Okay here it goes, you are getting sleepy, sleepier, and you are now asleep. As I count down from three you will feel compelled to tweet, like, follow, or whatever it takes to tell your friends, family and the rest of the world about this blog and my wonderful trilogy. Three, two, one. Tell me how you feel? Wide awake? Darn those 5-hour energy drinks! Okay, you weren’t paying attention to my hypnotic spell, now were you? Let’s try a different approach.
You are getting sleepy, sleepier, and you are now asleep. As I count down from three you will become wildly popular and desirable and compelled to tweet, like, follow, or whatever it takes to tell your friends, family and the rest of the world about this blog and my wonderful trilogy. Three, two one. Tell me how you feel? Wait a minute, I didn’t say you would desire me! I’m old and out of shape anyway. Now just please sit down and please participate in this online experiment. Geez, it looks so easy on TV. Let’s try one last approach.
You are getting sleepy, sleepier,and you are now asleep. As I count down from three you will believe everything you are told with the word FREE and you will be compelled to tweet, like, follow, or whatever it takes to tell your friends, family and the rest of the world about this blog and my wonderful trilogy. Three, two one – FREE. Tell me how you feel? Giddy as a child you say? Ooh, I like the glaze in your eyes – I think I have found the spell! Let’s experiment.
If you buy my trilogy online you will get a FREE bookmark. Wow, look at you go! Click “like” on my Facebook page, it’s FREE! I’m lovin it! See the commercial for the FREE Snoogly? If you buy one at $199. Darn, now I know how they do it!
You see FREE is a loaded word; it makes people do strange things. Nothing is for FREE – all marketers use FREE to serve a purpose. We give away FREE books, FREE Nooks and FREE Kindles, and yes FREE bookmarks so that you will be FREE to tell others or show off the FREE stuff you just thought you scored for FREE. So the next time you hear FREE, just know it really isn’t FREE to someone and that you are compelled to tweet, like, follow, or whatever it takes to tell your friends, family and the rest of the world about this FREE blog and my wonderful trilogy where the characters are searching for FREEdom from evil.
Look at my counter go! A bazillion new FREE followers. Hot dog!
