Seriously, explain this to me—even though, once again, I’m not planning to create a course.
Some people in the comments immediately start talking about fake gurus and all that. Then don’t buy from fake gurus. Buy from people whose experience you trust and want to learn from. Why would you buy anything from someone you find questionable? It’s really that simple.
Here’s how I see it—correct me if I’m wrong. Let’s say there’s someone who is relatively successful or has achieved solid results in a particular field or business. They have over 10 years of experience and hands-on practice, have bought a house and a car, have children—everything looks successful by conventional social standards. Their business is profitable, and it’s the source of the income they live on. Often, they have several businesses rather than just one—so everything is going well.
Then this person decides to create another business as an additional source of income—for diversification and multiple income streams. For example, they decide to sell their own courses. They take all their experience, package it into a product, and sell it as an educational product.
Yes, I understand that there’s already plenty of information online—an enormous amount of it. For some people, that’s enough to start taking action, doing things, and figuring everything out on their own. I’m one of those people: I’m prepared to spend years learning through trial and error and gradually work my way toward a result. But there are also people who:
a) don’t know how to do that—they find it difficult to locate the right information and separate truth from nonsense. They need someone to explain everything step by step;
b) don’t want to spend 10 years figuring it all out—they would rather pay for someone else’s roadmap and experience, saving themselves a great deal of time and money.
So what’s wrong with that? Why does it make the entrepreneur a fake guru or a scammer? Call it whatever you like 🙂
Now let’s apply this to my own experience.
To reach $10,000 in gambling and understand how to generate my first deposits, I spent about a year, hundreds of hours working, and a great deal of money. Believe me, there will be a separate post about expenses and reinvestment. I worked through nearly every worthwhile GEO, numerous brands, more than 50 advertisers, split tests, Keitaro, protection against attacks, abuse complaints, hosting providers—the number of details involved is enormous. I went through all of it personally, tested everything myself, and now have at least some experience and an understanding of how it’s possible to make $10,000.
And that’s not all. Before that, I had spent five to seven years building links for gambling projects. Just think about it. That represents a huge amount of experience, insights, and understanding of what works and what doesn’t. Many projects have passed through my hands and continue to do so—some successful, others not so much.
But even that isn’t everything. I’ve been working in SEO since 2014. I’m still directly involved in hands-on work and the daily operations of websites, so I always have my finger on the pulse. Add it all up: 11 years in SEO, around seven years of link building for gambling projects—perhaps even more—plus a year of directly working on my own gambling projects.
Yes, I don’t know how to build a team of 100 people and make $300,000. But I do know and understand how to make $10,000 while working, as we call it, almost solo—with a webmaster and a content assistant. I have functioning businesses and projects that generate income for me. I’ve somehow managed to make it this far 🙂
There are people willing to pay good money for this kind of experience, consulting, and mentorship. I already have a few such clients, as well as several guys who approached me about a form of mentorship. I’ll share my experience with them and show them everything without hiding or blurring websites, advertisers, or brands, while they build sites following my example. It’s essentially about guiding someone by the hand throughout the entire journey and helping them avoid many obstacles. As a result, that person might reach $10,000 in six months, for example.
So here’s a simple question: what’s wrong with a course created by an experienced entrepreneur running a large-scale business like the one I described above? Or what would be wrong with a course created by me? 🙂 Again, I’m not creating a course. Where exactly is the fake-guru scam here? I genuinely don’t understand.
We’re not talking about questionable people whose courses are their main source of income, while you know nothing about their real businesses or practical experience.
Let the debate begin in the comments 🙂
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