{"id":320,"date":"2006-06-19T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2006-06-19T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T23:27:17","slug":"david-blaine-or-magician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/david-blaine-or-magician\/","title":{"rendered":"David Blaine, or magician?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you think normal people<\/em> seek when they think of our weirdness? Do they think they want to see a “magician” or a “mentalist”? Or do they search for something else?<\/p>\n

Here are some search request estimates that combine results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo! to give you an idea what it is people are searching for:<\/p>\n

Estimated number of times per month people search for: <\/p>\n

“David Blaine”: 1,944,572<\/p>\n

“Criss Angel”: 311,801<\/p>\n

“magician”: 105,574<\/p>\n

“Copperfield”: 77, 294<\/p>\n

“Penn & Teller”: 29,421<\/p>\n

“Lance Burton”: 5,163<\/p>\n

“mentalist”: 3,875<\/p>\n

“Kreskin”: 2,527<\/p>\n

“Banachek”: 987<\/p>\n

“Harrison Greenbaum”: 0<\/p>\n

“Ford Kross”: 0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well. There you have it. Make of it what you will. <\/p>\n

But I will note that years ago Tom Peters<\/a> strongly and enthusiastically suggested that people in business should consider themselves the CEO of “Brand Me, Inc.”<\/em> and conduct themselves accordingly. It was true when he stated it; it’s true today; and I assure you it will be even more true after you read this line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you think normal people seek when they think of our weirdness? Do they think they want to see a “magician” or a “mentalist”? Or do they search for something else? Here are some search request estimates that combine results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo! to give you an idea what it is people […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}