Ernie: I voted today: Straight ticket for the first time, ever. Constitution Party for all offices up for grabs. Granted, a healthy amount of what the Constitution people are all about is kind of off the wall, but I just didn't feel like voting for still more Democrats or Republicans, at least not this time. We shall see about the ballot measures, all of them were simply Yes or No. -------------------------------------------------------- Interesting e-mail. Yeah, two months sounds about right for me, too. I am so damned frustrated -all kinds of things are hanging in mid air, incomplete, and as far as the market is concerned, because they are not finished they are valueless even if, when completed, they may be worth a fortune. Not sure who my market is although I have a lot of individual names in mind. Barry possibly will help me put the finished product into e-book format. Hopefully there will be at least some feedback which I can use to figure out what to do next, after "publication." My hope is for a lot of Evangelical readers but this is tricky; some issues, as you know, I'm not at all of an Evangelical persuasion. Heck, about evolution, as far as some Evangelicals are concerned, I may as well be named Sam Harris. And I will have no friends at all among libertarians. Unless there is one or another contrarian in the weeds. The Left will utterly hate me and the Right will probably run away. That leaves Indies and critics of homosexuality. Still, if the final result does what I think it will do, that is several million potential customers. If just 2% of that market is favorably disposed I will be off to the races. -------------- I've never heard of : " I have two months leave from my wife to make it happen."
I'm not going to ask. I've been married twice and once lived with a women in an arrangement that was a marriage in everything but name. Had I taken two months "leave" from any of the three I'd be a dead man, long ago, that much I can tell you. Rotsa ruck, anyway, and sincerely wishing you success. Wilhelm ================================ Hi Billy, > On Nov 4, 2014, at 12:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Ernie: > I think you are working with the wrong concept when it comes to homosexuality. > This is not an advertising or marketing issue, certainly not yet, what it is, > is a question of product development. > > The "answers" are manifestly NOT on the shelf, already known, > easily understood even by those who disagree. My path is just about > altogether unique; there isn't anything like it "on the market." Which is > precisely why I think it will be effective. And, after all, each and every > previous strategy carried out by others has been a total failure. > Clearly something altogether new is desperately needed. > > I get the idea that you think that this is all plowed ground. Some is, of course, > but most is pioneering stuff. I agree with you 100%. The key problem is Product Development. Which, IMHO, is inseparable from Product Marketing (a completely different thing than “Advertising”, as you may remember from past discussions). > Could you have sold just a few parts of the pre-launch iPhone and expected > any kind of actual market success? I seriously doubt it. True. On the other hand, neither could you sit around waiting for someone to give you a million dollars. > In the meanwhile my role, as I see it, is to light fires, preach sermons, > and raise some hell about this. We are facing a crisis. Yes, it is a crisis. But I don’t have a lot of faith in raising hell to solve crises. For the record, I have the exact same problem. My company, The Swan Factory, is trying to spawn a revolution in programming. I don’t have any funding. I don’t know most of what I’m doing. I have two months leave from my wife to make it happen. Should I spend it writing articles complaining about how programming sucks? I could. But it is highly unlikely to work. Instead, I am *doing* product development. Slowly. One piece at a time. Figuring out the Minimum Viable Product. Broadcasting everything (“ AwesomeStuffBadly” on YouTube) in bite-sized chunks, to attract others with similar vision and interests. Focusing on how to develop a *product experience* — understand what it would take to *engage the customer*. The very thing the iPhone team spent two years in lockdown doing. You seem very interested in “product engineering” — figuring out the facts and techniques. That, from Apple’s perspective, is the *easy* part. The *hard* part is “designing the experience.” Figuring out who your core customer are. Understanding what would emotionally compel them to buy. Building the simplest possible thing that would grab their attention. And get enough money from them to bootstrap the rest. That’s what I’m spending the vast majority of MY time doing. Perhaps we can check back in two months and see which strategy has paid off … — Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
