Thursday, September 6, 2012

Mainstream Propheteering - Prophets seeking profits


With so many wealth and business gurus out there, how is a person to know what is real and what is not. Today awareness campaign is full of new interpretations of old songs a lot, but they are all worthy of an attentive ear? The problem comes in deciding what we want to follow the prophet wannabe. True, we all have a gift or a message to be shared, but there is a certain level of integrity that must prevail in earning the respect of audiences. And unfortunately for our standard "FOLLOWSHIP" have become a bit 'overthrown.

In fact, it's almost fashionable to be inordinately popular. This brings to mind the Mafia. Growing up in the seventies, gurus have been many and the Mafia was still quietly regarded as GOOD BAD GUY. Meaning, it's okay to kill, mame and judge until you do some philanthropic event to balance the scales. Today the mafia is not what they (the popular clique on the block), but there are other scams similar social, out there, some much more misleading the Mafia of the 70s would never have imagined. These can be identified in every aspect of life, music, education, government, business, spirituality and health. It's called "politics" ... I call it "propheteering".

Propheteering is a strategy used to market the ideas and make icons or guru of great actors and actresses. Little attention is given the integrity of the message. In fact, they may be singing the same song and consumers are made to believe it's something new. I do not care if we are voting for a president or trying to sign our rich company with a promising business consulting firm, we look at the intention behind the company. Intention is everything.

Questions to ask:

1. There is more of an expert on staff?

2. The playground is shared in terms of product promotion or attention is focused primarily on one or two individuals in terms of making the circuit of Oprah?

3. Not society representatives to serve well outside of their research career?

If the answer is yes to all three questions, make an appointment to listen to their sales pitch. We need no more prophets in search of profit. We need people serving people.

Maybe I'm dating, but remember when the customer came first and was always right?

I do .......

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