I remember years ago being interested in getting into real estate investing. I actually went to one of Russ Whitney's "free" seminars - borrowed my sister's car because I was so broke, and drove 45 minutes to go to this stupid seminar. Thank goodness I was broke, and didn't yet have any credit cards, because I was so naive at the time that I probably would have bought into Russ Whitney's seminar B.S.
I also remember reading some other real estate investing author's website where he said, "There is no need to go to $5,000 Bootcamps or seminars - I am a bona fide real estate investor who makes a living at it, and my books cover everything you need to know." And, wouldn't you know it, his books sold for quite a reasonable price.
My point is, there are the shark-like scammers like Russ Whitney, who make their money by suckering people rather than the way they claim they make their money. And then there are the people who make their money the way they claim they do, but they teach others how to do it as a side business.
When I got started in Internet Marketing, I quickly figured out that there were those whose path to wealth on the internet was selling other people info about how to make money on the internet. It really discouraged me, because I thought for a while that I could only get rich by doing the same thing - "fake it 'til you make it" and pretend that you've rich so you can sell get-rich-quick info to others. I didn't want to do that, because it smelled fishy to me.
The IM "gurus" that I finally decided to learn from were those who were making the bulk of their money in non-IM niches. I was encouraged by the fact that they could make a living on the internet without scamming people, and it led me to believe that I could do the same thing.
So, for every Robert Kiyosaki who's scamming people out of thousands of dollars, there is an MJ DeMarco who is actually helping people. Okay, so maybe the ratio is more like 5 Kiyosakis to 1 Demarco, but you get the idea - they're not all scammers. Thank goodness, too, because I don't think I would have been clever enough to make the leap to Fastlane by myself without some of the distinctions that MJ puts forward in his book.
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