Why ask advice on how to spend money?

It baffles me that people will rather be dead set on a certain expenditure rather than working out and stating what they wish to achieve and then figuring out the costs to achieve it.

It's a a bevy of Marketers...Marketers marketing to other marketers in an seemingly endless cycle.

Personally, I don't sell to anyone on this Forum unless someone specifically PM's me to inquire about something I have contributed, stated, or they might have seen in my signature.

Sadly, there are many "Self Proclaimed" Marketing Experts on here that tend to lead unknowing and inexperienced beginners down the "WSO Purchase Path" for the sake of making another $10 or $20. While some of these WSO's may well be valuable, a significant percentage may not be.

I can't say for sure as I don't purchase WSO's.

I hold a BS in Marketing Management and have been in the field for over 20 yrs...and have never authored a WSO...go figure.

I'm assuming you're talking about me - I said it like that because I thought investment is always required to make money....? and I really really need them multiplied :/

Don't you think its a little bit ridiculous to have a thread talking about threads where people ask how to make money.....

Assume you want to buy a car, you will go around and ask what is the best car, every person / dealer who wants to sell a car will tell you his car is the best but you won't take their word until you see alot of people using a product! and those people are trusted people, many people will tell you to buy this and that but you wont buy it until you get the advice from the right person

I actually see the posts as good posts, and I see alot of Warriors recommend useful tools, ofcourse some will recommend tools that are not that great but the majority will recommend good tools or a must have tools to save time and money with great results, it is always good to take more than 1 or 2 opinions then you do the research , especially if you do not have alot of experience, I guess that is one of the reasons why Forums are still popular!

Edit: I bought alot of useless products or products that didn't work for me ( maybe it worked for someone else) and I should have asked before I started buying and getting excited , that would have saved me alot of money.. with all these squeeze pages and the promises that they promise.. you never know which one is the best until you ask or try it your self

I think it all depends on how they ask. Most of the one or two-liner questions are too general in nature, so I ignore those.

But every once in awhile someone takes the time to actually give some detail on what they are planning to doing and they're genuinely asking how to invest their $500, $2,000 or whatever amount they list since they're looking to see what may have worked well for others.

But that's the minority. Most of the questions that get asked are really too general in nature to really address their real issue, hence the 20 answers from 20 different people (we all have our own marketing and technical biases).

RoD

I also find it funny to hear people here asking for advice about money.

We all will find books, sayings, etc. that we find of value to us. One that I have found quite useful is "The Richest Man in Babylon" by George S. Clason. Published in 1926, it has lots of wisdom contained within its pages.

http://www.ccsales.com/the_richest_man_in_babylon.pdf

One that applies to this discussion is from page 13:

""A twelfth month after Algamish had gone he again returned and said to me, 'Son, have you paid to yourself not less than one-tenth of all you have earned for the past year?'

"I answered proudly, 'Yes, master, I have.' " 'That is good,' he answered beaming upon me, 'and what have you done with it?'

" 'I have given it to Azmur, the brickmaker, who told me he was traveling over the far seas and in Tyre he would buy for me the rare jewels of the Phoenicians. When he returns we shall sell these at high prices and divide the earnings.'

" 'Every fool must learn,' he growled, 'but why trust the knowledge of a brickmaker about jewels? Would you go to the breadmaker to inquire about the stars? No, by my tunic, you would go to the astrologer, if you had power to think. Your savings are gone, youth, you have jerked your wealthtree up by the roots. But plant another. Try again.

And next time if you would have advice about jewels, go to the jewel merchant. If you would know the truth about sheep, go to the herdsman. Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you take only what is worth having. He who takes advice about his savings from one who is inexperienced in such matters, shall pay with his savings for proving the falsity of their opinions.' Saying this, he went away."

Marvin

I am in total agreement to the this post as these types of posts are not useful in any context rather create confusion and ambiguity. We should discuss some useful and informative topics of general interest here.

If they listen to some of us. I never tell them to spend that money. I tell them to do more research and figure out what kind of online business they want to get into and make a plan. After they've got that figured out, then and only then should they spend whatever money they need to implement their plan.