Want to Know Which Internet Marketers to Avoid?
January 26th, 2010 | 
Author: I was listening to Kidd Kraddick this morning (106.1 in DFW) and he mentioned something about Oprah’s friend, the poet and author Mya Angelou, saying, “When someone shows you who they are – believe them.” (may not be exact)
What a powerful statement. Do you do this? When a marketer acts spammy, do you turn a blind eye and keep on holding onto the belief that he’s the one to follow because he’s more successful than you? It’s kind of like that story about the woman and the snake. She sees an injured poisonous snake and takes it home to nurse it back to health. When it recovers, she continues treating t like a pet, and one day it bites her. She asks, “Why did you do it – I thought we were friends?” and he responds, “Because I’m a snake!” (DUH!)
Are you going to look at how marketers are BEHAVING (not just what they claim) and go off of your gut instincts? Because if not, you’re going to get scammed, screwed and utterly shamed into buying a whole bunch of pipe dreams. If a marketer is showing you the kind of person he (or she) is, and you don’t feel 100% comfortable with it, then disconnect from them, period.
Tiff
Posted in Internet Marketing
Well, I hate these kind of comments, but… “I totally agree”
Once I was a big fan of one of the really big gurus. What he wrote and said was fantastic. But I found out later that he didn’t keep his promises, that he didn’t deliver the goods you ordered, etc. I removed all affiliate material I had on my site immediately. And today, I wouldn’t dream of spending more money on him.
Other marketers only grow in my opinion, because of what they show of themselves.
In the long run it shows, how you are, and if you care about people or only their money.
I can not tell you how many marketer’s (aka guru’s) email messages I have deleted recently. I listened to the audio recording from your good friend Craig DeSorcy where he says to “clean out your inbox.” And I did just that. I got so tired of receiving an email a day from some of these people with nothing but “buy this, check this out from my friend, it’s the next big “SECRET”… blah blah blah.” Well, ok, see you…bye! DELETE/UNSUCSCRIBE!
Wow, what a great feeling to have cleansed these people out of my life who were doing nothing but taking up my time with one sales pitch after another!
I agree with you Tiffany, and the comment above. I feel like I just can’t write emails in that way, but so many marketers just constantly seem to have their ’sales’ barrier up – by that I mean they don’t show their true selves, they always keep the hype going because somehow, it seems, they feel as if they let it go they will lose sales.
Personally that kind of attitude shows through a lot to me. I’d rather hear from someone ‘real’, unlike in Dianne’s example above. I know that marketers are salesmen to some degree, but when you have a list isn’t it far more important to build a genuine relationship?
This is why I really like the emails I get from you. And my list is so important to me, I could never jeopardize the relationships by being false.
I think you’ve just about named and shamed all of the ‘top’ Guru’s here Tiff.
(I think you’re definitely right though
There were several that I thought were the ‘real deal’ but lately, probably due to the recession, they’ve shown their true colours.
It’s a shame, but the weeding is now more apparent and easy.
I must say, I do now spam on Twitter myself. I used to hate it, but it’s got SO spammy this last year that I thought I might as well respond like with like. (Only about 10% spammy though
Pete.