I won’t be buying PPC Classroom. For one, $500 is a lot of cash. Secondly, the guberus have come out of the woodwork offering bonus after bonus to entice you to buy. That is my red flag. Thirdly, I don’t want it. I don’t need it.
These big product offerings are getting very predictable (much like this blog). I still subscribe to a few affiliate marketing spammers just to keep up with the market. In stock parlance, they are my watch list. I start getting emails from the JV guys two to three weeks before a big product launch, plus all kinds of promises for bonuses.
The first thing that comes to mind is, do all these JV partners use the product before they pimp? I doubt very much that the big list owners are even involved with the JV outside of using their name. He probably knows less about the product than your grandma. One week the guru is telling you how great it is to create content for your websites and then the next is telling you how much you stand to make with PPC. Talk about unfocused. If they actually put into practice all the shit they promote they wouldn’t have time to write an email to their mom.
I am tired of the circus surrounding these product launches. Webinars, email promotions, bonuses, blogs, videos, etc., etc. It turns me off. Then again, I will be buying XSitePro version 2 when it gets released. And I’m sure the big top will come to town for that.
I guess it’s what you know and trust. I don’t trust that these guys can help make me money with PPC. And $500 is too much to take a chance on. Particularly given the amount of money I have flushed in the past. But I do recognize that a lot of money is being made in that arena. I just think the cheese factor, the infomercial delivery for these launches, the guberu bandwagon, just make it appear…scammy.
I don’t know if PPC Classroom will make you rich. I don’t know if these guys have great intentions and can actually deliver. And actually at least one name I respect is saying that it is a good product. If I had $500 to throw away I’d get it just for the heck of it. But I don’t, so I’m not buying PPC Classroom.
But I do have $60 to throw away and am buying Halo3. My daughter and I will be playing it tonight after her softball game. That will be money and time well spent.
13 responses so far ↓
Scotch // Sep 25, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Allan Gardyn, who I do trust, reckons it’s good value. But what I can’t understand is why someone, whose gross profit last year from PPC marketing was evidently $837,465, should bother putting together something like PPC Classroom.
If he’s got it so worked out, why not simply do more (or get someone doing it for him) and double his profit? Are all these guys wannabe teachers? Very strange.
Scott // Sep 25, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Hey Splork,
That last line really puts it in respective.
Besides, I can’t imagine this guy would tell all and give away his “secrets” unless they are not working anymore, and he just wants to wring the last few buck out of it.
Scott
Mark Ling // Sep 25, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Might be a good product, but I agree with you about not rushing in to buy.
I wrote my own post on it: http://www.affilorama.com/blog/why-im-not-endorsing-ppc-classroom
I do believe heavily in ppc as I earn great money from it myself (not far off Jeremy) but I haven’t seen his product and won’t endorse it till I’ve seen it.
Keep up the good work, your blog is awesome!
Mark
Mohamed Nizam // Sep 25, 2007 at 7:28 pm
LOL…I’m glad you’re burning some money to buy halo3 to play with your daughter. I bought one yesterday at the launch and I’m gonna play that with my son. (Gonna get my ass kick)
Hmmm….i wonder if the gurus would like to try launching their product, “Halo3-style”. I could just imagine Jeremy standing on the podium….
It would be nasty.
Mohd Nizam
Splork // Sep 26, 2007 at 7:37 am
“It would be nasty.”
That’s funny.
Splork // Sep 26, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Thanks for the compliment Mark. I’ll be interested in hearing what you have to say about the product when you get around to reviewing it. I wish more of the bigger names in the business would do more reviews rather than just push us the next product. (Not meaning you Mark as I can’t remember ever getting an email from you trying to get me to buy something) It would be helpful.
Splork // Sep 26, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Scotch, Scott, I kinda wonder the same thing. I don’t suggest that they really do not aspire to teach, but it’s one thing to sell out your knowledge for $500 a head, quite another to realize that maybe 1.5 million is enough and start teaching.
Take Mark Ling of Affilorama for instance. He’s doing quite well. But I also think he is genuinely interested in teaching. I have a membership to Affilorama that I paid for. I don’t expect him to create a membership as comprehensive as he has for free. For one he has to pay a staff to keep it up. He has costs to create the content. I bet he covers his cost and then some. But maybe not as much as you might think. He would be better off selling the pieces of Affilorama. Ya know? Each one a $500 course. But he makes it affordable each month for everything.
I don’t know. I have no problem with dudes making money. Charge $5000 if you can get it. But I think it ends up being more about making money on the product than what the product provides. And yes I say that without the knowledge of whether this particular product is different. It could be. It could make everyone rich. I’m just working on past experience that it’s like all the rest and is not what it appears in the salescopy. That is my cynicism. And that cynicism tells me it’s about making more money than simply being a teacher. Ya know, teachers in the States really do sacrifice because they aren’t paid so great and they put up with a bunch of bullshit. These teachers aren’t really sacrificing much. And I doubt people would be quick to give up their secrets, either. It just doesn’t work like that unless there is something to gain from it. Hope that rant makes sense.
Shamir // Sep 27, 2007 at 2:21 am
I think there are a couple of points to consider splork…
a) the people who want there money back
b) the people who won’t take action despite buying into the course
c) the people who DO take action but FAIL because they thought it looked easy (sales copy plays it part here)
So whatever ’secrets’ come out into the marketplace, you’ll be damn sure that most folks wont do ANYTHING.
So IM guru’s aren’t loosing any of there so called secrets.
On a side note, I’m getting a little sick at all this affiliate marketing stuff. Nobody seems to tell you how much MORE money you can make with your own products and services. Instead, everybody’s pimping other peoples products - and leaving an enormity of opportunity on the table.
Why not have a hundred active affiliates promoting your own product instead of being an affiliate of hundreds of others?
I think Eben Pagan is the only one doing this.
Shamir
Barry // Sep 28, 2007 at 11:11 am
Just a side note, I’ve had three emails telling me that the emailer has an exclusive/persuaded Anik/Whatever to allow an easy payment scheme of 3 payments of $187 each (total=561) for the PPC course.
I agree people selling “secrets” don’t risk much, since they get a lot of money, can still use their own product, most people won’t use 10% of the product and, finally, there are no “secrets.”
Barry
Greazy // Sep 28, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Guberus!
Hillarious!
Just started reading your blog today, found you link from a blog that belongs to a IM friend of mine.
I just might be putting a shortcut to your blog in my shortcuts folder as well.
Nice .
Jason // Sep 28, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Wise words, guys. Thanks for sharing.
Mark Ling // Oct 29, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Hah, funny you say that about affilorama being free. … Watch this space!
Mark
Splork // Oct 29, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Affilorama+free= gimme my money back
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