Hi Helen, I have been chatting baout the sword swallower on facebook with a load of others… What a load of ridiculous nonsense that was/is, eh?

I’ll put a link up in the members area…

Hello Chris, well the Metro is put straight indeed…

Now I was not suggesting that the entire ‘heavy’ marketing of the event was delivered by you, heck Jonathon Royle is proud of his affiliation with you and the event according to his website here:
http://roylehypnotist.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/uk-hypnotist-chris-hughes-socialtrance-the-world-record-online-hypnosis-attempt-using-facebook-and-twitter-as-featured-in-the-uk-newspaper-the-telegraph-and-upon-which-hypnotist-jonathan-royle/

But the viral effect of the campaign on twitter and facebook did demonstrate what I would call ‘heavy’ marketing, albeit not all directly by you. Though I do empathise and understand what you are saying. Perhaps a really overt sign of the way things can be when so successfully conducted in such a manner using social media.

Lots of my members, students and colleagues have been asking me…. I’d love to know what is the formalised, legal difference from playing a hypnosis recording live to all those people compared to talking it live to all those people, maybe you (or your PR and health and safety adviser) could let us know?

Reaching all those people is sure to be seen by many as a success and a wonderful thing you did. Others in the field may think that there was no way you can actually truly demonstrate the benefits of hypnosis with such an event and in fact, perhaps it simply enhanced myths and misconceptions about it.

I take the stance of there being no such thing as bad publicity and take my hat off to your efforts and am certain that the event will ensure you thrive in 2010 too. It certainly created a buzz throughout the field and got people aware of it.

My very best wishes to you Chris, A.

I would just like to put something straight regarding the Metro news story.
I quote:
“But, instead of a promised half-hour webcast, visitors to the site found a pre-recorded MP3 file instead offering hypnotherapy tips.”

The metro was not even aware of the webcast. The 15 minute webcast that 27,500 people listened too was designed to give an introduction to hypnosis and hypnotherapy. It had a Q and A section and also explained how to find a good hypnotherapist. The next 15 minutes was going to be live but I switched it to a self hypnosis download which was exactly the same, but it upset a few people. Over 50,000 people to date have downloaded it.

They had not even listened to the mp3 as I quote they claim it contained “hypnotherapy tips”

If I have convinced a few people to look at hypnotherapy as an option to change their life then that can only be a good thing, and for the record I issued 1 press release and that is not really heavy marketing 🙂

The full account the evening can be found here if anyone is interested.

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=208317702167&topic=13086

Have a great 2010

Chris Hughes

Amen to that Brian! I agree entirely.

A.

You dont get any less “stuck in trance” because you put in a time delay.

But I gues that is the price for it going viral. Attention is both good and bad…