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MAGIC – Guaranteed results!

by Michael Robin Cooke on Dec.27, 2009, under Kitschchaos

Gotta love google advertising, always there on my blog to suggest new topics for my blog. And it would be nice if y’all would click on some of the ads to satisfy your curiosity, I get paid!

This is really a business post AND a magical post.

First, the business.

I have this crazy idea. Selling a time machine, one that does not work, and giving a 60 day money back guarantee. What do you suppose would happen?

Ignoring that there are metaphorical tricks (a history book as time machine for example) – it’s pretty well established that people with guarantees for products that do not work rarely if ever take the trouble to get their money back. With a guaranteed time machine that doesn’t work – I believe I could make a profit! Someone, call my bluff! That’s all I need to do it, someone to dare me! LOL!

When it comes to a guaranteed business plan, few buyers will even put in effort enough to establish it doesn’t work.

And guaranteed magic – it’s all subjective! Are you sure the magic didn’t provide an opportunity you didn’t take advantage of?

So here’s the thing, there’s almost never a good reason to not offer a money back guarantee. It helps close the sale and all you have to do is escrow your profits a little. Sure some people will ask for their money back – but it’ll close the sale on so many more people it’s a winning formula!

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Now let’s talk about magic.

Let me share a personal anecdote from my youth. I was 13 in Junior High School, I often stank of the dogs I walked in the morning before school and I was a combination of very smart, small and ‘weird’: I was picked on and abused by bullies regularly.

One Monday, when a particularly dangerous bully had publicly promised to do me harm – the Bully never showed up. I joked casually and sardonically that he didn’t show up due to my magic powers.

-The Bully never ever showed up again – he’d been transfered to a school for the emotionally impaired. And I was no longer a target of bully violence, my magic powers were believed. Instead people that had been bullies approached me to make them a ‘love potion’.

The Love potion I made, I remember it – mayonnaise, mustard, baking soda and Worcestershire sauce mixed into a paste and used to stuff gelatin capsules. Gross and magically impotent.

Here’s what I learned: the LOVE POTIONS WORKED! The guys I gave the capsules to ask for more and told all their friends that I was for real. Just before I attended Stuyvesant High School, full of bright kids that don’t believe in magic – I was the wizard of IS70! True Story!

What does this mean? There’s an argument that belief by itself is the means of magic, this may not be the entire story, but it is part of the story!

So every magician offering their services should gaurantee results! It suggests your authority, that fact there’s money exchanged creates expectation of the result – it engenders belief. and belief is damned important, even if it’s ‘merely’ subconscious (this is how skeptics often are easy targets for magicians).

As for the magicians offering their services, please use the one’s advertising on this site. Even though you understand that it’s a mind game – it can still work for you. Really, the advertising magicians can get it done! Especially if it’s easier to belief someone else can do something. I know I have better success casting spells for others than myself* too.

Of course for myself, it’s a point of pride to do my magic myself. If you’ve a similar idea – check out my sigil magic article and some of the other posts here.

*if the spell is for someone else, there’s no ‘lust for result’ on the part of the spell caster.

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