Do You Have An Uncontrollable Newbie Buying Problem?

This problem only happens to people who are desparate. People get excited when they buy a product, but that excitement dies down as soon as they figure out that it's not what they expect - quick fast cash method.

In a different aspect, with many skilled IM with great landing pages and squeeze pages, it's tough not to get suckered into buying it when you're feeling hopeless and desparate. The entire point of marketing is to sell, and I'm not one to judge, but IMHO, few have the integrity to really sell good products.

Another good example where this habit is often seen is in the weight loss world. How many people have you seen or heard about that have bought countless types of weight loss pills, courses, or even hiring different instructors only to no avail.

Just one advice, don't let what you've spent go to waste. If you think what you've just bought is a piece of crap, STOP and THINK about why you bought it. That way, you'll learn what IM is doing to your head. Be detail about the little things like huge headers and the words they play with to get you wanting. After a while, you'll know who is actually bullsh*tting and who's not.

Of course, there's always profiling, but I hope you get my point.

PS: I'm was victim too : (

How about by exercising some self control?

Another post that just naturally assumes people are victims of flashy offers. I might agree that an inexperienced person could be fooled into buying ineffective information once or twice. But after that if an individual keeps doing it, then he or she is gullible and naive and should look for something else to do other than online marketing.

The truth is, a smart person, even one brand new to the Internet could find just about everything he or she needs to get started without spending a dime.

I remember how crazy I went when I first started... heh.

I'm a junkie. I'll admit it. But what I noticed is that when I didn't have any money that I got smarter. Having money actually made me stupid. When I was broke I had to pick very carefully what I bought. I even went so far as to ask myself why I bought and then realized that I NEVER read all of the copy. All I read is what I get and how much it costs.

Now that I know that, I understand a little more. And now I can go out there and start putting some things together.

It is really difficult to say no to the next shiny object that is placed in front of you. We know in our heads that it takes work and a certain period of time for any new product to work but we are all too impatient to wait for the results.

We therefore see the next item as the better and quicker solution to reaching our goals - making more money.

It is very hard to break the habit. I know.

I'm thankful that this has NOT been my problem.

Is it even possible to have too much knowledge, too many tools, read too many books, enjoy too many magazines or indulge in hobbies for too long? This whole "shiny object syndrome" is a myth. I resent (slightly) being dumped into a lower class just because I buy things that interest me. The fact that you can hunt for years to find the same information for "free" and should therefore never buy it is invalid. This only assumes that your time has no value. If someone can offer me a shortcut into a method that works for them then I'll buy it - especially at these crazy low prices.

Most of these WSOs (I presume that's what you're referring to) add to or confirm my knowledge and I can not see any possible way that's a waste. Now, if these WSOs were thousands of dollars then I'd say exercising caution and doing some more research might be prudent but for $7, a hot coffee and an hour relaxing for a good read I can enjoy a perfect hour of enlightenment, learn a shortcut or two or pick up some useful new insights.

I challenge your assumption that it's got anything to do with an uncontrollable "need" to spend money or buy things. That's just plain insulting. I'm learning and anyone who thinks learning new things (which always comes at a cost of either money or time) has some deep issues to deal with and so far as anyone looking for a "magic system" goes, that's pure bunkum (sorry to say). I've been here enjoying making money online since 2002. I've interviewed hundreds of people and read thousands (probably tens of thousands) of comments, reviews and discussion and not once have I ever heard of anyone who's looking for a magic anything. Every single person I've spoken to is willing to learn and put into practice anything they find useful or relevant. There is no magic shiny button syndrome - never was and the next time I hear someone tell us (the community) to "take action" I'm going to throw my freaking coffee cup against the wall.

Buying information is a GOOD thing regardless of headlines, promises or inferred speed. I'd rather that people spend $7 on a WSO than on drugs. I'd rather that people buy some information than waste hours, days, weeks, months or years trying to scavenge around for bits of free information. I used to sell my own stock market trading method (what worked for me) and I was regularly accused of selling information that could "readily be available for free" - so what? In just a few hours I could teach people exactly what was working for me daily, exactly how I went about it and showed real examples of exactly how I did it. That's worth money because it educated people, saved them time and inevitably saved them money (practicing with imperfect systems "trying to figure it all out for free".

I love buying information, reports, working systems and even theories and case studies. Why? Because I get enjoyment, I learn something and I add information to my hard drive for later use or reference in just the same way as people buy books, encyclopedias and go to community, local, state or national colleges to learn things. I see it makes inherent sense to buy something (inexpensive) that will teach me something that I would not have learned otherwise and that I didn't even know I needed to know. I could go on with dozens and possible hundreds of examples of how buying information has saved me time and money and given me knowledge I would not have otherwise had.

There's nothing wrong with buying knowledge people - keep doing it so long as you can afford it, enjoy it and are on your path to or fighting for freedom. Sure applied knowledge is power but knowledge alone (applied or not) is not useless and never will be.

That's what I reckon anyway...

When I was new to Internet Marketing I had that problem too. As somebody here has mentioned, when we are new, we don't know anything and we believe everything. All we want to do id the "right thing" to be successful, so we justify all those purchases as being a "necessary evil" to help us learn the "right" way to market.

Once we get experience, we realize that there is no "right" way. There is only the "best" way for us, and that is an individual thing we can only learn from . . . more experience.

At a certain point, we must stop buying – and buying into – everything and start strategizing a workable action plan suitable to our own needs and interests.

GT

So far, so good.