Well I’ve received enough freakin’ emails on this $1.4 million dollar piano teacher that I just can’t let it go any longer. The guy’s story is certainly interesting. Rags to riches and all that. And the fact that he’s made money on his skill is commendable, if not very remarkable. I guess I’m just wondering about his motivation for setting up a membership site for teaching internet marketing strategies.

I’m a curmudgeon. I don’t really think anyone cheesy enough to internet market to Internet Marketers has any more ambition than to make more money. I doubt the altruistic nature in people in this business. I suppose you could look at his offering from the viewpoint of who would you want to learn how to make money from? Someone who walks the talk or someone who talks the talk (always wanted to use that in a sentence). Guess Jermaine walks it.

Do you really have another $97 to spend on yet another ‘help me make money’ membership. I won’t be spending my money on it. But then again I don’t have a product like a piano manual to sell either. If you are like Jermaine and have a talent and can sell it as a service or product, then you know, maybe this will help. I doubt for people doing Adsense site building and affiliate marketing, this will be that useful. But people love the story. Rags to riches. Can’t imagine how many people will waste more money on crap they don’t need.

The guberus that have pimped this membership to me are fairly excited about it. I wonder how many are actually paid members of the club. John Reese sent me an email on it. He feels strongly enough about it that he didn’t even put his affiliate link in the email. Maybe Reese truly took to the guy and is just helping him out. He wrote in the email that:

“no, this isn’t an affiliate link. I don’t make a dime if you sign up. All your money goes to Jermaine and I think that’s more than fair — he deserves it for the valuable information that he’s now sharing with others.”

WTF? He thinks it’s fair that Jermaine get all the money? He deserves it? I think we should all hold hands and sing Kumbaya. There may not be a front end payoff for forgoing a JV check but there has to be something brewing on the back end. Whatever.

I had to laugh. One of Griggs bullet selling points is about his army of affiliates. It’s almost like he was snickering going “look at all these chumps that I have doing all the selling for me”.

“How I’ve built up an army of 2,000 affiliates who sell hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of products for me each and every year — and the beauty is that you only have to pay them when they make sales.”

Yea, well the beauty of being an affiliate is I don’t have to create jack. I don’t have to worry whether your product sells either, because if it doesn’t, I find one that does. And there are plenty out there. The beauty is, you better hope you are paying me and those like me. Otherwise we are moving on to something better. It is a true symbiosis. He lives if we live. And vice versa.

I won’t be buying a membership. And for the majority of you, I’d say let the guberu’s junk email slip into the spam folder and save your money. Unless you have a product or service that you just can’t seem to get off the ground, you don’t need this.