, I was reading somewhere that the tech sector would take about 8 years to recover from the crash of the 1990's... so we've got six years or so to go before that booms. Hmm. Maybe some bargain-basement chipmaker stocks?)


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Hi,

Link is below, and is rather interesting...

Best,

- Boyd


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/694013/posts

The purveyors of doom and gloom have a very specific, identifiable, and enthusiastic audience for their books and predictions.

By projecting today's worrisome development into the future, they tell people exactly what they want to hear: that the world as we know it is going to end sometime soon.

Whether you believe their predictions or not, some of these writers make a very, very nice living exploiting this market niche.

Robert M. Campbell
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The Campbell Method: A Proven System for Buying and Selling Real Estate for Maximum Profits.

If we look at the past, we can pretty well tell what the future will be.
Most things in life . . . are some how tied to cycles.

Check out these links and get the big picture.

http://kondratyev.com/reference/theory_explained.htm

Kondratieff Wave -- DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Averge) -- Sunspot -- Cycles
http://www.angelfire.com/or/truthfinder/index22.html

Sunspots CYCLES
http://www.carolmoore.net/sunspot-article.html

Now you know!

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> What do you think
> the back stage reasons for the #1 status of
> this book are?

In the last 24 hours or so, I've received two, maybe three, *URGENT* messages from Joe Vitale and something similar from Yanik Silver.

After reading the first message, the others were deleted unopened.

His message was simple: Go to amazon, buy his latest book, forward the amazon receipt to him as proof you bought the book at amazon, and he'll give you a whole bunch of digital products.

Obviously trying to get the book high on amazon's list.

If Gary North did something similar - buy this book at amazon and get such and such from me - the book would sell well also.

You want 'back stage' reasons... there ya go. Amazon manipulation. (Somehow I think it's against their TOS.)

Michael Ross


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dno

> In the last 24 hours or so, I've received
> two, maybe three, *URGENT* messages from Joe
> Vitale and something similar from Yanik
> Silver.

> After reading the first message, the others
> were deleted unopened.

> His message was simple: Go to amazon, buy
> his latest book, forward the amazon receipt
> to him as proof you bought the book at
> amazon, and he'll give you a whole bunch of
> digital products.

> Obviously trying to get the book high on
> amazon's list.

> If Gary North did something similar - buy
> this book at amazon and get such and such
> from me - the book would sell well also.

> You want 'back stage' reasons... there ya
> go. Amazon manipulation. (Somehow I think
> it's against their TOS.)

> Michael Ross

dno

> In the last 24 hours or so, I've received
> two, maybe three, *URGENT* messages from Joe
> Vitale and something similar from Yanik
> Silver.

> After reading the first message, the others
> were deleted unopened.

> His message was simple: Go to amazon, buy
> his latest book, forward the amazon receipt
> to him as proof you bought the book at
> amazon, and he'll give you a whole bunch of
> digital products.

> Obviously trying to get the book high on
> amazon's list.

> If Gary North did something similar - buy
> this book at amazon and get such and such
> from me - the book would sell well also.

> You want 'back stage' reasons... there ya
> go. Amazon manipulation. (Somehow I think
> it's against their TOS.)

> Michael Ross

Received this from the manipulator himself:

----------------------
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: #1 thank you---and extended offer

You did it!

You made my "Spiritual Marketing" book
a #1 best-seller at amazon yesterday.

Sales for my book were up over 45,000% ---
in one day!

I went to bed last night thinking I was a #2
best-selling author and pretty happy about that.

But I woke up at 2:30 AM, checked amazon, and
saw I am now a #1 best-selling author!
----------------------

Then he goes on to say, how grateful he is with his tears of joy and how everyone helped him and told their list to get the book without any promise of reward. (Never mind it was from all his buddies who always recommend to buy his stuff or who he recommends to buy their stuff.)

And then he 'extends the offer' for a bunch of reasons. The same old BS reasons others have always used - some people didn't get the email, some are in different time zones, etc.

And there ya have it Boyd. How to get higher ranking on Amazon. The mini-course. You can send your payment to me via paypal. The email address is [email protected]

Michael Ross.


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Hi,

I'll PayPal you the payment in a few minutes; since it was a mini-course I'd like to be able to ask you some questions by email if that's all right.

In fact, here's one: the $14 book ships within 8 to 14 days after order, which sounds like Print On Demand. The $14 price has to be pretty close to breakeven, which makes me speculate that this whole deal was a self-liquidating customer aquisition vehicle. Do you agree?

I'll have another couple of questions beamed to you via email.

Thanks for your message, it was quite interesting!

Best,

- Boyd