January 7th, 2005

AB Development - just after the last mentoring session.

I was still concerned that I’d done the whole thing using a product I wasn’t entirely happy with. I’d had to. I had no choice. I’d wanted to sell PDA’s, but AB Development had failed to find me the drop shipper that they promised that they would find me (see AB Development give me my first assignment). I asked Vicky what she honestly thought about my site and my chances. She said that she thought it was in with a good chance. She hadn’t come across anyone else selling the type of products that I was, which was good. She said the products to avoid were the diet/slimming type products as every man and his dog was doing that and the market was saturated and too competitive. She mentioned a couple of others, but off the top of my head I can’t recall what they were. Other pills I think.

So that was it, my final session had come and gone. I’d been taken to the point of being shown how to send an email through Zeus and now I was left to my own devices. To be honest I was feeling in a bit of a state of shock. That was it. I’d spent £5000 ($8000) and here I was about 8 weeks later and what did I have to show for it.

I asked myself what I had found out over the last few weeks that was going to make a difference to anything. What had I learnt that was going to make a difference to me ? What had they taught me that was going to bring in the sums of money they had led me to believe I was going to be making ? The answer was NOTHING !!!

Now I was starting to get very worried.

January 7th, 2005

Last mentoring session with AB Development

It was mid-January 2004 and I was just about at the end of my mentoring sessions with Vicky. This was to be my last mentoring session and then that would be it, I would be on my own. I had been told that if I needed any help or advice then I could still contact Vicky, and I was glad of that. It felt like the whole thing had been rushed through and that I was being dropped in at the deep end.

Prior to the final session with Vicky my assignment had been to find and categorise the websites that Zeus had found until I had 100 - 200 potential link partners categorised. Now bear in mind that in a my previous post ‘Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing - more problems‘ I had mentioned the problems that I had encountered with Zeus and that I had been instructed to continue anyway, despite the fact that it still wasn’t trained properly. If you have ever used Zeus then you will know that using it just after it is trained for the first time is difficult. Using it when it is not trained properly is next to impossible. So finding 100 - 200 sites was something of a nightmare. I worked virtually 24 hours a day to try and do this. In fact I did at one point work for 2 days solidly on it trying to get to the number required. I was determined that there was no was I was going to fail and that I was going to make this work.

By the time the session with Vicky came around I had just over 100 (and I mean just over) sites categorised. We spent the final session with Vicky taking me through setting up Zeus to email potential link partners, and having shown me how to email one of them then that was it. All my sessions were finished.

January 6th, 2005

Other people complaining about AB Development and Glenn Canady’s course

I had a comment on my first post from a very nice lady called Linda. We’ve exchanged a few emails, and from the limited exchange we’ve had it seems that her experiences of Glenn Canady’s Gorilla Website Marketing Course and AB Development are very similar to my own. Her recollection of the wild claims that they make for the course in terms of financial success match my own recollection of what they said.

We are both in agreement. We do not believe it is right that Glenn Canady and AB Development can get away with this sort of thing.

After the months I’ve spent fighting this it was very refreshing to find someone else who was prepared to stand up and be counted. Someone else who was able to say that what happened to me also happened to them. Is there anyone else out there ? I’m sure there is. The problem appears to be that people don’t want to look foolish. People don’t want to admit that they might as well have flushed up to $10,000 down the toilet. People don’t want to admit that they feel duped. I can understand that, but by keeping silent it just means that it keeps on happening to others. I feel duped. I feel stupid about falling for their claims. I feel stupid for wasting $8000 we didn’t have. Money that my family desperately needed (and still do). But I’m going to make damned sure that people know what happened to me.

It’s up to the individual to believe what they want. It’s up to them to choose to do a course or choose not to do it. I’m not trying to stop anyone from doing that. However, I don’t want someone else in my situation, wishing that someone had stood up and given an honest opinion of their experiences BEFORE they parted with their money.

Someone on another site made a very valid point. Never pay for what you can’t measure. If someone won’t commit in writing to the things they are telling you down a phone, then ask yourself why ?

Also, do you believe the testimonials that you read on web sites ? Contact the people yourself. You may be surprised.

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