What are the offline WSO's/products which have helped YOUR BUSINESS the most?

good question carl.

I'd also ask which ONLINE ones have too.

Maybe we can get a list of top 10 ONLINE and OFFLINE.

that would be most useful

thnx

Don't buy any WSO's until you go out and make money by yourself. A lot of the WSO's are just horrible money grabs and you wont know this until you go out and figure out what works/what doesn't by yourself.

"If you can't do it, teach it" <- This is the modo of most WSO sellers.

My tip of the day. Your welcome.

Due diligence has been done. Most WSO's are utter garbage.

Pay key attention to subtle words (ie: 'a lot of..' 'most')

My second tip of the day. Read the post clearly before responding.

EDIT

If for some reason my business is no longer making me money, I will then turn to producing WSO's. In such case I redact the statement that most WSO's are horrible, and my new opinion will be 'All WSO's are great, buy them all'.

I am not trying to annoy anyone. I am just fed up with all the people pushing their WSO's in this forum. All the new people find this forum and are trying to start a business and they get the impression that the only way they can be successful is to buy a bunch of WSO's, its completely counter productive.

WSO's just give in to peoples laziness. They sit there reading through it thinking 'Hey, great idea...'. But they never take any action (and probably for good reason as a lot of the ideas make me want to throw up).

To the OP: Here is my idea for a WSO. An excel spreadsheet with two columns. Service provided and profit made. Your task is to go fill both of those by the end of the day.

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I'm going start a new thread, what is the best piece of advice/idea that has helped your business the most. I'm on it.

^^Thanks for the Lynda.com resource!^^

Majority of WSO's are complete garbage. I stand by my word. (Keyword to look for here would be "Majority").

Never been accused of being a 'troll' before. However if I can do anything to help the newbies, I am glad to take the title.

And the football reference made me laugh. In fact I can't stop laughing. It's like trying to negotiate with a union boss, it's just impossible. So I will give in.

All you WSO pushers win.

Carl,

I have bought and used all of WillR's products. They have all made me money. The secret is that I actually applied them and they paid for themselves in the first sale.

I buy a lot of offline PLR which I rewrite for my site's content and mailing list. It's still work, but it does make it easier to come up with ideas of what information I can send to my client free of charge that gives added value.

The only other WSOs I buy are offline themes, especially those focused on lead generation for offline clients.

Hope that helps a bit.

Di

Nobody cared to reply poor Carl

I agree with Diana

WillR's "Mobile Business in a Box" is one of the products that have helped me the most. It was very easy to implement, especially for someone like me who has very little technical knowledge, but I followed his system and started selling Mobile sites very quickly.

Another one that helped me was "The Confidence Concept" by Dexx Williams

But the ones that helped me the most and got me started was Andrew Cavanagh's WSO's a couple of years ago, "Offline Gold for Online Marketers" and "From Offline Storefront to Online Gold" both of which deal with offering email marketing and autoresponder services to local businesses.

EDIT: Each of the people I recommended are members here on this forum.

For WillR just search "WillR"

For Dexx Williams just search for "Dexx"

For Andrew Cavanagh just search for "AndrewCavanagh"

Just to clarify: I've been doing offline marketing full time for 1.5 years now. However I do believe you should always be learning or you're putting yourself up for a very bad spot. Plus I'm curious to see what people are saying.

If we get some more replies with actual recommendations I will go ahead and compile a list in the first post.

I might as well give my 2 cents on this whole debate too, even though it's probably like banging your head against the wall.

It's rather pointless debating the ratio between good and bad WSO's. Of course there are bad WSO's, there will be bad products and bad apples in any free market place. Anyone claiming something else is either highly ignorant or just full of it.

On the other hand, of course there are also good, or even great, WSO's. If not, this forum wouldn't survive. At least not in this way, shape or form.

Also there's one thing to keep in mind. Even the best "make-money product" in the world will have most people fail. Why? Because people are satisfied just reading and dreaming about it. They don't have the hunger or willingness to go out and take action and do what it takes to be successful.

In short, you need to be able to see through who's full of it and who's not. It's not that hard if you pay some attention, this thread might even be a good start.

Cheers,
Carl