BAD Facebook Advice from a Guru?

This guy is well known in IM circles and I've seen a bunch of his offers here and in other venues. In fact, I've received offers for his products from other IMers and have recently unsubscribed myself from multiple lists because of this fact.

I have taken the position of no longer chasing the next shiny item that comes along just because someone wrote a good sales letter and you know what?... I'm FINALLY making a decent living online.

All I'm saying is people, especially newbies, need to check out the claims marketers are making to them before making a purchase. I've seen products being sold for anywhere from $7 to $2497 and while many of them sound like they're pretty solid, most of them, unfortunately, don't stand up to the hype.

They are either too difficult for a newbie to grasp, too expensive to implement or just plain incomplete. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I've had experience with all three types.

Take, for example, all the $37 pieces of software at Clickbank that promise you $1000+ per day by clicking your mouse 3 times. When you try and click away, you get a pop-up that says "WAIT! We have a Special deal for you!", then they offer you a crappy PLR report of outdated material or $10 off their "super secret" software, which is really nothing more than a script of macros assembled for a few bucks by an outsourced worker the Creator hired off of Odesk or Scriptlance.

If you actually DO whip out your credit card and make the purchase, you are immediately hit with 27 upsells ranging from anywhere from $297 to a monthly fee of $47-$97 (and everything in between) so you can stay "up to date" on the latest marketing information.

There is no magic bullet. Making money online is a business and it need to be treated as such in order to be successful.

Hi Louie,

I didn't get my Fan Page banned. When I read the instructions on how to have a header made, I KNEW it was wrong. This was a cheap item I purchased as a WSO so I wasn't out but a few bucks.

I did post a comment in the thread stating that the creator was giving bad advice, but the comment was deleted. I posted a second time and the comment was deleted again. What can I say?

As far as Name and Shame, I do my best to help others whenever I can and will make comments to warn other of the hazards out there, but I've found that when you start naming names you get people coming out of the woodwork at you. I've been called all manner of nasty names simply for stating the truth. This is both online and in the real world.

Thanks for your input, but I think I prefer to have my life as is without getting a bunch of flame email messages from trolls and people who will defend their hero no matter what he does. People can be really unreasonable when it comes to things they're emotionally attached to.

Yes, that's probably what happened. A few people had already prepared their Timeline guides, WSOs etc before Facebook announced the New Timeline TOS. There were a handful of them on this forum with CTAs, URLs on Cover Photos etc - all against the new rules. Unfortunately, not everyone took the time to update their products. Always double check everything, take what is relevant and/or accurate from a product and discard the rest. In this field, rules change so often.

Actually, the Timeline change became effective in March 1st. Here it is the end of April. I just saw an offer for FB Timeline templates with the arrows in the header yesterday. I would think that two months would be ample time to update their product.

Call me crazy, but if I were this product owner, I would want to sell only best information to my customers, not something that could cause them problems.