Very, very few people want to share working methods (especially here). Most gurus are fake, most methods are fake, you should read everything with a healthy amount of skepticism and treat every guru out there like an average joe schmoe who might have something to say but is likely full of shit. Basically, gurus share methods for four main reasons.
- Method is useless - Most methods fall under this category. Why is a method useless, you wonder? It can be a lot of reasons, but most commonly it's because it's been spammed to death (aka shared here). The guru may have already done the method themselves for some time, ran it into the ground, and are looking to squeeze the last few cents out of it. What better way than to package it up and sell it to the "commoners" (aka you) for $249 ($200 with BHW membership discount!). It could also be a working method but too little ROI on time and money for it to really be worth it for someone living in a first world country.
- You are the product - Sell a person a fishing method to catch bass and now they're on your list. But wait! You also have a method to catch rainbow trout. Next week you might have a guide to cooking that fish up, and maybe then a great review on some high quality grills and cutlery to process all that fish. IM is really a world where there is a lot of praying on the wide-eyed an innocent. It is easy to sell tools to miners, and sure, some miners strike gold. But the real people who made money in the gold rush was the people providing services to the miners, and it's the same thing with IM. A ton of gurus make their money by selling products and services to the flock. You see it all over the BHW marketplace. Sell a person a method, and boom, you got a list of people hungry for tools to fulfill that method. This is a clever tactic that never stops working.
- They are a well-meaning idiot - The rarest unicorn of all. These are the methods that are shared and then the guru immediately regrets it as the profitibility plummets as thousands of greedy idiots swarm like flies on shit with an equal amount of creativity, spamming it to death with low-effort attempts to replicate success. Maybe they wanted to give back to a community that helped them. Maybe they gambled away their house note and wanted a few quick bucks to dig them out of the hole. Maybe they thought it was win/win because why not make some extra money on top of it all.
- Method is evergreen - Often these methods are very broad and can't really be "ruined" by the lowest common denominator because it's more like broad strategies for the uninitiated to take action towards earning an online income. An example would be a guru teaching the basics of doing a 'best of' reviews site. Or, as often appears in the journeys section, selling free sites with hosting referalls. There's a million ways to spin it, and sure, it works and will probably work for a very. very long time. These methods are repackaged and re-spun a million times by a million gurus and still new courses will keep being made because it can always use a fresh coat of paint and a new spin on the copywriting and poof! You're a guru with an info product to sell on IM forums.
