> It's another form of the "How to Get Rich Quick" book where the answer is "Write a book about how to get rich quick".
I dunno if you're joking (or only semi-serious), but, TBH, the largest number of "how to grow your business" courses are all based on how the author/presenter grew a business around a book/video/content called "how to grow your business".
A good example of this is the "Stacking the bricks"(sp?) thing. I looked into so many of these paid courses, and the only experience the author is demonstrating is "how to make money teaching a course on how to make money".
There's an entire, almost incestuous, industry around this, with each "business-person" referencing other business-people's success stories using their "how to grow your business" course in their own "how to grow your business" course, with testimonials from course-completers who made some money out of their own "How to grow your business" course.
From the outside, it looks almost looks like a pyramid, but on closer inspection it appears to be undirected cyclic graph.
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I expect all this to collapse soon, as the cost of producing this useless material is now approaching zero. This means that the participants in this network can now each "produce" new material on a minute by minute/hour by hour basis. When the production of a product is close to zero AND the utility to the consumer is also zero, there is no way for anyone in this network to make money anymore, because the new entrants will be so overloaded with choices (millions of different courses to choose from) that they may never enter the network at all.
> When the production of a product is close to zero AND the utility to the consumer is also zero, there is no way for anyone in this network to make money anymore, because the new entrants will be so overloaded with choices (millions of different courses to choose from) that they may never enter the network at all.
Just because it doesn't work, doesn't mean we won't see it everywhere because the cost is still zero.
It's like catalytic converter thefts... Most places cracked down on sales of stolen converters, so there's no money in it anymore, but people still steal them cause they heard you could make money.
> Just because it doesn't work, doesn't mean we won't see it everywhere because the cost is still zero.
I meant the opposite when I said "collapse" - because we will be inundated with it (i.e. it will be everywhere), new entrants will be inured to it and simply not enter.
In the past, these networks had a health influx of new blood on a regular basis. It's hard to maintain this pipeline if every member is producing a 1000 books a week.
I dunno if you're joking (or only semi-serious), but, TBH, the largest number of "how to grow your business" courses are all based on how the author/presenter grew a business around a book/video/content called "how to grow your business".
A good example of this is the "Stacking the bricks"(sp?) thing. I looked into so many of these paid courses, and the only experience the author is demonstrating is "how to make money teaching a course on how to make money".
There's an entire, almost incestuous, industry around this, with each "business-person" referencing other business-people's success stories using their "how to grow your business" course in their own "how to grow your business" course, with testimonials from course-completers who made some money out of their own "How to grow your business" course.
From the outside, it looks almost looks like a pyramid, but on closer inspection it appears to be undirected cyclic graph.
[EDIT]
I expect all this to collapse soon, as the cost of producing this useless material is now approaching zero. This means that the participants in this network can now each "produce" new material on a minute by minute/hour by hour basis. When the production of a product is close to zero AND the utility to the consumer is also zero, there is no way for anyone in this network to make money anymore, because the new entrants will be so overloaded with choices (millions of different courses to choose from) that they may never enter the network at all.