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Subject: Re: Barriers to entry to cryonics, etc.
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:47:08 -0500
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Dear Kennita:


The email address  is the email address for the Cryonics Institute 
in which I communicate with our members through.  It appears that this email 
address somehow mistakenly got added to your distribution list because I 
received the below email regarding how to promote growth at Alcor.  I believe 
that you should delete  from your Alcor distribution list.

Best wishes.
Sincerely,
Andy Zawacki

 

 


 

 

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From: Kennita Watson <>
To: Forrest Bennett <>

Cc: Kennita Watson <>; Dan Dascalescu 
<ddascalescu+>; Alcor-North <>; 
American Cryonics Society <>; ; 
; ; Mike Perry <>; 
; ; ; 
Sent: Sat, Feb 26, 2011 8:10 pm
Subject: Barriers to entry to cryonics, etc.



If we are going to take off, we need to lower both the perceived and the actual

barriers to entry.  Probably best not to mention the full cost of suspension 

($200K), since 1) virtually no one actually pays it, and 2) it makes a lot of 


people swallow hard and flee.  Better to discuss the per-month cost that people


actually pay, for insurance, membership, etc.  If the full-body cost still makes

them gulp, add up the costs for neuro.



To increase visibility and get more people involved, we may want to have 

non-suspension memberships, whose cost would go to research and be 

tax-deductible.  We might also want to have store-genetic-material-only 


memberships, with and without data and/or physical object storage.  There could

also be benefit donations, to cover costs for suspension of a profiled 

financially-strapped member.  Or a lottery ($100/ticket, winner gets a 

contract?).



What other ways are there to get people involved?  Getting a lot of people 

involved a little bit is arguably even better than a few people a lot, but any 

ideas are welcome.  A video contest?  AT&T paid a $20,000 first prize for a 


boring topic, and got probably millions of dollars worth of publicity from this

excellent video (which is as good an argument for cryonics as for AT&T online 

services):



http://simplify.att.com/videos/dave-and-att




The Alcor Web site is competent, but I don't think I'm alone in finding it dull.

One addition I think would help is a page full of "Why I'm signed up for 

cryonics" entries.  We need to communicate our excitement about the 

possibilities for the future!  Maybe in a brighter color.  FWIW, maybe the 

entire Web site should be brighter; that shade of blue is sleep-inducing, and 


certainly not a call to action.  Who came up with it? What do other folks think?



It's been a while since I worked on http://gocryo.org .  Check it out; is it 

worth more of my time?





Live long and prosper,

Kennita


 

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