Thanked 1000+ means Millionaire?

There's honestly no correlation. And in my case, at least, the high thanks is because I'd rather help people than make money. I hate it when I have to tell someone "hey, I could help you, but you didn't give me money so I won't." I'm too much of a soft touch and I give out way too much help for free.

I don't know, I would have a suspicion that the people here with the most thanks would be sought-after professionals in whatever field they're in. Now, maybe that doesn't mean they're making huge money, but helping others is a basic trait of any good business.

The majority of some people's thanks are for telling jokes or sharing cute stories in the OT section. So no,thanks has absolutely nothing to do with anything other than someone liked something that was written. What was written may have been a zinger at Democrats or about life on Mars or a joke about a fellow member.

Mark

Absolutely not. The number of thanks are an indication of appreciation by members of the forum for a particular post. It could be that the "thanker" agreed with a post, that he found it helpful, or that it was an answer to a question by the OP.

If a member carries a lot of thanks, it suggests that he/she has been around for awhile and (most likely) tries to help others often . . . but the number of thanks have no bearing on a person's income.

The very best to all of you,

Steve

Devote enough time to the industry and you come to learn the players. You either know of them by reputation or you meet and get drunk with them at conventions. While the following list of traits is not concrete evidence of the wealthy, I know from personal experience that, as a whole, these act as quite a sturdy indication.

1. Garners Respect.
2. Upbeat, Highly-Positive.
3. Respectful of Others.
4. Wide Industry Knowledge.
5. Often Introduces Little-Known or Discussed Topics.
6. Intelligent.
7. Literate.
8. Rarely Asks Questions.
9. Keen to "Pay it Forward" by Helping Newbies.

Those don't apply in many cases, of course. I'm more than a little familiar, for instance, with such chaps who are decidely lacking in the "literate" department, and I could give further examples. Overall, though, pretty good tell-tale signs.

Now for some advice: I'm surprised, or maybe I missed it, that no one has said something along these lines, "Forget about how rich other people are; concentrate on getting rich yourself." If you receive it, ignore it. I discovered a long time ago, approaching 20 years actually, that following the highly-successful and, when the time comes, working with them, has a "rubbing off" effect. In short: you pick up a great deal of useful information.

Tom

I think there is, because of the wisdom they achieve by seeking and sharing marketing knowledge

even if there was, what difference does it really make. There are lots of thanks that are not deserved, in fact, I have a few. But when I see questions/conversations like this I always think back to a question that is often asked here. and that question is "Why do people fail at IM"

al

Man, if each thanks I received on my posts here equated to $1000, than I'd stop working a lot of projects I was working on and spend more time posting here.

But yeah, as others have said, no correlation whatsoever.

Ha, I doubt there is correlation between thanked and money earned. To me, it just means that person is good at helping people, they could be making from $1 to $1,000,000+

I just recently joined WF but after viewing a handful of posters with tons of posts, my first thought is maybe these people just have too much time on their hands lol. I think if they were making really good money, they would have very little time, if any to camp out in this forum.

I could be wrong though haha.

Like post count, the more thanked posts someone has the greater the likelihood they are broke.

Lol i know guys with 3000+ thanks and making all their money right here selling shit and never sell a thing to any other in life.. Heck how come you think like that man?

I think the "thank you" thing reflects more on the member's reputation here on the forum.

Haha I was thinking the same. That
Whoever gets more thanks can earn more

There's actually a very complex formula for figuring out how much someone makes based on the number of "thanks" received on this forum.

It's just $7

Hey Nikhil
Too funny.

I have never heard anyone make this observation or have a question about this.

There is NO correlation. But it stands a reasonable chance that these people are doing relatively well

Not 100% but a good chance.




- Robert Andrew

I deliberated about adding a caveat to the above, and in that original post, obviously elected not to mention it. You'll see why after I say it.

Saying this as delicately as possible: in an environment where sharing business models is encouraged, by all, the number of received thanks is indeed an extremely accurate indicator of wealth.

It works like this.

You share a business model and the forum community reads it and assess its value. Since a large forum is comprised of many experienced marketers, and since many marketers of all levels of experience are want to try your mentioned business model, you tend to receive very accurate feedback:

"This works! . . . Thanks for sharing! . . . I do this myself; fantastic share! . . . Etc."

It's a bit like Amazon. If a product is good, the reviews are good; and vice versa.

Onto my point: what you tend to find is people, in such an environment, people who have very high "thank counts" have shared some extraordinary information that has, as a consequence, garnered an extraordinary amount of thanks. The average marketers, or the inept, are not rewarded as well; the clever, and usually that means the wealthy on a marketing forum, are rewarded. It's as simple as that. And if someone points out that this scenario happens in the War Room, hang your head in shame.

I love WF and I enjoy posting here. The setup is just a little different than the design above. Having a high thank count generally means that you have dipped into thousands of threads and given some worthwhile advice. It takes a great deal of time to do this; meaning that people with time on their hands to do it are either not wealthy, or they are wealthy, but have the extra time on their hands to post a lot. Maybe it's a better system, but it does make it impossible to base success on thank count, and therefore who to follow for educational purposes.

Tom

I know people who have a high thank-count and are very rich from their online businesses, and I also know people with high thank-counts who are broke. So no, at least for me, there's no correlation.

Based on this formula, Kay is worth 12 mil, I want to hang out with her

al

It's not like WF pays you every time people thanks you... it will be so cool though...

It's more like the reputation you have by helping other people, most of the most thanked members are successful marketers. This doesn't mean they are millionaire (even though some of them must be).

Success is not measure by the amount of money you make... not for everyone at least.

My University teacher of Economist was the most smart and helpful people I met, he knew all about economy and he never had any money... he was successful and rich in his own particular way.

Number of thanked times according to me basically shows how helpful a member is and their ability to provide quality answers and post content on the forum. Still that also means one could be a master in something and so yes some of them could indeed millionaires!

There might be some correlation.

If a person is getting ''thanked'' a lot, they must be giving helpful answers
If they are giving helpful answers they probably know a lot about internet marketing etc

No, as said it just means that users is helpful, very simple

There is a relation, but it doesn't mean 1000+ thanked makes that member a millionaire, it just means that person is hustling in forum marketing.

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1000+ thanks means he has helped over that many people. He would have great reputation and respect but that doesnt means he is filthy rich.

People with more than 1000 thanks are not millionaires, because 1000+ thanks means they're spending too much time here and not enough time making money.

Charlie

OK here's what I think, I look at warriors who have been thanked excessively as the kind of people who, in normal lives, are regarded as the go-to people...you head to them whenever you're in any kind of situation. you know, you won't get no for an answer from them unless it's something that's totally beyond their area of influence...even then, you will go and share your thoughts with them, in hope of getting some good advice...

that's how i see the warriors who've been thanked countless number of times on this forum...

while i don't believe it has anything to do with their ability to make more money, i do see them as being highly resourceful...naturally, if you've helped a lot of people in your life by going out of the way, you will end up making some very serious friendships with at least a few if not most of those people you've genuinely reached out for

but again, if you do go out of your way to help someone, i doubt it would be from the monetary perspective alone ...to say that would be to disregard all the good that remains of this world...

on a professional scale though, you could be lending advice/help pertaining to your area of expertise, n naturally, if people start trusting you as an authority, they would definitely keep you in mind when they have an important financial decision to make relating to your area of specialty...n chances are you might make good money out of it as well...

so here's my summary of it:

people who get thanked are great people : )
they may also be great marketers
they are resourceful
they are the go-to people in our normal, everyday lives...
all of these traits naturally position them well for any capital gains that come in the way
but the financial gains are only a small part of the whole picture...

: )

Thanks indicates the person's knowledge in the field..
and it need not be correlated with making money..
even people with less thanks had made great sum
of money than most people who had more thanks!
rueben

I wish there could be such correlation :-)

OK,I just gave you a Thanks!

Make great post > many thanks > sig clicks > money (maybe).

Make great thread > many thanks > sig clicks > money (maybe).

Padding posts > ....

No metrics here matter, 99% have agendas, many success stories and failures all trying to get noticed or stay relevant. I find most of the oldschool/bigger successes pop in once in a while out of familiarity because this was a part of our come up, and we brain dump here or help noobs/people that are plateaued where our experience makes sense to share.

Those still here x-xx years later posting daily my hat goes off to you I dunno how/why you're still doing it but everyone is different. I don't have time usually for this stuff, or facebook/social stuff and I like to keep a lowprofile now..

If you're trying to look for successful people here, well first off good luck sifting through the filters of false positives, and secondly it's not going to come from post count, thanks count, sig claims, or any other metric. It's going to come from keeping an eyebrow raised as you read through people's patterns once you're here long enough, and start to realize a bit of success of your own to compare against.

And yeah, KayKing For President if metrics mean anything .

Wow. I never expected these many replies
when I started this thread. Thanks for your replies.

I'm really glad that everyone agrees that
"There's no relation between number of times thanked
and how much money they make"

It's great to see a lot of "high thanked" warriors here
sharing same opinion.

Regards

Nikhil