You Aren’t Ready to Be Rich!
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You’ve probably started getting the e-mails in the past day or two. Mine have been from Andy Jenkins of StomperNet fame and they are following the latest product launch template to the letter.
Lot’s of free info, with no commitment; get you hooked and gradually seduce you into the sales machine without you even realizing it.
What’s Really Happening?
Let’s peal back a layer of the slightly off-color veneer on this whole Internet marketing product launch process and see what’s really going on.
The latest one to cross my email box is Product Pipeline [go here if you must...I know it's like a car crash, you just have to look - definitely not an affiliate link btw.]
Let’s see who the key players are in this latest drama…well actually they are the same players as in every other product launch.
Them: the guys or gals who have discovered the latest greatest easiest way to make money online…guaranteed 
You: the average person, who dreams of a wealth and thinks that a lot of money can be made easily and without significant effort. And that anyone can do it if they find the right opportunity.
Now that we’ve met the players in the game, let’s take a look at the game itself.
“How Two Internet Nobodys Pulled In $1,035,081.33 In Just Over 90 Days Using A Massive Traffic Generation System That Delivers Over 10,000 Qualified Visitors A Day!”
If you actually watch the video, you hear them mention that it took only a couple days to set the whole system up to generate this massive wealth.
Let’s recap: $1,035,081.33 in 90 days for only a couple days work.
Is that a tempting offer to you? Of course it is, it would be to anyone. An easy life without financial worry. Spending all your time indulging your fantasies. Right? Maybe you should ask these folks.
William “Bud” Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but now lives on his Social Security.
“I wish it never happened. It was totally a nightmare,” says Post.
The Big Fat Problem With Crap Like This
It is complete exploitation. [By the way, complete exploitation is totally okay in this circumstance; it's your job not to fall for it, not their job not to try and exploit you.] The big fat problem with get money quick for little or no effort is that you don’t really want money. No-one does.
You think money will help you and make your life better, but it won’t; you’re just deceiving yourself…which makes you a complete sheep and in serious danger of being introduced to the shears of every slick Internet marketer.
What you want is not money and it is a great and wonderful paradox that just by being seduced by an offer like Pipeline Profits, you are more or less admitting that you are not ready to be wealthy.
The Best Case Scenario
Let’s say you signed up, paid the $xxxx dollars or whatever this “Yes, you can just flat-out HAVE this entire 47 minute presentation for free.” is going to cost and it was really exactly as they promise and you did make over a million dollars in 8 weeks.
Guess what? You’d be screwed because you’d just be a rich person who falls for sucker deals and still has a low financial intelligence. It would be a bit like owning a private jet, but not having a pilot’s license…you’d just crash and hurt or kill yourself.
What Should You Want Then?
Increasing the size of your inner money bucket is the only way to really get wealthy. It really is a very simple formula, but it involves a word that I’m coming to realize is the scariest word in the English language: responsibility.
- Take responsibility for your current situation. There is a reason you have the amount of money you currently have: you created that reality.
- Commit to improving your financial I.Q.
- Accept that you will have as much money as you are willing to pay the price for. If you are willing to let life mold you into a wealthy person, then you can be one.
If all you want is to be free of your problems; sorry, even the rich have problems and probably they are worse than the problems you face. There are a lot of good reasons to be less than your full potential and avoiding bigger problems is definitely one of them.
It was 2 years ago that I read my first Rich Dad book and began to take responsibility for my own financial situation; I constantly played his Cashflow
101 game to begin to increase my financial I.Q. At that time my net worth was about 9,000 dollars. In early December 2006, it was about $68,000 and that doesn’t include my online business. Also, I haven’t had a job for the last 8 months I’ve been living off of savings and passive income.
Sure it isn’t a million in 8 weeks, but I would argue that my 68k is worth more than that Pipeline-Profits million, because it sits on a more solid financial foundation. Work on your foundation because then it really won’t matter how much you have in your bank account, you’ll know that money will never be a problem for you.
Jon Symons
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[...] Jon presents Pipeline-Profits: Tempted? If so You Aren’t Ready to Be Rich! Jon takes aim at Internet marketing scams and get-rich quick schemes. Plus he says, “The big fat problem with get money quick for little or no effort is that you don’t really want money. No-one does.” Say what now? We don’t want money. Better read on… [...]
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Best of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs | Art Of Money added these pithy words on Jan 03 07 at 10:41 amKimber added these pithy words on Jan 01 07 at 9:18 amLove the fact that you didn’t put the blame on the internet marketers. You’re right, we have to take responsibility for our own actions and our own mistakes.
Kimber added these pithy words on Jan 01 07 at 9:19 amWhy do I have a pic of E beside my post?
Jon, you got some fancy new program?
Jon added these pithy words on Jan 01 07 at 12:10 pmKimber…I always suspected you two were the same person
The pictures are coming from Mybloglog.com. E has claimed your blog with them and uploaded a picture of herself as the blog owner. What you need to do is to go there and sign up. Then get E to add you as an author to your No Limits Ladies site.
Kimber added these pithy words on Jan 02 07 at 8:43 amAhhh…the tech inept learns something new.
Maybe I’ll be E for a while.
I might suggest she get a more professional pic though.
LOL
Chris Crompton added these pithy words on Jan 03 07 at 9:55 amJon,
What a great blog post! Thanks so much for sharing your insights. I certainly need to improve my financial IQ.
Chris
Nneka added these pithy words on Jan 03 07 at 9:42 pmYou’ve hit your stride Jon. No more trying to find out your audience, your message, and all that jazz. You found it.
Congratulations!
Tari Akpodiete added these pithy words on Jan 04 07 at 6:23 amExcellent post. I absolutely agree that people need to be smarter and not get sucked in to these scams.
Just like there is no miracle way to lose weight, there is no miracle way to gain wealth. Winning lotteries and marrying rich don’t count. What’s needed is common sense and hard work. A little luck and good timing is great too, but one can’t count on it.
However, that said, I also wish there was a way to stop these scammers.
What is really disturbing is how they all have these huge mailing lists, and use them to build a relationship with the sheep they plan to shear. Many people on these lists are very trusting of these so-called ‘gurus’ (including ones who say they are not gurus but act just like one) and get taken to the cleaners - repeatedly. Who needs the 419 thieves from Nigeria when there is this going on right here?
Many people think that they’ve done their homework by looking at screenshots of earnings, reading testimonials and listening to the advice of people they feel to be knowledgeable. The problem is that the earnings are from taking money for worthless programs, the testimonials are fake, and the advisors are getting paid big-time to promote the garbage cds, dvds and ebooks.
In 2006, I heavily researched this field of so-called net marketing. I signed up for lists, checked blogs and read forums. I was appalled. To me, the lies and the ridiculous claims were as clear as day. When I was younger, before I got online, I watched my mother fall for one MLM scam after another. This dream-exploiting sleazefest is the same thing, only on the Internet.
If you don’t mind me mentioning this, I’d like to say that I’m going to be writing for this new site - http://www.seogurubusters.com/ - Right now, there is a place-holding page up there, but you can see the no-holds-barred smack-down email I sent which brought me to their attention.
Paul added these pithy words on Jan 04 07 at 7:54 amWow - this is clean and concise. While I agree that ultimately the responsibility lies within each one of us, we cannot discount what is being done by these so-called ‘gurus’ who work their machine. Like criminals, they need to be held accountable for their actions as well.
Jon added these pithy words on Jan 04 07 at 8:16 amThanks Nneka.
@Tari…I first saw your page just after the StomperNet launch and thought is was excellent. I’ll make sure I check back in and see what you’re up to [thanks for leaving the link.]
@Paul…If the claims they are making are false or fabricated then for sure it is criminal, but in general it is wasted effort to think along those lines. Essentially they are just selling “hope” and if you tried to get rid of everyone selling that, there wouldn’t be much left.
Dustin added these pithy words on Jan 15 07 at 12:13 amHi All,
Thanks for this post. I’m actually someone who’s been involved in this net marketing world for some time. I strongly believe there is some strength to some of the teachings.With that said, I’ve got to say I really really enjoyed this post. I identify with it for some reason.
Direct Response marketing has it’s place. It can be an extremely effective technique. There just happens to be a line between abuse and effective marketing. But I agree, most just sell “hope” in the make money niche. Although there is merit to the technique PipelineProfits is teaching. I’m sure it can be learned for much less than the eventual sale price…
It’s sad to have personally witnessed people at a conference for net marketing spend in excess of $20K on several different products in the same day. These people are putting hard earned money on the line for something a very small percentage ever get.
Tari: I absolutely love your guru bustin’ page. Its an informative satire.
Anyway, thanks again,
lookin from the inside out.
Rosalind Gardner added these pithy words on Jan 15 07 at 2:17 pmHi Jon,
Despite the fact that I am an Internet marketer, I couldn’t agree with you more.
In fact, I covered the same topic on my blog just recently, in which I asked my readers to dissect a report issued as part of a launch campaign.
My hope is that folks will view all copy that they read critically from both a customer’s and a marketer’s point of view.
That way they should save money as customers and hopefully make more money as marketers.
Best to you!
Cheers,
Rosalind
Jon added these pithy words on Jan 15 07 at 2:32 pm@Dustin, thanks - glad you liked the post.
@Rosalind, I’m glad you’re writing about it too, I think it is really important to get a discussion going about these programs so that there is a voice of sanity allowed into the marketers pitches…so folks know what they are really buying and more importantly - why they are buying it.
Cody Goodman added these pithy words on Jan 15 07 at 6:14 pmThis is totally true. I have religiously read the rich dad books and found out that more money can be a bigger problem than not enough for most people. Most people don’t know what to do with more money and are just destined to lose it, which brings up the “money does’nt solve your problems” thing. If you don’t know how to preserve that money, and grow it, then yes more money is a bigger problem than not enough.
I actually am going to buy this pipeline profits thing to review and I’ll tell ya how it is (; and let you see my case study.
Sincerely, The 15 Year Old Marketer
Cody Goodman
Jon added these pithy words on Jan 15 07 at 7:47 pmMake sure you let me know, I’ll be curious to see what it’s all about. Hopefully you’ll be 1m richer in 90 days
John added these pithy words on Jan 16 07 at 12:08 amHey Cody
Let us now how it turns out we liked to know
Thanks
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Jovy added these pithy words on Jan 16 07 at 3:26 pmInteresting post, I guess I would argue that there still may be some useful content w/in the Pipeline Profits system that can help drive more qualified leads to your online site.
With regards to it be touted as a scam, I think it may be too early to tell. In the meantime, if you have watched all the movies produced, there are some valuable marketing techniques which can be used right away without “buying” anything.
Changing the subject to series “Rich Dad,” I would completely agree that Robert Kiyosaki knows what he is talking about and has some great information about financial IQ. Based on the argument that the Pipeline Profits system is a scam, you may also argue that the “Rich Dad” series is captilizing on the lack of financial IQ of the public…I personally disagree and believe both to be very useful business resources.
Ultimately, I really don’t see how the Pipeline Profits System can be labelled as a scam when it hasn’t even been fully released yet.
My 2 cents, Cheers!
ReviewNerd added these pithy words on Jan 17 07 at 8:09 pmGreat Post. Indeed people really have to take care of their actions by there own. But i see another problem.
Often they buy something that promises them money, and richness. What they do not recognize is that they only can really get close to that point when they do ACT. Means they have to do something with their knowledge.
If they do not than it is like having no knowledge at all and then buying the product which promised them money and all that stuff did not make any sense at all.When it comes to the marketers i only can say … keep your eyes open there are a lot of scamsters out there. I falled to their traps by my own also … but i have learned from it. Now i am able to estimate pretty good if a product is good or just a scam. I also did a review on Pipleline Profits … which i had bought 2 months back. In case you are intrested .. here is the link:
http://www.reviewnerd.com/pipeline_profits_review
Mohamad Latiff added these pithy words on Jan 19 07 at 3:07 amI love you.
I was one of those tempted.
Not that it would be an inherently bad or unwise decision to buy, but I had been succumbing to the temptations that internet sales copy had been giving and I had lost thousands of dollars, not because these stuff don’t work, but because I don’t work (enough).
I shall now resist. No. I shall simply deny.
Thank you for this eye-widening (my eyes are already open, thank you) post.
Elsie added these pithy words on Jan 20 07 at 1:32 amGreat post. We have to be careful about being seduced by all these offers. I’ll be back to learn more.
Jon added these pithy words on Jan 20 07 at 9:38 am@Mohamad, good for you for taking a moment to reflect before you bought it.
@Elsie, thanks glad you liked it.
Mike added these pithy words on Jan 28 07 at 3:32 pmI purchased the system figuring it had a 1 year guarantee, After waiting 3 days for my account to be activated I learned it was changed to only 30 days, with course material not expected to arrive until between days 20-25 at the earliest.
Several people including myself requested they extend it since there was no advanced notice of the change, and that the materials would not arrive to us in a timely fashion.
Instead of working with us to extend the guarantee, they opted to terminate my account without notice. The full story is in my blog, so I won’t rehash the whole ordeal, I will however say that this was one megga botched launch, and one of the worst purchasing decisions I have made.
Armaan added these pithy words on Mar 24 07 at 5:01 amGreat Article Jon, it’s enlightening.
I wonder about those internet marketers who have been promoting pipeline-profits ruthlessly, some of whom were really trustable. The moment I saw it, I knew it was only a scam, just on a higher level…
Thanks for the info..
Lawrence Perry added these pithy words on Feb 02 08 at 1:55 amThanks for this pearl!
Amazingly we were approached by a chap wanting us to sell for him on a commission basis Jaguar marketing ……..and listening to their telesales guy, try to get out of work Americans out of their money was something else…..
Money can be made on the internet, but in the claims within days…..it takes some work……