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What is VALUE?

by kemdev
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This has always sort of puzzled me.

I've seen rave reviews about products that were,
in my honest opinion, sub-par at best. And usually,
those rave reviews were about products that had
hours of video, even longer hours of audio, huge
written reports, checklists, mind maps... the whole
nine yards.

They were products that provided a lot of 'value.'

But when you got right down to the nitty-gritty -
what the product actually taught - they were very,
very lacking.

And I've seen small, 10-15 page written reports
get terrible reviews when they, from my perspective,
were MUCH better than other 'home study course'
material.

So I guess my question is... what makes a product
valuable? Is it the actual content, or the way in
which the content is taught?

What do you guys think?
  • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
    Value, like quality, is subjective. Each person will have a different perception of the value of any given product. Even two people who attribute a lot of value to a particular product may do so for two entirely different reasons.

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  • Profile picture of the author imintern
    Originally Posted by Jesse Kemmerer View Post

    And I've seen small, 10-15 page written reports
    get terrible reviews when they, from my perspective,
    were MUCH better than other 'home study course'
    material.
    Often you will discover that a 10 - 15 page short report you just read or a 10 minutes video you just watched could be more valuable than all those 100+ page reports or hour long videos you have read and watched until then but normally they don't get "terrible reviews". In fact I have read several short reports (quite a few of them I got from this very forum) and all of them are pretty popular, I mean those reports that really teach you something or give you ideas that you can actually implement for good.

    A report or anything that gives real value will never go unnoticed and always be admired ... well, okay, most of the times.
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  • Profile picture of the author Erica Leggette
    Value to me is having the intent to be useful and delivering what is being advertised. The only people that can reveal the value in a product or service are the creators and the people that use it. With that said, what may be crap to one person, may not be to another so I guess value has to be determined on an individual basis based on combining a problem/need with a solution and seeing what pops off from there.

    What kind of sucks though is, when the lack of action clouds a person's judgment on the true value of something.

    I am so glad I have the opportunity to grow,learn,and make mistakes because I have actually fumbled around with some old stuff that I didn't take action on and wrote off as not valuable and now I see some value in it. I think it would be a lot easier if we just looked at everything with value until we take full action with it and learn differently.
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