We all know that attention is the most valuable currency for a powerful business in these times. Getting lots of attention from consumers may seem like a daunting task. But the truth is, it's much easier than you think. If you follow these tried and true methods for succesfully exploiting your dream audience, you'll find that YOU are a natural expert at basic commercial manipulation!
Here's how it works:
- Look to political tactics for inspiration- but don't let anyone notice!
Today, consumers' record low critical thinking skills are going to be your best friend. If you're getting skeptical, just think of it like this- the less valuable your ideas are, the easier it is for more people to digest them. This code has already been cracked by many current political powers; the true pioneers of making profits without having to waste time coming up with any solid social benefits.
The important factor in basing your own marketing models off of politicians' attention sucking techniques is ensuring that you'll be able to get away with it. Just like they focus on not getting destroyed by any mainstream intellectuals, you must put most of your work into making sure your system is properly protected from them. As long as you and your product are seen as a uniquely neccesary part of peoples' daily lives, you'll have no problem distracting people from the fact that you are preserving the tradition of socioeconomic malpractice!
2. Never underestimate the poor taste of your buyers!
America has been testing the limits of its citizens standards for well over a century. Thanks to all of the data on this that has been collected and recorded by historical curators, it is clear that audiences and consumers can often conflate the ideas of style and substance. A simple way to eliminate the need for both of those is by combining them into one!
When the substance of a product or campaign is its style, all you have to do is make consumers believe that low quality has nuance. Ensure that your listeners or customers are accustomed to lowering their standards, are comfortable with having an identity shoved on them by you, and are unfamiliar with the concept of being respected by any industries.
3. Use setbacks and uncertainty to your advantage!
Thanks to the global crisis of Covid-19, AI's reconstruction of the internet, and general confusion of where humanity is headed, you have the perfect market canvas for practically painting your own money. Contrary to popular belief (shhh- do NOT expose this), the 21st century has been building a slow regression of culture, not a progression or great evolution as many innovators may claim. There are pros and cons to this:
On the one hand, as we reviewed before, regression and intellectual decline are vital tools for your capital success. On the other hand, if this idea is so popular that it is barely given thought, creative people may start thinking about other things or coming up with those obvious alternative solutions that would destroy your entire approach! It is smart to consistently remind consumers that they are all confused, collectively regressing, and will 100% be fine & happy despite that. If they really want to feel like they're participating in an alternative, you can create one for them, but it can only be alternative in style, never substance. As long as people feel as if they're making a change, no real changes have to happen!
4. Remember that everything is a threat to your strategy!
You can never be too competitive. Sure, we're told to play nice and fair with the other kids on the block, but we all know that only applies to developing children. Once you are in the real world, you get to choose when to be fair, or if you do things fair at all! Nobody can really stop you, unless they're beating you at your game. That's why defense and offense should be the only categories of action you implement. When you start making creative decisions for any other reasons (i.e. Transparency, Quality, Awareness, Social Benefits) you run the risk of diminishing your private control of profit & loosening your grip on others' behaviors.
5. Always present your audience with rules to follow!
People love to be told what to do, and we have reached a time in popular culture where many consumers have acknowledged this. And with some cherrypicking of messages in the sexual liberation movements of queer communities, you can rip the concept of people embracing the performance of being a “bottom” and celebrating a self-empowering role of submission! The easiest way to corrupt this pure idea and use it to exasturbate the inequality you're aiming for is to give your audience clear commandments framed as “advice” or “truths” from the start.
Make sure you're not actually giving them any useful information. It's okay if you accidentally let something informative slip in, but it would be wise to remove whatever art pieces, articles, or posts that contain that kind of value as soon as you catch it.
6. Limit your perspectives to sound more straightforward!
Lastly, and possibly most importantly, you and your product will depend on the isolation of your worldview, and your belief that only you see things how they really are. The threats of a cultural revival may be sprouting, but nothing like that will happen if modern consumers stay true to that belief too. You don't have to act like you're convincing them that you're right- assume that they already want to buy what you're selling, listen to what you're saying- assume that they already agree with you.
Because if there's one thing we can count on customers and audiences for, it's their human potential for closemindedness and tendency to only consume what they already know and agree with. If this is directed to align perfectly with the perspective you're offering, and by following these fundamental laws of success, your audience won't really process the value of what you're saying!
So say goodbye any remaining need for ethics, quality, database accuracy, or artistic integrity… and just watch how many people lay back and take it!
