The best mentors for learning IM

I would say you have to be very careful who you trust and who you look towards for fulfilling the role of a mentor. There are a lot of people and gurus out there who are taking advantage of newbies' ignorance. You want to build up trust with people you get to know on forums before you start looking for them to play that role.
At least one of those names you mentioned has been scrutinised by one of my favourite blogs- saltydroid.info so maybe do your homework on some of these big names before you put your faith in them. Blind trust is costly.

Not really, because you can hunt down a mentor and you will learn less than someone who has been doing it and successful for only a few months.

I tend to think the doers are much better than the teachers. Make friends in here with people actually doing stuff, they will have the secret little tips and tidbits for you that are priceless. Some mentors are just good at teaching, but you will be alarmed at the rate these guys are just teaching and not doing what they are teaching. Yikes!

Good point....seems most of us here got off on a tangent about coaches and missed the distinction.

i also think chris farrel is the best mentor for new marketers.

Interesting read going down the through the thread .
The distinction of mentor / coach , well said .

I see some of the bigger ''made'' names scattered throughout the vast corridors of Internet Marketing land as Master Salesmen/women. They are the CEO's of their own IM domains , literally.

These large companies in terms of members , hopefully staffed [outsourced or not] with a full support infrastructure for those that need '' coaching '' which I assume would be almost every purchaser, have trained through duplication ,all staff, their particular process to earn with a keyboard and tired pixel'd screen.

Perhaps at one time I was naive to think that after the first personal hello from the actual CEO that he or she was going to choose me and me alone to mentor and eventually lead me to the promised land replete with riches.
What I experience usually is being coached or maybe better said guided by a number of liked trained staff support members of the Company/program/system . These are the decent ones that have a speedy , professional staff to deal with the many thousands of us nestlings , beaks straining open , necks stretched, starved for knowledge ,beseeching .

So ,I never used to ascribe a single guru Name as being my personal mentor or coach , yes they and partners have developed the inventive brilliant ways to earn and they have my respect , but one on one , no .

Now I must say with the advent of easy access Video and webinars strutting to the front, the teaching and coaching has become a way to reach out and have the teaching become once again a more cozy , at my own desk learning experience.

''Times they are a' changin' ,and never more-so than on the Net.