Are Guru's Selling Your Info After The Launch?
Hi All,
I recently had a pretty nasty experience after purchasing a product from a well known "guru". I posted the entire story on my blog. Here's what happened.
I purchased this person's product and a couple of days later I get an email saying I'm going to get some "personal" coaching from this guru's team. I get the phone call and it just goes downhill from there.
The guy that called was in no way, shape, form or fashion, a part of the "team" from this particular guru. In effect, he was a third party vendor who tried to sell me an overpriced coaching program.
When I told him that I had no interest, he got extremely irate and told me that I would not make any money with the product I purchased without him and his program. I'm thinking, "this guy is a nut case". I hung up on him. The calls eventually stopped, but it did happen again with another product I purchased from a different guru.
A few weeks later I was on a product launch webinar where the guys selling the product all but admitted to selling their list info but they disguised it by calling it Lead Generation.
Now, I'm still kinda new to all of this and I'm still learning the ropes, but I think I know the difference between building a targeted list to sell to vendors for a certain niche and selling your list to some third party for further gain after the launch. Anyone else experience this?
By the way, thanks ShawnC for commenting on my blog. I appreciate it. I was a little nervous about posting it because it was my first one.
I recently had a pretty nasty experience after purchasing a product from a well known "guru". I posted the entire story on my blog. Here's what happened.
I purchased this person's product and a couple of days later I get an email saying I'm going to get some "personal" coaching from this guru's team. I get the phone call and it just goes downhill from there.
The guy that called was in no way, shape, form or fashion, a part of the "team" from this particular guru. In effect, he was a third party vendor who tried to sell me an overpriced coaching program.
When I told him that I had no interest, he got extremely irate and told me that I would not make any money with the product I purchased without him and his program. I'm thinking, "this guy is a nut case". I hung up on him. The calls eventually stopped, but it did happen again with another product I purchased from a different guru.
A few weeks later I was on a product launch webinar where the guys selling the product all but admitted to selling their list info but they disguised it by calling it Lead Generation.
Now, I'm still kinda new to all of this and I'm still learning the ropes, but I think I know the difference between building a targeted list to sell to vendors for a certain niche and selling your list to some third party for further gain after the launch. Anyone else experience this?
By the way, thanks ShawnC for commenting on my blog. I appreciate it. I was a little nervous about posting it because it was my first one.
-Jason