Why do you sell your secrets?

I could answer you this questions, but probably this entire forum is going to hate me...

Because they're not "secrets", they're "dreams"...LOL!

This could be taken to much more than just IM. There are plenty of rich people (rich before writing a book about becoming rich) that share their secret. It could be that the secret is not making them much anymore and they want to do this to profit from the book, they feel a need to share information (which just seems very human, doesn't it?), or they feel so secure in their niche that no one can touch them and publishing a book will only give them a profit.

I think people selling methods like that generally have another, private method which works better for them, but why not sell the other method to the people who can't make money or make little money anyway?

Sure it's maybe not as effective, and they wouldn't personally use it themselves (anymore), but it works to a certain degree (which they surpassed a long time ago) - and so it has value to sell.

Then, of course, there's another option - sometimes it's much easier and more profitable to simply sell the idea, than to work at the idea yourself.

they make money by selling what they call "secrets"
Most of the payment proofs (clickbank screens) are sales they made by selling the same
thing they want you to buy.

Dawg... How many times a week will someone come in and ask this same question, or make this same silly argument?

People sell courses teaching others how to write sales copy. Many of these products are extremely effective when properly applied. Why would someone do that, if they make money from writing salesletters themselves? Surely what they're teaching can't still work, or they wouldn't sell it, right? But it does, and they do.

Perhaps the problem isn't with the selling of how-to info as much as it is with your lack of understanding and imagination?


Paul

There are at least three kinds of people who will tell you that and still charge for the product.

1: Liars.

2: People who understand that you won't value what they offer if you get it for free.

3: People who simply don't believe in giving things of high value away for free. They may not need the money, but they know what their experience is worth and refuse to devalue it.


Paul

Listen, I have a secret method with which you can earn $5,000 a month by just pressing a button. It is 100% automatic and anyone can do it! And I will tell you everything about it in my WSO for only $7.97! (

Will,

Tsk. Don't you know the secret code? When someone adds the word PERIOD after a statement, you're never supposed to challenge them. That's their way of disclosing that the Big Cat Himself revealed the info to them, as a voice from within a burning hairball.

Ack. Oop.


Paul

I don't sell methods or secrets. I don't have any secrets. Don't paint the whole industry with the same brush. Some people have entirely different business models and sell websites, software, and courses on how to do things that people want to learn to do.

That being said, I have purchased a lot of information products that proved to be valuable to me. I learned a lot from them and don't really know why people choose to teach and don't really care ... I'm just glad they do.

One way to look at this is that every 'secret' is a gap in known or readily available information. As long as there is a gap in people's understanding, they are willing to pay to fill that gap. I think that the gap does not exist indefinitely, and has a shelf life. The result of that is that if you do not 'sell' this information you leave the money on the table. You could choose to keep your secret so as to profit from doing it, but you can continue to do it even if you sell the information.

Money today is maximized, if you have income streams stacked. I think everyone agrees with that here. So the more streams you can stack simultaneously, the better off you are in monetizing your time.

LKH

People don't seem to grasp this "why would you sell your secret system?" concept, so I will try to explain it in one single sentence:

Because it's MUCH easier, more scalable, less risky and more efficient to make money by packaging a system into a stand-alone product to sell it to the mass-market, than it is to make money by putting that same system into action yourself.

Why do you think consulting companies like Price, Waterhouse & Coopers or Ernest & Young make their money selling their management "systems" to other corporations, rather than running their own corporations themselves? I mean, if they're so good at managing macro businesses, why don't they compete in the market themselves? Well, I quote myself: because it's easier, more scalable and more efficient to sell the "system" than to exploit the "system".

Because really they don't have so much money, their methods are already obsolete and an old method can make money in present only by selling it like a big secret. Some other guys are too lazy to make some research and are looking for exact blueprints that will not work anymore, anyway most guys are just too lazy even to take action after they bought a product!

Their are no real secrets to online anything. There's just the illusion of a secret.

What 1 person is doing could only work for them and their sales structure as well, but most likely than not, someone else out there is doing the same thing. When you buy or pay for a "secret", you're paying for an expertise or experience that works for someone.

Was it really a secret? NO, but if you want to learn what took a time investment for someone else to learn, than, yes... it is a secret to YOU, because you don't know it, and it will cost money.

Their are no short cuts, you either pay for something, or learn it by yourself.

Time out, folks...

We don't care what your beliefs are, or even if you have any at all, on the subject of religion. That is your business, and none of ours.

However, you will NOT ridicule others for their beliefs, or lack thereof, on that subject in this forum. Not if you plan to stay a member here.


Paul

PS: The posts that prompted this comment have been deleted.

I never said that the teachers are scammers or something like that. However teaching well known things and giving away the "real secrets" is not the same thing. When my first teacher told me that 2+2=4 she didn't lie, but just helped me to learn the basics of mathematics. Is it bad? Course not!

P.S. Sorry for mentioning the things that may insult someone's beliefs here. That was my mistake, and the post has been fixed.

Hey,

Awesome post!

This question comes up a lot!

Since you asked I will tell you:

Let's look at it like this:

Question:

"Chris, why do you sell your secrets?"

"Why would you want people knowing EXACTLY how you make money because you will get too much competition?"

Here is the answer:

My products offer value! It as simple as that! I know they do because they contain methods and strategies that I have made a lot of money from.

Why do I sell them?

Well of course there is the financial gain but I KNOW that out of every 500 sales I have only 10 of those people will take the LEVEL of action required to make money online!

I have had refund requests like this:

"I already know this, can I have my money back?"

Of course I refund but my point is that most people already KNOW what they need to do to make money...

Let's take Amazon sites for instance - I am willing to bet that the people making good money with Amazon have MORE sites out there...

Where as a "normal" person will only make 3 or 4 sites and say "This does not work!", someone that wants REAL success will make 200 of these sites and make a killing...

It comes down to the old saying:

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink..."

That is why I KNOW there will never be much competition but the methods (at least the ones I sell) I KNOW work...

Chris

Just a clarification to understand the word secret. It actually means unknown to others so it depends on who you are selling it to. If it's something new to the person, it can be known as a secret to the buyer and is of high value like the first time you found out Internet marketing deeply. If the "secrets" sold are already to known to that buyer, then it is not really a secret for them. Not everything is really a scam but will be considered one if they fail to present what the product should really deliver to the buyers.

Some of these people only selling with false claim. It is their way on making money which is wrong.