Putting Crowdspeaking On Steroids

In the previous post, I discussed the basics of Crowdspeaking.  You gather a group of friends and followers and ask their support in spreading a specific message.  And they agree to have your message "blasted" to their friends on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media to which they belong.  Your message goes out to this enlarged group all at the same time you have chosen - hence the term "Crowdspeaking".  The beauty of it is - it is almost unlimited in terms of scope and subject matter.  It is an example of leverage at it's finest.

The use most people make of this tool and tactic stops there.  But I want to see if it can be taken further - and perhaps add some new variations and nuances - and make it's potential more than it was before.   I want to put Crowdspeaking On Steroids.

In the Crowdspeaking Campaign I will be attempting, I have a larger potential initial audience than many thanks to YOU - my many friends in ASM and other Amazon Seller communities.  What makes you different and special are several things.  You have a vested interest of your own in seeing if this works - and how.  But you also have a reputation and history of commitment and support for others in this community we share.  And honestly, I am counting on that growing tradition of sharing and support to help make this work - and become real world proof of yet one more way we can each be successful on this fascinating path.

I'll bet most of you have participated in some kind of "chain letter" at some point in your life. Every time the message was passed on, the dynamics of leverage enlarged the audience.  If it had a money component, you stood the chance of receiving back  multiples of the money you may have contributed initially.  (I once got enough $25 Savings Bonds to cash them in - and take a great Caribbean Cruise.  Woo Hoo!)   Like me, many of you may also have flirted with Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) at some point as well.  When done successfully, people recruit people - who recruit people - who recruit yet more people - and the "downline" grows inexorably due to basic mathematics.

I intend to try a similar kind of expanded leverage by asking you to engage in a participatory experiment with me.

Within your own list of "friends" and contacts in social media, I know each of you has at least 5-10 friends who are what I call "influencers".  They may be influencers because they have a LARGE number of friends and acquaintances - and/or they may simply be people to whom others look for guidance and ideas.  I will be asking you to personally reach out to those influencers you know - and ask them to help in this "test effort".  Why would they agree?  I hope it would be because you, their friend, are helping with an effort to prove if a specific tactic can work and be useful - and if so, it will be of help to YOU as you move forward with your own business efforts.

Basically, you will be asking these friends/influencers to do two things.

1. PARTICIPATE   You will ask them to do what you have done in signing-up with HeadTalker.
2. REPLICATE   You will ask them to, in turn, reach out to 5-10 "influencers" they know and ask them to participate in the same way in order to help their friend (you),

With your effort - and a little bit of luck thrown in - who knows how LARGE the "reach" may become - and how many "messages" will be blasted out on that single day?  Its exciting to think about what could happen.

I am not ready to initiate this process just yet.  A few more necessary pieces are being prepared and put in place.  But I want you to know what we will be attempting - and to be thinking about how you can play a part.  AND now that you have the basic idea (although I will be telling you about yet another "phase" that will be coming), I want YOU to tell me if you have any ideas that could make this better.  One of my favorite phrases is - "No one owns all the sharp pencils."   If you have some good thought to suggest and share, please email me directly at - jrgalley@msn.com.

Watch this space.