The Glenn Canady Gorilla Website Marketing Course Review

Picking up from where I left off, I was still slogging away at Zeus, just trying to get it to perform in a logical manner and get it to the magical figure of 100 keywords. I was having no luck.

I’d scoured the Zeus forums for help and applied just about all the tips that I could. I was still getting nowhere. I’d tried clearing it out and restarting from scratch, in fact I had tried just about everything and I was at the point of tearing my hair out with frustration.

It seemed to me that ABDevelopment had dragged things out on Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course and I was now worried that despite all the extreme hours and hard work that I was putting in, it felt for the first time that I was the one that was the one that was the bottleneck on progress.

It was now the 30th December 2003 and I fired off another email to Vicky :

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Hi Vicky,

I have cleared out the database, taken a copy of all the settings prior to this, and started again. I’ve gone through Zeus and got about 18 key word phrases before it couldn’t find any more. I then changed the keyword phrase in the EZ Keyword Trainer and have found that while it has kept the original 18 keyword phrases in the ‘very unique’ category, the ‘Keyword Smartness Rating’ is now back down at zero. It shows 0 single words, and 0 phrases. How am I supposed to get this up to 2/3rds when it does stuff like this ? I haven’t shut it down or made any other changes.

Chris O’Connor

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From what I could see the so-called ’smartness rating’ was actually pretty dumb. There seemed to be no logic behind the way it was behaving and I could see no way that I could achieve what I had been asked to achieve in the way in which I had been asked to do it. I had been at it and at it over and over and this indicator just kept going up and then going back down again !

Vicky replied :

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Chris,

Be patient, what you wrote below is normal. Keywords you type in manually,
you must also type them into the EZ keyword training section to increase the
smartness rating. They do not read off of each other, and that is why it
says 0 in the smartness rating but 18 in very unique category on the bottom.
This is probably why you’ve been confused. Think of them as two completely
separate stages in the training. That is how the program is worked enter
them in manually, then EZ, but keep in mind once he is trained you don’t
need to do this step again.

Hang in there, you are doing great!

Vicky

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Now Vicky was a nice lady, but I really don’t appreciate being treated like I’m some sort of dummy !

If I point out that the thing I’m supposed to be getting up to at least 2/3rd’s is going up and then plummeting back down to zero for no good reason then I expect a sensible reply.

And if I ask what, if any, the relationship is between the keyword tally and the smartness indicator then again I expect a decent reply.

I never did get a decent reply as to why it was behaving like this. What got me was that she described the way Zeus was behaving as ‘normal behaviour’. Yeah, right !

I fired this off in response to Vicky’s email :

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But Vicky, I *am* typing these into the EZ Keyword training section. Like I said, I cleared out the database and have started again. I am*only* entering stuff through the EZ Keyword trainer.

There are *no*keywords that have neen entered via the manual keyword trainer.

Chris
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As you can probably tell, my patience was starting to wear a little thin by this point.

Vicky also fired off this to me :

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Chris,

Use this for some help in between our sessions.

http://www.cyber-robotics.com/Seminars/index.htm

It is the link to the teleseminars that are daily put on by the Zeus programmers.

Vicky

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Now I know that Vicky was doing everything she could to be helpful, but I am not the sort of person who tries something and then goes running for help at the first opportunity. I had tried and tried with Zeus. I had followed the instructions to the letter. And, I had already signed up to the Zeus forums weeks before so that I could pick up tips and get answers to problem I was experiencing. So Vicky’s email added nothing of value.

So here I was. New Years Eve and I was still slogging away trying to get Zeus to do what it was supposed to do in the way I had been told to do it. Any chance I might have had of getting a break before I went back to work had long since evaporated. It had been 2 weeks of solid grind, working 15 hours+ a day. It was demoralising and depressing. I’d paid $8000 for this and it just did not seem to be working. I was doing what I had been told to do, but still it did not work.

I then received another email from Vicky :

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try some of these words.

home remedies
herbs for women
supplements for women
hormone
estrogen
women’s sexual health
fertility
life changes
menstrual cycle
hormone balancing
fertility supplements

also try changing the order of the words, and mix them up a bit.

Let me know how it goes.

Vicky

Happy New Year!

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I was desperately hoping that Vicky had done a bit of research and come up with words that were going to kick Zeus into action. That these words were going to be the end of all my problems. Although I felt sure that I’d already used some of them.

Here was my last email to Vicky in 2003 :

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Hi Vicky,

thanks for the keywords. I’ve been using these and managed to get up to
67 words. Two things bother me. First, I really feel that I am picking
words which are not particularly ‘on topic’ and are way too wide scoping
for my site. I feel I’m having to do this because otherwise I am never
going to get anywhere near the 2/3rds to genius level. I am concerned
that the further I go through this the more the words are drifting off
topic. Every time I click on the button to get it to bring up new words
I see the message saying that I should only be choosing words that could
only be found on the sites that I am looking for. More and more I feel
I am drifting away from this.

Secondly, even though I have only got up to 67 words Zeus has now
brought up a message saying training is finished and has not returned
any more words. I’m very concerned that if I click on the EZ Keyword
Training button it is going to lose the lot, and another day of my time.

I have attached a screen print for you to see for yourself.

Your advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Chris
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PS. I hope I’m not ruining your New Year with all my problems.

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So that was how I ended 2003, still slaving away trying to get Zeus to work properly. I’d been told to keep my keywords very tightly focused, and that was exactly what I was trying to do. The results were rubbish. Christmas ruined, and now New Year. All thanks to Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course and ABDevelopment.

Yesterday I published the email that I had sent to Glenn Canady to formally request a refund on his Gorilla Website Marketing Course.

I’d spotted the following claim made by Glenn Canady and was about to put it to the test :

Canady is so confident in his methods, he offers a money back guarantee to all of his customers. “No one has taken me up on it yet though,” Canady says.

Was Glenn going to do the decent thing ? Was he going to live to up to his word ? Like hell he was !

Here is the latest exchange of email that I have had between myself and Glenn Canady’s people at Gorilla Website Marketing. BTW - I have NEVER spoken to Glenn Canady or had a reply from him personally. I’m too insignificant for him to bother with. He’s happy for me to pay $8000 to do his Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course, but not significant enough to bother communicating with me personally. So, all the emails you will see from Gorilla Website Marketing are sent to me by someone called Traci.

Here is her reply to yesterdays request for a refund :

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Chris,

We have already contacted you several times regarding this matter. Simply
put, you paid ABDevelopment for a job. If you do not feel that they
performed their end of the work or you were unsatisfied with their program,
you will have to take it up with them. We CANNOT issue a refund on money we
did not collect. They collected the funds for their program - we did not
collect the funds from you. We have tried to assist you with this matter
by contacting them for you. Doni emailed back with responses that she had
sent to you. We forwarded those to you to ensure that each of you were
receiving the detailed emails from each party. You need to contact Doni at
ABDevelopment to get this resolved, as we cannot issue you a refund since we
did not collect the money you are referring to from you.

Thank you,
Traci Roberts
Gorilla Website Marketing

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Let me make this clear. Doni Roebuck at ABDevelopment must be the ONLY person on this planet whose email fails to get to me. Every spammer, friend, business contact etc. manages to get to me. So how come Doni Roebuck’s emails never get to me ? Could it be because they were never sent ? (hint - I suspect the answer to that is a definite YES). I’ve mailed this woman a number of times and simply DO NOT get a reply from her. I have made Traci at Gorilla Website Marketing aware of this. She has clearly decided not to believe me. Thats up to her. And the ‘emails’ that she forwarded to me. It was ONE email claiming that other emails had been sent. What a joke !

Here is my reply to the above email :

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Traci,

Sorry if you feel that I am being a bit dense about this, but could you explain
to me, how it was that I was doing Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website
Marketing Course ?

That is what I was contacted about, that is what I signed up for, and
that is what I did. Glenn Canady may have subcontracted the work to
ABDevelopment, but that does not mean that absolve him from his
responsibilities.

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Chris O’Connor

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I hope you see my point here. I was rung up as a result of buying Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing ebook. Who had access to my telephone number which I supplied when I made the purchase ? Glenn Canady. When contacted I was told (on EVERY call) that they had been asked to call by Glenn Canady / were ringing on behalf of Glenn Canady / were working with Glenn Canady / etc. No other company name was ever mentioned to me and this whole thing was sold to me as initiated by Glenn Canady, driven by Glenn Canady, and for Glenn Canady’s benefit (he needed more testimonials for his web site).

Here was Traci’s reply :

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Chris,

ABDevelopment did perform mentoring services regarding Glenn’s course, but
they are an entire separate company, performing separate services. That is
what I was trying to explain in the other email. We cannot give you a
refund on services you paid them to complete - mentoring services.

Thank you,
Traci

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So, Traci admits they did ‘mentoring services regarding Glenn’s course’. My next email to Traci was simple :

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Traci,

So, am I correct in saying that the task of mentoring was sub-contracted
by Glenn Canady to ABDevelopment ?

Chris O’Connor
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A simple question that I figured required a one word answer, ‘yes’ or ‘no’. A ‘yes’ would have been good enough for me.

But that would have been too easy, wouldn’t it ?

Here’s Traci’s reply :

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Chris,

Glenn trained ABDevelopment on his methods/techniques so that they could
mentor our customers that were interested in paying for their services.
Again, you paid ABDevelopment to do a job for you. If you are unhappy with
the work they performed, you will have to contact them regarding obtaining a
refund since you paid them to perform the mentoring services for you.

Thank you,
Traci Roberts
Gorilla Website Marketing

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One very interesting point here, plus I don’t think Traci is paying attention to what I’m saying to her about ABDevelopment, as I pointed out :

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Traci,

I think the key phrase you used was :

traci> so that they could mentor OUR customers

I never even heard the name ABDevelopment until after sign up.
Everything was done in Glenn Canady’s name. All work was being done ‘on
Glenns behalf’.

I was sold a course in Glenn Canady’s name, to be working with ‘Glenn’s
people’. I was told they were people who had been ‘appointed by Glenn’
and that at the end of it all I would be asked to be produce a
testimonial for Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing site.

What I’ll do at this point is to pass it on to the relevant consumer and law
authorities in the US to let them come to a decision, based on the
weight of evidence that I already have, as to whether or not Glenn
Canady is responsible for Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing
Course.

I’ve also been compiling a report for my credit card company in the UK
and this will be getting passed on to them on Monday.

Don’t bother asking me to contact ABDevelopment as I have already
pointed out to you that Doni Roebuck DOES NOT reply to my emails, whatever
she may claim. Besides, any issues with your subcontractors are your
responsibility, not mine.

Chris O’Connor
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So, by Monday all the necessary people will have been contacted. I’ll let them decide if Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing course is Glenn Canady’s or not (how the hell could it NOT be !).

Hopefully, by tomorrow, I’ll be back on track with documenting the rest of the disaster that was my experience of Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course. Believe me, it gets a lot worse !