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Hearing Voices In Your Head? Listen To Them!

by Zeus66
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I'm not talking about the voices telling you to climb a water tower and open fire. You need to seek immediate help if that's you. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

I'm talking about that voice that warns you not to buy something here in the WSO section or on a sales page "out there." That voice is usually a lot smarter than you are! At the very least, force yourself to sleep on it. Anyone who has ever done so will tell you about the silly purchases they avoided simply by making themselves wait a few hours.

Nothing restores reason and minimizes emotions like time.

And oh, by the way, if you're a marketer who relies on a slick sales page, false scarcity, and lofty (ie, ridiculous) promises to overcome that cautious voice of reason in your prospects, too damn bad! If your stuff is really all that and a bag of chips, it won't matter. The people who do buy from you will clamor to talk about it in glowing tones. If your stuff sucks, savvy prospects will smell that a mile away by the lack of same.

Slick sales pages are just clever promises. Vast social proof is the guarantee. Funny how the marketers with longevity and never a bad word said about them always seem to fall into that second camp.

John
#head #hearing #listen #voices
  • Profile picture of the author Ryan Sorensen
    Sounds a lot like some of those time share pitches... Once you leave and think about it you realize spending $10,000 to spend a week every year in some cracker box condo for the rest of your life isn't all that worth it
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

    If your stuff is really all that and a bag of chips, it won't matter.
    Amen, brother! Preach it!
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisHeggem
    The voices in your head are conditioned based on previous experiences. If a warning flag appears in your head, it means you've seen this before and to be careful!
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    While I'm on my soap box, let's do more...

    Whatever happened to selling real value and genuinely useful and REAL information to people? Go peruse the WSO forum and see if you see what I see: lots and lots of "in your face" offers for instant riches; very little in the way of "this takes time but it's real and it works if you work hard at it."

    What an awful indictment of both the marketers and the buyers in this niche! I'm not saying it's everyone, of course, but it seems so much more prevalent than it was just a few years ago. Such a shame.

    Look, I'm not throwing stones in glass houses here. Yes, I use language in my sales pages meant to play on emotions. We all do. I'm talking about what you back that up with. If you don't have any real "game," stop bringing the BS to the court. You make us all look bad and you turn nice people into jaded victims who then tell everyone that everything in IM is a load of crap.

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

      While I'm on my soap box, let's do more...

      Whatever happened to selling real value and genuinely useful and REAL information to people? Go peruse the WSO forum and see if you see what I see: lots and lots of "in your face" offers for instant riches; very little in the way of "this takes time but it's real and it works if you work hard at it."

      What an awful indictment of both the marketers and the buyers in this niche! I'm not saying it's everyone, of course, but it seems so much more prevalent than it was just a few years ago. Such a shame.

      Look, I'm not throwing stones in glass houses here. Yes, I use language in my sales pages meant to play on emotions. We all do. I'm talking about what you back that up with. If you don't have any real "game," stop bringing the BS to the court. You make us all look bad and you turn nice people into jaded victims who then tell everyone that everything in IM is a load of crap.

      John

      It has been my experience in other fields that the folks who are doing this do not have the capabilities to recognize that they are doing something wrong.

      And that if they do, they don't care whether they screw things up for anyone else or not. As long as they get what they want.
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  • Profile picture of the author scrofford
    Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

    I'm not talking about the voices telling you to climb a water tower and open fire. You need to seek immediate help if that's you. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
    There are better places with better cover and concealment than a water tower! Sheesh! Why would I want to put myself in danger like that with bullets coming back at me?!
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by scrofford View Post

      There are better places with better cover and concealment than a water tower! Sheesh! Why would I want to put myself in danger like that with bullets coming back at me?!

      The bell tower seems a particular favorite.
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  • Profile picture of the author Britt Malka
    I once wanted a product real badly. It was something about getting 1,000 visitors in a day... But a little voice whispered me, and I told my husband about what I was about to buy. I don't do that, normally. I just go ahead and purchase. He said that it sounded phony. I checked it out. It was phony.

    Yes, listen to the voices in your head.

    Oh, by the way, all the best authors hear voices Or at least, that's what I comfort myself telling ;-)
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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
      Originally Posted by Britt Malka View Post


      Oh, by the way, all the best authors hear voices Or at least, that's what I comfort myself telling ;-)
      Yes, I hear you. In my head.
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  • Profile picture of the author Biggy Fat
    "I hear voices in my head/they council me/they understand/they talk to me!" - Randy Orton's theme music
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  • Profile picture of the author alcymart
    Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

    I'm not talking about the voices telling you to climb a water tower and open fire. You need to seek immediate help if that's you. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

    I'm talking about that voice that warns you not to buy something here in the WSO section or on a sales page "out there." That voice is usually a lot smarter than you are! At the very least, force yourself to sleep on it. Anyone who has ever done so will tell you about the silly purchases they avoided simply by making themselves wait a few hours.

    Nothing restores reason and minimizes emotions like time.

    And oh, by the way, if you're a marketer who relies on a slick sales page, false scarcity, and lofty (ie, ridiculous) promises to overcome that cautious voice of reason in your prospects, too damn bad! If your stuff is really all that and a bag of chips, it won't matter. The people who do buy from you will clamor to talk about it in glowing tones. If your stuff sucks, savvy prospects will smell that a mile away by the lack of same.

    Slick sales pages are just clever promises. Vast social proof is the guarantee. Funny how the marketers with longevity and never a bad word said about them always seem to fall into that second camp.

    John

    Correct me if I'm wrong but, are you not talking about "Intuition".

    Were you not all aware that "Intuition" can be developed through software? I developed mine in that manner for years on end... actually for the last 4 years!

    Take care,

    Bernard St-Pierre
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
    Originally Posted by Zeus66 View Post

    I'm not talking about the voices telling you to climb a water tower and open fire.
    I've tried, man. But the dang water just won't catch on fire.
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