Ever think it is the posters that aren't asking the questions correctly....

Individuals post questions like, how do I make $1,000/M from Article Marketing...

these questions simply can't be answered because there is a lot that goes into it, a good article, a good resource box, a good landing page, a good opt-in service, a good follow up...

However, if questions were asked like, What keyword density works best in article marketing. I bet you it would be answered and the OP would be satisfied.

What are you questions?

I would have to disagree... dont' really understand your rant because all your past posts look like they have replies according to your history...

Just try again, ask maybe someone that has posted similar topics to your question via PM.

I have asked many individuals quick one liners like, "Nice site, was membership software are you using", answered same day within an hour...

"How did you implement this..."

Answered same day...

Maybee, no one knew your answers? Which means, maybe you have found a niche to figure out the problem and market to that problem....

dunno, stay positive.

This is a forum about making money is it not?

I've always heard and believed that if you helped enough people get what they want, you'll get what you want.

If you're not where you think you're supposed to be - at least you know it and can fix the situation by getting the skills you need.

If you search smart enough you could probably find all the step by step you need on most any proven online business model, or you can save a lot of time and trouble and purchase a course from someone - quite inexpensively.

Most courses come with a 100% money back guarantee if you purchase and then don't think it will help you.

If you buy through paypal or clickbank you can easily get your money back.

Get a proven online business model and do get busy.

Hope This Helps!!

TL

So what are these important questions that aren't answered?

You have 700+ posts in six weeks ish. You've obviously had some answers. Are you taking any of the answers and actually trying stuff or are you waiting for someone to tell you "the secret" - because that certainly ain't here.

Of course there are areas where poeple help and areas where they won't. This is a business forum. People will give you a hand, not their whole arm. There's also got to be some give and take. Have you made extensive use of the search function or do you just ask a question first?

I've never seen a line drawn on a particular question or topic - care to give an example or three?

I think there is plenty of help and free advice on this forum.

Try writing McDonalds, Walmart, UPS, etc. and ask them for a step by step business plan and see how far that gets you. Will any of those executives sit down with you or type out a 1 page response to your lists of questions about their business models or practices?

There are plenty of legitimate posts on this forum that help you where other industries and companies wouldn't even take the time to respond to you at all. So I think that since there is alot of good information here, we should try to appreciate it.

Doing searches in this forum can provide answers to most anything related to IM. I suggest you always start there - then if you cannot find what you need a post that is specific to your problem will almost always be responded to by someone with real knowledge of the topic.

Is it 'money or nothing'? NO - you will find all the help here that you are open to receiving if you go about it in a way that shows you are trying to help yourself. All of us have our goals and we have to stay focused and work toward them if we are ever going to succeed. Savor the fact that this forum is here - open your eyes to the nuggets of gold that are available and then put them to use. Positivity will take you a lot closer to reaching success than negativity.

Intrepreneur,

The reason you and thousands of other WF people may not get the RIGHT answer or the complete details is simple:

Consider this for a moment,

You go to your best friend and ask him/her for $5 do they give it to you? (most likely YES!)
Now lets explore a little further:

You go down the street and approach a complete stranger and ask him/her for $5, does he/she give it to you?
(Most likely NO!)
Ask yourself, and answer honestly, why?

I have noticed that you have made more than 700 posts on the forum (in just 2 short months), however, I do not recall seeing your name, including in this post.
Shall I call you Intrepreneur, or would you like to make a formal introduction?
The real reason you may not be getting the help you want or deserve, is because.....

You ready for the cold hard truth?

You are viewed as the competition and not as a friend!

Now, that is not to say and generalize that nobody will help you because you are not their friend, however, if you come across in your posts in a more congenial manner, and with the intention of learning, associating and possibly building relationships with people, then you may find more people are willing to help.

A good start would be to sign your posts with a name (any name, a pen name is ok) Let me know you are a real person with a real name. I use my name as my userid and quite often (not always) I also sign my posts.

The next step is to not expect that anyone owes you an answer. Most people may give answers from their experience and combined with that of many other IM people you may well arrive at a solution.

I know that I have taken advice from several people on here and combined that advice with some of my original thought and arrived at excellent results.

Finally, Present your question, be complete and concise in what you need, give details and always thank people when they answer. (I see you do this already).

Hopefully, these small suggestions may help you.
Just remember, you want something, it is easier to get it from a friend or associate than it is a stranger, so go make some new friends, and in a short time, I am sure your knowledge and skills will be increased.

Jon

well you might want to tell everyone what 'gr' is.

Remember you are in a capitalist forum here. While everyone is helpful, there is a line because making money is competitive by its very nature.

Think of it as a treasure hunting forum.

I dont mind showing you how to use a compass, or even how to use a shovel, but if you're waiting for me to show you how where to dig, you'll be waiting for a long time because thats why i'm here too

I doubt anyone does GR autoresponder coaching because their site is packed with info, even videos. Their support is also excellent. Did you try asking them?

Cookie issue. If you're paying for GR you can use different sign ups on different pages or if that doesn't suit your purposes you can transfer manually. Even if you're getting hundreds of sign ups a day, manual transfer is pretty easy. Also refer to my first point. Try asking them.

As for your third one - is greed causing your failure? What sort of response do you expect from that? You have to build authority before you can speak with authority. I'd suggest a lot more helping before you start having a pop at people.

Intrepreneur - I've seen some great answers to your question here.
Now I have one for you. Take a look at the number of newbies that are flooding in daily now.
While I understand that each may need some personal help here and there -- I also know that you can't expect those who are more advanced to have the time to answer each question, take time to help each person who needs help.

When I came into the forum I was able to find the on/off button on my computer and do some simple word processing - that's all. My talents lay in writing and using technology was like dealing with an alien spacecraft.

There were also hundreds of other newbies signing onto the forums when I did. What were my chances against others who had more knowledge to start with?

Most of the others are gone now. Why not me, too?

When I got here I asked questions, too - some pretty stupid ones, a case that really hasn't changed much over the years - but I also got to know some people as people during my time here. Behind every marketer is a human - and each human has blind spots. Even the experts. By that I mean sometimes the experts could use a new perspective or bit of info themselves - but who in here when they are new thinks to stop and actually deliver rather than just ask more questions?

Each of us has expertise in something. I still remember the first post that I was actually able to contribute intelligent input into. It was a group of "gurus" talking about overseas marketing - and they were on a bad track with it and I was able to give them some expert information about translating problems.

Being able to give excellent information made me feel like I was earning my place here.
It helped me get to know people and before too long some of the friends I made were more than happy to teach me what they knew. I'm not saying that I know everything - I'm still technologically stunted. But I have proved myself trustworthy and honest - and hard working and don't have problems finding wonderful JV partners to take the ends I don't understand off of my hands.

SO maybe your problem isn't that we don't care -- maybe the problem is that because you are new you just expect to be grabbed up and put on a little pedistal with a halo over your head........how many others that joined this week would seek the same? How many are there who are actually in a position to offer it?

If you want to become a real member of this group, one who can rely on help -- you have to learn what YOU are an expert at and give as well as receive. The WF is a potluck - and participants are expected to make a contribution to the feast. Crashers don't last all that long, there isn't always enough to go around.

So while you are in here whining about how nobody helps you -- why don't you tell us who YOU helped today -- and maybe what you really smoke at and offer to trade some help.

A lot of people replied to this with good answers. And I can say that I've received a TON of help from this forum. I've made some great friends that I network with daily and exchange ideas with. In addition, I've given out a bunch of help as well. 90% of the people I talk to on Skype are people asking for help. I guess what Im saying is that you need to help others as well. Start networking.. share ideas.. make friends.

I also agree with all the guys that are telling you to not ask general questions. If you asked me "how to make money" I would have a difficult time answering you because what you're really asking is what I do to make money. So I could either tell you what I do which would take a few months to detail out. Or, I could give you a very simple answer like "I trade forex" which wouldn't help you at all. See the problem?

Now there's a guy that knows what he's doing around here. Andy Henry. Pops by, injects humor with one line, enriches the whole post.

Top Man!

I think this post summed it up for me. You want someone to go away from what they are doing to do a JV because you don't have the time to do it?

If you can't find the time, why would anyone want to JV with you?

Greed is really the reason for failure, when a person wants to take the money and expect others to stop and do all the work for them.

Because we're all doing our own stuff, and we don't have enough time for that as it is. If you want us to help you with yours, you have to help us with ours. If you have the skills we need, you can invest some time and effort. If you don't, then you can invest money, and we'll buy what we really need.

Now pay attention, because this part here usually costs money.

The "iron triangle" of project management is Resources, Schedule, Scope. That's the tools and skills you need to do your job, the amount of time you have to do your job, and the size and complexity of your job.

If you don't have enough of one, you have to adjust the others.

Not enough resources means you need to have a smaller scope, a longer schedule, or both.

Too short a schedule means you need more resources, a smaller scope, or both.

Too large a scope means you need more resources, a longer schedule, or both.

That's all you can do. Figure out the problem and adjust the way you work. End of story. Tune in next time the mood strikes me, and I'll tell you how to make hard decisions without feeling bad about it later.

Or you can beg. I like begging. It makes me feel all important and stuff.

If you're not willing to trade value for value, then beggars can't be choosers, as the saying goes. Plenty of people are giving you a few moments out of their day to say what they think will help you out; I just did that myself. If you don't think you can use what I just told you, that is not my problem.

Now, if you want to tell me what I need to do for you, then I get to tell you what to do for me. And if you don't do it, then I don't have to do what you want. So you can either negotiate, or shut up and be satisfied with the drips and drabs that happen to land near you.

And if you're paying attention, there are some pretty awesome drips and drabs falling all over the place around here. If your time here isn't doing much for you, then you're just plain not trying. Just last week, Gabor Olah went in the Warrior Classifieds area and posted a link to a boatload of free PLR content (search for "plrwholesaler"). I've spent three days just categorising the licenses, and I'm still not done. Didn't spend a dime, and in the process of doing this, I came up with several new ways I can use them to my benefit.

What do we keep saying here? It works if you work it? Something like that.

Most people dream of running their businesses on autopilot so that they can spend more time with loved ones.. family, friends... and do all the wonderful things that the daily grind has so far prevented them from doing.

Top of no-one's wish list is 'Help out person who for some reason thinks I owe him it anyway, but evidently will always know better than anyone who advises him, and will take no notice of any arguments against the ropey and unproven 'advice' that he himself doles out on a regular basis'.

Sal makes a great point about you offering help too, but having seen a few threads started by you where you state (with no proof whatsoever) that several widely-held truths about SEO are inaccurate, then for the sake of the newcomers to the forum I would not be unhappy if you offered such 'help' elsewhere.

The best way to find the quality contributions that you seek here is by not diluting them.

First of all the reason a lot of people don't help you anymore is because no matter what advice they share with you it seems you always have to throw in your opinion on the subject.

I got news for ya... If you ask a question because you don't know something, fine! But when you turn around and say "no that won't work" or "I can't see that working" or anything of that nature then you deserve to be ignored.

You're a little piss-ant who thinks you're entitled to whatever you ask for...

Mike Hill

Intrepreneur has received a ton of help in the copywriting forum and
yet reposts to ask followup questions on the same letter and still
gets more advice again. This is a false claim hw is making about
not receiving help.

I must give him credit for actually getting people's attention from
the responses he gets. So the opposite is really true.

-Ray Edwards

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Unfortunately, this is the reality of life.

Try going to a drugstore for cold medicine without money and say:

"If You guys really wanted to help me, you could surely give me the medicine for free"

The reality of the world is that money talks.

Business is in place to profit. Corporations have a legal obligation to try to make more money for their shareholders.

It's just the way of capitalism.

Usually when someone like yourself makes a statement like you did, it's out of frustration - which is understandable.

Maybe you should offer your own services for free to others to learn things in an intern type of position.

I see what your problem is...

You've been here almost two months and you've only got 745 posts. You need to participate more.