The First Guru I Met...

Promised me the world and swift wealth!

I clearly remember a good deal of that first 'encounter'.

Not the names of the two guys who sold me on their "product" maybe, (THAT was in like, early '07), but very clearly the fact that after I had sent my $27.oo three weeks passed before I got a letter in my e-mail from them.

In that e-mail they put forth to me this: "Well Hello again ***, we just realized that the $386K and change we made came from this mailing and so we thought that it was time to make good on it by sharing something with you."

And what they then proceeded to "share" with me was a pitch for another product. I was less than thrilled and I possibly should have seen about getting my money back because that is a commodity that is very scant in my life and I could see that it had been a waste to have placed faith in them.

I did not though. The hope was that they're (gurus) not all full of BS.

If I've looked at the 'first' product offering of a guru new to me then I have (probably) been hit with multiple "offers" most every time.

As a matter of fact, if it's 400 gurus I've read offers from then it must be 4,000 sales pitches I have received for various products that they've tried to get me to spend my money on.

I've seen (and most of us have, too!) the same product come to me under any number of subject lines through my e-mails. I've had dozens of affiliates offering products I've already had offered to me by others.

Nothing has made me a nickel and most of it has cost me money. That is my own error, I should have figured out when I first found training that could have worked just how to utilize it.

Though, as most of those "trainings" cost a monthly fee they're mostly unattainable in the first place and, usually, unmaintainable after the initial payment, they're out of my league.

Which would perhaps have been different if I had learned to learn what I needed to know and how to apply it.

Recently I started with a thing, it's supposed to be making me money 'right now'. But it turns out that the cheap cost to get in was for an amount of time that isn't sufficient to accomplish anything if little or nothing is known.

As in the buck lasts for just a couple of days. And then the price increases.

Not to mention the fact that other monies will have to be spent that were not mentioned prior to getting me to sign-up. (Traffic, auto-responders, domains... the list could go on!)

So... if I ever do get online marketing figured out, my intent is to make 1% (yep, one percent) of whatever any trainees I may have make until they hit $5M, at which time I will consider my fee to have been paid in full.

Yep! If I can't teach someone to make more than $100.oo then I surely should not think myself worthy of even one dollar from them. Should I? (Though there IS a button here on this blog one could hit, just because...)

My advice then is, if you do attempt learning from one of these gurus, is that you apply yourself with a laser focus to getting that persons' teachings learned completely. Take on NOTHING that does not aim straight at your goal, or like me, you'll wind up in straits that help you not at all. I have no "information product", though maybe I could create one or more.

I want to sell the things that make our world more environmentally stable and sustainable and which can help us to lower our dependencies on non-renewable sources of energy.

Wish me luck of the good variety. Please.

May you have great days today and every day. And now I'm back to trying to get learned enough to earn my daily bread.

DJ

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