Is This Something You Already Know?

	Application Process

Some invited applicants really press me:

"Similarly, we are already established speakers and writers, have a rich set of Internet marketing resources available, and have full access to technology from groups to blogs."

[Read between the lines: "So what the hell do we need you for???"]

"I admire your CA Learning Path but am not in need of it and will not pay for the privilege of writing for your community. In fact I would typically require payment from a publisher for our work but am happy to call it a wash to support your global social mission."

[Thank you, really!]

"So again if that is a problem [read: having to pay to be part of this], then we'll make other arrangement for our blog."

After relaxing myself and understanding that people do not write those things to offend, but simply write them truly because they think I am a fool in not seeing the impractical absurdity of making such offering to them. These people sincerely and honestly believe that they already have and know so well what I have other people pay € 1,350 and have to work through in a year's time.

My question to these people is always the same: "Best wishes for your new book and tell me where I can see you putting at work all that you claim you already know, understand and have access to?"

So here is what I have responded this time:

"George, thanks for the prompt response. I did not mean to put any pressure on you but simply to scan your effective preparedness for this.

And you have indeed promptly reacted.

Presses me only to say that you don't pay to "write for my community" as this is not what I am offering.

I am offering what you state to already have and know very well: reach, visibility, exposure, a great and growing mailing list and an open conversation to some serious numbers of people in the noosphere.

That is what you pay for: to learn how to achieve that in ways that very few people have understood, tried out and rarely applied. "

"If I also may add, the privilege is really for you to save your and our ass before it is too late. That is the real privilege. I don't need another blogger in my class. That is not the idea. I want some brave and smart people like you, talented communicators, which are so pissed off at it that they want to do something serious and want to know how to have the greatest reach possible in doing so.

That is what I offer.

Making a Web site with Yahoo, Blogger, or one among other hundreds of online publishing alternatives costs nothing. If you have a server you can even do it with the mighty Movable Type (and soon even without needing that - with the upcoming public release of TypePad). This is not what I am selling.

Again, the results are different from what you would obtain with any other blog or tool because what I offer is not a tool.

I am sure that if you knew the methods and techniques I use your titles and headlines would be already appearing next to the ones of BBC and Reuters like CA Sepp Hasslberger was able to achieve in less than 6 weeks, and the likes of Jeff Rense and David Icke would more frequently pick up your content and be speaking about you as they did for Sepp's.

If you really care about making "waves" online, I think I have know-how and great credentials to spare.

If you are in to market yourself through the CA Initiative you are welcome to do so by effectively showing your willingness to support by finding a way where we can benefit from your technology while you can get some exposure to some pretty unique people.

If you can find me other ways to achieve what I am offering at no cost or at lower cost, I will be humbly listening, as there is always something new I don't know.


Thanks for being frank and for showing how you feel about what I do.


Cheers,

Robin"