Why do You FEEL Jeff Paul and others Scam?
If you have ever used or tried offers by internet marketers like Jeff Paul, Carlton Sheets or Brad Richdale, you would know the feeling I want to talk about. It is just like being short-changed or betrayed or getting something less than expected. There is a feeling of betrayal in people who have tried out their offers. A feeling that they were not given anything substantial. That they just fell for some marketing gimmick.
If you are inclined to look at things sympathetically, then you can say basically there were only two things wrong with their offers: a weak offer (product or service) and a dumb marketing strategy.
First, a word about their Marketing Strategy
After buying into the offer, you have a feeling that you have made a hasty decision on it. That is the point. These offers are successful because they don’t give time for people to think. They use ploys to trigger an instant response from you.
A shrill hype surrounds the product in their promotions. It is littered or filled with clichés that have been beaten to death. They do everything short of stuffing it down your throat. If our technology was advanced enough, they would have come right out of their infomercials and held your throat until you promise to give their product a try.
The thing these advertisements call testimonials look suspicious at first glance. The characters seem like folks who were hauled off the road. They look like someone looking to earn tea-money. Fact is, there is an industry out there who can give out-of-the-box hype packages like these, to anyone who wants to drum up credibility.
Their selling strategy is patent. After they entice you to put in the initial money, you are constantly asked to pump in more. You always play along being afraid of losing what you had already invested. This is also the reason why they reveal little about the offer until the last stages. The ploy is something that advance fee scam con artists always use.
They also try to give the impression that you have to do absolutely nothing on your part to make the money. But today, it backfires. People seem to have become immune to such tactics after being exposed to them for generations. They have realized that there simply is no effortless way to make big money and all schemes that claim to the contrary are scams.
Then, the thing they call Offer
Once you get to know the offer in its entirety, it becomes apparent that it had nothing new to give. Probably with a wee-bit more personal effort and far less money, the same information could have been obtained at a small library or any old-books store. It simply didn’t measure up to the money that you paid upfront.
Also, they give next to nothing as far as after-sales service go. If your expectations of such service are anything more than hiring somebody to pick the receiver, then such offers invariably fall short of them.
One thing these offers overlook is that when they use such tactics to self-promote, their credibility actually goes for a home run. Such plans are not built for the long haul. As many of them find out, it only hurts them in the end.
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April 29th, 2008 at 4:19 am
i personally have taken some expertise from jeff paul and honestly speaking i have not found any negative thing about him. I will agree to a point that someone might have not benefited from him but we simply can not deny the fact that there are spill over effects in every industry. my friends even have taken entrepreneurship from him and all of then have benifited from it.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Jeff Paul and all of his internet cronies i.e. John Beck, Jim Fleck and the rest should all be taken out and put into a state prison. These cock roaches and maggots need to be put out of business ASAP. They peddle pure shit and as such need to be flushed like the turds that thay are..Nick, if you think that Jeff paul is sooo great, why don’t you enroll into his ALL STAR program? I can tell you why!!! You are too smart to fall for this kind of crap. Avoid Jeff Paul, John Beck, Jim Fleck and Mentoring of America like a bad case of the crabs! These “people” deserve long prison sentences for being the rip off artists and peddlers of false hope that they are! Hopefully a Federal Trade Commission investigation is in the near future and the maggots get what they deserve!
December 1st, 2008 at 11:56 am
John Beck and his sister company Strategic Financial Tax Services are nothing but rip of artists. They don’t care who they rip off and they don’t care how much they get. Everyone who works with these companies should be in jail and the key should be tossed into the deepest part of the ocean.
I have filed complaints with the FBI, FTC, BBB, and the Utah Division of Consumer Protection. For me though that is not enough, I want these people stopped and put behind bars. I asked the FBI agent why and how does John Beck keep getting away with this crap, and he told me that not enough people are doing what I’ve done. Let’s all get together and put this cock roach out of business. Make phone calls and make complaints and file reports against this jerk. Together we stand, and together we can bring him down.
December 27th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I am writing this to ask if you or anyone is aware of an offer, that really sounds to good to be true:
It’s called Air-freight Bill, i haven’t seen anything bad against this particular offer or company, if it really is one. I would be interested in learning how i can find out more about this company, is it a scam or for real & on the level.
Plus i want to Thank You for adding what you did about the Jeff Paul offer from the late night TV. I only wish that it was for real, but no i do not believe that anyone can actually make $1,000’s of dollars a week, doing hardly a thing, but sell things on those 10+ websites.
March 21st, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I know a guy who used to own a call center that sold internet and real estate business coaching, that now helps people to get there money back and shut those type of companies down. If you have been scammed email him casonkfrei@google.com
April 9th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
My husband and I have been following Jim Fleck and how to buy houses with no money down. Does anyone know is this a scam. I cannot fing him on the Better Business Bureau of Illinois. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. Melanie email address Adamsmelanie@sbcglobal.net
August 4th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Be careful of acai berry scams.