See? It worked! The title said ‘Don’t Read This Article – I Dare You!’, and here you are reading it anyway. Victory for me and my amazing psychic abilities?
Hardly.
Actually, this Maiden Voyage article of The Don’t Chronicles has but one goal: to teach you the power of negative thinking! No, I don’t mean that you should give up on your positive attitude. I mean that people don’t like to be told “DON’T!”
Think about it. Why did you read this article? Defiance? Curiosity? Don’t like being told what to do – or NOT do?
These are the same emotions that people will experience when you tell them “Don’t buy my product”, “Don’t use my services”, “Don’t visit my website”.
They will say things like “I don’t care WHO that person thinks they are! I’ll buy the product, use the service, or visit the website if I want to; I don’t care what they say!”
They will think “I wonder what is so special about that product, service, or website that this person is willing to risk losing his or her...