Fake it till you make it

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Many of the IM gurus post fake proofs of earnings and succeed in getting shares and traffic. They them monetize the traffic by selling courses, affiliate offers etc and thus start making money for real. Are you OK going this route for making money online ?
 
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Same like buying reviews and fake testimonials , marketing is all about conversion.
 
I feel like yeah it's a good way of short-term income but damn dude - doesn't that shit eat you up alive?
Isn't it better to actually help people with a product or maybe some free services that actually help them make money.

Like I feel like the Gary Lee approach of providing actual value and then if you feel like you receive value and it changed your life then you can buy his product is the best approach to all of this.

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I feel like if you are in it just for the money - the short term income is very little....
Like you know how many connections you can gain and how many lives you can touch if you actually give real value? and then monetize later?
 
Look. No. But. Ok. Look.

You make a website. You write a tagline, we are hot shit the hottest shit ever.

But you dont even know what shit is yet.

You get customers, you struggle, a few years go by and now youve tasted shit and you may well be hot shit.

So you faked it a little there in the beginning, and it may help you make it.

Call it fake it till you make it, call it marketing, call it what you will. Just do what you have to do to make it.
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
Look. No. But. Ok. Look.

You make a website. You write a tagline, we are hot shit the hottest shit ever.

But you dont even know what shit is yet.

You get customers, you struggle, a few years go by and now youve tasted shit and you may well be hot shit.

So you faked it a little there in the beginning, and it may help you make it.

Call it fake it till you make it, call it marketing, call it what you will. Just do what you have to do to make it.
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I agree with this when it comes to this aspect as well
But I feel like too many people sell bogus products when they have no idea if it works or not

I think as long as the product is transparent they can see what it looks like and etc - that's fine if you don't know what you're talking about.
I think it all depends on the context honestly - but yes in that aspect - I understand I agree just do what you have to do to make it

But intentionally screwing people is honestly just fucked up.
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
Look. No. But. Ok. Look.

You make a website. You write a tagline, we are hot shit the hottest shit ever.

But you dont even know what shit is yet.

You get customers, you struggle, a few years go by and now youve tasted shit and you may well be hot shit.

So you faked it a little there in the beginning, and it may help you make it.

Call it fake it till you make it, call it marketing, call it what you will. Just do what you have to do to make it.
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I agree, there's a simple quote by Mark Cuban "Sales Cures All". Another one is "Worry about problems you actually have".

If you don't have money, do whatever you need to do to make some. Then things will take care of themselves eventually, if you are a 'good person' your business model will automatically become more 'good' based on all the micro-choices you make every day.

But if you don't have money and start debating those sort of issues, you'll just remain stuck. It's like Maslow's pyramid, you gotta take care of your own needs before you can contribute.
 
i am lying to some kids to complete an offer! The worst thing i have done! The more money i make the more it feels bad
 
Isn't that What almost everyone does in Current Marketing world?
 
ziko12345 said:
i am lying to some kids to complete an offer! The worst thing i have done! The more money i make the more it feels bad
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I feel you man, CPA & content locking doesn't feel very altruistic for sure :D

Just scale until you have the funds to go create something 'legit', but also realize that even legit businesses aren't necessarily 'legit', they may not directly lie to people, but they all exploit human biases and many of them have a much larger net-negative impact than content locking lol.

Fast food, banking, online dating, gambling, you can even say the movie business for example is a scam because it tricks you into getting false positive emotions and pay for it, instead of spending that time pursuing something actually meaningful, not to mention it creates false ideals, increases superficiality, etc, etc.

Or is all of the above a rationalization and self-justification for lying to people to make easy cash, I dunno. Like everything in life, there isn't a black and white answer and it's is often a paradoxical mix of opposing ideas.
 
I'm with you. Hate it also. But unfortunately, that's the way it works.

Gotta do what you gotta do.
 
Learn till you earn'

A lot of marketing can be misleading. But even that takes a certain craft.
 
Every marketer/Guru usually says that his service/work is "the best" in the world. Now, is it really the best and is there no one better than them out there? You see, the root itself of marketing is based on lying/deceit, that's how you get paid. If you say that you are just an average marketer and there are many out there who "might be" better than you, do you think they will opt for your service/offer?
 
Shubhankar Paranjape said:
Every marketer/Guru usually says that his service/work is "the best" in the world. Now, is it really the best and is there no one better than them out there? You see, the root itself of marketing is based on lying/deceit, that's how you get paid. If you say that you are just an average marketer and there are many out there who "might be" better than you, do you think they will opt for your service/offer?
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It is changing though with time now. It is not that easy to convince readers as they have also evolved.
 
whether we like it or not. they going to do.
 
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