Dave appears to have jumped on my guru-bashing bandwagon, and why not? I’m well known as a trend starter after all…. Ya, whatever. :)
However, I have had a bit of an epiphany over the last few days in regards to how these systems work. So this time around, I’m going to have to play the devil’s advocate.
I was “dropping the kids off at the pool”, as Dave would say, when it hit me… If one year ago at the height of our adsense earnings ($5000+/month) we had written a guide to creating a network of websites using the exact same principals, software, tools and steps we were using, but leaving out our celebrity fan site niche, we would have been writing a 100% honest guide to making money based on our own experiences - and it would have failed for maybe 95% of the people who bought and actually tried it themselves.
Why? Because many niches need to be approached differently, and there is no “one size fits all” approach. But at the same time when you have a killer idea, it just doesn’t pay to release it to the public until either you are so entrenched into the market that having 1000’s of people doing the same thing won’t hurt you too much, OR the idea is going downhill and you want to maximize your earnings before it falls apart.
I guess the point I’m trying to make is: while I have tended to bash the “gurus” a lot as of late, I can relate to why they do what they do and how it can be perceived by pessimists like myself.
I’m sure there are some good ones out there who, even if their products aren’t all that great, do actually try to give something back to the community… but in general, what works for, say, the travel niche, probably won’t work the same for the wedding favors niche.
Our best ideas have always come from us trying something and getting an idea as a result.
