Do You Ever Read All That Stuff?
There’s hardly a day goes by that I don’t receive several emails offering yet another report or ebook or video series for sale. I passed the stage of jumping on the back of all those dreams a long time ago – I don’t waste my money on them any longer.
Occasionally though, one comes along that is free, and like most people, I like free stuff, so I download it. Inevitably, I have to sign up to another list to get it, and I’m also faced with the hard sell of the OTO (One Time Offer). It has to be a REALLY special offer to get me to part with my cash for the OTOs as well.
Today was no exception to the rule – I received several emails offering me stuff to help me get started on line, and one of them was free, so I went to collect it as usual.
I downloaded it just fine, but then came the “unadvertised bonuses” – additional material that wasn’t mention on the original sales letter page.
By the time I’d finished, I had 3 reports or ebooks, a video series and some software.
After I’d finished downloading it all, I’d kind of forgotten what I’d originally gone to the site for. Overwhelmed with the volume of stuff, I pushed it to the back of my mind and realising just how long it would take to work through it all, I just condemned it to gather digital dust on my hard drive, with the good intention of getting back to it later.
The problem is, I never get back to it. It happens so often that I know my hard drive is cluttered with never-opened ebooks, never-watched videos, and never-listened-to audio files.
My time is precious and I don’t want to devote it all to reading or watching all that stuff. And somehow I know that it won’t tell me anything new. It won’t give me that stay-at-home income I’m looking for along with everyone else.
I can’t be alone in this. Surely everybody else is also downloading (and maybe even paying for) material that they never look at.
So it makes me wonder why the marketers give us so much stuff. It looks good, I guess. Value for money. ”This guy’s a good one – look at the amount of stuff he’s given us”.
It’s all to sucker us into remaining on their mailing list and buying more stuff.
Resist the temptation! Stop accumulating stuff!
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