Reviews

The Rich Schefren Money Grab

He offered 150 seats and says those seats are filled. I took a guess in my previous post that he might be asking 5000 dollars and from what I’ve seen on his blog, 5000 dollars was correct.

Simple math: 150 x 5000 = 750,000 dollars.

P.S. He’s getting all those that didn’t get the 150 seats to sign-up for his second chance offering.

Is Rich Schefren For Real?

The Hype Meter (TM) is pegged. The “Manifesto” and “Missing Chapter” have been sent and the marketing campaign is in full swing. It’s being billed as Rich’s last foray into personal business coaching and you better not miss it. . . or should you? (Rich’s Site)

For me, red flags of danger start waving when:

  1. You get semi-useful, common sense “free” ebooks released
  2. You get all the “gurus” plugging it to their lists
  3. You get a sudden E-mail from Rich saying “WARNING: There are 36,832 people receiving this email and there are only 1,500 passes available. If I were you, I would STOP READING this email and go DIRECTLY to my site to get your “front-of-the-line” pass that I told you about yesterday.”
  4. You get testimonials posted detailing outstanding successes (and they include fellow ebiz gurus)
  5. You read glowing and non-criticial testimonials on multiple ebiz websites
  6. You find candid comments saying “Several months ago, a fast-talking Web marketer named Rich Schefren tracked me down… and we began a long damn conversation about something near and dear to both our hearts: Creating a killer “money funnel” online that automatically attracted, captured and vitually hypnotized vast mobs of prospects… and flipped them, fast and easy, into becoming eager, loyal paying customers.”
  7. You find a website with Rich’s name and registered to his company asking you to “authorize the $697 monthly membership to be billed to my credit card.”

To point 5 above, when I read other sites saying things like “Just Realeased June 27th. Written by Rich Schefren, one of THE most sought after business consultants (even the gurus have him on their speed dial list)”, you should take notice.

I think flags are waving everywhere on this one. Anyone want to guess about how much this course will cost? 1000 dollars? 5000 dollars?

I can’t say if Rich will help you or your business. What I can say is that Rich is about to get a whole lot richer.

Hostgator Review

For the budding new ebiz people out there, I wanted to make some comments on a service I use repeatedly: Hostgator.

I chose Hostgator after doing some research for web providers. My experiences with them so far have been great. With one account, I am able to create unlimited sub-domains. Each sub-domain is allowed to have it’s own domain name as well! This alone was a huge improvement over my previous host of choice (powweb).

Another Hostgator feature I love is the fantastico installation program. With this, I am able to immediately add a wordpress blog or a CMS like Joomla.

I have used tech-support on three occassions and each time the service was quick and the issue was resolved. They also offer live text chat support. The wait for a support person has always been under 5 minutes.

For 9.95 a month, this shared hosting plan can’t be beat. I have six sites running now and all of them hosted on the same account. So far there have been no issues. I’m truly happy with their service and I think you will be to.

If you want to start out doing ebiz, you’ll need a website at some point. Give Hostgator a try.