Help!

Wonderful Friends,

 

This message is possibly worth $10,000 to me.  I need your help. 

 

I am happy to announce that your votes helped me get to the final round of the FameCast competition.  As one of the five finalists, I was flown to Austin (where I’m currently typing this email) and performed a 12-minute set of poetry at Antone’s, one of the city’s most popular venues.  I’m writing you for three reasons:

 

1)      You can check out the video footage of me performing my set by going to www.FameCast.com, clicking on stage 9 (the spoken word stage), and clicking on my name and picture.  I think most of you will really enjoy the video.  This is TOTALLY UNLIKE any of the cheaply made videos I’ve made in the past.  This is professional (and I don’t mean in a hooker kind of way.)  I did a piece that makes fun of Paris Hilton’s incarceration, a poem about my father’s Alzheimer’s-related death, the ribbon magnet piece, and a poem about disease.  Unlike the previous videos, the finals video quality is amazing.  I also encourage you to check out videos from the other four finalists, including Da Boogie Man, Corbet Dean, Anis, and Talaam Acey. 

 

2)      I’d really appreciate your vote.  The five finalists will be battling it out this week online to see who gets the most votes for their video.  If I win the competition, I’ll be awarded $10,000! If you’ve already registered on the site, voting, as you already know, takes a few seconds.  If you haven’t registered, please know that registration takes only a minute or two, it’s free, and the site doesn’t spam.  Once you’ve registered, you can vote for me.

 

3)      If you enjoy the video, please encourage your friends and family to vote.  I will not be able to win this thing unless my friends work to promote my video and advocate on my behalf.  Ask friends at work to vote.  Ask you family members to vote.  Introduce people who you think might enjoy my work to the video and encourage them to vote.  In other words, my winning depends on my wonderful world of friends.  Pass me around, like a virus!

 

I know it’s annoying to receive messages like this; and I promise this will be the last self-promotion email you get from me, as there are no more rounds in the competition.  $10,000 is a LOT of money and could really put a large dent in my 6-figure student loan.

 

I hope you’re all having a fantastic summer! Sorry to bug you.

 

Best,

 

Ragan