I’ve spent all morning catching up on your Mastermind emails/videos and taking copious notes. Thank you for providing such a wonderful course! Also, thank you for introducing me to Maria Andros and Adam Short.

Both of them resonated me with their videos, but in the end, I chose Adam’s course as it offered step-by-step tutorials in market research, a skill that I’ve needed to learn for a long time. When his course becomes available to the public again, I’ll post a comprehensive review about my results.

That’s fine… but they kept sending me emails still promoting this $1 trial period, even though you couldn’t sign up for it on the site. To make matters worse, you couldn’t even sign up for the full price course at $67 a month even if you wanted to – the claim is that it would be open to this price in 48 hours… hmmm that was a week ago.

I understand that I was the one who found their site late, however, they should be prepared to make a change to their auto responders and website copy as soon as an offer is discontinued.

I was fine with paying the full price…. but now am cautious as this really appears to be some type of “bait and switch” type operation… these are the same tactics that a used car salesman would use. Sad that I really think their videos show that they have great information… but my exerience of trying to do business with them has been soured and made me very skeptical of their operation! Sale Lost!

I was in Alex Jeffreys coaching program and he mentioned about you in his program and I decided to come check it out.

It is funny though, as he mentioned about Maria Andros in his program as well and now here on your blog I see her being promoted again.

If I remember she was also a guest at Anik Singals PPC Classroom Live earlier this year.

I am gonna try and follow her for sometime. I usually don’t buy things on first promotion

Till then,

Jean

It’s just like anything else in life, someone may tell you that they really like a certain make of vehicle but your not going to go out any buy it just based upon that are you?

You are your own person, treat yourself as such and you won’t (hopefully) go wrong.

It’s my first time here and gotta say you have a ton of good information.

Alex Jeffreys suggested I visit here and take a look around. On that note, I was recently on a webinar with Maria Andros and all I can say is she has an incredible story and adds complete value with her knowledge of Video Marketing.

Anyone who chooses her as a mentor, will only get complete value.

I’ll check out Adam Short too, Thanks for info.

Cheers

Sean

I am fortunate enough to be on the Alex Jeffreys coaching program and really enjoyed the live call he did with Maria Andros last week. I had not seen your podcast with her until now so I will listen to it later today.

David

How can she achieve that with 200 students in her programm. ???

2.500 US $ for a personal 3 day 8 people seminar could be OK, but 2.500 US$ for a mass event isn’t.

She’ll make 2.500 US$ x 200 = 500.000 US $ = Half a million US $ with her programm.

Sorry for my poor English, but could “rip-off ” the right expression for it?

Keep it up Yaro!

I appreciate your feedback was in the spirit of constructive help, it’s sometimes hard to know as the “tone” of your words is lacking in text. I will take in on board as such.

Cheers,
Yaro

Thank you for your extended response.

If you reflect further, you may come to realize that a complaint is really a gift if you are willing to listen.

Yes, of course, I could simply “move on” as you pointedly suggest but that would not be in the spirit of building a learning community. I certainly do not begrudge you the opportunity to sell affiliate products–It is, after all, your blog!

I only ask that you be extra mindful of being totally upfront and transparent before making any recommendation of an affiliate product that you are, in fact, an affiliate who will benefit from the sale. That way, your loyal reader and potential buyer is fully protected by knowing the total situation in advance. Indeed, this would build and deepen trust.

Forgive me if what I wrote in any way offended you.

Hans

I appreciate your feedback.

I’ve been in this blogging for profit game for a long time and I know well enough that a blog post like this, that recommend products or services, will trigger responses like yours, some written as a comment, others never stated publicly.

I also know that many people really enjoyed the interviews with Adam and Maria and even though they do part-promote their respective courses, they consider the information they provide “real” content, to use your terminology – it provides value.

I’ve not studied Adam or Maria’s courses in depth, and when I recommend their materials I’m not writing a review. When I do reviews, that’s when I study the materials. I’m making my recommendation purely based on the person and the free content they have provided so far. I trust these people to deliver and if a majority of people I refer to them complain that they did not, then I won’t endorse them again.

So far Adam and Maria have not disappointed based on feedback I’ve received from people who have joined their programs. They don’t have spotless records of course, no one does, but on the whole they have satisfied the people I’ve sent their way.

In terms of resonating with the person you are buying from – if you don’t understand what I’m saying there, then you haven’t studied my marketing materials. Most of my sales are based on people resonating with me as a person, that’s why they buy.

As I’ve always said to any person who leaves a comment like yours, if you don’t get value from my blog, don’t read it. If you can’t take me writing a blog post that recommends a product, especially as I’m a person who makes money from blogging, then you need to move on. I would expect nothing else.

Good luck with your projects!

I need to echo David’s comment to you — you are losing me too!

I am getting increasingly worried that you are just using your blog postings and e-mails to (affiliate) sell big ticket items from people like Maria Andros and Adam Short.

Nowhere do you provide any evidence that you personally have studied their materials in-depth and can recommend them from your own first-hand experience!

Rather you ask us to determine if their sales pitches and presentations “resonate” with us. This is fabulous advice from a loopy “New Age” synchronicity perspective but terrible advice from a purportedly objective, unbiased advisor dedicated to protecting his valued readers!

Your interview with Adam Short (Part 1) raised a vital issue of basic fairness and equity — Is it right to pay someone in the Phillipines $3 for an e-book? (Wikipedia reports that “the daily income for 45% of the population of the Phillipines is less than US$2 a day.) In my listening, Adam Short came up “short” in his response to you and you then glossed over the whole issue.

Let’s get back to real content that informs and educates your readers. Please reassure me that your recommendations are not based on your large commissions as an affiliate sales person. Is that how you really generate a five-figure monthly income from your blogging??

You used to appear to me to be a really decent bloke from Oz–someone I could really trust and learn from. Did I get taken in by you??

Yours in deep disappointment,
Hans

PS One way to make amends to all of us is to promise to provide full disclosure of any conflicts of interest when you present, highlight, advocate or in any way recommend a product or service to us, your readers. The more total transparency you provide, the more integrity you show.

So you should capture this gap and take over and become a power player. I especially like the bit on market research…i spend 2 hours a day doing this. I worked out if you dont take this step you fail….a good market will get you a few bucks…..BUT A HUNGRY MARKET will feed you for a lifetime. My mentor told me that….good advice IMHO.

I am listening to a recording of Alex Jeffreys within my coaching program and he mentioned you as a leader for blogs. I read your comment on both Maria Andros and Adam Short, which I have been following both recently. Both parties appear to offer superior products, I just have so much time to dedicate to improving my knowledge via the internet. I am going to sign up for the $1 trial for Niche Profit Classroom. I am going to start following you and learn from one of the best.

Thanks

Richard