Russians Expecting 2012 Doomsday
December 30, 2011
According to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, 5% of Russians surveyed are expecting the worst in the coming year. 1000 people from across Russia were asked what they thought would occur in 2012, what the main thing would be. The results were are follows:
- Optimism 16%
- Pessimism 9%
- Stability 8%
- Pay Rise 7%
- Happiness 6%
- Job Promotion 5%
- DOOMSDAY 5%
- Russian Presidential Election 2%
Honduras Celebrates 2012 Countdown
December 26, 2011
The President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, was present at a celebration held in the Copán ruins, near the border with Guatemala.
A website has been created to highlight Copán and 2012:
http://www.copan2012honduras.com
You can see the countdown clock there, and also at a brief news item on the event:
A Pair of Tasmanian 2012ers
December 23, 2011
Remarkably, Tasmanian newspaper The Mercury has found three locals who have information to share about 2012:
- Numerologist Shane Harkness says 2012 would bring greater peace and harmony. “When you add all the digits in 2012 together you get five, and five is about freedom,” he said.
- Tasmanian psychic Jason Betts said he published an annual list of 10 key predictions for the year ahead. He wasn’t ready to reveal his predictions for 2012…
- Nick Armstrong, who runs the website 2012 Unlimited, believes the global population will be put into a deep sleep sometime in the New Year and wake to a new world.
Nick Armstrong goes on to say “spiritual masters in other dimensions were guiding us towards major changes in the year ahead.”
2012 Site Sold for $70K
December 22, 2011
In the last couple of years many internet marketers have decided to profit from the 2012 meme. The only reason is that it is popular, and people have an eagerness to learn more. The same marketers also target golfers, people looking to lose weight, and people looking for a partner. It’s all about the numbers and the neediness.
Generally how it works is like this:
- Use online tools to research which keywords and topics are most searched for
- Pay someone to create an ebook, a website and a video
- Buy ads on Google and Facebook and various websites
- And/or let affiliates promote the product for you, via Clickbank
- When people buy the product, offer them an upgrade or additional product, for extra $$
- Bombard customers with emails promoting similar products
The most successful of these in the 2012 niche is 2012OfficialCountdown.com. Of course it isn’t official, but that doesn’t matter – official sells.
And it covers a number of topics that actually have nothing specifically to do with 2012:
- Planet X
- Hopi Prophecy
- Age of Aquarius
- Nostradamus
- Crop Circles
- Mother Shipton
But if you tell people Planet X is coming, and other prophecies confirm it – people will buy it!
In convincing you to buy, the sales pitch says:
I personally have put in over 11,557 hours of painstaking research for this project. Eleven thousand five hundred fifty-seven hours!
That’s more than 5 years at 40 hours per week… Yet when selling the site, the owner gives a different story:
- Design Work – $1,500
- Content & Product Creation – $3,000
- Programming – $200
- Sales Copy/Marketing Content – $30,000
The product creation was outsourced… yet it pushes all the right buttons – fear times validation. Consequently the enterprise has profited at a rate of $100,000 per year. Not bad considering the nameless author is just a gun for hire, and probably not someone with an interest in the topic.
Today the site sold for $70,000 – see here:
https://flippa.com/2674089-established-clickbank-bestseller-9k-month-profit-pr-4-high-se-rank-no-res
Mindscape: Special 2012 Edition
December 20, 2011
UK magazine Mindscape have devoted their 5th edition to the 2012 meme. The cover lets us know that it contains articles from John Major Jenkins and Erich von Daniken, and topics covered include crop circles, Illuminati and cataclysms. I’ll update this post when mine arrives – it ships worldwide.
Countdown Clock in Tapachula
December 16, 2011
No image of it yet, but the first Mexican city to display a doomsday clock is Tapachula. It will start next week, on Dec. 21.
Chiapas state tourism regional director Manolo Alfonso Pinot said Friday that Mayan priests will perform a ceremony at the nearby archaeological site of Izapa.
