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The Dark Side of “Personal Coaching” Part 2

Luke

Okay, here’s the flip-side of the personal coaching issue…
If you’re a customer who is expecting to get "coaching" with the purchase of a $30 product, then you are out of your mind. Period.
Chances are that product was sold via an affiliate and the vendor is probably offering 75% commissions (at least in the IM world) [...]

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The Dark Side of “Personal Coaching” Part 1

Luke

I’m seeing more and more "personal coaching" offers in the internet marketing arena and most of the deals I’m seeing are bad for both parties involved.
Most coaching offers I see are included with the purchase of some product where the seller is advertising coaching as a bonus with purchase of the main product. Sometimes this [...]

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The $30,000 Failure

Luke

I was recently reading some comments on a blog where a guy posted that he had spent over $30,000 on training and IM products over 3 years with nothing to show for it.
Now perhaps some of this 30k was spent on a high-end "mentoring" course but still, that is a huge amount of money. I’ve [...]

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Fear Will Paralyze You

Luke

*HOONNK!*
My horn rang out loudly and probably woke half my neighbors. If not the horn, the screeching of brakes.
It was early morning and the sun was still crawling from the horizon and the humidity was unbearable for this early in the day.
I was rounding the bend to my home (which sits in a semi-wooded area) [...]

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