Why I'm such a damn noob.

I know this subject has likely been beaten to death, ad nauseum. But, being a noob myself, I had to learn about trash offers from the school of hard knocks -- and of course finding this forum. ;0)

After signing up at several "guru" sites I have become inundated from their offers. All are starting to sound, look, and feel the exact same. I've noticed three things, mainly, separating good offers versus TRASH (after purchasing a few).

1. Trash offers play on emotion - pure and simple.
2. Trash offers add little value. What I mean by little value is recycled knowledge in public forums hyped up to be the next best thing.
3. Some - not all - trash is promoted by many of the same affiliates at once. I can count 10 affiliates emailing me all of the same offer within 1 hour of it's launch. It is getting old real quick.

Does anyone else feel this way too?

Guess that makes me a sucker for buying into the hype, huh?
Is getting in the muck and mire the recipe for success?

To me, valuable offers ENABLE me to become successful through encapsulating knowledge and wisdom. I'll be blunt. I've followed some of the "success recipes" to the letter and most of them don't work (for me that is).

Recently, one particular program that I purchased suggested that in order to be successful that I change creatives and customize them for my own for PPC campaigns. It almost got me banned from the CPA network!

It was a wake up call for me. Anyways, thanks for letting me vent.