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[caston]

Are there to be different branch offices around the world?

I'd like to see it being more about collaborative scientific development than lobbying.

[Bruce Klein]

Hi, Caston. Branches would depend on funding and directorship vision.

Collaborative science and lobbyist work can go hand in hand. If one looks at many of the advanced sciences (AI, Nanotechnology, Bioscience, etc), large funding comes from governmental sources.

So, thinking about leveraging our resources, ImmInst could influence legislation by setting the tone for the debate which may then increase science funding by say 1%. This 1% would have a positive impact (millions of dollars) far beyond the impact we could have by doing our own in-house science.

[Live Forever]

It would be nice if we could lobby government to spend 1% of what they spend on the war in Iraq on these types of projects. By the end of 2006, they are estimating $500 billion spent on the war, so $5 billion spent on funding projects having to do with life extension would be terrific. (of course this is just a dream I am afraid)

Lobbying would be an excellent way to increase governmental funding of projects, but there would have to be some people that really know what they are doing, I am guessing.

What we need to do is get a piece of that $33 billion or so that Warren Buffet is giving away. We could do with a few mil to get some good projects off the ground. [sfty]

[caston]

Hello, I was starting to get really worried that I had killed this thread so I moved my post into a new topic called:

Branch offices and funding grants

I'll join and make a pledge soon but for the time being it will be small because I'm going to need to adjust my finances and pay some upfront costs for the uni course I got accepted into.

Edited by caston, 01 July 2006 - 07:15 AM.

[Centurion]

Does the source of the pledges matter? For instance do you mind if I contact some UK based supplement companies and discuss the issue with them?

[immortalbeing]

What we really need is a member ship drive on a global scale to bring in 100 000 people to start donating $5 per month with a target of 50 million members in the next 5 years.

Yeah I agree alot easier said than done . But if we could build a resource where there we sufficient benefits in the back end . For sure it is possible . 250 million a month would really get things moving forward.

Look at Youtube from nothing to a 10 billion dollar company in under 2 years .

I think we just need the main stream to believe .

That is the scale we NEED to be thinking to make this happen .

[screamfiend]

I say market the existing material to support the new material and future material. It is the literature that will make the believers. Good old fashioned Guerilla Marketing techniques. Appeal to vanity, or nostalgia, or some other ego- or emotionally-driven motivation. Get the book and video in as many hands as possible. For example; a hairdresser will tell all of her clients about something she is passionate about. A very effective way to market a restaraunt is to invite all the area hairdressers in for a meal at a deep discount. The all, of course, like the food and tell their clients. Hundreds of mouths telling hundreds more. It is the spin and the sizzle that will get the attention. The information will carry its weight when the right people get 'hold of it. Send a link to the book/video to each person you know with a short word or two about why YOU liked it. 2000 people telling ten others. Everyone place a short ad in the local paper about the book and how to get it. 2000 people spending a few dollars to reach hundreds more. It will take a decision. A decision to take action. That is all it will take.

[screamfiend]

A low profile campaign to high profile people who find themselves in the position of imminent demise, failing looks, diminishing health. Guerilla marketing.

[screamfiend]

Look around at how other non-profits operate fund-raisers. The BSA here in Dallas holds a golf tournament every year. Any suggestions on holding the first ImmInst golf tournament here in N. Texs?

[Aegist]

A low profile campaign to high profile people who find themselves in the position of imminent demise, failing looks, diminishing health.  Guerilla marketing.

I actually misread this a little and thought you were saying something else which I liked. I thought you were suggesting we market by trying to get a high profile person who is in decline, and highlight who they were, who they are now, and that their death is imminent.

And this film clip came to mind:


Johnny Cash - Hurt

It is a cover of a very popular Nine Inch Nails song. I don't know if he meant to make this song strike this chord in people or not, but to me this video clip is 100% saying that life is pointless because we all die.

Actually, you could read into the line "If I could start again, a million miles away. I would keep myself. I would find a way" to imply "If I could have my time again, i would dedicate more time to not letting myself die....i would do everything in my power to find a way!"

I think that something emotional like that song could really move people into action. We could for instance put together our own YouTube Clip incorporating this song and earlier works of Johnny Cash. Highlight how great a musician he was, how strong and good looking he was when he was young, but he too succumbed to ageing, and it really devestated him. Worse than that, he died. Now we have one less ledgend.

We could even start a series of these sorts of productions. Introduce a living, or recently departed ledgend. Show them in their prime, list their achievements, show them now or shortly before they died and highlight the terrible problems they face(d), then lament over the loss of them.



If done right, and done to strike emotional strings in the viewer, it could inspire a lot of people to sit up and pay attention that everything they do is meaningless if they are just going to get old and die.

Bring in the numbers, and you get the pledges.

[Ganshauk]

Hell no, Im not going to pledge.

The insurance companies will pound you to smithereens. You will get nowhere fast in DC.

Try a more grassroots approach. Start with a fundraiser. I'd start in LA first. West cost. Get some hollywood freaks behind it. Then move to Vegas. THEN you might could hit DC.

[Brainbox]

Is there a communication or marketing specialist among our members?
We definitely need professional advice on this IMO.

[Ganshauk]

Im no expert, but I think they key to promoting this organization starts first with identifying the audience you are trying to appeal to.

All you people with the big brains is not who you should be appealing to. In order to make this org a force, you have to have the support of the masses.

It seems to me that such an orginization would appeal most to a geriatric crowd.

This is a lucky turn of events. The rich, Western countries are currently waxing towards a geriatric society...