1 Dollar Revolutionary Ideas

[Daozen]

Getting the information out is 80 per cent of the battle.

If you only had one dollar, and wanted to start a revolution of ideas, what would you do?

- Condense vital information on homemade business cards and leave them everywhere.
- Make homemade posters with revolutionary information.
- Photocopy 1 page information sheets and quietly drop them in strategic locations.
- Record Mp3's and forward them to friends.
- Write open letters to powerful institutions and post them on FB.
- Make infomeme jpgs and stick them on Pinterest.

What would you write?

[grannyfranny100]

What would I write - a letter of dismissal. I would fire them. It is one thing to hang up something on an employee bulletin board. But plopping stuff on their desks, chair, coat pockets or mouthing religious quotes in business meetings is a lack of respect for other people's personal beliefs and the business agenda.

I have even kicked a guy out of my retail store for not making an appointment first. I looked at his "business card" with the fish symbol on it, and as I walked him to the door, I told him I thought it was disgusting to use Jesus's name as a marketing ploy.

My grandfather was the oldest Elder in our local church. When I was too young to understand, I always listened to him. He never had to raise his voice and taught me a few things. Mostly I was fascinated by his even tempered approach to life and learned much through his behavior and actions. He never hollered at anyone! Whereas I scream, don't try to sell your revolution of ideas (sorry grandpa) with most of those techniques.

Some of your ideas might work such as FB. Also consider your geographical location. If you live in an area where there are many fundamentalists and evangelical churches, the marketplace might accept your approach.

If you wish to learn more about marketing plans consider taking basic college public relations, communication, consumer behavior and marketing classes.

At least rethink your list in terms of effectiveness. As it is now, you will have a very low closing ratio and add to our litter problems. I admire your enthusiasm and this thread is perhaps a better place to discuss marketing strategies rather than what we would write as revolutionary ideas unless you want to share your revolutionary ideas.

[yelik]

In the first instance I think it's more about raising awareness about the truth and lies. Once enough people are aware and we start to demand positive change it will be self perpetuating. I for one raise awareness at every opportunity, I constantly raise issues with members of Government, but they don't very often reply, probably because they are unaware, afraid or just a career politician.

Sometimes it's difficult to inform people about what's going on unless they have some prior knowledge. I have a friend who is a vet and opened minded yet he still struggles with some things I tell him, essentially he and others must be compelled to do some of their own research, thus convincing themselves.

[Lifebringer]

I was buying life insurance, and during the conversation the guy who I've come to like, spoke sadly of his friend diagnosed with 6 months to live stage 4 cancer. I told him about some sites from AMA American Medical Association on relation to MJ putting cancer cells in suicide mode, without destroying surrounding healthy cells, increases his appetite to help build his body's immune system to fight any other toxic diddies, in the blood stream that can cause leukemic cells or spread through the organs. Also told him about the baking soda and natural sugars like molasses, honey and maple syrup, to shrink tumors, Green Tea to flush toxins out of the glands, especially the throat and internal organs and blood stream. I gave him the knowledge and quest to seek other alternatives than the chemo, because his friend was given no hope after 6 months and preparation instructions for his death, and he said he looked so terrible. Veggies and fruits freshly juiced not the chemicals in the shelf stuff. Banana's for potasium and iodized salt to combat the Fukishima cross breezes now crossing out country and Washington DC. Blanketing our atmosphere on top the chemtrails. I did what I could to just nudge, with what i/self found over the years, although, I've always been led to natural cures. I also told him to garlic oil any outside lesions or cauliflower or irritated red swollen areas as a topic outside treatment, then to have him consume 3 cloves of garlic a day, via veggie salad, or on his fish or chicken thinly sliced to taste to let it become a part of his diet, from now on. Bitter herbs for bitter brutal diseases, work.

[Dennis Leahy]

I think I have a better handle on what doesn't work than what does.

Evidently, any radical, life-changing, Earth-changing, positive ideas DO need to fit on a cardboard sign, able to be read by someone in a car passing by at high speed.

Dennis

[Skyhaven]

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[panopticon]

Getting the information out is 80 per cent of the battle.

If you only had one dollar, and wanted to start a revolution of ideas, what would you do?

- Condense vital information on homemade business cards and leave them everywhere.
- Make homemade posters with revolutionary information.
- Photocopy 1 page information sheets and quietly drop them in strategic locations.
- Record Mp3's and forward them to friends.
- Write open letters to powerful institutions and post them on FB.
- Make infomeme jpgs and stick them on Pinterest.

What would you write?

I would give that dollar to a random passing stranger or maybe I'd donate it to a coffee shop towards a suspended coffee...

Coffees for the needy getting hot in Perth (http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/coffees-for-the-needy-getting-hot-in-perth-20130424-2idxv.html)

I would then say hello to every person I met and ask them how they are.

I would listen to what they said. Not be polite and sit there while they spoke... I would sit and genuinely be interested in this strange unknown person across from me telling me how they are.

I would smile at random people and thank them genuinely for anything they did for me, no matter how minor.

Oh wait, I already do that! Guess I'll just keep doin' what I do then. :)

Real change comes from actions, not through a gimmick.

Real change is engraved on the heart.

To use the obligatory quote:

We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
Source: Gandhi M. 1913. 'General Knowledge About Health: 12. Accidents: Snake bite'. Vol 13, Chapter 153, pg 241 (http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL013.PDF)
-- Pan

[Daozen]

Your ideas are OK but do you have to be so self-congratulatory and dismissive?

A lot of us are trying to get out information about mms, iodine, vit c and new farming techniques. And low cost water filters. Last time I checked, billions of people don't have access to basic knowledge.

All the smiles and suspended coffees in the world isn't going to remedy nutritional deficiences and lack of filtration.

Lots of us are trying to break the info drought.

Since when was self published info a gimmick? Tell that to Thomas Paine.

But I agree, its good to be lighthearted and friendly.

[panopticon]

Your ideas are OK but do you have to be so self-congratulatory and dismissive?

A lot of us are trying to get out information about mms, iodine, vit c and new farming techniques. And low cost water filters. Last time I checked, billions of people don't have access to basic knowledge.

All the smiles and suspended coffees in the world isn't going to remedy nutritional deficiences and lack of filtration.

Lots of us are trying to break the info drought.

Since when was self published info a gimmick? Tell that to Thomas Paine.

But I agree, its good to be lighthearted and friendly.
You're welcome Daozen.

Indeed I thought this was supposed to be a motivational thread not an actual idea thread.

The way you worded it gave me that impression. I was evidently wrong.

If I came across as self congratulatory then I apologise for living by my ideals.

Self publishing costs money (more than $1).

"Spreading the word" outside of your immediate network/geo-region on various projects can be well in excess of $1.

I would advise becoming part of an activist network (maybe a Permaculture group since you mentioned farming) within your region and becoming part of the change.

If I came across as abrasive then that's just me. I wont apologise for that.

We are not going to solve the problems around potable water, land degradation, ocean hypoxia due to agricultural pollution, structural inequalities, wage inequalities etc easily.

We can help people to see the world differently and feel better about themselves.

That is very important to.

btw there is a curfew about to go into effect in Ferguson and that's where my attention is focused so sorry for the brief response.

-- Pan

[Daozen]

Self publishing costs money (more than $1).

Photocopiers, business cards: You can stick a lot of information in a small space. 10 business cards stuffed with information per 5 cent A4 photocopy. 1 cent per person. Link to a spreadable PDF. That's what we're going to do.


"Spreading the word" outside of your immediate network/geo-region on various projects can be well in excess of $1.

Facebook, Twitter, Mps and Gmail are starting to reach globally. On Twitter... Shanghai is as near as next door.

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It might take 50 years, but that's what we're going to do.

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BTW you're right about high prices. I bought a can of fixative spray for 3 dollars today. Total cost: 4 dollars.

[ulli]

Your ideas are OK but do you have to be so self-congratulatory and dismissive?

A lot of us are trying to get out information about mms, iodine, vit c and new farming techniques. And low cost water filters. Last time I checked, billions of people don't have access to basic knowledge.

All the smiles and suspended coffees in the world isn't going to remedy nutritional deficiences and lack of filtration.

Lots of us are trying to break the info drought.

Since when was self published info a gimmick? Tell that to Thomas Paine.

But I agree, its good to be lighthearted and friendly.


Whenever my LOC (level of consciousness) is high I also come across as dismissive.
Because at those times life flows in such a magical way that everything which needs the slightest mind input appears as a gimmick.

Coming up with 1 dollar ideas is really really close to breaking into the total free fall of saying BE!, and it is.
but still it is a universe away.
Yet all it takes is one step.

[ulli]

I think I have a better handle on what doesn't work than what does.

Evidently, any radical, life-changing, Earth-changing, positive ideas DO need to fit on a cardboard sign, able to be read by someone in a car passing by at high speed.

Dennis

Hahaha Dennis...
Here is mine: Spreading the word about the RESET BUTTON.....

[Daozen]

Dennis, you're right. It might come down to 4-5 words on a cardboard sign.

I'd put:

Linus Pauling cured heart disease.

[panopticon]

Whenever my LOC (level of consciousness) is high I also come across as dismissive.
Because at those times life flows in such a magical way that everything which needs the slightest mind input appears as a gimmick.

Coming up with 1 dollar ideas is really really close to breaking into the total free fall of saying BE!, and it is.
but still it is a universe away.
Yet all it takes is one step.
Hey Ulli,

I was trying to be motivational. I am not very good at it in this format evidently...

Everything is in flux atm anyway. Huge buzz going on for months.

-- Pan

[ulli]

Whenever my LOC (level of consciousness) is high I also come across as dismissive.
Because at those times life flows in such a magical way that everything which needs the slightest mind input appears as a gimmick.

Coming up with 1 dollar ideas is really really close to breaking into the total free fall of saying BE!, and it is.
but still it is a universe away.
Yet all it takes is one step.
Hey Ulli,

I was trying to be motivational. I am not very good at it in this format evidently...

Everything is in flux atm anyway. Huge buzz going on for months.

-- Pan

Look at it this way, you succeeded. You motivated me to post outside my regular niche.

[Skyhaven]

I was kind of serious with the "you are not a slave' on the dollar sign. If you write something on your paper money, i'm sure it is going to be in many wallets and noticed by many spenders. And the nice thing is: it costs absolutely nothing. However I'm not sure if it will actually make a difference.

[panopticon]

Nearly 400 people 'pay it forward' at St. Petersburg Starbucks (http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/more-than-250-have-paid-it-forward-at-local-starbucks-and-the-chain-is/2193784)
By Weston Phippen, August 20th 2014

http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2014/08/starbucks.1_13705987_8col.jpg

The acts of kindness began at 7 a.m. Wednesday with a woman, her iced coffee and a stranger's caramel macchiato.

The woman paid for her own drink, then asked to pay for the drink of the person behind her in the drive-through. That person returned the favor and paid for the person behind, and so did that person, until the employees at the St. Petersburg Starbucks on Tyrone Boulevard began a tally on green laminated paper near the drive-through window.

By 1:30 p.m., the chain had reached 260 customers.

People ordered a drink at the speaker. When they pulled through to the next window, the barista, Vu Nguyen, 29, leaned through and said with a smile that their drinks had already been paid for by the person in front of them. Would they like to return the favor?

"It makes your day better, I think," said Lexie Kane, 17, of St. Petersburg, who ordered an iced coffee.

Tim Burnside, 19, had visited in the morning and paid it forward. He returned later to see whether it was still going on. Seeing that it was, he ordered a second chai tea.

"It's nice just to do a random act of kindness for someone you don't know," said Burnside, also of St. Petersburg.

Some said the simple act connected them to all of the others in line before them. Others said they didn't want to be the jerk to end it.

The baristas inside began to think of what they might do if it lasted until 10 p.m., when the Starbucks closed. Perhaps they could put the final amount on a gift card and continue the next day? They tallied 378 people by early evening.

Then at 6 p.m., customer No. 379 — a woman in a white Jeep Commander — pulled into the drive-through and ordered a regular coffee.

Nguyen leaned out the window. He told her about the chain that had begun that morning. Would she like to participate? The woman declined, saying she just wanted to pay for her $2.25 drink and not someone else's.

Nguyen said it appeared the woman didn't understand the concept of paying it forward.

Source (http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/more-than-250-have-paid-it-forward-at-local-starbucks-and-the-chain-is/2193784)

[Daozen]

I was kind of serious with the "you are not a slave' on the dollar sign. If you write something on your paper money, i'm sure it is going to be in many wallets and noticed by many spenders. And the nice thing is: it costs absolutely nothing. However I'm not sure if it will actually make a difference.

Damn that's an awesome idea.

Money advertising!

"You are not a slave is cool."

What about something more concrete like a website address? Then you could track results.

I think this is technically illegal but who cares?

"Linus Pauling cured heart disease" fits on a dollar bill.

About 50 per cent of all humans are projected to die of heart disease, internet penetration is very high in the west, and trust for docs and pharma is low. It WOULD make a difference to someone. It could save a life for 5 seconds effort.

I know I bang on about this, but I nearly died from heart disease. *Something* saved me, and I have a promise to keep.

I love small ultra powerful ideas like this.

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Thanks for all your ideas everyone. I'm too busy to respond right now, but you've all brought something to the discussion.

Peace

[Daozen]

Nearly 400 people 'pay it forward' at St. Petersburg Starbucks
By Weston Phippen, August 20th 2014

Just 2 days after you posted that idea!

Amazing.

Now write a name of a website on the coffee cup, and make sure the customers write ideas on the bills, and you have the start of something cool.

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Nguyen said it appeared the woman didn't understand the concept of paying it forward.

Maybe she really didn't have two bucks spare. Not everyone does.

[panopticon]

Nearly 400 people 'pay it forward' at St. Petersburg Starbucks
By Weston Phippen, August 20th 2014

Just 2 days after you posted that idea!

Amazing.

Now write a name of a website on the coffee cup, and make sure the customers write ideas on the bills, and you have the start of something cool.


If only it was that easy. :)

I just happened to come across that article. These things happen all the time. People just don't tend to notice.

It's almost like they've been trained not to.

Small changes though alter the way in which people feel and interact.

Maybe if something like that happens again to the Cherokee driver she will have thought about it all and decided that co-operation beats competition/greed in that given instance.

Who can tell. Keep up the good work.

-- Pan