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LIKE MY COPY? You're probably breathing from your nose, and pretty pissed at me right now for having such a spammy and stupid title. I've been practicing. Got ya!
Nope, this is not a post FOR the utter disgrace to every average human's intelligence known as the "law of attraction".
I'm really, REALLY good with -beeeep-. I've started a -beeep- I get customers and -beeeep- fix whatever issue they're having. You have to know exactly what you're doing, though, as the slightest F*ck-up will result in -beeeep-.
I'm still doing it myself and saving up everything I earn to hire employees/move to a management position within the next month.
The interesting thing is, because of the nature of the job, you go through people's personal information.
I got a customer at a really lousy extended-stay hotel today. Pretty remote location, and a lower-class place. Let me put it this way: Through the window, I saw two hooded dudes hand each other things while looking around suspiciously as I worked on the job. (nope, not doing remote locations again)
He was around 65 years old - no partner, beer gut, untended room, chronically frowning face, download files that read "how to win at court", and a fridge stocked with microwave pizza and shitty ice cream.
You see, I don't have prejudice against people - at all. Everyone has stuff going on in their lives - and those qualities might have been caused by something that can't be controlled by the aforementioned gentleman.
Firstly: his bookmarks were filled with pages that went along the lines of "Dr Blabla Bla's Law of Attraction Accelerator", "Generate money by simply thinking about it", "The one secret that will make you grow rich", et cetera. You get the gist.
Now, I absolutely understand the desire to improve one's self. I'll admit that I believed in the "law" of attraction at some point when I was around 14 years old. It's an easy way out to deter action, and expect results by doing nothing but sitting on your a$$ and occasionally having sexual intercourse with your palm and fingers. It was an absolutely fascinating experience for my hormone-soaked 14 year old self, as you might imagine, but I had to move on to greener pastures soon enough.
After a while, this beautiful man asked me about my collegiate major. I am a dropout from a top Boston school myself (thanks MJ for ruining another A-okay collegiate career), but I tell customers that I hold a marketing degree (which is what I used to study). This man told me that he did marketing too, and how he was getting ready to start off his online business.
I puked a little bit in my mouth, believing that I had triggered YET ANOTHER MLM invitation by some random dude. It was worse, though.
The gentleman decided to show me his squeeze page - a page promising a free e-book in return for a name and an e-mail address.
His domain name was somethingblablaguru.com. His book name was something along the lines of "Manifesting $10,000 in just 3 days". His page promised "unlimited material wealth", "manifesting money effectively", "bettering yourself by requesting guidance from your higher self" (whatever the flying F*ck that means), and all kinds of shit of the sort.
I looked around in absolute bewilderment at what "unlimited material wealth" could buy you, congratulated him on his business, did my job A-okay, charged his card, contemplated accelerating to 150mph and driving off a bridge for breathing the same oxygen as this man does, got some wings, and finished my day after adjusting my ads based on recent a-b testing.
Morals of the story:
- If you clicked this thread actually expecting a magic pill, SERIOUSLY RECONSIDER YOUR MINDSET. YOU ARE ON THE WRONG PATH.
- Marketing without an actual product that fills a need is USELESS. ABSOLUTELY USELESS. You can know the best marketing tricks in the world, but you'll most likely not end up anywhere.
I see a lot of people fall into this trap - even in this forum. If your product is good enough, people will seek you out. It's much harder to create a need than it is to fill it. You require great reach for that. Months (in some cases years) of preparation with no worthy value proposition/sale will get you nowhere.
I know people in real life that file LLCs and get business cards printed when they don't even know how they're going to advertise their "product" to reach their customers. Most of the time, they can't, because their "product" is something that people don't really need, or buy in to.
YOU NEED TO OFFER VALUE TO PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE TO WANT TO INVEST THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY IN YOU. THERE'S NO MAGIC MARKETING TRICK THAT WILL MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FROM YOU, GRANTED THAT WHAT YOU'RE OFFERING DOESN'T REALLY SATISFY A NEED.
What value does this man who lives in a jackshit 200 sqft room and eats carcinogens to survive bring to the table for you? NOTHING, solely because he is trying to teach you HOW TO BE RICH BY SIMPLY THINKING ABOUT IT. If he actually manifests anything, it would be the physical equivalent of an oxymoron.
You know, I might be wrong with all the con artists like Tai Lopez ("Douchebag" from now on) out there, marketing the F*ck out of themselves and making bank. But you know what? People like Douchebag are scammers, they are the SCUM of this world, and no one with half a F*cking brain believes what they say.
And they literally THWART HUMAN GROWTH by creating businesses that do nothing but get money out of people's pockets. Those people end up being miserable fish following a slick-haired idiot talking about how he has a Lamborghini in his garage, and how he got rich by skimming a god damn book.
Don't be like Douchebag. Give actual value to people. Don't be a con artist. Please.
Courtesy of @Andy Black for sharing this earlier - please skip to 11:03
This customer of mine knew how to appeal to people - he actually wrote spammy copy that would get clicks by your average 9-5 zombie. His content was an absolute joke though.
And, finally:
I re-wrote this very part 4 times, because I was sure that I was going to get flagged for extremely offensive language. I deleted it all. That is all I'm going to say about how I feel about people who fool the underprivileged.
Work hard. Give value. Affect a lot of people, or affect less people GREATLY. Be smart. Learn every day. Learn ACTUAL, SCIENTIFICALLY PROVABLE things every day. Be smart. Be smart. Be smart. Don't believe everything you hear, and only believe half of what you see.
And that is how the "law" of attraction changes your life. It makes you a miserable human being expecting things to appear out of thin air. It destroys your creativity and negates any desire to actually work.
This is my humble opinion. I am not an expert. This is simply what I've learned through my journey so far.
Thanks for reading.
Nope, this is not a post FOR the utter disgrace to every average human's intelligence known as the "law of attraction".
I'm really, REALLY good with -beeeep-. I've started a -beeep- I get customers and -beeeep- fix whatever issue they're having. You have to know exactly what you're doing, though, as the slightest F*ck-up will result in -beeeep-.
I'm still doing it myself and saving up everything I earn to hire employees/move to a management position within the next month.
The interesting thing is, because of the nature of the job, you go through people's personal information.
I got a customer at a really lousy extended-stay hotel today. Pretty remote location, and a lower-class place. Let me put it this way: Through the window, I saw two hooded dudes hand each other things while looking around suspiciously as I worked on the job. (nope, not doing remote locations again)
He was around 65 years old - no partner, beer gut, untended room, chronically frowning face, download files that read "how to win at court", and a fridge stocked with microwave pizza and shitty ice cream.
You see, I don't have prejudice against people - at all. Everyone has stuff going on in their lives - and those qualities might have been caused by something that can't be controlled by the aforementioned gentleman.
Firstly: his bookmarks were filled with pages that went along the lines of "Dr Blabla Bla's Law of Attraction Accelerator", "Generate money by simply thinking about it", "The one secret that will make you grow rich", et cetera. You get the gist.
Now, I absolutely understand the desire to improve one's self. I'll admit that I believed in the "law" of attraction at some point when I was around 14 years old. It's an easy way out to deter action, and expect results by doing nothing but sitting on your a$$ and occasionally having sexual intercourse with your palm and fingers. It was an absolutely fascinating experience for my hormone-soaked 14 year old self, as you might imagine, but I had to move on to greener pastures soon enough.
After a while, this beautiful man asked me about my collegiate major. I am a dropout from a top Boston school myself (thanks MJ for ruining another A-okay collegiate career), but I tell customers that I hold a marketing degree (which is what I used to study). This man told me that he did marketing too, and how he was getting ready to start off his online business.
I puked a little bit in my mouth, believing that I had triggered YET ANOTHER MLM invitation by some random dude. It was worse, though.
The gentleman decided to show me his squeeze page - a page promising a free e-book in return for a name and an e-mail address.
His domain name was somethingblablaguru.com. His book name was something along the lines of "Manifesting $10,000 in just 3 days". His page promised "unlimited material wealth", "manifesting money effectively", "bettering yourself by requesting guidance from your higher self" (whatever the flying F*ck that means), and all kinds of shit of the sort.
I looked around in absolute bewilderment at what "unlimited material wealth" could buy you, congratulated him on his business, did my job A-okay, charged his card, contemplated accelerating to 150mph and driving off a bridge for breathing the same oxygen as this man does, got some wings, and finished my day after adjusting my ads based on recent a-b testing.
Morals of the story:
- If you clicked this thread actually expecting a magic pill, SERIOUSLY RECONSIDER YOUR MINDSET. YOU ARE ON THE WRONG PATH.
- Marketing without an actual product that fills a need is USELESS. ABSOLUTELY USELESS. You can know the best marketing tricks in the world, but you'll most likely not end up anywhere.
I see a lot of people fall into this trap - even in this forum. If your product is good enough, people will seek you out. It's much harder to create a need than it is to fill it. You require great reach for that. Months (in some cases years) of preparation with no worthy value proposition/sale will get you nowhere.
I know people in real life that file LLCs and get business cards printed when they don't even know how they're going to advertise their "product" to reach their customers. Most of the time, they can't, because their "product" is something that people don't really need, or buy in to.
YOU NEED TO OFFER VALUE TO PEOPLE FOR PEOPLE TO WANT TO INVEST THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY IN YOU. THERE'S NO MAGIC MARKETING TRICK THAT WILL MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FROM YOU, GRANTED THAT WHAT YOU'RE OFFERING DOESN'T REALLY SATISFY A NEED.
What value does this man who lives in a jackshit 200 sqft room and eats carcinogens to survive bring to the table for you? NOTHING, solely because he is trying to teach you HOW TO BE RICH BY SIMPLY THINKING ABOUT IT. If he actually manifests anything, it would be the physical equivalent of an oxymoron.
You know, I might be wrong with all the con artists like Tai Lopez ("Douchebag" from now on) out there, marketing the F*ck out of themselves and making bank. But you know what? People like Douchebag are scammers, they are the SCUM of this world, and no one with half a F*cking brain believes what they say.
And they literally THWART HUMAN GROWTH by creating businesses that do nothing but get money out of people's pockets. Those people end up being miserable fish following a slick-haired idiot talking about how he has a Lamborghini in his garage, and how he got rich by skimming a god damn book.
Don't be like Douchebag. Give actual value to people. Don't be a con artist. Please.
Courtesy of @Andy Black for sharing this earlier - please skip to 11:03
This customer of mine knew how to appeal to people - he actually wrote spammy copy that would get clicks by your average 9-5 zombie. His content was an absolute joke though.
And, finally:
I re-wrote this very part 4 times, because I was sure that I was going to get flagged for extremely offensive language. I deleted it all. That is all I'm going to say about how I feel about people who fool the underprivileged.
Work hard. Give value. Affect a lot of people, or affect less people GREATLY. Be smart. Learn every day. Learn ACTUAL, SCIENTIFICALLY PROVABLE things every day. Be smart. Be smart. Be smart. Don't believe everything you hear, and only believe half of what you see.
And that is how the "law" of attraction changes your life. It makes you a miserable human being expecting things to appear out of thin air. It destroys your creativity and negates any desire to actually work.
This is my humble opinion. I am not an expert. This is simply what I've learned through my journey so far.
Thanks for reading.
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