Question: The internet is absolutely littered with “gurus” who purport to teach/preach the idiosyncrasies of this internet marketing and how to make the most of Google Adwords. What then would be your opinion of Perry Marshall and John Carlton, two professed experts who seem to have a joined-at-the-hip symbiotic relationship?

Thanks for any opinion or advice you might have,

Dennis

Yes, I don’t really attend many internet marketing conference. But I have attended some. I am quite agree with you. Most of them are actually selling their provided system. It means, we can only do business with the system provided by them. It is very rarely of speakers really share how actually they become successful. I have a doubt they are successful online more or offline more? =)

Thanks for your article!

Regards
Alan (Mirageak)
new comer of mybloglog

I said “Internet marketing conferences” because this has been true at many of these I’ve been at. It wasn’t true at Fred Gleeck’s Book Publishing seminar or his Information Pubilshing seminar.

For example, at the Book Publishing seminar I spoke at for Fred last month, he gave me 3 hours plus time to answer questions. I showed demos, takled with attendees, etc.

Fred only had 4 speakers for 2 days (including himself). Several attendees said they left with dozens of pages of notes and exact systems to follow for their book promotion.

Whenever he gets me over the audio from the event to me, I’ll do a quick 24 hour promotion here on the blog for them (they’re worth a lot to anyone who ever wants to promote a book or other info products).

The Internet business events that seem to be worthwhile are priced too high for a lot of people that may be just getting started. Given what you said about back of the room sales figures, it’s no wonder.

I like your idea of doing real workshops. Why don’t you put on your own event? Hand pick a few presenters and limit the number of attendees so that it’s functional?

Take care,
Fred

I agree with both of you. It seems many big Internet seminars are simply sales pitches for more and more high priced products.

The more I see this, the more I realize we need some good workshops that really take people by the hand and teach them. What’s stopped most marketers though is these sell-a-thons are so profitable.

I know of several that have done more than one million in back of the room sales for the promoter. That’s pretty enticing for most business people. A workshop can earn a good income, but it’s back-of-the-room sales won’t be nearly as high.

I actually thought I was going for indepth training on different internet marketing strategies. This should have been a free event since it was all sales pitches. The fact that I paid $500 for sales pitch after sales pitch and virtually got no education was very disappointing.

I give a special thanks to Mark Hendricks for giving the only real content of the seminar, even though it really wasn’t part of it. He stayed after the event on Saturday night till about 10pm. He gave a great presentation and taught a few of us how to really make money online.

A special thanks to you too Terry! Thanks for giving me private consultations during lunch and during the seminar breaks.

He told me that he just participed in a big name’s seminar (name kept secret), but that he couldn’t get started.

I was hooked! I told him what can I do for you if this guy didn’t help you at his seminar (BTW, high priced).

You are right, workshop are completely different.