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Online Marketers
Robert Allen
Robert
Allen is a successful real estate guru, but is now expanding his area
of expertise into internet marketing as well, but there’s just one
little problem with one of his strategies….and that would be spam, and
I don’t mean the canned lunch meat kind.
The word “spam” is a very negative connotation in that it’s the term
given to unsolicted commercial email. What really annoys me
(being an internet marketing veteran of over a decade), is how some of
these people who are now dabbling in internet marketing try to cover up
spam by saying “We didn’t spam you…you (or someone else) must of
subscribbed to our newsletter and forgotten."
That kind of lame excuse may fly with people who don’t know better, but
I can assure you, Robert Allen, or someone on his behalf, sends out A
LOT of unsolicted junk email…and you don’t need to take my word for it
either. Just do some research through some of the forum sites and
you’ll see a great deal of others experiencing the same thing.
Now is he making money this way? Probably. But what’s
disturbing is that his marketing practices on the internet simulate
that of someone who thinks mail order and spam go hand in hand.
Worse yet, is the telemarketing staff he's affiliated with, called PMG
Mentors, who call you up and pitch you his package.
Here’s how it works: If someone who responds to the unsolicted email
goes through with supplying their name and phone number on his “lead
fishing” site, they’ll end up getting a phone call. In many cases
it will be a recorded message saying they were "one person selected out
of a hundred others" that are lucky enough to participate in this
life-changing opportunity.
Sound exciting? If so, just know that the other 99 of those 100
people received the same phone call. Next, you get to hear from a
real person who is VERY WELL TRAINED to get people to shell out
thousands of dollars for in exchange for being on of the privilaged few assigned to work on
Robert Allen's team.
Taking all that into account, I will say that Robert Allen appears to
be selling out his real estate credibility to earn more money in the
internet marketing arena. No problem with that, except his
tactics are very questionable, so people need to be cognizant of the
fact that the telemarketing sales rep they speak with on the phone is
going to get a hefty commission from the cost of the program.
If you get one of these phone calls, I recommend hanging up the phone
before anything else, because his sales department is very good at
giving you assurance by telling you what you want to hear.
Consequently, I don’t not recommend any of Robert Allen’s expensive
team packages, namely the one’s where you’ve been “selected” to be a
part of his marketing team. Proceed with extreme caution.
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