Decoding pro wrestling
Professional wrestling is fake.
The blood is fake, the lack of physics is fake, the arguing with the ref is fake, the rivalries are fake... it might be professional, but it's not real.
This willful disregard for reality is at the heart of pro wrestling. It's a juvenile fantasy, come to life. An opportunity to make up the rules, ignore authority, and exert bullying force on others, merely because you can.
So why is Billy Corgan (of Smashing Pumpkins) one of the most successful musicians of our generation, running a pro wrestling organization?
He says it's because it's one of the last transgressive arenas left. That it's a morality play, a microcosm of the human condition, a chance to put on a show that highlights our fears and our avarice. He knows that it's fake, authenticity is a foreign concept in this world.
And what lesson can we learn from politics importing pro wrestling's mindset? Once you see it, you can't unsee the connection. Worth noting that one of the key narratives of pro wrestling is the fake within the fake--someone is always claiming that the outcome is rigged. (In wrestling, of course, it is rigged. And so is the complaining.)
Pro wrestling works as a play and a medium because the people who are part of it realize that it's fake.
It turns out that modern media is a perfect match for the pro-wrestling approach. You can put on a show, with your own media, as often as you like. And that show is, to many, remarkable, and so it spreads.
And there lies the danger, the opportunity for pro-wrestling thinking to corrupt our society: When the fans, or worse, the participants, don't realize that it's fake.
In real life, the laws of physics actually work. In real life, blood feuds rarely end well. In real life, accepting the ref's decisions is the only way to have civilization...
The filter bubble creates an echo chamber, and reality stars are pushed to be more like cartoonish pro wrestlers and less like responsible human beings. If it bleeds, it leads.
You probably work with people who are living in their own pro wrestling universe. These are people who are so in love with their version of reality and their goals that they view the real world as an affront, an intrusion on the way they insist things turn out.
Reality remains our common ground, the best one we have to work with.
The blood is fake, the lack of physics is fake, the arguing with the ref is fake, the rivalries are fake... it might be professional, but it's not real.
This willful disregard for reality is at the heart of pro wrestling. It's a juvenile fantasy, come to life. An opportunity to make up the rules, ignore authority, and exert bullying force on others, merely because you can.
So why is Billy Corgan (of Smashing Pumpkins) one of the most successful musicians of our generation, running a pro wrestling organization?
He says it's because it's one of the last transgressive arenas left. That it's a morality play, a microcosm of the human condition, a chance to put on a show that highlights our fears and our avarice. He knows that it's fake, authenticity is a foreign concept in this world.
And what lesson can we learn from politics importing pro wrestling's mindset? Once you see it, you can't unsee the connection. Worth noting that one of the key narratives of pro wrestling is the fake within the fake--someone is always claiming that the outcome is rigged. (In wrestling, of course, it is rigged. And so is the complaining.)
Pro wrestling works as a play and a medium because the people who are part of it realize that it's fake.
It turns out that modern media is a perfect match for the pro-wrestling approach. You can put on a show, with your own media, as often as you like. And that show is, to many, remarkable, and so it spreads.
And there lies the danger, the opportunity for pro-wrestling thinking to corrupt our society: When the fans, or worse, the participants, don't realize that it's fake.
In real life, the laws of physics actually work. In real life, blood feuds rarely end well. In real life, accepting the ref's decisions is the only way to have civilization...
The filter bubble creates an echo chamber, and reality stars are pushed to be more like cartoonish pro wrestlers and less like responsible human beings. If it bleeds, it leads.
You probably work with people who are living in their own pro wrestling universe. These are people who are so in love with their version of reality and their goals that they view the real world as an affront, an intrusion on the way they insist things turn out.
Reality remains our common ground, the best one we have to work with.
~ Seth Godin
Marketing I
Pricing project
1/open, download and save to your google drive.
2/ populate the shoe type with a shoe of your choice (with discretion - I will speak)
Do not use the same type of shoe as your neighbor
3/ Put orig price and beginning sale price
4/ date and begin promo and price data recording....every day you come to class.
5/ Note fluctuation with promo and price
6/ Pray there is heavy promo or price fluctuations
7/ Share with murphyk2@gcsnc.com - edit
1/open, download and save to your google drive.
2/ populate the shoe type with a shoe of your choice (with discretion - I will speak)
Do not use the same type of shoe as your neighbor
3/ Put orig price and beginning sale price
4/ date and begin promo and price data recording....every day you come to class.
5/ Note fluctuation with promo and price
6/ Pray there is heavy promo or price fluctuations
7/ Share with murphyk2@gcsnc.com - edit
Stump speech
1/ Find a topic you like
2/ Write a 20-30 second "Elevator speach" on the topic you chose.
3/ Practice
4/ Practice
5/ Review rubric and practice some more
We begin by popsicle draw Nov 14
1/ Find a topic you like
2/ Write a 20-30 second "Elevator speach" on the topic you chose.
3/ Practice
4/ Practice
5/ Review rubric and practice some more
We begin by popsicle draw Nov 14
Feature Benefit Chart Homework - Due Tuesday, Nov 1, 2016
Template - Click Here
Template - Click Here
Three rooms, three items, three feature benefits each (total of nine from all 3) one HW assignment
Room 1 - Kitchen - Something non electronic
Room 2 - Bathroom - Something near the sink
Room 3 - Bedroom - Something in your closet or in a drawer
Remember the Benefit should directly connect/Correlate with the Feature.
Whatever, USA - lets explore
We are the night
Mandarin Oranges
Other Halloween features
Facebook, Not Live
We are the night
Mandarin Oranges
Other Halloween features
Facebook, Not Live
Selling has a process - can you tell me it?
If you can understand the way salespeople flow through the selling process, you can interrupt their flow and screw with them. Or, simply become a better salesperson.
Youtube - Magic Bullet
Magic Bullet to Go - Camping
Magic Bullet to Go - Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkSmIjCHh9U
Selling process Flowchart https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5212bXcDwG_SnVBNTRrZTBBUWM
Youtube - Magic Bullet
Shamwow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwRISkyV_B8
Step through the Selling process for each example given:
Luggage: Corporate Executive Vs. College freshman
Handbag: High school student Vs. Fashion designer in NYC
Boots: Fisherman/Hunter Vs. College student living in the mountains
Cell phone: ABC Inc. purchased for sales reps Vs. 25 – 45 year old consumer
Car: 16-year-old male Vs. 50 year old male
Therapeutic Massage: CEO of corporation Vs. injured athlete
HONORS STRATEGIC MARKETING
Vocab Thursday and everu Thursday from here to eternity (bwah ha ha ha) - and as we declared - regardless if I post or not.Chap 10 Combines with 19
Combo study here - match
cards
OCE: - note the due date...see calendar
Aldi Foods
Whatever, USA - lets explore
We are the night
Mandarin Oranges
Other Halloween features
Facebook, Not Live
Quiz - Chap 9 - per your questions
Obj 4 - Chap 10 - Developing and Managing Products
Obj 4 - Chap 11 - Services and Nonprofit Organization Marketing
Tuesday - grab a book, grab the powerpoint, This week, you will be taking notes, fully.
Inidividually, not in teams this week.
Cornell Notes please, typed
How do you do Cornell notes on Microsoft Word?
Using the Cornell Note-taking Template
- From the File menu, select New.
- Click the icon for My Templates on the top row.
- Click the Cornell Note template.
- Click OK.
Wednesday - much the same
Thursday - Don't forget about Chap 11
Friday - Capping exercise
Questions 1, 1-9 (10 total)
Due: Friday, Nov 4, beginning of class. Do not be late.
OCE - Aldi's
Issued Oct 28 in class.
Due: Nov 14th beginning of class....must be typed, with pic, etc. Best you ask if questions
OCE - Aldi's
Issued Oct 28 in class.
Due: Nov 14th beginning of class....must be typed, with pic, etc. Best you ask if questions
