Hello,
Can I just tell you something about the whole internet marketing business as a whole? It stinks worse than rotting fish.
Anyone with guru status is particularly dangerous.
This is how it works.
Person starts to get interested in internet marketing. Person works like a dog (see that – hard work – I mean 16 hour days here) and achieves some success. Person (usually guided by another person who had trodden the same path) then opens a mentoring programme. Convinces new marketers that he has “the secret of success”/the missing piece that everyone wants/the secret key that will bring them millions. Charges them for mentoring them. Makes promises, for instance, you will earn the cost of the course back by the end of it.
Then there is the clever bit. Of the five hundred people guru charges for mentoring them, guru picks the top few people who seem the most keen. Perhaps they are the people who make the most noise. I am not too sure of the process, however, the Chosen Few.
These Chosen Few get very well coached, but the rest of the keen but less noisy get the rest of the pickings. They do not get the time and coaching necessary. Guru, who before was very open to email and contact, now has a “help desk” that makes it impossible for people to get him. That is, unless they are part of the Chosen Few who have personal mobile numbers/cell numbers.
Very clever guru has competitions so that lots of students make videos of their journeys which are then featured as part of the next mentoring programme. The Chosen Few can affiliate for guru, spreading the word about how successful they are because of his coaching. Thus guru achieves higher status, making it more likely that guru will get new internet marketers to pay for mentoring.
The maths is interesting:
$500 x 500 newbies = $250,000 for guru. First level “mentoring”.
$1997 x 500 newbies = $998,500 for guru. Second level “mentoring”.
And so on. In the meantime of course, there are the project launches and other promotions from fellow gurus products, as well as the general sales of own gurus projects.
So, my dear friends, it is all very well if you are one of the Chosen Few. If you are not one of the Chosen Few however, then it is pretty much tough luck.
Oh, you may say – what about the promise: “If you do not earn the cost of the course by the end of it”?
Totally bogus. Unless you pay by credit card, you will not get it back. And don’t rely on PayPal. Mentoring is an intangible product therefore there is nothing Paypal will do about it.
My opinion: If you want to learn internet marketing, and you have $1997 to give a guru, pay for a year at Wealthy Affiliate and put the rest into the hands of the nearest childrens charity. I don’t care if you don’t buy Wealthy Affiliate through my link – get it where you like.
Just don’t throw good money away, because I can assure you, it’s extremely likely guru mentoring will not be worth it.
Best wishes,
Ruth
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