Wayne Mansfield marketing seminars
This week I went to a Web Marketing seminar.
The Ad came through my email; Internet Marketing – Beyond the Basics. $249. 3 hours with Wayne Mansfield, Australia’s Internet Maverick.
The sales letter looked good; I would learn all these wonderful things to get people streaming to my site.
An hour into the seminar I started to feel as though I had been “SUCKED IN”. The presenter Wayne Mansfield was obviously a very successful Web Marketer. He told us in the first half hour about his “Run In” with the Australian Government and the laws on Spam and the millions of dollars his company and he had been fined.
I am watching the clock tick by. Thinking ‘am I going to get $249 worth of info, so that I can bring my web site alive.
On the first page of the hand out book, I learn that Google have stopped counting the number of web pages at 14 billion.
This is my Competition and Growing.
Mr Mansfield then went on to talk about “The Long Tail”. I wasn’t sure I understood what he was alluding to.
Fortunately there is plenty of references on the net, I did a Google search.
At 3.30 pm we stopped for a Tea, Coffee, sandwiches and muffin break.
I’m watching the time click by.
I wonder if they give us all the beautiful food to make us stay longer in the tea room and less in the seminar.
By 4.00pm I am staring to think, I haven’t really learnt anything ‘Beyond the Basics’. $249?????
If I divide up my money, maybe $49 is room hire, nice sandwiches, booklet and pen, that leaves $200 for Mr Mansfield’s time and his Host Richard Gee.
I suppose I am naive. Why would a man who makes Millions of dollars each year waste his time for such a puney amount?
Then in the last hour all is revealed. Mr Mansfield is doing a sales promotion for his Company Blog Quest. For $3000 his company will launch my web site on to the net, and earn me 1000’s of dollars.
I left the seminar remembering nothing is free in this world. We have to pay to get what we want.
My only conciliation, if I write this blog, mention Mr Wayne Mansfield’s name enough times, my ranking in Google search engines may increase.
I’ve got nothing to lose.
Today I saw a poster advertising a spiritual weekend $250. Included, 2 nights accommodation, and two days of wonderful activities; rites of passage, aligning with soul purpose, vision quest…… Maybe this would be better value for money.
The Ad came through my email; Internet Marketing – Beyond the Basics. $249. 3 hours with Wayne Mansfield, Australia’s Internet Maverick.
The sales letter looked good; I would learn all these wonderful things to get people streaming to my site.
An hour into the seminar I started to feel as though I had been “SUCKED IN”. The presenter Wayne Mansfield was obviously a very successful Web Marketer. He told us in the first half hour about his “Run In” with the Australian Government and the laws on Spam and the millions of dollars his company and he had been fined.
I am watching the clock tick by. Thinking ‘am I going to get $249 worth of info, so that I can bring my web site alive.
On the first page of the hand out book, I learn that Google have stopped counting the number of web pages at 14 billion.
This is my Competition and Growing.
Mr Mansfield then went on to talk about “The Long Tail”. I wasn’t sure I understood what he was alluding to.
Fortunately there is plenty of references on the net, I did a Google search.
At 3.30 pm we stopped for a Tea, Coffee, sandwiches and muffin break.
I’m watching the time click by.
I wonder if they give us all the beautiful food to make us stay longer in the tea room and less in the seminar.
By 4.00pm I am staring to think, I haven’t really learnt anything ‘Beyond the Basics’. $249?????
If I divide up my money, maybe $49 is room hire, nice sandwiches, booklet and pen, that leaves $200 for Mr Mansfield’s time and his Host Richard Gee.
I suppose I am naive. Why would a man who makes Millions of dollars each year waste his time for such a puney amount?
Then in the last hour all is revealed. Mr Mansfield is doing a sales promotion for his Company Blog Quest. For $3000 his company will launch my web site on to the net, and earn me 1000’s of dollars.
I left the seminar remembering nothing is free in this world. We have to pay to get what we want.
My only conciliation, if I write this blog, mention Mr Wayne Mansfield’s name enough times, my ranking in Google search engines may increase.
I’ve got nothing to lose.
Today I saw a poster advertising a spiritual weekend $250. Included, 2 nights accommodation, and two days of wonderful activities; rites of passage, aligning with soul purpose, vision quest…… Maybe this would be better value for money.
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