Coaching Programs?

[Guest mrclean0325]

Do some of the coaching programs available online bother anyone else?

 

It seems the new technique is to teach you to follow their system and to charge a high dollar whether you are really qualified or not. It seems the "coaches" are no more than glorified affiliates to their coaches system. I have coaching courses that basically tell you to "fake it 'til you make it" and just copy their system. Or use a PLR coaching system they have bought just to make a buck by putting their name on it.

 

Don't get me wrong, some of them have valuable information, but the rest...

 

Then there is the "sharing" of the testimonials. When you find there are the same testimonials for several "coaches" using the originators system - it does lead to a bit of confusion. Then of course some of the websites the testimonials use don't work anymore or the person hasn't posted anything for quite awhile. You do see that in other things too though.

 

If they work and produce results, that is great. But don't you want a coach who is actually doing what you are looking to be coached in? Someone who is actually succeeding? Not just some wannabee who is as broke and trying to make it as you are following another persons system?

 

Just curious if anyone else notices this or is bothered by it.

 

 

[rpsmith]

I've noted that some of the coaching programs that are being sold out there are nothing more than high priced scams. I can think of two that were very polished and persuasive. One offered good, but incomplete, info. Both were designed to draw you in with promises of fast money and big paydays. I dropped out of both before I really got into them. The main reason was their high pressure sales tactics used to get me to "upgrade" or buy a "license."

[davepilgrim]

I've seen coaching systems out there that flat-out tell you to lie in order to sell products.

 

So-called 'super affiliates' supposedly making big dollars from clickbank teaching that you should set up fake social media accounts and then lie to other users about the fantastic benefits you've had from Product X.

 

Coaching their customers to pose as teenage girls and lie outright about having excellent results from the latest diet product on clickbank, for example, isn't just unethical, it's dangerous.

[Guest mrclean0325]

Yes, I have seen all of those too.

 

I have also seen older products from people who are now well know in the circles today but back then nobody knew what they looked like actually posting testimonials in another name - they did use their picture though...

 

I have also bought products that are truly "fake it 'til you make it" products where they downright tell you to fake everything just to get the big coaching dollars. Where basically you are telling people how to make money online when you haven't just to get people to pay you the large dollars.

 

If you actually read what is legally required for making these claims from the FTC - I haven't seen any that really comply fully.

 

Is it very disheartening to see so many scams out there that people buy where they are truly throwing their money away.

 

Of course there are the ones where the product is contained on a membership type site that completely disappears in a couple of months.

 

I guess people are very hungry to bypass the learning curve and keep buying these things in the hopes that just one of them will be true and they will become fantabulously rich doing nothing...

 

I read a meme the other day that sums it up perfectly - "Common Sense Is So Rare These Days It Should Be a Super Power". If that helped you, just throw cash at the screen. I am sure it will fall into my bank account.

[weblord]

not bothered by it. one way or another, we need to earn off the internet like it used to be. you give some and receive some.

[captkirk]

I consider them as marketers like the rest of us selling their products and services like we do.

[weblord]

you have some coaching programs on wealthaffiliate.

[captkirk]

SFI has some of the best training (coaching) around and it's 100% free. I have been a member of SFI for 17 years.

[weblord]

wealthyaffiliate offers also bootcamps.

[captkirk]

The net is loaded with programs that will train you for free.. Why Pay...