Choosing the right Guru?

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Hi I am Andy Fowler I have been blogging now for about a year and I am making a small amount of money in that time, the system which I first starting using about six months ago had taken about a month to set up but it is just starting to be worth while. What I want to share with you is how I starting on my path of Internet marketing and finding the right Guru to guide me.
Choosing the right marketing guru
Hello all my name is Andy Fowler and I have been doing internet marketing for about a year and I have to say it is one of the hardest things I have ever done but most important did I choose the right Guru?
I first started getting into Marketing after I went to a seminar down in London March 2011.
I had never heard of internet marketing and as you can guess I did not have a clue about any of it, anyway my wife said to me why don't we go for the weekend see what its about and if its rubbish we will spend the time round London. I must confess I received an email about how to make loads of money on the Internet and I thought what a load of rubbish.
The weekend consisted of a number of speakers over two days telling people how they make thousands of dollars a month working their little magic on the internet to cash in on the hidden thousands available to everyone.
After day one and a numerous amount of pitches from the speakers we decided to go with a package that one of the speakers was offering, don't get me wrong there were some good pitches and packages but the one we went with to us seemed genuine, the others made me feel like they were happy for the one and a half grand you would hand over but they were far to busy to give you their time and it would be some computer geek who would show you how to run the program.
So on the second day we sat down in a little quiet corner with a couple of drinks with the guy who we were going with, between both his phones constantly bleeping, dinging and ringing he ran through what the entailed, we thought that's great he would give us loads of help get us on our feet and point us in the right direction, Well what are we waiting for so we signed up and a couple of grand lighter it was a done deal.
We left London the next day all excited, confused and apprehensive with what the hell have we done and what are we going to do, after a week we started getting Skype calls, and the guy giving us instruction on what to look at and read up on.
This went on for some time but in the mean time he said he was setting up a web site for us to promote our product, after a couple of months of short angry emails to him and a couple of abrupt Skype calls, and a longer than expected three months later the site was finished, I must admit the site looks great but it was nothing to do with him it was his wiz kid who he pays pence to set up his sites that did all the work, so the keeping in touch with us and contact him anytime for advice and help speech yes fell to the road side and at the end of the day do I think it was value for money? NO.


Have you had this experience?
#choosing #guru
  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    Andy,

    Sadly, it's not an uncommon experience. Many people have been
    sold so called "one-on-one coaching" thinking they would be
    guided by an expert and then it turns out the "coaching" is actually
    delivered by support staff.

    These are the schemes that give internet marketing a bad name.

    Although, unlike many, you do say you are making a small amount of
    money.

    Hopefully, you can build upon that. And, if I can help in any way,
    please do let me know.

    John
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