@vaidavytas Hey man again no hard feelings and I can totally understand your thought process and this post is not directed at you, I'm just referencing part of what you said for the sake of this post.
Not sure where to start with the point I'm trying to make here so it may go one a bit (like most of my posts)
I'm glad I was not called out on being the owner of Etsy when I shared a method for selling on there. I hope not to be called out for being the owner of Poshmark if I share a method for that app in the next few days
This app (I wont even say the T word) just so happens to be the app I use. As I said above if I used another one I would probably have been accused of promoting or owning that. If someone tells you there is a good restaurant or movie to go watch it's the same thing but because people perceive there to be no ulterior motive to those things they go un-accused. Because I get sweet fuck all for sharing this method people cant fathom why I would share it without an ulterior motive. To be honest I have to ask myself the same question sometimes but not often. Not only because of accusations but because of genuinely wondering why I would share this info instead of trying to earn from it in some way or keeping it so I can somehow use it just for myslef. We are mostly all IM'ers after all. I shared it because I know it will benefit a lot of the people here and really that's the whole reason, I'm not going to lie and make out there will be no benefit, I'm sure it will wind it's way back to me in some form or another or be the factor that starts a dialogue with someone that could lead to a project or client being acquired down the road for something else. Or if I ask a question some other members here might be more inclined to help me out with their knowledge given I shared some of mine.
Accusations like this from anyone can lead to people not wanting to share their knowledge, methods or opinions. I'm not going to say the accusation above was outrageous because that would be counter intuitive too. I really dont know the best way to deal with a situation like this should people make an accusation in the thread first? Should they message the person with their concerns first? Generally speaking I am also someone that would call people out so I'm not a hypocrite and we all read into things or see things differently and come to our own conclusions. So I can't exactly be surprised or mad at being accused of trying to promote something with any post I make on a forum like this. All I can do is refute any accusations if they are not true. I can't expect someone to read over the hundreds and hundreds of posts in the other threads to have that info first as it's a lot quicker and easier to do the accusing and let the accused do all the work lol.
The reason I am making these points is that I will be sharing quite a few more methods as the weeks and months go on just because I can and it will help people. The Poshmark method I want to share is a fucking duzy and my wife and I are making a lot of money each week doing hardly anything. The type of person that will do well with the method will probably be women aged 20 - 40 who have some spare time on their hands or need a second income or who are stay at home moms. We will literally be creating lots of competitors, there is no other way to slice it than we will be creating competitors and sharing a bunch of valuable info for free that might effect us in the future. But at the same time I cant be in all places at once and I am only getting a tiny fraction of the pie at full capacity so why not share what we are doing and let a ton of other people make a decent living off of it. A lot of people will wonder why or what we will be getting out of it money wise and what my wife and I will be wondering is how many people we have helped create small businesses? How many people have jobs because of us? How many people have rent money or money to pay for some outlandishly expensive medicine because they dont have insurance? I can quantify the tens of thousands of sellers we have properly helped on sites like Etsy and the nearly 2000 shops on there that we have personally worked with and what help that has potentially provided to people all over the world. I can't quantify the millions and millions of views some of the posts, shares, blogs, mentions we have made has done to help the countless people who have read them and we have not earned a dime from them in the vast majority of cases. I would like to think it's a lot though and will continue to do so. We get emails all the time on some of the platforms we are on thanking us, I mean look at the thread above and other threads posted by other people. There are a lot of people who will benefit from this and that's why I shared it. No other reason.
I'm sorry to be a boring fucker but no under cover promotion going on here. Use whatever tools are at your disposal. Try not to concentrate on the tool I use and try to concentrate on the concept of it and use whatever tools you can in order to achieve it.