X-Message-Number: 4799 From: Peter Merel <> Subject: CRYONICS "Cheat Death Now, Ask Me How" Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 12:03:11 +1000 (EST) In casual conversation an idea occurred; perhaps someone here has already tried this, so as per usual it's floated with the expectation that it'll go down in flames. There are similarities between cryonics and network marketing. Both of them encounter high resistance at first - lots of people have seen the "Make Money Fast" spam, or seen the "Send $10 to discover my secret" ads, or been approached by Amway bots. People are dubious about these schemes, but plenty of them try them anyway - and some of them even make a little money. A very few of them make a lot - I know a couple of people who were the first to introduce Amway to Hungary, and they're squillionaires now. So it occurs to me that perhaps cryonics could be sold this way. The spiel is that we're not just selling cryonic suspension, we're giving you a commission on the memberships that you "and your organisation" sell. You don't even have to sign up if you don't want to - so long as you build a network of people beneath you to do the selling (to whom you give the same spiel I give you) you can just Make Money Fast. Have any of the suspension providers tried this? Do any of them want to? One way that people have made a lot of money from network marketing is to piggyback on the existing sales networks - they sell things like motivational tapes and "secrets" that "turn you into a supersalesman so you can make millions" - it's like the network marketing meme has already lowered the defences of those infected, and so another (profitable) meme can readily infect those hosts. If it hasn't been tried, I think it's worth doing. I reckon that my squillionaire friends might be interested - anyone else think it's worth doing? Hell, it might be worth it just to wear a badge that reads "Cheat Death Now, Ask Me How." Hmm. -- Internet: | Accept Everything. | http://www.usyd.edu.au/~pete/ | Reject Nothing. | Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4799