Yep the following leaked email proved what I thought
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Subject: Don Fleece Update
The Don Fleece prank was a massive success. For the first time since 1983 or something, John Reese was away from his computer for like 10 straight hours while he was out Christmas shopping. (Probably buying really nice stuff for me.)
And that just happened to be the time when we launched Operation Winter Storm.
Anyway – HOLY SHIT!
Apparently some people actually thought Don Fleece was *real* and called John’s office. One person even asked if they should return Traffic Secrets because they heard John ripped off some other guy,
There were apparently two threads on the Warrior Forum for a while.
I think two or three people there thought this was a marketing ploy to re-launch Traffic Secrets or something …or perhaps those posts were just made by team members. Hard to tell.
Ol’ Johnny was flipping out for about 30 minutes or so until I fessed up. Then we (naturally) had a laugh. Or 50.
What really amazes me is how big this got and how fast it all grew.
We were only “live” for about 10 hours and in that time it seems like lots of people were hearing about this new Don Fleece guy.
That was a surprise to me. I figured we’d just get John’s attention and have a little joke on him.
I’m amazed at how fast the Traffic Secrets buzz left our little group and went “main stream”.
And this brings me to a point I hate to admit:
ED DALE TOLD ME SO.
God I want to vomit from saying that.
A few years ago told me this whole social media thing was gonna be huge. I scoffed.
Crow never tasted so good.
Anyway – we have an official TRUCE with John.
And the rule is that whoever gets Punked last gets to pick the next …umm …well …victim.
So we’ll see who (Eben) John picks (Eben).
There’s someone (Eben) I’d nominate but it’s ultimately up to John.
Eben.
Talk soon,
Frank
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Now for those watching at home remember the following facts
Ed Dale is in the middle of the 30DC+ launch thingo, and so is Eben Pagan in the middle of a launch.
Get those names into the psyche of your followers Frank, pump up the jam… doesn’t do for them to be too fixated on just your products when you have the “buddies” to help out.
Rating: So subtle it’s like soft satin..slides over your mind and leaves you purring
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This entry was written by , posted on December 16, 2008 at 6:52 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged eben pagan. shenanigans, ed dale, frank kern. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I have been having a good chuckle to myself watching the “shenanigans” going on in Frank Kern’s world. In particular I enjoyed watching the mass movement of a great deal of his followers to perform various deeds to play a “prank” on John Reese.
The “prank” seemed to fall flat because whatever was going on behind closed doors was hidden to those taking part. If John Reese really did think something was going down, a video or recorded phone call would have been some nice proof that the ends justified the mean(s).
Prank my right…arm… Sif Frank wasn’t testing something, or proving something, or at the very WORST flexing his power over a large group of people to see how far he could direct them.
Still, watch out kiddies. If Franks starts asking you to wear black Nikes and shave your head, you might want to consider for a nanosecond why you are being so suggestible.
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This entry was written by , posted on December 15, 2008 at 7:44 am, filed under IM Gossip and tagged frank kern, john reese, mass control. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.