Contacting impossible to contact people

I’m back from my Bahamas cruise and completely rejuvenated. I just finished re-reading The 4-Hour Work Week and took away one really awesome piece of advice.

I’m just going to paraphrase as to not give too much away.  One (of the many) ideas that the book presented was relating to contacting people that were seemingly impossible to contact. The idea is that the average person will just assume that they won’t respond. Woah, this makes a lot of sense. And, maybe they would respond if you took the time to try to create a genuine dialogue with them.

I’m going to go a step further and make a set of goals that I want to achieve for each of the “impossible to contact people” that I’m going to try to get in touch with. I’ll probably start with 10 billionaires that would have some insight into businesses that I’m in.

Goals:

1. Create a list of 10 “impossible to contact people”.
2. Find their contact information (phone or email).
3. Contact them without giving up until I get an answer or f-off from them.
4. Create a real dialogue with that person.
5. Get 3 important questions answered.
6. Use that advice to make more money.

I’m also considering a similar strategy for some fund raising that I’m doing for some movies. I’ve just barely brainstormed on this so far but one of the first “impossible to contact” people that came to my mind was James Cameron… you know, the guy that made Avatar. Wow, he would be super hard to contact, right?

Wrong. It would just cost some money to get involved in charities. There’s a charity that’s raising money to take a Zero-G Flight with James Cameron and you can win a seat with him at this eBay auction. Who better to talk to about fund raising than a man that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for his movies?

For reference, I did something similar about 4 years ago and met Randy Couture and a who’s who of Mixed Martial Arts stars. I donated (a lot of money) to a charity and got to spend an entire day with Randy. I went to his gym Xtreme Couture before it was finished, had lunch with him his girlfriend, Big John McCarthy and his wife. It was a blast. My girlfriend got to go too. Add me on Facebook if you don’t believe me, I’ve got pictures

Randy personally drove me and my girlfriend to UFC 66 in his TUF hummer, not many people can say that Randy Couture drove them to UFC! The funny thing that happened was that a bunch of Mixed Martial Arts clothing companies and other brands started contacting me. I made my money back in no time doing consulting and other marketing for these new contacts.