How much income is "not worth it"?

Hi Warriors,

I went to a seminar at the weekend hosted by a fellow warrior and while I wasn't expecting to learn much new stuff I went to support him in his efforts. I'm moving home at the moment so I could only be there for the first day but I saw/heard something that surprised me and wanted to see what you thought about it.

One of the speakers spent around 90 minutes sharing his experience with his business model and wanting to be completely open about his results and what people could expect to be the "reality" of doing the same thing (I know that's unusual in itself), but he shared the details of his worst results, his average results and his best results.

Now to me, that was really impressive because most IMers I've seen speaking at events over the years never share their worst results. They're busy "selling the sizzle" and if you're lucky they share their success and don't over-play them too much.

So here was someone breaking that mould and I respected him for that.

To my surprise when we stopped for a coffee break I heard a couple of people talking about that presentation and saying "well, with those results it's hardly worth bothering with, I wouldn't waste my time doing that."

Now, I'm the first person to admit that I often do things which are not likely to make a massive amount of money, but I do them because I enjoy doing them, I like helping people, and if I've spent the time doing something I found interesting then I sometimes just consider the money a nice to have extra.

So, to me - that persons presentation was great. I'm already making money using the platform they were talking about but in a different way to what they were speaking about, and while the way they do it doesn't really have any appeal to me, they laid it out clearly, shared their methods and results and explained what was to them an easy way to make money using a strategy that requires little money, little effort and can be reproduced over and over again.

So whether I would do it myself or not, I would expect that since it requires very little work (most of which could be outsourced), that they'd delivered some great content and it was something people could do.

I ended up feeling sorry for the guy that some of the people he was sharing his model with just weren't interested in something that could only make them an extra $10k a year.

I can understand that people want 'big' money, but as I've actually been able to make that much just from doing 1% of what he shared with them but with my own spin on it - you would think that people wouldn't write off such a model without first thinking to themselves "how could that model be done differently to make more money?".

As I was just an attendee I had to bite my tongue and not say some things that I would normally say to open people's minds a little, but it reminded me of this forum and how many people come here that would give anything to have been given the same sort of information I just saw people ignoring.

So - to the question - How much is "not enough" for you when deciding if you should spend your time on some IM strategy?

Andy