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News & Updates

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

2010 Alpha set (Ultrasonic) is up. Masked is next.

Breast Enlargement 4.0 Six Stage Set is up. So is the corresponding Breast Reduction 4.0 Six Stage Set.

Stop Smoking Forever 4.0 Six Stage Set is up. I have not finished with the instructions that will be included. They are simple:

1. Choose the track you prefer (masked or ultrasonic). Start with Stage 1.
2. Set that track playing on loop mode over speakers in your bedroom at a comfortable volume.
3. Use the Ocean Surf track to calibrate volume for the ultrasonic track, if you prefer the ultrasonic. The minimum effective volume for the ocean surf track is the one at which the lowest volume parts of the ocean surf are still softly heard.
4. Leave the track playing on loop mode in your bedroom for two weeks. Then immediately switch to the next stage. Do not use the stages out of numerical order.
5. Continue using the program through all 6 stages for a total of 12 weeks, regardless of when you quit smoking. (Most people quit smoking without effort within between 4 and 8 weeks. If you are still smoking by the end of week 12 (very unlikely if you’re following these instructions), simply repeat stages 1 through 6 again.
6. Don’t try to force yourself to quit smoking if it’s a strain. Minimize your smoking as much as possible, but let the program do the hard part. You’ll notice that you simply slow down and stop quite automatically and without effort, stress, irritation, anxiety, etc. over time. It is important to allow the program to work at its own speed, because the goal is stress free smoking cessation.

More to come. I’ll have the instructions for Stop Smoking up very shortly to be downloaded with the program.

The forum is live! Please join our forum and help us get it off the ground. We look forward to hearing about your experiences with our products, and helping you through the forum.

There is also a section of the forum designed to be a support area for smokers trying to quit smoking using our program.

You can visit the forum by going here:

http://www.subliminal-shop.com/forum

Stop Smoking Subliminal

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I have been working on getting my stop smoking subliminal up on Amazon.com. That seems to be the best place to put it. The proof came in the other day and has several things that need adjustment, but I haven’t had a chance to get to that yet. I was surprised how slow the publisher moves for sending proofs; guess this isn’t going to be a “blitzkrieg” of subliminal publishing for Amazon. Regardless, I’m working on it, and it should be available there soon.

On Amazon, it is going to be packaged in a standard CD jewel case and probably will have the price set at $24.95 a copy – just about the same price as a carton of cigarettes. I have decided to do that because I have tried to give away copies of the program to various people who said they wanted it, only to have them treat it as if it was worth what they paid for it. So I’m not giving copies of it away anymore: if you really want to quit smoking, you’ll be willing to pay for it. One can’t expect that success will be had by giving it to someone who doesn’t really want it in the first place. Lesson learned.

Technical Difficulties Are Fixed

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Thanks to the good work of my partner, Andrew, the subliminal-shop.com store is back online and better than ever.

To Be Fair To Lulu…

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Recently it came to my attention that the problems I was having at Lulu.com have been fixed. I am not sure when they were fixed, or what prompted it, but they have been fixed. Months and months later, to be sure; but fixed regardless. Let’s give what credit is due, where it is due.

The forum is coming! The forum is coming!

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The day before yesterday, Andrew surprised me. He showed me what he had concluded was the best choice for our forum software.

That surprised me because I had forgotten we discussed having a forum. Well apparently, he hadn’t. I love that guy.

So we discussed it for a while, and settled on MyBB, a forum software that looks nice, has lots of features, and is free. As in, won’t increase our costs, or yours. Hooray for open source!

He installed it, and I configured it, and it’s now awaiting is his once-over to make sure I didn’t set anything wrong, because let’s face it… as good as I am with computers, this is something I have never done before, and I may be misunderstanding something.

Anyway, the forum is almost ready, and we are looking forward to opening it up for you all to post on, read and enjoy. I’m hoping to create a community where people can come to learn about subliminals, ask questions, post their experiences and make requests. Hopefully, we can all learn something in the process. It is important to me that this forum be civil, and a place where everyone can feel comfortable. So by all means, join our forum – but please be civil, kind and respectful to your fellow forum members.

Thank you for reading, and thank you for your interest. We’re about to take a big step forward.

Lulu is sinking their ship quickly.

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

In my last blog, I wrote about what happened to me concerning Lulu.com. Basically, one day I logged in and saw that all my files were gone… all my products were gone… all my sales histories were gone… all my payments were… gone.

I looked for a phone number.

No phone number anywhere.

I looked for Live Help.

Found out in the Forum that they decided Live Help wasn’t helping their bottom line, so… they chopped it. No live help.

What’s left? E-mail.

So I send them an e-mail. Surprisingly polite, too, considering that they just “lost” 50% of my monthly income.

I get an automated response back. “We’re sorry, but due to a larger than normal amount of problems, we won’t be getting back to you in our normal 1-2 days. See ya.”

So I wait. Three days goes by. Five. Ten. Fifteen.

Nothing.

I am keeping tabs on what’s going on with my account on their site. The only thing that’s there the whole time is a project called… “Test”.

Nothing.

I write to them again, this time being a lot less polite. (Still not letting loose, because that usually isn’t productive, but still.) No response at all.

Then I have my partner, Andrew, inform me that one of my customers tried to download a large product from the subliminal-shop.com site, and it failed for him, so he purchased the product from Lulu.com and wanted a refund.

*Insert sound of needle being torn off a record player*

What?

Lulu is still selling my stuff, but I am not able to access it?

I’m not getting paid for it?

And the store is having trouble with downloads completing occasionally?

This means that not only do we have to find and fix the problem at the download shop (we’re very much on that puppy, let me assure you!), but now Lulu has been paid for my product, and I don’t get the money… and I have to refund what I did get?

In other words… I don’t get paid, but my customer has to pay for it?

In other words… Lulu screwed me AND my customer?

He got his refund. We stand behind our products and our money back guarantee. But that was money out of my pocket because he didn’t ask for help directly from us… we could have sent it to him another way, and he wouldn’t have had to spend that money again. We may be having slight technical difficulties, but we do have backup and redundancy plans. If you have a problem with a download, just say so. We will do what it takes to make it right.

I went straight to Lulu.com and canceled my account. Why? Because I could not think of any other way to get them to delete the products I had there, which they were now illegally selling and not paying me for. The cancellation page states that they will delete all digital files you have uploaded within 24 hours of deleting your account, as long as none of them have been purchased within that time. This gives the purchaser time to download.

Okay, makes sense. So I deleted it, and then I discovered in his e-mail a download link, from Lulu, which he put in his e-mail proving he had made his purchases. Lo and behold, there’s my storefront… with all my products… still being displayed… still available for the world to see… still available for purchase.

Why, pray tell, was I not able to see them when I had an account?

Let me tell you, this got me very upset. I just hoped and prayed that the would all be deleted in 24 hours.

Were they?

Nope. Of course not. That would make sense.

Days and days later, and Lulu is still happily selling my things. After I have canceled my account. Just go there and do a search for my name – Shannon Matteson – and you’ll see my stuff still there, still available for purchase.

Don’t buy it from Lulu. If you do, and you need a refund, they won’t refund you. And neither will I, because I can’t refund you money I don’t have from an illegal sale of my property.

Let me be very clear. I am glad to refund legitimate purchases, for legitimate reasons. But I can’t pay my bills and refund you money that you didn’t give to me. And if you purchase my intellectual property from Lulu… you are not giving your money to me. I don’t have an accoun

We are back and kicking up some dust!

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

You may or may not have noticed, but the download store has been back up for a little while now. We have been optimistic that our efforts have fixed the poblems we were having, and have been waiting and watching closely. So far, they appear to be entirely gone. Whew!

Recently, I have been trying to decide what to do about CD orders. I get those occasionally… even though I thought I had closed down the whole store (Except for customs). My stock on Kunaki is being deleted as I do not order copies…and the amount of wok it ecomes to build and upload this man CDs to Kunaki is prohibitive. I would need a dedicated staff for that. So I decided to let them go and focus on downloadables instead. Now I have a printer that can print directly on CDs, so from how on, if you really want something on CD, you can make a special order, but I will be manufacturing the disc and packaging it myself. That’s how I used to do it back at eBay – I use high quality CD-Rs (diamond dye silver inkjet printables) and they will still come in DVD cases, but there will not be printed inserts. Designing, printing, and cutting the inserts would put me back into the same bind as before. However, while it may not be as flashy as before, it will be the same program, and same quality and effectiveness. It will also allow me to ship with a more complete set of instructions. I prefer dealing with downloadables, but if you want something, and .mp3 doesn’t work for you… we can do a CD. Still $19.95 a copy, of course.

The day before yesterday we had one of our more active customers tell us that he wanted the entire Writer’s section of programs. He quoted the 24-48 hours thing, and said “Clock’s ticking!” Wow. I cannot tell you how hard we worked to meet that deadline… I thought my eyes were going to explode. (They still might!) So here’s a clarification. We want to please our customers, but the 24-48 hours is for 1 to 3 programs at a time. Not seven. Yes, it is possible… but seven in one day almost doubles my previous record, and puts me in genuine concern for my ocular health. Three per day is the maximum. So if we don’t have it in the download store, and you want it, ask and ye shall receive. But please limit your requests to three titles at a time… I am no good to anybody if my eyes explode. :)

That said… the entire Writer’s section is up. I could not have done this without the diligent work of my partner Andrew, so I’d like to thank him for cutting his date short to come work, and kicking butt and getting things cranking.

I’m going to try to do one or two titles a day as possible, so there’s always new stuff for you to come see. However, I am also starting a photography business, so I am not sure if one or two a day will always be possible. As for my photography business, you’ll finally get to see what I look like, if you haven’t seen me elsewhere, because I’ll be able to do a professional self portrait now. (Andrew is in a different state – he’ll have to do his own portrait. lol)

One more thing I would like to point out, after having a long conversation with one of my customers on IM is that some of you look at all the titles we offer and you become skeptical about some of them. I’d like you to know that I do not build anything I do not think is possible to make wok with subliminals, but that not everything is going to have the same level of effect for everybody. Titles hat repeatedly raise flags for some people include hair regrowth, penis enlargement, and unlock psychic abilities. Well, do they work? Sure. But not necessarily for everyone. Penis enlargement seems to lose effectiveness as the user’s age goes up – younger guys get better results on average than guys who are in their forties and later. Some guys see fantastic results, and some don’t see any. Hey, we know that is the case, and that’s why we have a refund policy. Try it, and if it woks for you, great. If not, say so, and we’ll refund you. It’s pretty much the same with hair regrowth. Age, type of baldness, etc. all play a factor. Andrew tried it, and it does not seem to have done any better (or worse) than other treatments he tried, but he didn’t get the results he wanted. Some guys do, some guys don’t. Subliminals are not a panacea. So if you try something, and it does not wok for you – after using it properly (according to the instructions) feel free to ask for a refund.

The only thing we don’t offer a refund for is custom or customized subliminals, and the reason has to do with the fact that each custom job is unique work. Economically, it’s no sweat to offer a refund for a non-custom job because we know that it’s going to be around 1 in 5,000 who ask for a refund. But when hours go into producing a single title that nobody else can buy… a refund would be me working my butt off for free. So if you’re considering the purchase of a custom, or a customized subliminal, please make sure you have at least tried our free stuff successfully first. We love our customers, and we want to please you all, but I cannot work for free. So… make sure you are comfortable with the results you get from our other products before you order a custom, or customized, subliminal please.

And last but not least, an update on Lulu. Since they still have not taken my products down, I opened my account again a while back, and asked them to re-connect my products. After waiting for weeks for an answer, the answer I got back was this:

Dear Shannon,

Thank you for contacting us!

We have received your inquiry and are assigning it to a representative. Please note that due to increased growth, higher volumes of requests may result in temporarily longer wait periods for resolution to your issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and would like to assure you that your issue will be handled as quickly as possible with the utmost care.

To help track your support inquiry we have generated a unique Case number. Your Case number for this issue is (number). Please use this code in any further communication.

*All emails related to your new Case will also include a Reference ID in the subject line and body. The reference ID is used to link emails to your Case. Please do not remove this ID, and please remember to include it on all correspondence related to this Case.

Since Lulu is a free site to use we will not offer support on any applications or document creation software. If you are having formatting or document type problems please use the Community tab.

Please add Lulu.com to your “Allow” list inside whichever email Spam/ Virus Software you use. If you don’t you may not receive responses from Lulu.com

Thank you,
System User
Lulu Enterprises, Inc

Your comment:
I had all the files disconnected from my account… but they remained on lulu for sale. I contacted you about this, but got no response. To get my files deleted, I cancelled my account about a month ago. My files are still for sale, and you sent me $(number) from what I presume is what sold after the files were disassociated. Since you plan on selling my files regardless, I might as well get paid for it… please re-associate all the files by author “Shannon Matteson” with my new account. If you need further proof of ID, contact me. You have my SSN already.

Shannon

ref:00D56zQ6.50056kHGH:ref

The response is dated 6/30/2009. The request for help that you see in the block quoote was sent around the 6/2/2009 mark. I am still waiting.

The download store is closed?!

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Well, yeah… for tonight. We’ve discovered a problem that requires that we shut down the store for a little while for us to be able to fix it as quickly as possible, without causing problems for customers.

I didn’t want this to happen, but such is life. So bear with us, please. We’re only down for a little while – and only to make things better for you, our customers.

More new stuff!

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

I have been busy lately, to be sure.

Today has seen me working my butt off rebuilding the Poetry of the Silent Eros set, also known as the Subliminal Audio Arousal Toolkit (SAAT). The old version was built in 2006, and was the SAAT 2.0. SAAT 2.1 was created as a minor update about two weeks ago, but there was so much I wanted to add, improve on and change that I didn’t release version 2.1. Instead, I just started working on 3.0.

Building this set of programs is no small feat. It is a very complex operation. It started this time with Volume 2. Then I built Volume 4, and then Volume 5. After that, I built Volume 1, and then finally Volume 3. This took me a long, long time to accomplish. Just the script took me a day to write. It’s longer than the script from SAAT 2.0, and more complex. More like a standard subliminal that I would make than before. Much, much more powerful than before… if it works the way it is intended to.

The cost of this power is the speed at which it works. Theoretically, Volumes 2, 4 and 5 should work somewhat less quickly now than before, but the results should be more powerful and forcefully experienced. Most people exposed to SAAT 2.0 would respond within between 5 and 45 minutes, with the majority responding in about 20 to 25 minutes.

SAAT 3.0 is built, but before I release it, I need to test it for efficacy, speed of response, make sure the volume is good, and generally make sure it is what I want it to be. However, like Version 2.0, the scripts for this will not be available to the public.

In other news, I have begun putting scripts for the programs up at the download store (http://www.subliminal-shop.com). They are at the bottoms of the descriptions. Not everything has the script up yet, but I am working on it. There were a lot of requests for scripts recently, so I figured, what the hell… I don’t put up the whole script when it is longer than about ten suggestions, but that’s enough to give you a good idea what’s going on. Some of the scripts are rather short; others range to several pages in length. Just because a script isn’t very long does not mean it isn’t very powerful; it just means that I managed to make the suggestions extremely dense with information. And in some cases, such as attraction subliminals, that’s a much better approach because it make the program work faster.

I have been wanting for a long time to start producing video subliminals, and I have the means to do so now, but I do not yet have the time or knowledge of video editing. So be aware that video subs are planned for the future, but it will probably be several months at least before I can begin seriously working on those. I have in mind a beach scene for the video… ocean surf seems to be very popular. I am also considering a few other options, such as water gently lapping at rocks on the shore, a fire, a thunderstorm, an aquarium, a waterfall, or some sort of wildlife/woods scene. Let me know what you think… I’ll be trying to gather all of them, but I’m sure I won’t be able to get them all. Anyway, as far as I can tell, it should not be too difficult to add a subliminal audio track and then put in visual suggestions for very brief periods of time. But again… no time right now while I am building the audio subliminals, and not very much knowledge about video editing… yet. I’ll get there. May just surprise myself if I can get a decent video background scene recorded.

There might have been something else, but if there was, I have forgotten it in my exhaustion. Time for some much needed sleep. Thanks for reading.

What The Heck Is Going On?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Well it’s been a while since I have posted, and that’s because things are crazy behind the scenes here, as usual.

So let’s see, what’s going on? Well, I have been building subliminals like crazy since Andrew and I decided to put aside the physical CDs for the time being and focus on the download store. To build the physical CD and the download means that there is a mountain more work for me than just building the downloadable. So we have decided to shut down the CD store, for the most part, and just offer downloadables. I am building them as fast as I can, but even “just” downloadables take a long time to build correctly, for each one.

We have encountered some issues that have made it harder for us to function, so Andrew is going to be updating our store software soon at the http://www.subliminal-shop.com website, and we are hoping that will make things run smoother. Andrew is busy lately with college, so he’s going to work on that this weekend, and is expecting it will take a couple of weeks to get the store software fully transitioned and upgraded and tested. We won’t be adding any of the myriad of subs I have been building to the store until the store software has been upgraded. So please bear with us on that, we have a lot of new stuff in queue waiting, but we are busy and we would rather do it right that fast.

The only exception is customer requests. If you make a specific request, I place a high priority on that and I will build it ASAP and send it to Andrew and ask him to up it to the store immediately. Custom and semi-custom orders, also, will be processed as quickly as possible during this transition time as well, and will be delivered upon completion. If you’d like to send Andrew an e-mail at the subliminal-shop.com store and tell him to get a move on so you can see the myriad of new stuff waiting in queue, feel free. ;)

As for the planned XL-7 series, we have had to shelve that also for the time being. These programs are very complex and require certain things for me to be able to build them that I just do not have access to at the current time. I refuse to produce an inferior product, so instead of the XL-7 series, I have come up with the idea of building a different series. Some of the same titles, but instead of having the various features of the XL-7 series, these will be built using the multi-stage script weaving technology I invented for the Alpha Dominant Male Subliminal Training Set.

The first of the programs I am working on for this new set is one to make the user become a self-made millionaire. I have not decided if it is going to be a 6 stage set, an 8 stage set or a 10 stage set. I am leaning toward 10 stages, given that this is going to take more than 6 months time for most people, and there are a lot of topics to cover… where it is possible to expand the number of stages to accommodate the script better, I would like to do so. I’m figuring this set will require between 1 and 4 years to achieve the desired result, but given how powerful I am planning to make it, it is conceivable that it could produce the desired results in as little as 10 months in some cases. No, this is not a magic wand. It will not be something you can use off and on and expect to succeed. You commit to it, you use it, and you get the results. This thing will be replacing the single CD for becoming a multi-millionaire within 4 years… and it is going to be a BEAST. Just like the Alpha set. It will cover everything I can think of, everything I know, everything I can find, and everything I can get my millionaire contacts and friends to admit or share with me.

This set will not require extended testing, as the Alpha set did. I should be able to build it inside of a month and both start using it myself, and make it available for you all too. Possibly less than a month, if I focus on it. Who knows. Sometimes I surprise myself. But don’t think that becoming a multi-millionaire with it is going to be a matter of just listening and it happens. No… this is going to make you do the things that result in becoming a self made multi-millionaire. It is not always easy, and it’s not always fast. But it is much, much easier with what I am going to put into this program. I have pages of notes already, and have not yet written word one of the script.

Anyway, we are going to introduce a series based on this “superscript weaving technology” I have invented, and it is tentatively known as ST-9. The series will start with the millionaire builder and include other titles as well. I am not sure if all the titles I had planned for the XL-7 series will work well as ST-9 programs, but where they will, I will build them.

As for how much the ST-9 series will cost, I am not yet sure. We are going to offer them as downloadables first, most likely, although this much audio data, even as a double compressed file (.zip/.mp3) for transfer is going to be large. Think 90 megabytes per stage, zip & mp3 compressed. (Oh, I forgot to mention, we’ll be doing these as dual format, so you’ll be getting both ultrasonic and ocean surf versions of each stage.) So a 6 stage set would be about 540 megabytes; an 8 stage set would be about 720 megabytes; and a 10 stage set would be about 900 megabytes. It’s a lot of data. You’ll definitely be getting your money’s worth.

We have gotten some pretty amazing feedbacks lately about how wonderful the products are working for people, and we love hearing that. Keep those feedbacks coming! The more we know about how it works for you, the more we can refine the product. (Although I am seriously thinking we have reached just about the limits of what a subliminal script can be optimized for.)

Once we have the download store set up, filled with all the titles we (and you) can think of, and we have the scripts up for them, and good images and descriptions, etc. we will be looking around for CD manufacturers to help us build up a CD presence again. Until then, just remember, we consider it fair use to make CDs from your purchases, as long as you only use them for yourself and don’t give them away or share them. You can make a CD from your download like this. Get your favorite audio editor (Audacity is free, and runs on Windows, Linux, and I believe Mac; Cool Edit and Audition are also good choices) and load the mp3. Then save it as a .wav file. Doing this will not damage the subliminal data. Then take the .wav file and use your favorite CD burning software (Go k3B!) and tell it to burn you an audio CD using the .wav files. Tada! Now you have a CD from your download. Again, just please don’t share, give away, etc.

Just remembered… we now have the 2009 Alpha Male Training Subliminal Set available as a masked subliminal version. Each version (ultrasonic or masked) is being sold separately, and each one is $124.95 per copy.

Some of you have reported trouble downloading things. We are aware of, and are working on that. If you have trouble, please let us know immediately, and we will make it right for you. DO NOT just assume we are trying to scam you and ask for a refund. You obviously wanted the program enough to pay for it, and we want you to get what you paid for! So yes, we are working on it. But if you have trouble, just shoot us an e-mail over at the http://www.subliminal-shop.com store and ask for help. That’s what we are here for.

Also remembered… we are in testing for another subliminal project we have been working on. This one is designed for body builders. (Andrew is a body builder.) We have created a script that I think we are both proud of, and I don’t think it could be more powerful if we tried. It will probably end up being a 3 or 6 stage set, using the ST-9 technology. So far, we have been quite please and more than a little surprised with the results. If you’re a body builder, and you’re serious about “beastification”, as Andrew calls it, you are going to be drooling for this one. It is positively ridiculous.

Whew… I know there’s more to say but I can’t remember right now, so this will have to be where I sign off. I’d like to thank all of you who visit the store at http://www.ultrasonic-subliminals and http://www.subliminal-shop.com, and especially those of you who kindly support us with your purchases. We always love to see people making suggestions and requests, and you’ll probably notice that if you have made suggestions, we have taken them in a lot of cases. Thank you!

Please come back and see us again, and remember to tell your friends about us! The more sales we make, the faster we grow, and the faster we can make more awesome stuff for you guys! (I don’t think I am ever gonna be able to retire, lol) Thanks again all! We look forward to seeing and serving you in the future!

P.S. – Keep your eyes out for our Testimonials page and our forum, coming soon!