I came up with this idea to add an audio track to a website that I thought would be a fun addition.

So let me tell you what crazy idea ran through my head. A friend of mine, Rob Richards – A long time member of Marketing Beginners, has a site that he launched that has one of the largest packages of resale rights and private label rights products I have ever seen.

Now on his sales page he is talking about how crazy he is to put together this extremely large package of products and some how my mine made an unusual connection and I came up with this idea for an audio track that might be fun and also get people to the site.

Basically what I did is a parody on a commercial for that 24 hour man helper drug. I won’t mention the name here because that will trigger the spam filters. The music in the background is the same song used by them in a number of commercials but it is performed by a friend of mine and his group “Smokin’ Section” you can actually hear them play the entire track at Danny’s website

http://www.DannySilber.com

It is the track Rock Me Baby. I took this track and edited to a loop of about a minute and a half and did a parody voice over for it, I sent it to Rob for his use but I haven’t heard back from him yet and I don’t know if he is going to use it.

But what I would like is for you to tell me what you think about it.

http://www.startingsteps.com/resale-maniac/

I have duplicated his sales page down to the order button and added the audio clip. I would appreciate it if you would take a couple of minutes to look and listen to the clip and then let me know what you think.

Particularly:

Do you think it goes too far or is it just fun

I actually think it ties in well with his crazy man copy. But I want to know what you think.

You can let me know by leaving a comment.

Those of you from Europe and Australia and anywhere else they speak the King’s English most likely already know what the word randy means. But for those of you that haven’t a clue why being called randy in the UK can be funny and embarrassing here is the scoop.

Randy means, well I can’t think of another way to put it, horny! Not with points coming out of the top of your head but the sexually excited type.

Picture yourself as a 20 year old military person going into a pub and saying, “Hi, I’m Randy” or if you are an American going into a bar and introducing yourself to some innocent young lady by saying, “Hi, I’m horny!” because that is basically what happened to me when I lived in the UK.

But it doesn’t stop there because my last name is Baustert commonly mispronounced bastard. Try to say that with a British accent and you will see it is even more so. Most Americans avoid saying my last name because they don’t want to mispronounce it.

Before I arrived in the UK I already knew about my name so it didn’t really surprise me to hear the giggles when I arrived at Heathrow airport and I was paged, “Will Randy Baustert please report to the information counter.”

I just put my head down and went to meet my openly laughing sponsor at the information counter.

Now, I have never been a pickup artist with a lot of smooth opening lines, before I got to the UK my pickup line was just, “Hi, I’m Randy” as you can see this did become something of an issue in the UK. But surprisingly it had completely different effects depending on the recipient.

Some women wouldn’t blink an eye and instantly realize that was my name.

Some women would laugh.

Some women would get offended.

And once, only once, I was slapped.

The weird thing was that it ended up being a great ice breaker for all the categories. Of course the women that laughed liked it. But even the ones that were offended (yes, even the one that slapped me) came around when I said, “I am sorry, it is a force of habit to introduce myself when I meet someone and I am a dumb Yank and that is my name.” While I show them my ID card that show not only my first name but my last name. So, now I wasn’t just randy but I was a randy bastard. But it is my name and I had it on all my id cards and credit cards so they had to accept it.

Those that were offended usually became apologetic when they realized that it was truly my name and that my last name was Baustert made them even more apologetic. Yes, even the one that slapped me bought me a pint.

This just goes to show you that sometimes the things you don’t expect to work can actually work very well.

At least I wasn’t a cheeky bastard! Ok, maybe I was at times.

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