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Why are WSO's so addictive? *VENT HERE*

by EmmaPowell
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Hiya Warrior,

Of late I have heard some HORROR stories about IMers buying way way way too many WSOs, and also of IMers spending far too much time on the computer and away from their families.

So what is it about a WSO that makes it like a drug?

Is it all the pretty pictures and catchy headlines? Promises of freedom from a one click button software?

Some people have a real problem with it!

Dont get me wrong.... I am not bagging WSOs they def have a place and can be a wonderful resource but for me it has to meet these criteria

1) It has to have a PLACE in my business - very few (there are some) are complete business solutions. Most play a role in your business and I need to make sure that the WSO fits in or is the missing component in my business or adds value to my current business model

2) Within my price range - I must be able to afford it after all my normal bills are paid

3) I need to have the TIME - no matter what WSO it is it needs time to absorb and then to impliment, if I dont have time set aside to devour it then its not for me at that time

So, are you a WSO-a-holic? If so why? And has it ever effected your home life or your finances?

Love to hear what you honestly think

Em
#addictive #vent #wso
  • Profile picture of the author ahweiner
    I did the math recently using my Warrior Plus account...it ain't pretty...since I started last year I have spent over $700 in WSO's. That is not a typo.

    I am definitely hooked on them...the next "bright shiny object."

    Ughhhhh

    When I go through a WSO and either find out the hard way that it doesn't work, or more likely, simply dismiss it as not viable...it keeps me in the IM game when I find the next one...know what I mean??
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    • Profile picture of the author dcristo
      Originally Posted by ahweiner View Post

      I did the math recently using my Warrior Plus account...it ain't pretty...since I started last year I have spent over $700 in WSO's. That is not a typo.

      I am definitely hooked on them...the next "bright shiny object."

      Ughhhhh

      When I go through a WSO and either find out the hard way that it doesn't work, or more likely, simply dismiss it as not viable...it keeps me in the IM game when I find the next one...know what I mean??
      No I don't. It seems as though you are getting played, instead of playing the game. It's not all bad though, you could have easily dropped a few thousand dollars on one product, and still be in the same position.

      Contrary to popular belief, there are no secrets to making money online.

      It just takes a lot of persistence and hard work.

      Furthermore, when you have clueless people like this that are selling WSO's you have to ask yourself, should you really be listening to what they have to say?
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  • Profile picture of the author roomservice
    Most WSO's are recycled stories/methods/techniques.
    You'll know 99% of what you read.
    But that ONE percent can be worth buying/reading!
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Holmes
    Why? Escapism.

    If you don't "really" believe you are going to "make it" then buying the next WSO and never giving it 100% CAN help you hold onto that hope or that dream for just a little bit longer.

    It's not JUST about the quality of the WSO but also, the qualities of the individual making the purchase.
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  • Profile picture of the author Norfolk
    WSO section is almost non-existent to me now, but in the beginning there was a mini spree. Luckily I'm reasonable with my spendings most of the time, so never got myself in trouble over buying some particular report. The reason I went after it was I was almsot completely new to IM and those darn splashy, glittery salespages and headlines promising you can mane $xxx in a day. Ugh!
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    Not an addict by any means. Have bought two WSO in the last year or so and both of those were from the same duo. I knew the makers or I wouldn't have bought them.

    I buy a lot of products that automate task but most info type products is from someone tickled to death they have learned something we discarded a few years back as doable but not the best ROI.
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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by EmmaPowell View Post

    So what is it about a WSO that makes it like a drug?
    It's not the WSO that is the drug, but the shopping.

    That's why so many people come back after buying and complain. They've confused the excitement and endorphin high of "I could make lots of money by purchasing one of these!" with actually believing the sales copy.

    So what they end up doing is whipping themselves into a frenzy of "I NEED TO BUY ONE OF THESE" and throwing money toward a WSO author effectively at random.

    This is the natural result of sticking a buttload of sales pages in one place where it's easy to read a whole bunch of them right in a row. They're designed to make you emotional, which is expected to impair your judgment, and if we force you to read enough sales copy you'll basically turn into a drooling idiot waving money.

    Basically, don't go into the WSO forum looking for something to buy. Talk to friends that you trust about what's worth buying. Just like most of the stuff on the shelves at the supermarket is not the leading brand, most of the stuff in the WSO forum - or, indeed, in any large internet marketplace - is not something worth buying.

    Don't get me wrong. There's still plenty of good stuff in the WSO Forum. But most of it is crap.
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    • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
      Some people **cough .. cough** CD .. has been known to give information away on Friday nights that are ten times more valuable than the average WSO entry :-)



      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      It's not the WSO that is the drug, but the shopping.

      That's why so many people come back after buying and complain. They've confused the excitement and endorphin high of "I could make lots of money by purchasing one of these!" with actually believing the sales copy.

      So what they end up doing is whipping themselves into a frenzy of "I NEED TO BUY ONE OF THESE" and throwing money toward a WSO author effectively at random.

      This is the natural result of sticking a buttload of sales pages in one place where it's easy to read a whole bunch of them right in a row. They're designed to make you emotional, which is expected to impair your judgment, and if we force you to read enough sales copy you'll basically turn into a drooling idiot waving money.

      Basically, don't go into the WSO forum looking for something to buy. Talk to friends that you trust about what's worth buying. Just like most of the stuff on the shelves at the supermarket is not the leading brand, most of the stuff in the WSO forum - or, indeed, in any large internet marketplace - is not something worth buying.

      Don't get me wrong. There's still plenty of good stuff in the WSO Forum. But most of it is crap.
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      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips View Post

        Some people **cough .. cough** CD .. has been known to give information away on Friday nights that are ten times more valuable than the average WSO entry :-)
        *COUGH* *COUGH* Which ends up on pirate sites in less than an hour.


        Although on some level, when my friend sent me this screenshot (from which I have cropped all the identifying information, dumbass), I just went "Woohoo! I've made it!"
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        • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
          Just goes to show CD .. there are pricks in every circle. Thing is .. that was a pretty tight circle so it should not be too hard to figure where the leak was.



          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

          *COUGH* *COUGH* Which ends up on pirate sites in less than an hour.


          Although on some level, when my friend sent me this screenshot (from which I have cropped all the identifying information, dumbass), I just went "Woohoo! I've made it!"
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          • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
            Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips View Post

            Thing is .. that was a pretty tight circle so it should not be too hard to figure where the leak was.
            I'm reasonably sure it was the guy who sent me the screenshot, who probably did this so he could snicker about this on the site and say "I acted all offended like I was honest or something."

            Fact is, the average internet user today doesn't actually believe piracy is wrong. He knows it's illegal, and he knows product owners don't like it, but he mostly thinks that's just because we're all greedy corporate arseholes who don't like to share.

            Meanwhile, your average pirate site filled with IM products is full of people who still aren't rich, even though they have immediate free access to all those products. They say it's because the products don't work. I say it's because you don't value what you don't buy.
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            • Profile picture of the author EmmaPowell
              Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

              I'm reasonably sure it was the guy who sent me the screenshot, who probably did this so he could snicker about this on the site and say "I acted all offended like I was honest or something."

              Fact is, the average internet user today doesn't actually believe piracy is wrong. He knows it's illegal, and he knows product owners don't like it, but he mostly thinks that's just because we're all greedy corporate arseholes who don't like to share.

              Meanwhile, your average pirate site filled with IM products is full of people who still aren't rich, even though they have immediate free access to all those products. They say it's because the products don't work. I say it's because you don't value what you don't buy.
              Now this is VERY interesting to me and something I have never really considered..... until now

              But the saying "Lay down with dogs wake up with fleas" comes to mind - there are no millionaires in that blackhat world is there?
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  • Profile picture of the author ckbank
    Because most of us want to avoid the actual process of making money. It's always nice to buy WSOs and dream, but that ain't gonna cut it.
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  • Profile picture of the author tryinhere
    Originally Posted by EmmaPowell View Post

    Love to hear what you honestly think
    People without clear direction will always look for the next pot of gold at the end of the wso rainbow of opportunity.
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    • Profile picture of the author deejones
      I think part of it is fear. The WSO a buyer just bought might sound great. But what if the next thing is better. What if devoting so much time to the first thing turns out to be a total waste of time, while devoting the same time to the second thing would have better results? So they abandon the first thing for the second thing. Then they hear about a third thing, and start to wonder if the second thing is a wast of time...

      It's a vicious cycle. Fear that what they are working on now will turn out to be a total bust drives the buyer on to the next thing, and the next, and so on.
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    Originally Posted by EmmaPowell View Post


    So, are you a WSO-a-holic?
    As CD said above, the addiction is not to WSOs, it's to the dream. So many people are buying courses that promise the fast road to success. Some of these WSOs actually provide a solid blueprint, but you must follow them. Merely buying the road map won't get you to your destination.

    Those that buy without implementing are much like gambleaholics, but a gambleaholic actually has a chance of winning, a person that buys a course and does nothing with it has no chance.

    Once you have a solid game plan that you are following to make money, the WSO section can be a one stop shop for some really great tools that will make your life easier.
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    • Profile picture of the author EmmaPowell
      Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

      As CD said above, the addiction is not to WSOs, it's to the dream. So many people are buying courses that promise the fast road to success. Some of these WSOs actually provide a solid blueprint, but you must follow them. Merely buying the road map won't get you to your destination.
      Totally AGREE!!!!

      Buying into the dream life but refusing to put in the FOCUSED hard slog that is required.

      I say focused because the other thing that I see, and I myself have been guilty of is fluttering around like a butterfly, going from one thing to another.

      Jack of all trades, master of none and broke.

      It just breaks my heart to see people in the IM game who can actually be successful if they just need to focus and maybe during that time stay out of the WSO zone.

      But it CAN be turned around...... I know this personally and I 1000000% believe it
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      • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
        [A post from one of my other threads.]

        So I'm reading along and come across some eye-opening dialog which the author is sharing with the reader. I'm doing a little cherry-picking here but I think you'll pick up the idea.

        Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the same primitive reward circuits in the brain that cocaine does.
        Later, referring to a discussion relayed by someone else.

        In large part, he believes, the mistakes happened because he wasn't able to damp down the cocaine brain.
        ... he found his brain working against him, latching onto evidence that confirmed his initial hunch and dismissing the signs of a downside. It's what the brain does.
        "You get seduced"
        Sound familiar?

        Why didn't that great sounding WSO pan out?

        "I was so excited about _______ a few weeks ago. Wonder why that fizzled out?"

        I think this confirms something that I suspected for some time.

        Just sharing.

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  • Profile picture of the author specialized
    I haven't added my WSO expenditures up yet (kind of afraid to) but I know it is up above $250 by now. However, I don't really have much buyer's remorse because I consider all the WSOs I've bought to be very educational for me in one way or another. They have played a major role in the crash course in IM I have been putting myself through for the past several months.

    Some have shown me how easily some people can put out a crap product that lies to the reader and advocates unethical business practices, apparently without any interference of something resembling conscience.

    Others have shown me how excellent writing and honest intention combine to make a wonderful product, and inspire me as positive examples.

    Still others give me hope for my own future WSOs just because they (the ones I bought) are pretty average, yet sell pretty well which reinforces my belief that I have a lot to offer.

    Some have demonstrated for me how powerful the pull of these things is after I bought them even though the businesses they pushed weren't really suited to me, but their sales letters made me believe they were.

    Then there are others (many) that have simply taught me a lot about internet marketing through the exposure of so many different writers' perspectives.

    But to the question of why are they so addictive---I think it is a combination of the human trait of hope... the excitement of hope ("THIS one might finally be the one that gives me exactly what I need!") and the fun of discovering possible new information on a subject we all love.
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  • Profile picture of the author EmmaPowell
    Joe ..... very interesting indeed

    Thanks for the share
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
      It certainly has made a difference in my thinking. I am also more aware when I'm in 'cocaine' mode.

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      Originally Posted by EmmaPowell View Post

      Joe ..... very interesting indeed

      Thanks for the share
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      • Profile picture of the author Yoseff
        I think it's "the dream" everyone is after which in turn causes so many to fail. I know I'm caught up in it. I have what I would consider "a small stream" of money coming in which of course I want to increase. The smart thing for me to do is to just do more of what I have done BUT, I get caught up in the next big thing (and fall for it most of the time). I'll see the new WSO and think "man my sites are doing ok now, I can set them aside, get this new thing going because the ad says I'll make x in x time, then go back to my old stuff" it's a endless cycle.

        Most don't give what they are currently doing a chance before jumping on the the new, bigger, better, wso. How many times do we see, "I said I wouldn't buy anymore WSO's this month, but this is just too good to pass on." I've said it, Heck I said it last week, then bought two WSO's this weekend, ugh. After I read them, I put them to the side and thought, I'm going to do what I know works, then move on to something new.

        Oh well, live and learn.
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