Imagine having unlimited power. Over nature, over people, over anything. This quirky thought was inspired earlier today by getting the Firefox confirmation message opposite when I was uninstalling an addon theme for the browser. Hey, imagine owning the ultimate Playing God app. What a way to create total havoc — instantly take away one of the natural wonders of the world! Forget ‘lil stuff like earthquakes (no disrespect for the folks in Haiti or Chile) and floods and other natural disaster phenomena. Just do Big. Next on the menu, how about leveling Mt Everest?
As I’m typing this I’m listening to [watching] Frank Kern’s original Core Influence video he delivered in 2008, I think during a Rich Schefren event. Most readers have probably seen that raw presentation. I admit to being late to the party as a Kern follower, having heard of him for the first time only last July when he gave an impromptu talk at an Internet marketing seminar I was attending in Las Vegas. By the way, his was the BEST talk at that 3 day event, in my view.
I’m not here to promote any of Frank’s products; he’s perfectly capable of doing that. After all, he’s the master of making stuff go viral on the Internet, and on his list he’s probably got well over 50% of all current “users” in the IM (Internet marketing) space today. Nor am I here to debate whether Frank is a good role model or not — he surely has as many haters as raving fans, for a raft of reasons, one being a combination of his “non-professional” style and use of frequent profanity.
Here’s where I’m going with this: Frank Kern still has incredible pulling power in the IM niche. That amount of influence is stunningly powerful, and more than capable of metaphorically uninstalling the Niagara Falls, I’d say. But from what little I know of Frank Kern these days it appears he is not abusing this position of trust. Which is why he tells those on his list to take on board his Core Influence message for no more than the “price” of an opt-in.
In contrast, during the last 7 days a storm of protest erupted when a completely different IM guru “spilled his guts” on his blog confessing to having ripped probably 100s of thousands of dollars off of his customers. Happily (I think) at some point he recently realized the error of his ways and has now changed the thrust of how he goes about helping people get started making money online. Interestingly and by coincidence, his original product was the first thing I bought online in the middle of last year, and yes I fell for all his tricks, including the later expensive coaching upsell which proved to be largely worthless due to the lightweight caliber of their outsourced “mentors”.
What I’ve said above briefly illustrates 2 extremes of using and abusing power on the Internet. My personal intention is to never abuse anyone’s trust. Transparency really matters online. And it’s surely important to long-term success. After all, isn’t that what we all want?
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