Haha Axxman there are a few hits actually! Weirdly enough I have just been to buy a birthday present for someone, that's mad! I have also just had a birthday, last month and yes I like chocolate ice cream, it's so easy!
And there are simple ways to make this kind of thing seem even more impressive.
For example, you could send 100,000 emails (not at all hard to do these days) in ten groups of 10,000 each. Your email tells every person in each group that you know that they recently experienced one of the items from a list like Axxman300's, but you pick a different list item for each group. You tell everyone in group one you know they just lost their job, tell everyone in group two you know they have a brother named George, tell group three you know their mother died, etc.
With statements of these kinds they will be correct (or near enough to correct) for part of each group. Maybe only a tiny percentage, or more likely something like 5% to 20%, maybe more depending on the statement. Out of those people a few will be intrigued enough to respond.
Now you take the people who responded in each group and you break those up into subgroups and send each of these subgroups a second prediction from the list. Again a different prediction for each subgroup. There will be many fewer people in each subgroup than the 10,000 in the original group, but you now have two things going for you: You have a group a people who have shown that they're willing to respond, and to whom you've already given one accurate prediction. So even though you send many fewer emails, you will likely get a higher percentage of responses in this round of emails. In sales (and believe me this is sales) those people are called several things: high value leads, hot prospects, great potentials, and less charitably, marks.
Now you get some responses from each of your hundred subgroups, and you do the same thing again. You break the respondents up into smaller subgroups and send each of those 1000 subgroups a third prediction.
Continue doing the same thing with each batch of respondents. Start with enough emails and go through five or six rounds and you will have a handful of basically two types of respondents: those who will swear you are a true psychic because you've given them five or six perfectly correct predictions, and those who are just trying to screw with you because they know the gag.
But how impressed are those handful of true believers? And since they've already responded several times, how likely would they seem to be to go for an in person reading? You'll definitely be able to get some of them to spend some money.
And that's with no expertise, no cold or hot reading, no skill required at all, really. Just playing the numbers. Imagine what someone with skills
or experience in the "industry" could do in addition to that to make it even more impressive.
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