Neulichst habe ich ein Sales Pitch von Gary Ambrose bekommen, auf dessen Liste ich schon sehr lange bin (und noch sehr vielen anderer US Kollegen).

(Was hat das mit Gedankendoping zu tun? Lesen Sie bis zum Ende, dann wissen Sie es …)

Eigentlich das Übliche, aber ich habe halt mal nachgeschaut (das Produkt spielt hier keine Rolle). Das Produkt habe ich auf dem Warriorforum recherchiert, auch das übliche, bis auf einen Kommentar von Gary zu einem Vorwurf, dass auch er allen möglichen “Crap” an seine Liste schickt, nur um Affiliate Commissions zu bekommen.

Auch nichts besonderes, bis auf seine Antwort darauf! Hier ein Auszug, lesen Sie das:

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” … All that said, I’m not an “anyone can do it” kind of guy… I don’t believe that for a minute. I firmly believe that more than 90% of the people on this forum (and anywhere else for that matter) do not have what it takes to work in this field… or, to work for themselves in any capacity.

Some people are born leaders, some people are born followers… there’s nothing wrong with either scenario, and in both cases, you can get very, very rich. The key there is living in reality, and doing what you can.

I remember talking to a semi-well known marketer years ago, and I told him something that killed him at the time, but something he’s now come to love me for…

He was trying to work for himself, online, for about 4 years. He had programming talent, he was a do-er, and the stuff he released was always very good… all that said, he didn’t sell very much of it.

I hired him to work for me, and when I did, I told him… “John Doe, you’re not a #1, you’re a #2. I don’t think you’ll ever be able to be the leader of a company, it’s just not in your DNA”.”
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So ausgedrückt habe ich das bis jetzt von keinem Top Marketer gehört! Das hat mich zu folgendem Exkurs inspiriert, lesen Sie das, es kann Sie vor schlimmen Enttäuschungen bewahren:

(Maybe your story is made up, but that does not matter, because it tells OUR truth)

AHA! So you are the first one I meet here in this internet marketing arena, who talks about TALENT (or better the lack of)! You don’t call it talent, but that’s what’s in your DNA. You and I know, that you can learn skills, but you can’t learn talent. Now very few know about their own talent and what they can do. But they are all told by internet marketing gurus, they can make money on the internet, when they buy “make money products”. I call this “hope marketing”. Even John Reese says so and sells his stuff well knowing, that 9x% will NOT make money with his products. Eric Holmlund warns his customers: this is not for everyone! … and sells tons of his products to customers, who will never make a dime with it. Chris Farrell states: everybody can make money on the internet! I can, so can you, do it like me, I’ll show you. Looks like he really believes, what he says. Or not? This guy is really talented, does he know? Just skills? Funny …

E. G. I sold 100s of my ebook:
http://www.digitalcameracash.de/
Every single word in it is true, it’s possible to make money selling fotos on the internet if you follow the instructions. But I know that actually hardly anybody will make any money with it, because they can’t sell anything anyway. Not my fault, but I feel lousy about it.

You know, before my back injury I was a tennis and golf teaching pro (and geologist). There are many parallels in info marketing and teaching sports. There were students taking hundreds of lessons and I told them a thousand times the same correct advices: do this and that, set your goals, practice and you will improve. What a lie! When I see someone swinging a racket or a golfclub I can see his talent. And I know that 9x% of all golfers not after 10.000 lessons will never earn money in tournaments. Because they are not talentet. But they want to be lied to and want to keep up the hope: someday you will make it, just follow your goals and DO IT! They love your lies and pay you for lying to you!! All life long!!!

Once in the beginning of my teaching career I made a huge mistake I regret up to today. There was a young lady, extremely untalented, but she wanted to play golf tournaments with her friends. Absolutely unrealistic, ridiculous, but she was convinced she could make it. After some lessons I had such a guilty conscience about taking her money for result=zero that I told her she’d better go and play some chess or what instead of golf. I wanted to do her a favor saving her money, but I almost ruined her life, she left crying und moaning! She went to the next “unscrupulous” trainer and took lessons for years, enjoying to see divots fly 30 yards and the ball never passing the divot. Still working on the goal to take part in her first tournament. For the rest of her life, probably.

For guys like Roger Federer or Tiger Woods (or Frank Kern) is very easy, what for others is impossible, but they don’t really know as super talents. I analysed every detail of their performance and do know exactly, what happens where, when and why in every phase. I can replicate and imitate all that PERFECTLY, but the results are very different, believe me!

So what does this mean for my self-conception as an internet marketer? How important is ethical thinking? Has what customers, buyers and marketers do and say anything to do with what they want and mean?

There is a German saying (from in the year 1494 published by Sebastian Brant: “Narrenschiff”)
“Die Welt will betrogen sein”
(lat.: mundus vult decipi)
by Sebastian Brant, 1458 – 1521 in Strasbourg, France
Looks like this guy knew about (fools) marketing …

I did not mean to write all this, it just jumped out of my mind onto the keyboard, thanks for your inspirations,
Dan from Germany

Gary hat nicht geantwortet, habe ich auch nicht erwartet. Wahrscheinlich hat er meine Nachricht nie gesehen, aber mir haben meine Gedanken beim Schreiben mehr gebracht, als irgendeine Antwort.

Ohne eine Inspiration von Eugen Simon mit seinem “Gedankendoping” hätte ich das hier Geschriebene nicht veröffentlicht. Eigentlich hatte ich seinen Prelaunch schon in einer passenden, schon recht vollen Schublade untergebracht, werde mir aber das Event in Hamburg mal anschauen. Ich stehe nicht auf Gehirnwäsche oder Doping, bin aber sehr “open minded”, wenn es um Denkanstösse geht.