I agree with you. However, before you buy a WSO, join the War Room. Why? The WSOs are products from War Room members. And they share more than the contents of the WSOs when they feel terrific or when they just want to go out of their mind.

I have just revealed a top secret.

Good advice. I feel the program that could help most with "busting through your internal limits" would be either Tony Robbins program: Unleash the Power Within or Rich Schefren's: "Strengths Mastery" program.

These two programs are great for dramatically improving your inner game and the constant battles you have with your conscience.

If you don't mind sharing, how have you "bust through your internal cap" gr8tocre8? :confused:

Sonam

I agree...WSO's are pretty much the dollar menu of IM education. You can't expect a full meal from 99 cents, and you can't expect real success from a 7 dollar guide if you don't have the foundation and discipline to follow through!

Besides, it's never the WSO that makes you money, it's what you do with it after you read it...

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I would say when you make the change you don't need a WSO..

A lot of people's struggle with IM and running any business does come from having the wrong mindset. The problem is most people don't believe they can change or improve, that they are just how they are - and that is not the mindset that entrepreneurs have.

Very good sound advice. Especially to help a struggling newbie open his/her eyes.

Just listened to a CD on attitude. You're right.

Think when not will I make it

WSO's, nunchukos, guns, and swords are just tools. It's the Warrior behind the tool that matters.

Rick

That's awesome Al! Way to go man! True action-taker!

But I would really like to know if most if not ALL your sales came from your 2 emails to your list about the latest IM products that some big name gurus have just launched or did some of your sales actually come from making 20 posts on the forum?

Your feedback will be greatly appreciated Al.

Thanks,

Sonam

yes thats dead true! stop buying start acting!

I really can't agree more to this! I am guilty of hoping from business model to business model because all the shiny new things just seem so good! It's like I will missing out if I do not get that WSO and try it out! But then again, chances are, before I even get to try the system out, the next one came along and the story repeats itself. Now I have to force myself to stop buying and start taking action.

so far so good but then again...should I check out Al's "lazy way to make money with Clickbank" since he is making so much each day?...

This is both depressing and relieving considering your point of view.

Depressing for you that all the rest aren't also out there making you money, but perhaps relieving for the 5% that are making you money - because their competition is so low.

So true...and when you put your mind to something, implement and get it done you have conquered the fear. It really does come down with mindset, deciding not to fail and adjust and adapt.

Thank you for this advice. I just found this forum not too long ago and I'm on the verge of buying my first WSO. Although I'm having trouble finding which one to buy I know now that I should stick to one and work the heck out of it.

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Ahh, you mean I can't buy another wso?! I stopped doing that years ago. Like someone stated, when people finally start making money online, the next thing they do is create a product on how they made money online... just cuz they did it that way, it may not work for you.

there is no magic....a lot of work also cannot guarrantee you success. but passion seen in loving what you doing, combined with hunger for learning would be of help

You should turn this thread into a wso, maybe some of people who spend too much time looking in the WSO section for the "magic button" will buy this and discover something really useful and powerful that really will get them making money and more importantly growing as an internet marketer... i know I have.

Sorry bro, although the advice you give is defintely worth it THE SCREENSHOT IS FAKE. The real CB account has commas after 3 digits from the right and the color of the text shows that you used the javascript trick.

I could be wrong but I am almost 100% sure, just looking for someone to support me

I agree, All is about Taking action.

Stop reading all days, just invest in domain, buy hosting and start action. Work hard and you will see results.

Have a nice day,

Jeff.

I agree completely with this for sure.

I don't really refer to the unconscious processes of the brain as the "subconscious mind," which rings very 80's-2000 ish self help.

But, like you, I understand the neuroscience behind those functions and what you're saying is pretty right on.

No strategy works by itself.


Great post friend!

I haven't read the all the posts, but i just wanted to say that i agree with you 200%

If you aren't in the success mindset the subconcious mind will just not "let" you succeed.

When you push through your own barriers to success the path becomes a lot clearer and a lot simpler.

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Al, one thing I have learned is that there will always be somebody that makes more than you. One thing that has eased my state of being is taking time to realize how much I want regardless of what any other person on the planet has. Then once you reach that target, sure strive to make more, but as least be satisfied.

I see so many people who are making boatloads and just not satisfied because somebody else is making yacht loads.

Nothing against you personally, just a general statement about money! This little perspective change really helped me!

PS: Its just like racing a car. You will never have the fastest car. Sure you may have the fastest in your run group or category, but there is always a higher class. Always.


Best, Ken

I read somewhere a long time ago that success is inevitable if you simply:
1. Establish your goal, as in get clear about what success is for you
2. TAKE ACTION or start moving in the direction of your goal
3. Take time to evaluate in order to figure out whats really working
4. Adjust your actions as necessary so you do more of what works, and less of what doesn't

Kind of simple but it's a sound plan for success.

Fantastic thread with some very, very valid points. Yes, one of the WSOs I purchased about 10 months ago was pretty expensive. About $250 with step by step videos and written guide. There was also a list of low competition niches with pre-written articles. Essentially everything that a person would need to get started. Fantastic support offered too - still to this day (I've only just finished setting up my system - haven't quite made it to the top of page 1 but I'm getting there). Anyway, interestingly enough, a couple of people at the beginning were concerned that all of the 300 niches contained within the package (it was sold to about 200 people I think) might get taken up so that there'd be multiple members promoting the same products. And the fellow who sold the package, whilst incredibly encouraging, stated what's been stated here - that there'd be a large proportion of the 200 people who won't even act after purchasing. They won't complete the process.

And that's the crux of everything here I think. Most people fail because they quit and look for the next 'big thing'. Succumbing to distractions left, right and centre.

I think it's also a statistical thing, I mean, even the most easy and noob friendly method won't work for all 100% of the buyers.

Well said. Thanks!

Every WSO I have bought, I have made money with. Anyone CAN make money online, it really isn't difficult, and if they follow instructions in most WSO's they can!

Did Wednesday Oct 20th not exist in your world? Only tuesdays and thursdays?

Why the bright blue link text? (*cough* Javascript edit)

Have you got a real CB screenshot to post or are you going to keep posting fake ones?

I thought people had ignored me. Finally I have 2 people backing me up :p

Nonetheless, this thread has become quite awesome now because of all the contributions so it still is worth gold now

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Hmm... I am a newbie but I just bought a wso that I liked and I'm making some money with it. I guess people just don't take action after reading it! Nothing is a magic bullet.

So according to OP and the professionals here, that I should like if said , promote Clickbank product, just focus on one niche only also can be a profit anytime and consistently drive traffic for profit ?

Although I'm not hoping that much for the starting that can earn me 1000+ in 2 weeks or one month something , but I do really fight for it with everything I can.

WSO's will either:

1. Always work for you, no matter what. Or,
2. Never work for you, no matter what.

Why is this true?

I've come to realize a couple true things about behaviors vs the mind and how we think as well as act.

1. Yes, the subconscious mind does dictate our life's overall direction and how we make day to day choices.
2. No, the subconscious mind does not make us do certain things or has the control over our future decisions.

What I mean by this is something few people realize, and the reason why they are the only ones who succeed.

Each statement has a reason for being true:

1. The first is all about awareness. If you understand that your true changes will need to occur on the sub level, you will become aware of your problems to be able and find the solutions.

2. The second one is about the true factor involved and who really has the control. Your subconscious does not have the ability to make any choice, therefore it has no control over future decisions. Also, the subconscious does not compel us in any specific way -

We are the ones who do the compelling. Every day you shape your subconscious and act because of the shaping in the form of routines. The truth factor is that your subconscious only dictates your routines according to how you form them. What is a routine? I preset combination of actions. Can the subconscious control our future decisions? No, therefore all routines are able to be changed.

The reason why WSO's will either always work or never work is really found in your perception, of course.

Anyone can make anything work, as long as they complete those necessary steps required. Also, everything will fail for anyone if they fail to follow through.

So what is it that will help you follow through? Understanding the true statements I mentioned above:

1. That you need to become aware of your routines and what predetermined actions compose each one.

2. You need to compare those actions with the actions you should be doing to get what you want.

3. You need to swap the set of actions so that your original routine will shift into a new routine.

4. You need to realize this will take up to a month to become natural (the building of habits does not happen over night). So, consistency is key to keeping the routines apart from one another...

5. Keeping the routines separate is crucial. If the predominant routine begins to slip back in instead, you need to quickly revert back 100% to the new one. That is the most difficult form of habit control - killing the old habit. It will only fully die when a new one has been created to replace it, which ultimately YOU have the control of.

Here's how to make every WSO work for you:

1. It has to be the primary desire for you to achieve at that time... meaning you can't work on 3 WSO's at once, unless you have enough time to devote to each one and don't mind a bulk part of your day consisting of routines involving each one.

2. Find a prime time during at least 5 days of the week, which is the same time of each day. This time needs to be consistent for the best habit creating effect. Make a routine for the WSO that directly balances the time for learning and implementing. Too much of either is bad. Ask and I'll refer to you some sources that explain why.

3. Follow a schedule of consistent action towards the WSO, and if any familiar routines start to intervene in productivity, notice them and kill them with direct action towards something productive.

Even if you don't use what you create at that time, still be productive anyways to reinforce the new routine you're working on creating... It is understandable that not everyone is primed to write killer content at the drop of their conscious becoming aware of a bad habit slipping in, but anyone can jot down random thoughts in a journal at the drop of a dime. These thoughts can sometimes be your best.

4. Realize that harmless looking and innocent activities are the worst kind, because they are the hardest to become aware of. Think about using twitter, facebook, watching YouTube videos, a simple TV show, and a phone call you choose to take that can optionally be held off for after your prime hour that waste your important productivity time. You've got to be firm in your control over this time frame, it is crucial to instating new routines.

5. Don't kill yourself. Keep things within that one hour and relax the rest of the time if you wish. This is not about trying to perform a huge feat in your life. Massive action isn't a single huge action, it's a combination of all the smaller steps that build upon one another.

No super affiliate's blog started at 10k a month, they started off making their first $100 over the course of months of previous smaller steps. As they took those small steps, made their first $100, they continued by reinforcing those routines that got the steps done, until that original $100 become a few hundred per month, and then per day, and now even more than that.

So, choose the WSO's that have a guarantee for money back, which all of them should, and that resonate with your level of interest, because you're gonna have to have interest invested if you want to make establishing a new routine easier.

The reason you need to make sure it has a money back is just in case the WSO is pure crap, because sometimes that too does happen. In which that case let me rephrase one of my previous statements... not every WSO can make you money, but every one of them YOU PURCHASE AND KEEP can!

Hope that helps someone!

Yes sir, habits don't change overnight! Takes months at times, but it's worth it in the long run.

You will fail with most WSO's because 99% of them are rehashed crap, it has nothing to do with you internal but with the quality of the products.

I do agree that there is no magic bullet, but you can feel good all you want iof you have wrong old rehashed information you still not going to get anywhere...

I bought about 15 WSO's and 2 where of value, the rest where rehashed crap... so for me it is fact.

I totally agree with you! It doesn't matter if you're into this whole self improvement stuff or not - the main thing is that all WSO's will fail you if you don't take action and really hunger for success.

If you want not to fail, read about Miyamoto Musashi on:

Miyamoto Musashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and pattern yourself after him. He was a samurai warrior who died of old age so that should tell you something about the efficacy of his principles. This isn't the only site as you may have guessed that discusses Musashi but it serves as a good starting point.

Sun Tzu is another good read. He was quite a guy in his own right. But, no matter who you read, you still have to take action. I probably should have capitalized "you" in the last sentence to distinguish the carbon based life form who must commence commencing.

Just my 2¢...

Great thread!

I agree with a majority of people throwing money at WSO after WSO thinking it will be the holy grail of IM. But these people have been let down more or less from the get go. A lot of people on here touched on people needing to change their mind set to be able to succeed, but the flip side to that is that 99% of people in that mind set are there because of outrages claims made by some of this industries more respected and despised guru's. I'm willing to bet most of us jumped right into IM because of these claims "Touch button software will make you $$$ in 30 days with only 6 clicks" or "How to turn $9.99 into $$$$$ working 30 minutes a day". So it's understandable why so many fail and fall away spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars on products.

A majority of people I know who do IM are extremely hard workers, but when they first started had the misconception that money would fall into their laps in a matter of months with little effort but as we all know, only very few people get it right the first but for the rest of us it's trial and error because of the mind set which we been lead to believe.

As much as this industry has helped many people to realize their dreams of financial freedom, there is a group of people within this industry who either directly or indirectly have hindered so many more from reaching their dreams for the sake of making money with no regard to those who believe hyped up easy money claims.

I have a lot of respect for people who basically from the get go tell you that IM is hard work at the start, that it is trial and error and chances are you may fail a few times before getting ti right. Had I met people like this from the get go, I may have got to where I am now a lot sooner.

Nice. I love it and will certainly try to adopt it.This can be a good option for making money.

It's not just wsos that will fail you. It's all im products!

Inspiration without action is beautiful but valueless.

Napoleon Hill

Sometimes I think, if you have a great teacher or mentor, just follow him/her, you can be successful if you can implement the tactic and strategy.

Else, if you are a self-taught entrepreneur, yeah, we love trial and error, then fix it back until everything works, also can become a successful person.

So, the point is, sometimes you don't need a WSO to help yourself.

You can probably sum up most of this internal limit stuff with one quote, live it, and it will set you free:

"Don't do what you want, so you can do what you like."

Think about it, meditate on it, live it.

Brilliant thread. So glad i came accross this.

I went through the whole thing. Could make sense of somethings, couldn't make sense of alot. Can someone please tell me what does WSO stand for in the first place?

Well said. I have tried WSO twice. The first time I purchased a package promising a certain number of back-links. The order was quickly delivered as promised. After a week or two, the links were indexed. When I checked again a few weeks later, they were gone. Of course to be transparent I posted my findings on the thread where I purchased my package.

No matter how many testimonials you read, you should always ask previous customers for proof and verification. I asked for this before my purchase and received zero answers. How can there be no answers with endless testimonials :confused:.

This is a curious business, this IM. Filled with people who are selling the dream of something to others. Perhaps that is what makes us easy marks for the great sales pitch. We spend so much time making the pitches that when a good one comes along we are naturally hooked.

I had to make a deal with myself a couple of years ago. That for every How-To product I bought, I had to actually spend time implementing some element of what they were teaching.

In this way, this became more than an exercise in shopping cart to storage device, it became a "think and act" exercise. Because without the action... well, you never get moving.

It's fact... Hundreds of us are caught in the trap of finding the gene of lamp, no one found yet.

About 10 years ago when I started learning about the web, internet marketing was so new and I admit I was one of those that did look for one answer. Whether it was the best book, or the best program etc...

What I have come to learn is that the web, web marketing in general has come so far and the process is forever evolving. That in addition to learning each skill for each area, that the entire game is forever changing.

That, to me, the most important thing as a warrior is to stay flexible, to have desire to learn and more importantly to implement.

Highly recommend NLP or EFT
book: NLP: The New Technology of Achievement
(Author), Steve Andreas

I fully agree it requires a mindset to succeed, more over that of some "magic bean" or any single WSO.

With that said, and being a 3-month old newbie to all this, I have bought (4) WSO's, WPSubscribers, ProfitStorm5, 465 in 4 hrs, and Traffic Grab (which I'm not sure if that was here or direct from James Schramko's site?

Anyway, that tallied up to about 180 bucks or so. Personally, I can't find the time to stop putting up sites long enough to actually take-in all that valuable information yet. (I got emails @ like 3am last night stating WPSubscribers just launched on CB, and I haven't even opened it yet! <---oops!

Truth is, I had to stop myself from reading anymore [WSO of the Day] emails, because I wanted to buy them all, horde them, and have them ready when time permitted me to slow down enough to study/watch/read them all...lol.

The WSO section has become my "forbidden zone" until I use the ones I have!

There too, I can only hope by selectively purchasing information relative to my needs (mainly learning SEO, traffic, and keywords) -by the time my sales-pages are all up, I'll have mastered the techniques of having the ability to create "Money Pages".

Then, it's time to crack-open all those programs I bought, so I can build WP sites, blogs, affiliates, and 3rd party vending accounts as a sub-structure to drive traffic to my now stale (money)sales-pages.

Now I am not too sure if this is the structured proper order to acheive success, but a few months back I literally didn't know "Jack" about Cpanel, NotePad++, Kompozer, FileZilla...or any clue how to edit a sales page, so it seemed a good place to start.

Most of my learning has come from reading through 100's of post here!

Just knowing, I finally have my email lists/auto responders set-up (for the most part), having several a sales-pages (or money pages) in place w/product, PayPal buttons, and 4 kick-ass WSO's to learn traffic solutions, and proper SEO from...I can't complain (feels like I'm getting away cheap, compared to some of the horror stories I've heard!)

Therefore, I don't see the WSO's as a bad investment at all, I see them as a "valued investment" - but like many have said; if you don't use them, don't buy them!!! (***And especially don't ridicule them if you don't know how to use them, as I have seen happens quite a bit in the WSO forum)

So in my own self-professed confession, I am guilty of buying these things prematurely, just because they sounded like a solid resolve to my future "foreseeable" problems.

*From here on out, I had to promise the wife..."I won't buy anymore" -until I am ready to actually implement them!

My strategy is knowing; many of those training materials (WSO's) have a short life-span, and knowing that; it motivates the hell out of me to keep moving, learning, and working to get everything pieced together, and get maximum use from them.

Aside from the initial investment to get your business off the shelf and onto the web, it's always been my method to let the business pay for the business!

WSO's or not...FAILURE is NOT an Option!<---For I know a 40 hour job will always FAIL to subdue my motivation! (What kind of retirement plan does $20 per hour offer....answer = none!)

You can find a lot of gold on this forum without every buying a WSO...I only ever bought one and most of the great info I have ever soaked in was free!

You are so right!
There is no magic bullet...
Success comes from within yourself. You need to have faith, persistence, patience and perseverance. Everybody fails, not everybody gets up, dusts themselves off and continue pursuing their dreams.
Most just give up!
That's a fact

I agree with what the OP is saying, but want to point out that the choice of words "ALL WSO's will fail you" is as polarized as saying "THIS one WSO is ALL you'll neeeeeed!"

Beware of black and white, all-or-nothing words and thoughts. They are used to control people and will also affect your mental health. Life is much more colorful, rich, and complex.

The problem is most people will fail to recognize a magical bullet even if it hits them square between the eyes.

Testimonials in these days, even video testimonials doesn't worth a thing. WSO should get a grade, A+,A,B,C,D or 10,9,8,7..lame.. from 3 mods or such~. Like that, people will really try their best next time when they launch a wso

true, the best method dont work for you if you dont work for it

Thanks for your enlightening words, Tom! Been guilty about this as well until I found a way to channel all my focus and effort on an area of interest instead of being on the lookout for the next shiny object

So true, WSO is just a guide for people who wants success in life. Without action, WSO still fail you because WSO won't work for you as money machine. It only work if you put it on action.

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