Did you get results from an Internet Seminar or congress?

It’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog as I’ve given priority to my web strategy Singapore blog and my other businesses. But today I’d like to get something of my chest.

I recently attended an internet congress here in Singapore. It was the first live seminar I have ever attended a live seminar and I was pretty astonished. Unfortunately, not in such a positive way.

There were several speakers there. All of them claiming to be successful internet marketeers; all very wealthy. Of course. You know what? I believe them too. The way they get wealthy is by selling their outrageously expensive packages to all the poor souls that believe them.

Each presenter basically had the same story line.

• I was poor, up to no good, loser.
• And then!!! I discovered the Internet and became rich in no time.
• Do you know why it is so important to be rich? So you can look after your sick child when you need to.
• And with the Internet it is soooooo easy to get rich.
• You earn thousands within months.
• All you have to do is to follow my program which has all these SECRETS that will  tell you exactly how to do this.
• Here is my wonderful program that is worth $20,000 but you will get it for $3000.
• But you need to get it now, within the next 10 minutes, and if you do I’ll give you 2 bonuses. After that the opportunity and your chance to get rich will be lost forever.

Seriously, every presentation was the same. They could bring it well, of course. Each of these presentations had a smooth talk and seducing smile and the whole presentation was built up in such a way that it would convince you to make the purchase.

Some of them had convincing proof of all their revenue. Some more convincing than others. However, they fail to say that it has taken them 10 years to get that kind of revenue which they mainly get from all their buddies and Joint Venture Partners who are also smooth talkers and writers and manage to sell even more get rich quick programs.

Contradictions

I thought it was interesting that all the programs they were selling would all contradict one another. One would say to definitely go for affiliate marketing, while the other would tell you not to waste your time on that and go for a real product of your own. Yet another, would tell you not to bother too much with the internet marketing online and instead focus on becoming an SEO consultant. Of course you never need to have ANY internet skills or know how to build a website.

I must have been the only one to notice this because many of the programs sold like hot cakes. This is despite the fact that many of the participants were former students of an internet marketing course and yet only 1 (out of 200) had achieved some kind of result that they were able to share.

So how did they earn their money?

The main reason why the speakers claim to be so wealthy is because they go to these seminars around the year and sell these programs to all those poor souls. Most of them will not make a penny online and will have spent far too much money believing in the dream.

The whole congress has been an interesting experience for me though and I’ve learned a few lessons:

• I will never be a part of those Internet Gurus because I could never claim that making money online is easy.
• I can’t make money online the “traditional’ way with a lot of “hypnotic” copywriting and the rags to richness story because it goes against everything I believe in.
• Instead I’ve decided to focus again on my honest advice on how to create a successful business online.
• When time permits, I will even continue educating people on how they can earn money online. It’s important that people learn the truth; that the only way this can be achieved is by honest work, dedication and focus. A great idea would help as well.

I’m wondering though, how I can convince others to work with someone like me. People seem only to believe the outrageously confident (rich!) sales people that promise them the earth. When they realise that they deliver nothing it’s already too late.

Truth of the matter remains that yes, you can be successful online. But it requires hard work, dedication, focus and knowledge. Yes, you can learn a lot from a good coach, but find someone that shares real information, that doesn’t promise you thousands of dollars in one month, that stresses the importance on knowledge of keyword research and SEO and that can provide you real revenue results other than revenues from seminars, books etc teaching others how to be successful online.

All the information you need is right here on the Internet and most of it can be found for free.

Meanwhile let me know what you think? Did you have good or bad experiences with “gurus” and life seminars?

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