WSO's selling info from WF threads...WTF?

That's fair enough Kevin. I guess if you don't mind, then nobody else would...and if the WSO is offering more than your post, then that's cool anyway.

Kevin, Your attitude in this thread is the most refreshing, sensible and well-considered set of responses I've seen to such a subject in a very long time. Thank you.

I see Nick's point, and it's something I've thought about before. I'm not trying to diminish the value of the question at all. We do need to think about such things. It's just really nice to see this kind of "no villains necessary" approach.


Paul

Thanks, but the way I look at it...

If people get the info they need to run a successful business, that's pretty much all that matters.

Every time I come on here tired I'm going to look at
my above quote. What terrible grammar!

Everybody would love to think that they came up with an idea that nobody
else has thought of, and sometimes they do.

But more realistically, most ideas, even if you came up with it on your own,
somebody else somewhere came up with something similar.

There are several reasons for this, but the most common is simple.

There just isn't all that much in IM that's new.

Paul Myers, a year or so ago (maybe longer) started a thread where he
essentially challenged people to name something on the Internet in regard
to marketing that was new.

Almost everything that was brought up had been around long before the
Internet in some form or another.

Truth is, the smart IMers take proven tactics and put their own little
spin on them.

A couple of years ago, I thought I had come up with something new in
regard to current trends.

Turned out, when I made the post here in the forum, somebody had
brought up that another marketer (can't remember his name) had come
out with something similar not too long before I did.

It was inevitable.

Google came out with a new little toy and anybody who had any insight
at all was going to jump on it and put their own spin on it.

Giving the WSO poster the benefit of the doubt, there is a good chance
that this is exactly what happened here.

Truth is, I can't remember the last time a marketer truly came out with
something that was so new that I had to take notice. Almost all things
shared in this main forum I've either been using myself or, at the very
least, heard about it.

There just isn't a heck of a lot that's really new folks.

At least not to me.

Unless it was copied word for word, I see nothing wrong with it. Instead, I think it displays good entrepreneurial thinking.

After all, as infopreneurs (info entrepreneurs) we package information. So, you see some good info in a thread ... you package it nicely ... and sell it. That's smart!

Hazelnut coffee? How the mighty have fallen. What has happened to you Rod?