Glenn Canady and ABDevelopment - the rest of the package
Yesterday, I had to break off covering the contents of Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course package that had been sent to me by ABDevelopment. I’m going to pick up on that here.
So far I’ve covered the bound copy of Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Ebook (something like a $39 value, and I already owned it), the next to useless ‘Free Traffic in just 24 hours’ report (all 3 pages of it) that encouraged the use of webrings and Trafficswarm.
Also included in my binder was a ‘Getting Started’ section written by Advanced Business Development (ABDevelopment). It starts with an encouraging few sentences ‘Congratulations on your new internet business, and welcome to the fast growing world of internet entrepreneurs. Our goal is to help you, as an entrepreneur, reach your financial goals, by teaching you the fundementals necessary to start and maintain your own business. We are both striving for success, and if you succeed, we have succeeded.’
That all sounds so good doesn’t it ? So promising. Unfortunately, it all ends several months later with me having followed every one of the things they asked me to do, having worked myself into the ground, having given up 2 jobs to concentrate on this, wasted $8000, incurred huge credit card debts, and ABDevelopment and Glenn Canady not even wanting to listen to me. ABDevelopment fail to reply to any emails I send (and pretend that they can’t contact me) while Glenn Canady just shrugs his shoulders and says it’s nothing to do with him !
So, ABDevelopment, if that is your way of measuring success then on the basis of your performance you can only be judged to be a complete failure.
But of course they try and cover their backsides with the following statement further down the same page, “Also, the information is proprietary and is non-recoverable, and given the nature of your internet business there are no guarantees associated with potential earnings, implied or otherwise. We want to make sure that you understand that as with all businesses and investments the income from this program is entirely based on your own personal commitment”.
Funny how they only mention all this AFTER they have got my $8000. And isn’t it funny how before I signed up the earnings potential was going to be almost whatever I wanted it to be.
Another point is that if ‘the income from this program is entirely based on your own personal commitment’, then how come I’m not a millionaire ? I was supposed to put in 15 hours a week. Sometimes I was putting that in EVERY day. Day in, day out.
As well as the waffle in the ‘Getting Started’ section there was a section on internet terminology. I’ve worked for 25 years in IT and used the internet for about 10 years, so that was a waste of paper. Some info about what the mentor will and won’t do, and what I’m supposed to do and not do. Pretty basic, but I guess necessary stuff. There was also some business related information about how to form a company, what to do regarding taxes etc. This information is 100% US related and has absolutely NO relevance to me whatsoever. I live in the UK. I’ve just spent $8000 and ABDevelopment and Glenn Canady send me me information about tax in the USA. For $8000 they can’t even be bothered either to take it out, or find something that was relevant to the UK.
Then there is the section that lists what I’m getting for my $8000. Here it is :
- 4 Weeks of basic mentoring
- 4 Weeks of Advanced Mentoring w/Glenn’s Personal Experts
- Gorilla Website Marketing
- Zeus Software
- Marketing Templates
- Web Ring w/directory
- 2 Million Email Blast Campaign
- Custom Built Website w/Drop Ship Company
Total Enrollment = $8000
Out of that lot I have had the 8 weeks of mentoring. let me make it clear, you don’t get 8 weeks of mentoring, you get 8 hours of mentoring, at best. Up to 1 hour per week. I got a copy of Gorilla Website Marketing, a $39 product that I already owned (they knew that, it’s why they contacted me !), and I got the Zeus software (approx. $195).
I have no idea what they mean by ‘marketing templates’. When you purchase Zeus at a hugely discounted price, which I’ve done, and I’m sure they must have done, you can get the Zeus people to create you a directory template for free. I don’t know if this is what ABDevelopment mean by ‘marketing templates’. I wouldn’t describe a link directory as ‘marketing templates’, so I have no idea if this is something that they failed to deliver or not. The ‘web ring w/directory’ I never got, and all attempts to quiz them about this have been ignored by ABDevelopment.
The ‘2 million email blast’ I have never had. Prior to sign up I recall being told that the difference between the basic $5000 package and the top of the range package was the email blast that it came with. If there was $3000 difference and 2 million emails difference then it doesn’t take a mathematician to work out that the email blast is estimated to be worth $3000. This is something ABDevelopment now deny. I never got the email blast and I have a LOT to say about this in a future post.
And then we have the ‘Custom Built Website w/Drop Ship Company’. OK, to me that sounds like they are actually giving me something. Let me make it clear, I got nothing. I built the website myself and despite asking several times ABDevelopment did NOT find me a drop ship company for the products I wanted to sell. This I believe is one of the biggest reasons reasons for the failure of all this. Yet despite promising they could get a drop shipper for anything I wanted they were unable to find a dropshipper for fairly ordinary products that I came up with. And they couldn’t care less.
The concept of drop shipping is a very US based thing. It is almost unheard of in the UK, so I was totally reliant on ABDevelopment to find me a drop ship company, as they had promised me they would, and as they were contractually obliged to do. They failed to do it.
I also got in my package an audio cd of Glenn Canady waffling on about they same stuff that was in his book (from what I can remember). It added nothing of value. So there we have it. That was what was in the Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing package that I was sent.
Tomorrow I’ll pick up on the dropshipper issue again.