Do you ever delete products you've paid for?

Nah I normally stick it on a hard drive as you never know when you might need it again :-)

Danny

No, I normally don't delete them but if it's something I don't use right away I normally lose it on my hardware somewhere . Trying to get better organized in 2013.

However, I do keep everything as sometimes they contain links or ideas that you might need sometime in the future. Just yesterday I pulled up a WSO PDF report from 2010 and one of the links is still helpful and it still worked!

Yes, but only when I'm changing computers. Then, I go through all the e-books and stuff on my hard drive, delete what I don't still want, and just transfer what I want to keep onto the new one.

I've pretty much kept everything I downloaded ever since I started.

I have about 15GB worth of ebooks, videos, tutorials, you name it.

I have collected so many ebooks and plugins that I don't use that I do clean them out even if I paid for them. What's the purpose of keeping that stuff you don't intend to use?

The only time I've ever deleted an eBook was when it contained no measurable value and was clearly just an ad disguised as an information piece.

Everything else, even if I had no immediate use for it, is in the vault. I'm a digital packrat, I have crap going back to 1996

Yeah I have deleted ebooks I've bought in the past.

Of course I deleted outdated ebooks, even those that I paid for.

There's no use in keeping all the outdated info, event it was "worth thousands" five years ago. If you didn't looked into the pdf for the last 2 years, the chances that you will in next 2 years are close to zero.

i usually delete the products that i buy from WSOs

Even worse I've got products I bought and never even got round to downloading them.

On the plus side at least digital books can't gather dust and require physical effort.

Most of the time I don't delete them. Just try to keep organized and store them in different folders. But it's a good idea to check and delete some :-)

Definately!

Sometimes quickly after finding out the ebook/ecourse is junk, like someone mentioned above when an ebook is just a glorified ad or sales page but portrayed as an ebook.

But usually after I have either incorporated that system into my overall business and found that it works and is a fit

Or after I have tested it and decided it does not work with my business or it does not work at all.

And yes especially if the tactics and strategies are outdated.

As i'm going though a product I take notes so unless there's something I think i'll need to refer back to I delete it once i've finished.

Yes, I have done a some spring cleaning lately and I was JUST APPALLED to see how many Ebooks and products I had paid had been sitting on my hard drive, doing nothing!! Some are no longer relevant due to changes with search engines for instance ( although I don't pay much attention to what Google says, since I believe in GOOD CONTENT only)! Some are just pure garbage but when I bought it I was really excited! Some were good but then I discovered the person behind the product since I don't like unethical people, that was headed for the bin too! Plus, they were not really good, just good marketing!

So, yes, spring cleaning is good!

Yoan

I deleted software that didn't work. Some ebooks I still have. You never know when you need to look back on things you may have overlooked.

You should get into the habit of deleting stuff you don't need.

It only takes up room in your hard drive and your head that you could be using elsewhere.

If you generally haven't used something in the last month or so then it's clearly not very important to your current plans so get rid of it.

Yup, as you learn more and more you become an expert at spotting regurgitation, techniques that no longer work and total BS.

As an exercise look through a few and click the links in some of PDF's,

I personally would delete away all these ebooks that is not useful to me. However I do save those that I feel will be useful to me in the future. There are times when I will go through my old list of ebooks and get great ideas from there.

Nah, u never delete old paid ebooks as who knows they might get sold to pawn shop aftee 100 years :-D

I would only delete those crap products that I requested for refund. Others are safe in a flash drive.

Get the Warroom membership, you literally can download as much as you want and its constantly updating with brand new stuff all the time.

Be selective in products you buy.
You will save lot of drive space and $$$.

It is essential to keep organised with your product purchases if you are to keep your business efficient. If you can't keep track of your purchases, then are you keeping track of the rest of your business?

What you should do is keep an Excel spreadsheet with a column for every product you buy.

Make a note of:
- what the product does
- how much it was
- date purchased
- how you access it (url? On your hard drive? etc).

Then make a "to-do" note in your to-do list that you need to check out the product. (Otherwise you might forget :-| )

When you have reviewed the product to go back to your Excel spreadsheet and make brief notes about what you think of it, and if it's any good. I number every product I buy and include this in the folder name on my hard drive (external) and in the Excel spreadsheet. (BTW I also duplicate my 1TB external hard drive my backup 2TB hard drive monthly, and store it offsite.)

At this point (of checking it out), if it's crap, then obviously you have the option to refund it.

In this way, you never lose track of what you have bought or the stage you are at with using it.

Generally, information products are passed their sell by date after 12 months or so. Sometimes quicker. So clear stuff out when you can. Electronically, this is less important as space is cheap. But with anything you print out you should review this stuff regularly and chuck out the junk.

I cleared a whole bookcase shelf the other day when my computer was being maintained.

This is the sort of thing you can do in dead time-for example, when on hold on the phone (or talking to boring people on the phone LOL), or even while your computer is rebooting, all your IT person is doing maintenance on it.

Clear the crap, and you clear your mind. Efficiency is very satisfying and you make more money

Malc

Nah, I keep it. One way or another, I am gonna use it in no time again. I don't wanna end up regretting up deleting a read e-book and end up purchasing it again.

I only keep the eBooks that provide great value and keep my notes from the other ones.

My notes are more valuable than the eBook, since they usually contain my own thoughts, plans to use the material, and cross references to ideas from other materials I read.

I think right now I have about 4 eBooks left on my computer in original condition.

Software is my biggest weakness. It is SO hard to delete programs that I never use, but always think....maybe soon.

Delete? No, I don't usually do that. I believe if it was worth going through then it's worth keeping through. But I've not got much so I can't say what I might do when it becomes much. If you've got some good ones- you can please send them to my mailbox here- anonymousindividual@rocketmail.com (spam and you'll see new ants on your system)