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If I Fail, Does That Mean Everyone Will Fail and No One Should Try?

by tpw
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If I Fail, Does That Mean
Everyone Will Fail and
No One Should Try?

The "Dead" threads are starting to be resurrected.

Now, I am not opposed to the occasional Zombie movies, but the Zombies of Internet Marketing should be laid to rest once and for all...

But, as with most other things on the forum, ideas run in cycles. What was proven dead yesterday, will be the greatest untested idea of tomorrow...

For all we know, someone is sitting at their keyboard now penning the next "Great FFA Manifesto"...

Someone else may be trying to figure out how to breathe life back into the Million Dollar Home Page and its pixel-advertising.

Another person may be sitting on the beach, sipping pina colada's and trying to figure out how to rebrand the ClickBank favorite, "6 Clicks to ATM Riches". Haven't we seen at least half-a-dozen incarnations of that one in the last 3 months?

As to my lead question...

If I Fail, Does That Mean
Everyone Will Fail and
No One Should Try?

Well, you gotta admit that if someone ever in the history of the Internet made money with something, there is someone somewhere trying to figure out how to repeat that success now...

Twitter clones, Reddit clones, Yahoo clones, Ebay clones, etc.

Those clone packages are everywhere...

And programmers would not create them, if there was not money to be made making "me too" software.

So the real question is, if people are willing to copycat success, are they equally ready to copycat failure?
#clones #copycat #fail #mindset #success
  • Profile picture of the author ladywriter
    The short answer is yes.

    At first I wanted to say that I think we can all agree when certain things really are "dead". Most of us are not buying 8-tracks and watching VHS tapes.

    But some people are making money off those items at this very moment. So maybe nothing ever dies completely.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikemcmillan
    Well, Bill, you just shot the hell out of my resurrection of the 6 Clicks to ATM Riches. It's amazing how many headlines and copy techniques I see on sales pages that clone material used back in the 50s-70s in magazine and direct mail pieces.

    As you know, I used to be a teacher and I always liked the story of the teacher talking to the student who just turned in a term paper. The teacher remarked...

    "Your report is both original and good! Unfortunately, the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good."

    I see the same thing today with the bottom feeders who perpetually knock off (or try to knock off) other products. They use sales copy very similar to that found in the existing product (the good part that isn't original), and then slop together some content swill in an hour or so (the original part that isn't good) and try to pawn it off to unsuspecting newbies.

    Some people take pride in what they create; Some people don't.

    Your post made me think, Bill. That made me tired--I've got to go sleep it off. --Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author Sam England
      If you don't try...then you failed...
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Guilty as charged.

      Ever since I finally was finally able to wrap my head around this business, I
      have studied the masters...from their sales copy to their products to see
      what it was about them that made them good.

      I then used the same techniques, formulas, formatting, whatever, in my own
      sales copy and products and everything else I do.

      Why reinvent the wheel when you don't have to?

      So yes, I am probably successful because of all those who came before me
      because heaven knows I wasn't born with this knowledge.

      And sure, if I see a certain product line is hot, I'll jump all over it with my
      own spin on it. Truth is, the only REAL original idea I ever had was my very
      first product in 2006.

      Oddly, it was, and still is to this day, my best selling one.

      Hmmm...maybe there IS something to be said for originality.

      As for copying failure...that word is not in my dictionary so I can't comment
      on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marvin Johnston
    What is a zombie to some people is a brand new concept to others. So I think your real question is who is being catered to, the newbie or not so newbie.

    And it also shows some people know how to use search .

    As far as the OP question:

    If I Fail, Does That Mean
    Everyone Will Fail and
    No One Should Try?

    a saying I use frequently that seems to apply to the question is:

    "Don't force your limitations on me, I have enough of my own."

    Marvin

    P.S. In case it is not clear, I am not taking potshots at anyone!
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    • Profile picture of the author KenB
      It's better to try and fail and learn from your mistakes rather than to not try at all.

      Practice means perfect!

      Cheers,
      Ken
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