Just an observation and a question based on it, not AI-generated or based on the studies of others, just, what is the difference between persuasion and manipulation and how do you be persuasive and avoid being manipulative?
I question that because of the old ideology that the ads in old newspapers or magazines that promised to send you the secret to getting rich by receiving money in your mailbox and the way people perceive the salesmen who sell these programs.
Are the people who sell these programs manipulative and seeking out the biggest suckers, are they teaching a lesson to the get-rich-quick schemers that there is no magic button to wealth, or are they teaching the next generation how to perpetrate the same scam on others?
This topic is extremely deep and way too involved for a quick blog post.
I assure you my intentions are good, they are intended to shed light on things I’ve seen in the past that left me feeling a bit used but at the same time I have had actual scammers trick me and there is a difference.
These mail programs and email programs are designed for the hopeful who thinks that the hype or the extreme bias painted by the authors is going to be as simple as it is portrayed and is quickly disillusioned by reality and feels like it is the seller or marketer who tricked them, played them, or otherwise caused them to be made into a fool.
The salesman has an interesting position, do you sell for the cash or do you sell to solve the customer’s problem?
Who are you in it for, yourself or for a mutually beneficial outcome?
I think that is the clincher, if only you come out of the “deal” with benefits at the other’s detriment then you are probably being manipulative and unethical. If the customer gained the value he was expecting and then some, while you also made some gain for your role in facilitating the deal it is a win-win, in my eyes, and therefore considered persuasive and ethical.
This is coming up because I am involved in marketing and I ask myself these questions. When I write a sensational headline am I able to deliver? Am I making bold claims that can’t be substantiated or am I going to make good on my promise and make a product or provide a service that leaves my customer satisfied with our deal?
AI has given me the ability to do things I never imagined before and I think I am getting it in a way that makes sense and I can create more of what I wanted in the past thanks to AI.
The past few days I have been extremely busy writing and creating with AI and I have a few things going on.
I am not generating any large income streams to write about, yet. Still, I am finally seeing the path that will allow me to get closer to making a living from home on the internet, so I guess really from anywhere I have an internet connection is more accurate but you get the picture!
