Could you make profitable contacts today - with just an old hand-cranked telephone?

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

This is an 1896 hand-cranked telephone. I put this picture here for a reason...

In 1896, that's how you had to call people. You turn the crank, speak the operator, then the operator patched you through to the other party.

It was slow, and much less efficient, and who you could call was very limited!

Electronic communication in those days was pretty much limited to the telephone and the telegraph.

Contrast that to today... We have so many ways to talk to each other... Phones, email, text messages, Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, and so on...!

Having good contacts has always been a source of power and even wealth. Who you know can make you an important person too, and even indispensable - and that can be turned into money, in multiple ways.

For example, if two people can make a profitable deal, you can become the third person who profits as well... if you're the one who introduced them to each other for this purpose!

With all these ways of communicating nowadays... Good contacts have become even more powerful and important!

It lets you keep in touch with more people... It's easier to do so. People who have a good memory for names, faces, and personal details have an advantage in doing this, though - but I believe that's something you can improve at with practice, or by using various memory techniques.

So, we no longer live in the age of the hand-cranked telephone... But today, with all our communication devices and apps, contacts are even more important.

Can you afford to not keep improving your collection of good contacts? (It's something I keep working on myself!)

Best wishes,

Dien

Good advice Dien, but me, I'm wanting to get back to that one ringy dingy, two ringy dingy days where it is that hard to contact me.

So, feel free to buy my contacts. But I do think the old adage,

it is not what you know, but who you know...is what really makes a difference.

And it reinforces my 'middleman' concept, so all you guys with few to none contacts, feel free to buy mine (or cut me in on the deal you have in mind, and I'll make a few calls for you). Lets crank em up.

GordonJ

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by GordonJ

Good advice Dien, but me, I'm wanting to get back to that one ringy dingy, two ringy dingy days where it is that hard to contact me.

So, feel free to buy my contacts. But I do think the old adage,

it is not what you know, but who you know...is what really makes a difference.

And it reinforces my 'middleman' concept, so all you guys with few to none contacts, feel free to buy mine (or cut me in on the deal you have in mind, and I'll make a few calls for you). Lets crank em up.

Hi Gordon,

If only "contacts" were that easily transferable!

It's also the relationship, which is not so easy to transfer from one person to another...

You may have a close relationship with Jennifer Lawrence. But - unless you are able to hypnotize her to make her think she likes me - even if you gave me her number, she probably still wouldn't take my calls! (More likely that she'd change her number!)

But you being the "middle man" and introducing two parties... That could work...

This is why having the right kind of contacts is also a kind of "toll position"... Such people have a world of "deals" which can be made, right in front of them...

Best wishes,

Dien

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi Gordon,

If only "contacts" were that easily transferable!

It's also the relationship, which is not so easy to transfer from one person to another...

You may have a close relationship with Jennifer Lawrence. But - unless you are able to hypnotize her to make her think she likes me - even if you gave me her number, she probably still wouldn't take my calls! (More likely that she'd change her number!)

But you being the "middle man" and introducing two parties... That could work...

This is why having the right kind of contacts is also a kind of "toll position"... Such people have a world of "deals" which can be made, right in front of them...

Best wishes,

Dien

So, I call JLaw. Hey, I have a good movie idea for you, comes from this guy in OZ, a Physicist. He wants you to play an alien from another world who has come via a worm hole to save our world with science. And Jen, I'm attached to the project.

THEN WE meet. By getting a piece of the deal, it isn't transferring contacts, it is like you said, an introductory service but with control or a toll.

Shall I call her?

Gordon

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by GordonJ

So, I call JLaw. Hey, I have a good movie idea for you, comes from this guy in OZ, a Physicist. He wants you to play an alien from another world who has come via a worm hole to save our world with science. And Jen, I'm attached to the project.

THEN WE meet. By getting a piece of the deal, it isn't transferring contacts, it is like you said, an introductory service but with control or a toll.

Shall I call her?

Gordon, if you have JLaw's number, please do call her!

I may not have a project for her now, but I'll have one by the time we're in touch, no question about it!

Meanwhile, I don't really know anyone who's sold a movie or TV project, but I do have a "friend of a friend" who's done it. The friend of a friend (who I don't know personally) is a novelist. His first novel "Syrup" was turned into a movie. I heard that George Clooney bought the film rights to another of his books...

All I know is, there's big bucks in selling your movie rights to Hollywood... His particular pathway was to write the novels first, but of course, it can be done other ways too...

Best wishes,

Dien

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Gordon, if you have JLaw's number, please do call her!

I may not have a project for her now, but I'll have one by the time we're in touch, no question about it!

Meanwhile, I don't really know anyone who's sold a movie or TV project, but I do have a "friend of a friend" who's done it. The friend of a friend (who I don't know personally) is a novelist. His first novel "Syrup" was turned into a movie. I heard that George Clooney bought the film rights to another of his books...

All I know is, there's big bucks in selling your movie rights to Hollywood... His particular pathway was to write the novels first, but of course, it can be done other ways too...

Best wishes,

Dien

I'm lucky in that...our area has quite a few Hollywood types, so it could be a friend of a friend sort of thing.

I have one direct Hollywood connection, and several two to three degrees
of separation, many from my younger siblings and/or kids who seem to be in touch with their friends.

Stories, novels, novellas are always good ways, as are spec scripts. But there is a huge market for fleshed out ideas, which may have a treatment or outline or spec script, or something for a particular person.

I want to generate ideas, find compatible "partners" of sorts, and have minimal involvement in the process.

Sounds good, and just FYI, iffin I did get JLaw's digits, are you crazy enough to think I'd share? I love ya buddy, but...sometimes you come up with the craziest ideas (share her number??! SHEESH)

GordonJ