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1/29/2007

Snake Oil Indie: A New Indie Strategy

Filed under: — joeindie @ 5:04 pm
Snake Oil Indie: A New Indie Strategy

I'm sick and tired of making miniscule profits...

Tired of just “surviving” as an indie developer? Tired of hard work and long hours? Are you tired of making miniscule profits?

Then the New Joe Indie Snake Oil How-To-Make-a-Million-$ Strategy is what you’ve been looking for!

Name It…

Your game (or other indie software) is already making you money, isn’t it? Of course, it is. What you want is to make more money (who doesn’t???).

The first step is to think positive thoughts: You WILL make $1 million!

The second step is to tell yourself: I will make $1 million! Or, even better: am making $1 million! Right now!

Now tell the world, via your blog (no blog, no problem, sign up here):

I’m making millions!

And make sure you tell them how you are making your millions:

I’m making millions playing my own game!

…and Claim It!

That’ll get people’s attention won’t it? You bet it will!

And then those people will be downloading your game and playing your game and sending you money, because everyone wants to be a millionaire! Just like you!

Stop struggling to Just Survive as an Indie, when you can leverage the POWER of the internet and your own blog to become wildly successful!

Eliminate the Negative

And don’t let the naysayers–and they are everywhere, looking to drag you back down into the quagmire of human mediocrity–IGNORE THEM and THEIR NEGATIVE SUCCESS-HATING VIBES.

You used to be like them, but now you’re above the negative!

You’re not lying. Far from it. Instead, you are tapping into the Positive Energies of the Universe and letting them flow through you!

You are looking the Universe in the eye, and you are telling it what you want, in no uncertain terms. And the Universe is listening, and sending you the people to make it happen for you.

You’re not exploiting the gullible. Nothing could be further from the truth.

You are giving people–desperate people, unhappy people, people who looking for a way out of the daily grind that is their current existence–you are giving these people Something To Believe In!

And in helping others, you are helping yourself. Helping others help you help others!

So, Start Today!

Open your heart, and let the Universe help you help others!

-David

4 Responses to “Snake Oil Indie: A New Indie Strategy”

  1. John Hattan says:

    Hot damn tamale David, your “blab it and grab it” approach to making big big profits works brilliantly!

    Just last night I pointed my finger right at the universe and told it what-fer. I said “Hey there you. . .umm. . .universe, you’re not a mostly-empty cold vacuum that cares nothing about me. . .you’re a bigass ball of snuggly-warm lucky magic. . .AND YOU’RE GONNA GIVE ME A MILLION DOLLARS RIGHT THIS INSTANT OR I’M GONNA POKE YOU IN THE EYE!!”

    And danged if that luck-plane didn’t just flop itself right over into my lap. Not three minutes later the stars rearranged themselves over the nation of Burundi, telling the (mostly dirt-poor agrarian) Burundians that if they didn’t get on the internet and buy a copy of Duck Tiles this very minute that their crops would wither and they would never again have enough extension cords.

    This very afternoon I had to make a trip to the Big-n-Tall men’s clothing store to buy some new pants with extra large pockets to hold the astounding amount of wealth I generated by simply asserting my intentions and not backing down.

    Oh, and I also got a pony.

  2. Greg Squire says:

    That just too funny! When’s your late night info-mercial coming out? ;)

  3. Hamumu says:

    This sounds far too familiar… but no comment on what it sounds familiar to!

  4. Sande Chen says:

    Universe got you down?


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