Sunday, Feb. 26 | Holy Spiritual Marketing Day Dear Friend and Reader: MARKETING is a religion, and today is Sunday, so regular readers of this blog, and those who stumble in from the far corners of the ethers, get to experience one of my high-quality solicitations for you to invest in Planet Waves. I would not waste your money, but more to the point, I would never waste your time. This will be yet another superior level advertisement, written personally by me, carefully typed one letter at a time. Think of this letter any way you want: as communicating the mission of Planet Waves and inviting you in; as my contribution to the American Dream (and the economy); as my weekly motivational talk; as evidence of my pure-hearted determination to be a successful writer. As you wish. Your investment would come in the form of subscribing to Planet Waves Weekly, our premium [thrice] weekly service. We call it weekly, but it really comes out three times a week. The world needs more false advertising like this! Normally, when being subjected to a marketing pitch, you're told how much you GET for your money. Since Planet Waves gives you plenty for no fee at all, I'm at a slight disadvantage -- yet it's true that you do get something in PWW that is a more than a little extra -- and that is, a LOT of astrology. The top shelf stuff. The newest stuff -- first and best. You know, Absolut Chiron. Bombay Safire Saturn. Bailey's Irish Jupiter. The very finest Vancouver BC Northern Lights green-bud Venus. Gourmet Centaur planets, sprinkled with bits of the Galactic Core. How to surf your way through the coming Mercury retrograde. And my brilliant forthcoming masterpiece, "What Makes Dorks Tick?" Then there's my weekly horoscope, published every Friday and available only in/on Planet Waves Weekly. You also experience all four monthly horoscopes being emailed to you before they come up on the public web pages. Currently, I am doing a series on outer planet transits (covering transits for people born from the 1950s through the 1960s), which includes great stuff on the history and interpretation of Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Neptune and Chiron. There are still three more installments to go! And then there is the weekly birthday report, which covers birthdays for the sign the Sun is in -- but which always has something for everyone. There is no sign of the zodiac that you are not at some point trying to figure out, and every year, I once again do my best to figure out every sign; there are four installments to each birthday report. Three years of these articles are archived (and searchable) on our Subscriber Homepage, along with three years of horoscopes, essays, and lots else besides. Astrology is the next best thing to My Book About Me by Dr. Seuss. You will not read any astrology like this anywhere else. Not in books, not on the Internet, not next to the funny pages -- and not even if you subscribe to the very excellent Pleiades Star-Journal, which does not exist on our planet. But even they subscribe to Planet Waves Weekly. Okay, that's what you get. And it's always good to get something for your money. But what you really get is you get to support Planet Waves and all of our projects that you love so much: Astrology Secrets Revealed, for example, and this daily blog, the photo of the day, our 24-hour newswire and so much more that makes Planet Waves your all-purpose vacation spot on the Internet. Plus, you get to forward Planet Waves Weekly to your friends as part of your subscription. Are we the coolest, or what? Plus, we offer you news with the insanity featured out. We are giving Big Brother what-for. You find some of the most fun, slightly outrageous sex-positive writing that you're going to find anywhere -- like my highly entertaining, informative, nutritious and orgasm-inspiring "Cunnilingus and Clover" feature from last week. Seriously, you can click on all 2.6 million astrology sites that come up in Google and you're not going to find anything like that -- except for right here. So, yes, marketing is a religion, but our real mission is having fun, keeping sanity's front porch light on, and making sure you get all the astrology you could ever want. And making sure you can give it away, too. Sign up now by credit card and you get instant access to the newest materials and archives. Catch you soon -- and thanks for reading. Here is the link to subscribe! http://planetwavesweekly.com/sales/home.html Yours truly, ERIC FRANCIS francis@planetwaves.net PS, subscribers will have instant access to Parallel Worlds, our 2006 annual horoscope Website. This features juicy, 2,000+ word horoscope interpretations, magnificent artwork and a lot of excellent articles. PPS, here is how our subscribers feel about Planet Waves Weekly. http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/feedback.html