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Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Cash Money Hero — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:51:18 -0000

I think a lot of people think that some e-books are scams because they buy them and then realize that they already know all that information and they weren't taught anything new at all. That would be why a person should heavily research an e-book before buying.

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Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Jim Kukral — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:04 -0000

Teenage love, Take it from me, these people really do make that much money. More even. You could say there are no secrets about being a doctor, since you could find everything you needed to know about it online or in medical books... yet, how hard would that be? People buy these products to be guided by a "guru" who's already got it figured out.

Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Jim Kukral — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:05:23 -0000

Wade, you can still if you wish. :)

Jason, for every person like you who hates those nasty sales letters, is 100 more other people who don't hate them. But I get your point.

Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

PhilB — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:41:44 -0000

Three things that say guru (and by guru I mean scammer) to me are:

1. A 'lucrative' affiliate program.

2. Endorsements from people with no apparent web footprint - no blog, no online-profile, etc.

3. Whatever they are pushing is represented by an angled, 3-D box as if there is some "packaged" version someplace.

4. There are serious inconsistencies between their lead sentence and the body of their pitch.

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Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Simonne — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:23:14 -0000

I agree, there are great info products out there, but many sales letters are misleading when the say "make $xxxxx in day, or weeks". Of course, they want to sell their product, so they don't emphasize on the quantity of work needed to be done in order to get those results, nor on the fact that nobody can guarantee the repeatability of these results.

Moreover, some of those gurus sell good stuff, but after you buy it, you get killed with hundreds of emails about their other products. And when that product was a software, you don't want to unsubscribe, because you might miss important updates.

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Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Jason — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:32:21 -0000

I bought a great product awhile back, and then i found its trashy looking sales page. If I would have found the massive sales page first, I probably never would have bought the product.

I think the problem lies in the sales pages that all look alike and it has really nothing to do with the marketer. If these people with huge sales pages don't want to be thought of as scam artists or gurus, they might want to think about redesigning their page. In my mind, and I'll probably never get rid of the bad taste in my mouth, and these pages will always represent that guy that tried to sell me a bunch of crappy information.

Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Andrew Flusche — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:20:25 -0000

Great point to make, Jim.

Saying that all online gurus are thieves is like saying that all lawyers are liars. I know there's at least lawyer who doesn't lie. :)

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Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

knupnet — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:04:18 -0000

What is an online "guru" anyways? Always wondered what it took to get that status. Nice post Jim.

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Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Patrick — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:29:33 -0000

LOL good cover "Don't make me think" >:D

Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Barbara Ling — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:20:28 -0000

It's common sense really - if someone has been around for 10+ years online, generally it's because that someone has hit on something that works and works well. You can trace back their successes over the years via Archive.org and the like.

Sing one's own song, I always say....and give yourself permission to be successful.

Enjoy,

Barbara

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Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

John Fischer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:01:02 -0000

oh yeah, some of the best are Joel Comm, Jeff Walker, Don Crowther, Andy Jenkins, Brad Fallon, I just took Don Crowther's class for well over $1000 and got that value out x10 hell yeah!

Re: Leave The Online “Gurus” Alone!

Wade Tonkin — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:58:24 -0000

So I can't refer to you as a "Blogging Guru" anymore ?

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