{"id":171,"date":"2008-08-08T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.mindtomind.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-02-15T22:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T04:27:28","slug":"guruism_antiguruism_anti_guruism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindtomind.com\/test\/guruism_antiguruism_anti_guruism\/","title":{"rendered":"Guruism vs. Anti-Guruism : What&#8217;s the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Guruism vs. Anti-Guruism : What&#8217;s the Difference?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mind To Mind (MINDtoMIND.com)<\/strong> Wants you to have somewhere you can go to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">gain perspective<\/span> about the <strong>Self-Improvement, Self-Help Industry<\/strong>. This article is meant to highlight what I think you should be aware of from a &#8216;back-door&#8217; point of view. Since I have been around the market for over 20 years, I have seen many things you would reply &#8216;NO WAY!..&#8221; to. I want to reveal just a few back-end secrets to assist you with your decision making.<\/p>\n<h4>YOU OWN YOUR BRAIN! You should care who&#8217;s handling the input!<\/h4>\n<h3>Guruism &#8211; What is it?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jay Abraham, a leading world-class marketing guru<\/strong> strongly suggest to his followers and subscribers to create a following based on price point marketing almost as much as marketing the products themselves. People like <strong>Tony Robbins of Robbins Research<\/strong> is a good example of what you can do this way. His organization has created a <strong>humongous perpetual motion machine<\/strong> that continually needs fed from the masses to give to the masses.<\/p>\n<h3>Anthony Robbins is a &#8216;Guru&#8217; in the Western sense of the word.<\/h3>\n<p>One of the techniques used to create your following of people that not only buy from you once, but again and again, is start out low. Give something away &#8216;for free&#8217;. This entices your potential audience to get to know you and the product you represent. Then, your perspective buyer can buy something small and inexpensive.<\/p>\n<h3>Always leave them wanting.<\/h3>\n<p>The objective of this technique is to always lead your customer to their highest expenditure. The way to achieve this is to leave them wanting the &#8216;next bigger thing&#8217;. Over time, your client, if you have done your marketing right, will spend thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands or more, while going up through the ranks.<\/p>\n<h3>Create a sense of belonging.<\/h3>\n<p>A <strong>&#8216;must have&#8217;<\/strong> in your marketing structure is a <strong>sense of belonging to a family of like minded followers,<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">a family<\/span>. You can see this when organizations have various achievement levels, even badges you can wear, so that you can openly tell your pier family what level you&#8217;ve obtained. From multi-level marketing to religious organizations, they all tend towards this strategy to lock you into their way of thinking,<\/p>\n<h3>Keeping the clients hot, and strike while the iron is hot!<\/h3>\n<p>The objective is for you to keep buying. When you are constantly getting a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">barrage of information and marketing material<\/span>; email, mail, phone calls, support calls, opt-ins, etc. for one product line, this is a tell-tale sign that you are now involved with a <strong>&#8216;Guruistic&#8217; organization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>95% of people are followers.<\/h3>\n<p>We learned this as children! <strong>Follow The Leader.<\/strong> This makes Guru Marketing easy. All you need is plenty of product to sell with chain-step price points, a little marketing know-how, and you too can be the next Tony Robbins.<\/p>\n<h3>Something Interesting<\/h3>\n<p>I recently heard that <strong>Anthony Robbins is no longer a proponent of guruism<\/strong>, and is re-inventing HIS wheel &#8211; to &#8216;Anti-guruism&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>Independent Thinking<\/h3>\n<p>There are organizations that have embraced <strong>&#8216;Anti-Guruism&#8217;<\/strong> from their inception. I am lucky enough to be affiliated with one of them &#8211; <strong>Brain Management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>What is &#8220;Antiguruism&#8221; or &#8220;Anti-Guruism&#8221;?<\/h3>\n<p>An organization that is a <strong>proponent of Anti-Guruism<\/strong> supports objectives such as <strong>independent thinking, independent decision making<\/strong>, helping a person operate their life on their own terms.<\/p>\n<h3>The system difference.<\/h3>\n<p>The main difference you are most likely to notice are; you are taught a <strong>complete system<\/strong> that encompasses most things in life, and doesn&#8217;t leave you NEEDING the<strong> &#8216;next best thing&#8217;<\/strong>. Some of these organizations may have some additional peripheries designed to assist the user with enhancement of the original product. These are good because it allows the user to &#8216;focus&#8217; in on what they want to improve &#8211; and it is NOT a chain-step operation.<\/p>\n<h3>The Truth is out there.<\/h3>\n<p>I will be bring you more of this type of <strong>insightful information<\/strong> with regards to the<strong> &#8216;self-improvement&#8217; industry<\/strong>. Hopefully, with a little insight into the market, you will be able to <strong>dodge some bullets<\/strong> and land mines that are out there. At <strong>Mind To Mind (MINDtoMIND.com)<\/strong> we want you to be informed.<\/p>\n<h3>Good luck in your search for happiness!<\/h3>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Shannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guruism vs. Anti-Guruism : What&#8217;s the Difference? Mind To Mind (MINDtoMIND.com) Wants you to have somewhere you can go to gain perspective about the Self-Improvement, Self-Help Industry. 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