Blind leading the blind

We have a situation on this board where the real experts here and the advice they impart is often completely ignored, misunderstood or, as in one or two recent cases where someone outright refuses to waste any energy on thinking for themselves, is actually taken offence at.

Are these people doomed to failure? Just looking at some of the stuff people who have been at this for years they sell in their sig, they refuse to leave the low-brow, amatuerish, unsophisticated, snake-oil filled world of IM and IM based ''Offline Marketing'' and venture into the real world where most businesses avoid the IM style tactics and approach like the plague. They've been at this for years and their work is just as sloppy, short-sighted, non-strategic and hackneyed as when they first started. Reports from people who have actually done it, like Iamnameless's, are a complete once in a blue moon event here.

There is a massive gulf in standards and a major difference in the way companies who got their education and expertise from credible sources who operate in the real world and those who got them from their IM guru filled inbox, where they jump on the latest launch that promises them a complete step by step solution. Where they buy it mainly because the copywriter told them, ''Don't worry, even a child can do this. Everything's been done for you'' and therefore paints the picture they won't have to put much effort or thought in themselves. These smart copywriters understand their mark inside out.

They jump on the latest method, implement it ''as is'' without putting in any thought on how to improve it, or trying to put their own spin on it, or matching it or reframing it more closely with their own market, rebranding it, stacking it with other services to create a unique value proposition based on the biggest desires of their target customers so it's irresistible to them. Or attempting to use all the methods are their disposal to promote and sell it other than the one prescribed to them by the person they paid to do all their thinking for them.

All that is alien to them. They don't even realize most of the time that the product has never really even been proven to any degree in real life. They just believe the BS they've been fed and go out and make an effort. Immediate overnight riches don't happen, so they just move on the next thing.

These people look like foolish, idiotic lemmings on the outside once you see them do the same thing over and over again for years on end, to be frank about it. Or like labs rats who mindless chase the dopamine rush and avoid anything unpleasant just as instinctively. Brian Tracy likes to state, and I think this is completely true, that in business your best weapon and advantage is your thinking, and making sure that is focused in the right place. That you are replicating, studying and learning from successes, as opposed to failures, which most people do because. That you are constantly seeking feedback and adjusting and seeking improvement, innovation, efficiency and better methods and procedures to do things. And that quality of your thinking in areas like this will dictate your results.

He says alot of business people are Stimulus>Response in their business. And that top business people are Stimulus>Thought>Response.

I somehow think the lure that roped these people into the ''make boatloads of cash at home in your pyjamas in just a few hours a day'' or ''start cashing $500 dollar checks like a mad man tomorrow from desperate business owners in your area who need YOUR help'' IM world is so strong and addictive to these people, and they are still chasing this mirage, still get excited at the BS claims here in most of the copy (not even realizing they have seen the same headline and copy a thousand times just with a few details changed here and there and are failing to realize they're getting manipulated and conned), that they haven't got a real chance of ever getting something decent of the ground.

They refuse to think and learn for themselves. They refuse to stop deluding themselves and get real. They refuse to properly educate themselves from the right sources or to take responsibility for themselves.

It's incredible watching grown people act that way. I think some people are going to make it no matter what eventually, and others just aren't cut out for it, regardless of the methods.

Am I wrong?