Comments on: Teaching Sells, worth the money?

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:36:58 +0000

@HP
Only $64 question? Teaching Sells was around $1600! And, btw, I know the expression as “million dollar question”, never heard about a $64 question, SY

By: HP@Online Reputation Management

HP@Online Reputation Management — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:33:57 +0000

Yes, teaching sells, but whether it is worth the money is the $64 question.

PS:
Who made up the phrase “This is the $64 question”?
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By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:13:54 +0000

@C. Loh
“IMO, the $1600 people pay for Teaching Sells is not for the training, but for someone to blame when things don’t work out.” So very true, and often it is their own fault when things don’t work out. I agree with what you say, and I must repeat, I am not believing that Teaching Sells is a bad program per se, but it was bad to market it to newbies and noobs that have no following. If somebody has already a following, on or off line, and is a recognized expert in his / her field, it might be a good program to take things further. For example if you have already written a book, sold a few thousand and now want to take your message to the internet, great. But if you are just starting out, have no content written, no expertise at all, then promising you the “blue from the sky” like we say in German is unethical in my eyes. But I would be happy to see here some comments from people that actually has success with the Teaching Sells program and make now the money back they paid in the first place, SY

By: C. Loh@Oil Rig Jobs

C. Loh@Oil Rig Jobs — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:43:04 +0000

>> “You’ll also see why being an “expert” at the training you sell is completely optional.”

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is also too common in the brick and mortar world. I used to be in IT (mainly outsourcing). My employers (I have worked for several different big vendors) sold our services to their clients for a high price, but many of the programmers were fresh out of school/university. Even those of us with experience (like myself) were too often used outside our field(s) of expertise. It’s pretty much the same kind of situation, with unscrupulous businessmen/management selling low quality services to uncritical customers.

IMO, the $1600 people pay for Teaching Sells is not for the training, but for someone to blame when things don’t work out. Just the same as my ex-employers’ customers.

>> “accreditations that you can actually check on, and a physical address and phone number that you can call or visit, and speak to a real person.”

So did Bernie Madoff’s investment (read Ponzi scheme) company.

Many people think that you can’t make money online fast. That’s not quite true. If you work insanely hard like Ben (he made 100 websites in 1 month), you can make money fast. Unfortunately, most people (including me) can’t work at that pace.

Brian Clark taught copywriting well. I learned to write good articles (for blogging and article marketing) from his website. Unfortunately, for the past year (maybe longer), most of the posts are from guest writers and nowadays he rarely produces the old long informative essays that actually teach something.

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:34:18 +0000

@Ricardo Jackson
I am not really sure if you actually have fully read my short and Lis’ extensive blog post. As I mentioned above, I didn’t write an own review, because she already had done it, so why re-invent the wheel? FYI “Teaching Sells” has all the “accreditations that you can actually check on, and a physical address and phone number that you can call or visit, and speak to a real person.” you mention as necessary, our main point against it is that it was marketed to the wrong people! It was really a product that was best for people that had already an internet reputation, following etc, not for unknown newbies that just start out. SY

By: Ricardo Jackson

Ricardo Jackson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:52:03 +0000

Nice link – way to get out of using naughty words in your own post! Unfortunately, a lot of these reviews don’t seem to make sense to the people that are looking to make a quick buck off the internet – they know it’s possible in real life, and the scams are just so prevalent that they can’t believe EVERYBODY is lying. Teaching-wise, though – make sure you choose an online education provider with accreditations that you can actually check on, and a physical address and phone number that you can call or visit, and speak to a real person. These are the hallmarks of the non-scamsters!

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:35:57 +0000

update:
Deep Aurora is writing at the moment a series of guest posts over at http://www.johnchow.com/how-to-start-a-money-making-membership-site-part-4/ It is free and really good stuff to read if you are interested in a teaching sells alternative Just use your common sense and you might get some valuable info for free! SY

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:55:34 +0000

@Mary
Any particular reason why you just repeat my own words without adding anything to the discussion? In case it was for the backlink, please take a moment to read this post: http://hospitalera.com/how-i-handle-comments-and-spammers/ Thanks, SY

By: mary

mary — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:27:46 +0000

The sentence of not having to be an expert to be a teacher makes me shiver because of my medical background.

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:15:29 +0000

@Resume Services
I agree with “home whitening” (Gosh, did you guys actually read the blurb about keywordluv below the comment field ?) Paying $1600 for a course to learn to set up, and promote!, a membership site is hardly “fast money with a little bit of effort” SY