If you were to pick 1 WSO / Coach who would it be?

You're right. Don't dig deeper. Take everything for face value, especially if you're going to be investing large sums of cash for a coach.

Connecting with these people on a personal level to see if they can really help you is a horrible idea. This means skype calls or meeting with them in person to explain your situation to see if they have the knowledge capable of pushing you to the next level...all bad ideas, right?

/sarcasm

I connected with him through facebook, and that's i how i learned about him. He takes referrals and you connect through skype to see where you're at, where you'd like to be, and he explains how he can help you. If not, he recommends resources or people who can help.

@ Dub...just stop trying to find fault in people dude. Just because he doesn't have a dedicated page showing his coaching and why you should trust him doesn't mean he's illegitimate.

In fact, I'd prefer finding him the way i did because it at least proves he provides real results to people I actually know (my friends from whom i received the referral). The social proof is there, I don't need to learn about him through an about page if i can talk to him directly.

Yes, you are a troll, but here's one off the top of my head:

Ryan Deiss - Survival Life | Preppers | Survival Gear | Blog - Be Prepared with Survival Life

He claims they made $6 million at this time last year, not sure what it's done up to this point.

Of course, no one can verify that number...

But the site did have an estimated 1.5 million visitors in January and the top destination sites when leaving the domain are: Mcssl.com and SSL.Clickbank.com

Not to jump in on the argument you pose, but for the sake of conversation...just because they primarily focus on teaching IM, you cannot seriously be discounting the fact that their abilities are far more reaching than just IM. Dan Kennedy is a phenomenal copywriter and (as an aspiring writer myself) has had great success outside of IM with publication, advertising, seminars, etc

To single out IMing as the only thing these guys have been successful at is just... Well, absurd!

Frank Kern wrote a very successful info product on training birds...maybe if people invested some time researching 'what truly works' ( or in the least worked well for others) not everyone in IMing would be considered deviod of any primary skills as your posts often suggest.

If you're gonna learn from someone, might ought to consider any one of the names above...and I say this without bias, as I have NEVER purchased an item from any of them...but have learned just studying their emails, salescopy, and squeeze pages.

Ok I'm done.