I lost a whole month's ad budget on a 'growth guru' course that was just recycled blog posts

I mean, I was desperate to get our first 100 customers and saw this online course promising a 'foolproof system' for $1,200. The sales page made it sound like you just follow these steps and boom, instant growth. So I paid up, which was basically our whole ad spend for that month. The course was just a bunch of videos where the guy basically read old articles you could find for free, and his 'secret templates' were things I'd already seen on other sites. The worst part was the 'community' was just a dead Facebook group where the guru would post his own links. It set us back so much, and I had to explain to my partner why we had no money for actual ads. Has anyone else fallen for one of these and found a real, helpful resource instead?

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lily701mo ago

Ugh that's brutal, been there with the guru trap. Honestly skip the courses and just search for case studies from real companies in your niche, the free ones are way better. I started finding actual useful stuff when I looked up what my own customers read, like the blogs and newsletters they follow. It's slower but you're not wasting cash on repackaged garbage.

kelly3651mo ago

Totally! My cousin fell for that last year.

jana_hart1828d ago

My buddy wasted like 500 bucks on a course that was just a bunch of old blog posts. I told him to just search for "failed marketing campaign" plus his industry, you learn more from the mess-ups anyway.