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Why We Bother Part 2!

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15/08/2014

I had a second part to my first Why We Bother post already set in my head but it was superseded by an email I received after that part 1 was published.

I would like you all to meet FTS member Steve.

Steve has been with FTS long term and attended the first seminar on the FTS roadshow last year in Birmingham. Even with the seminars it is the same adage that you put 20 people in a room and when you leave you get 20 different results.

I actually had a conversation this week with someone re a risk free seminar that was I believe £2000 to attend and had about 50 people attend from what I am told. There was an offer, the details of which I do not know and when the person I was speaking to mentioned quietly to the seminar organiser that the offer in question was very generous he was told, ” no problem give it a month and 48 of them will have given up anyhow “.

Both parties are wrong to me. The organiser(s) should not be taking £100k in fees knowing that what they offer is either not sustainable or that the attendees will give up, surely for that money you ensure they don’t. On the flip side why would people pay 2k to attend and then give up if the information is worthwhile? Perhaps it wasn’t I have no idea. Anyone attending such a gig feel free to let me know or comment below.

Anyhow back to Steve (that was almost Billy Connolly like digressing then) and his attendance at the great value FTS roadshows. Steve has his faults for sure, (EDITED – I incorrectly called Steve a Liverpool fan when he is in fact an Everton fan – Ha Ha), he has subscribed to too many systems and not stuck at anything. BUT Steve has over the years with FTS seen the error of his ways , knuckled down, asked questions, learned for himself and I was thoroughly delighted when he sent me the following after my post the other day.

Hi Ian
Enjoyed your blog post today, sadly I have read similar from you many times before. Head, banging, brick wall spring to mind!
I wanted to share the attached with you, not as a boast but to offer a thank you, both to you and Will. I've been doing this a long time as you know but this year has been the most tangible in terms of results and, yes, attitude! 

I'm looking forward to doing something about the soccer figure over the next few months!
Here's to a great season and balls to the numpties. 

All the best

Steve

So what was it Steve shared. How about this

FTS success

Beauuutifulllllll. That is all I can say. (Note the word attitude in his email!)

You see I get many knockers about everything. People knocked the seminars without even attending. Everything though is down to you, I will put it as bluntly as I can, if you want to be an arse about things then carry on, I am certainly not for you and you are not for me.

You see betting is not a gift, I don’t actually think anything is. No one is born to be certain things they work at it. Tiger Woods was born to play golf, David Beckham was born to play football, Ian Erskine was born to be a winning punter what a load of pish!

Steve has earned 4 figures a month because he has changed and adapted his skills and worked at it and now he has a platform to grow from.

Steve is now one of my new best mates, despite his football allegiance!

I am sure Steve will answer any comments the doubters have directly, just post them below.

 

Long term approach is what it is all about and in somethings it is hard to define what long term is. I now, for example don’t see one football season as long term. If we take Man Utd, is last seasons performance indicative of that team – of course not. It was a blip in what has been an immense 20 years. All we need to see is if that blip corrects itself. Liverpool were dominant and dropped off in the early nineties, obviously punting them continually for 20 years after that would have been a mistake.

One FTS member clearly has a far different view of long term though than me. After my excellent ante-post write up last week (available HERE if you missed it) I received this joyful email once the opening, I stress opening fixtures, were completed. I have copied and pasted, apologies for the language and I am not sure who Gillinham are.

” Orient beaten, Gillinham 0-2 up and beaten another load of shit from FTS”

So with 45 games to go ladies and gentlemen, League 1 is already taken care of. Rip up those ante post slips, burn my ante post guide and get yourself out of here as quick as dixie!

You see the majority want tips and instant gratification and that is it. I was with another Steve this week. This time it was Steve who is the man behind Soccerstato. Now I believe, and I am not alone, that this is by a mile, a million miles, a trillion miles the best soccer software on the planet. Period.

For less than a quid a day you can research, see historical results and odds and data, filter matches to suit your criteria, get the odds off Betfair, look at in-play at stats whilst games are on, all in one interface. It is brilliant. I have mine set with about 20 systems that run and give me all the qualifying fixtures in minutes. For a quid that allows me to make three or 4 figures a day it is a necessity and saves hours.

Some grasp it and use it and learn how to use it, others look at it and file it as too difficult and miss the potential.

Anyone and I mean anyone using it has an advantage over those not and as Betfair is mano e mano I want it in my corner. I accept as I discussed with Steve we need to teach people to get the best from it and we will be over the coming months but that will still be a very small number who follow up and implement.

Steve himself is of the view people just want tips. If I created a piece of software that threw out random tips daily it would get more use, even if the tips were useless, that I am convinced. (I may even try it – ah first issue with that is Ian can’t write software)

So as the first Steve says, I may sound like a broken record as past blog posts have had this nature, some people want to learn, some appreciate the power of what they have. The ability to earn 40/50k a year tax free. That is equivalent to going to work for a 70/80k job and it can be the tip of the iceberg. It takes time to get there though.

Others judge a complete league season on the opening day fixtures, or as mentioned in part 1 the opening game of a world cup.

The prosecution rests! (But we will continue to help the little guy!)

5 Responses

  1. Cheers Ian, I must take issue with you on one thing though…it’s Everton not Liverpool! I think I need a shower!!

    1. Could I have made a more monumental cock up there Steve apologies, got to laugh though. I have to edit the post!!

  2. Hi Ian,
    Just signed up after withdrawing the fees from my Skybet account, Since meeting yourself and Will at Taunton last year I have been studying horse racing in a complete different way, now I know you disapprove of the way I bet but since May when I started to back my own selections I an £1500.72p in front as of last night, I have my spreadsheet up to date, and still do my nine to five.
    I enjoy doing all the form study now knowing that I’m going in the right direction.
    Thanks to Ian And Will.
    I’m just no good at the football so just following you this season.
    Cheers, Greg

  3. Thanks Ian/Steve for the blog . Really good motivation for the little guy. Attitude and getting into a routine are my priorities the year. Really hoping to be in the same mental space as Steve this year.
    COYB 🙂

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