Interesting Fact : People Like to Be Lied to.

Thats where the problem is.

This is the mentality of the buyer in this case.
And the problem is there is NO instant rich and EASY access to success.

But deep down inside all of us there is a lazy hopeful self that wish this were true, knowing it is not. So we just bluff ourself and buy into it hoping blindly that it will turn out true.

So how many have come true and live to tell the tale, that they bought a magic push button system that made them millions?

Overnight, no effort, etc.

And in my case, i was talking about service, so who have hired $27 SEO guy and ranked for top spots in google?

Pls tell me, i want to try!

Matter of fact you don't even have to lie. People hear what they want and they remember parts of what they read. I sold cars too. First month had someone tell my boss I told him the truck was never wrecked. I can remember right now what I said and that was that I had no idea but it ran just fine.

haha i understand you too.

But in those cases i will say this. In fact i have used it before.

Case 1 : i represent myself, or there is no direct link between you and the company, you earn how much you sell, just like property agent or insurance agent. If the customer says, somebody offer me this price and that price, i would say, then go to him. I have no problems. Many times just for face, they say ok, then a day or 2 later, they call back and give some excuse why they never went for that guy and came back to me.


Case 2 : you represent directly a corporate comapny, so doing the above would result in you being fired, then i would just say it professionally. Sir this is what we can offer, its the best on my end, you are free to make a decision.

Thats it.

People don't like to be lied to... they like having someone else tell them what they want to hear...

That's not just in IM either. There are plenty of other industries and models that this happens in... the psychotherapy industry for one.

They want validation that what they think isn't silly or wrong or a pipe dream. That 'heroes' can overcome great obstacles to go on to become huge rock star success stories, and they want to feel like the person they are listening to is 'just like them.'

-Dani

Because if he did he would be telling and the truth and he wants
to be loved.

-Ray Edwards

I think you misconstrue liking to get entertained and getting their ego stroked to getting lied.

People buy to fulfill their personal perception, needs and wants - nobody buys to get scammed.

My advise to everybody is to market to both types, the dreamers and the rest. Among other things I have a fat loss product. I have 2 types of copy for the same product. One is hyped out the other is No bull. Both attract different types of clients.

I read somewhere that the founder of Benetton once opened 2 shops in the same street. He thought one shop would absorb half the customers and the other the rest. But this was not the case. He got unique customers to his other shop that was in the very same street.

So basically for the same product I have 2 lists and I send them different types of copy.

This is one particular reason I'm dedicated to staying out of the special offers forum.

I see many purchases being made, but not many posting results of how it works. I rather try my luck offline, where the barrier to entry is significantly lower, and I can keep my head out of the clouds.

Maybe this will allow me to develop a offline wso one day. Which, I feel personally are much more realistic and lucrative.

"Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because - of course - you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled." - Michael Caine, as "Cutter" in The Prestige (2006)

In some way, a lie is central to whatever you believe.

We are a perverse species, or as one popular belief system has put it "a stiff-necked people."

We don't like reality. We don't like truth. These things frighten us, because the reality is that less than 50% of us are above average, and the truth is that if you haven't done anything to become above average - you're probably not.

And what's starting to get really scary about this is that we are increasingly uncertain of what to do with anyone that isn't far above average.

There will always be jobs for rock stars and supermodels.

And there will always be jobs mopping the floor and plunging the toilets.

Anything in between is uncertain, but there's basically a line... and everybody on one side of that line gets to be a crappy celebrity, while everybody on the other gets to be a glorified janitor.

But since nobody wants to mop floors and plunge toilets, they want to believe that they're closer to being a rock star or supermodel. They want to be the crappy celebrity, not the glorified janitor.

And they want people to tell them that this is true.

Because the human brain has a particular quality no other animal's brain has: we can accept contradiction.

Imagine you put two red balls, three green balls, and a blue ball on the table.

Now you bring a human being into the room and say "are there more blue balls than red balls?" and he'll say "no." And if you bring a chimpanzee into the same room and ask the same thing, he'll also indicate "no."

Now pose a new question. "If the green balls were blue, would there be more blue balls than red balls?"

A human being says "yes."

The chimpanzee doesn't understand the question.

If the question is pressed, he will become violent. His brain cannot comprehend the notion of imagining that things are not as his senses tell him they are. When he can see the three green balls on the table, suggesting that they are blue... when his eyes can clearly see they are green.. infuriates him.

Cover the balls with a box, and - like the human - he can imagine that the balls in his mind's eye have changed colour. But when his physical eye can see a green ball, he simply cannot process the idea of pretending that the ball is blue. He cannot think a thing that his senses tell him is untrue.

Human society, on the other hand, is entirely predicated on contradiction. If we couldn't believe one thing while our senses told us another, our civilisation simply couldn't function.

Everyone with a day job believes that if they work hard and do well and people like them, they will get promotions and raises. Meanwhile, they also believe their boss is a lazy jerk who screws everything up. These are contradictory. If your boss didn't work hard or do well and nobody likes him, then clearly your hypothesis about what will get you promoted is false.

But you believe it, because that is what you have been taught is the "right" answer. Not the correct answer, matching the truth, but the moral answer - matching a desirable fantasy.

Civilisation has gotten where it is because we are designed to prefer these desirable fantasies to reality.

And when you get off your arse and make them real, that's what gave us the seven wonders of the ancient world - the pyramids, the sphinx, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the colossus of Rhodes, etc. All of those things started out as desirable fantasies, and then someone got off his arse and made them real.

So why don't we have things like that anymore?

Because somewhere along the line, we stopped getting off our collective arse and making them real.

It's not just IM. It's everything. It's everywhere. It's everyone. If you don't get off your arse and do something, it's always just going to be a fantasy. And on some level, we're supposed to understand that we like desirable fantasies because they can be made reality. Because with insight, skill, and determination, all things are possible - as the seven wonders of the ancient world clearly demonstrate.

Well, those and an inexhaustible supply of slave labour. But that's surmountable.

Actually, they can tell when you don't believe what you are saying.

And we're capable of believing things that aren't true.

A good liar is good because he believes what he is saying. It's not "lying" as we generally think of it. It's make-believe. He makes himself believe first... and then he makes you believe. Because he actually believes what he is saying while he is saying it, the lie goes undetected. And as social creatures at our core, we are naturally inclined to believe what others around us believe.

Look around the forum. How many outright stupid things do you see that "everybody knows" here?