Digital Marketing Offers Scams or something more? - Evaluate the latest received
I'm going to talk about some "offers" I've received in the last few months to help me increase sales of my courses and books. I hope this helps you if you receive or want to hire any service on the Internet.
Hello, here I also wanted to make a slightly different video and it is to talk a little about marketing in this case as I have told you for several years now I would tell myself, I have always tried to create a small digital business in this case the Academy that you are seeing on the screen in which even this year I have already completed it in the sense that I have placed all my services in it and I think it has gone from a minimum viable product which is a lot with which I work to a moderately high application. Remember that all of this is maintained by one person, both the material that I teach and the website itself since I work alone and it is a bit what brings me to the next point. This year, next year, I am writing, well, I am recording this video on December 29, 2024. Next year I hope to grow this website a little more, not so much in functionality or design, which I believe I have worked on quite a bit and I am going to continue working on it, but a little more in the marketing part, whatever that includes, such as advertising that I have to hire or any strategy that I see out there, why am I telling you all this? This It is because obviously I am going to require some service or some person, an individual, a company, whatever, to help me with this and to obviously be able to grow a little more, whether in whatever way, through advertising, strategies, etc. So, having given this introduction a little bit.
Context of the situation
Giving you a little context, I want to talk to you a little about an offer I received precisely on December 1st, as you can see, I think it's this one here. So I want to talk to you a little about this, which is the Bluehackers people.
Mind you, I haven't worked with them, I'm not basing myself on everything I'm going to comment on here, I'm not saying they're scammers or anything like that, I don't know them and what I've investigated, everything points to the fact that they're not, at least they're a company that does what one supposedly has to do, which is what they offer, it's that simple. Even so, I think it's interesting to comment on a few things in case you also have a situation like mine, since at some point we're all going to require some service and the easiest thing to do is to go directly to the Internet and see what's there, and in this case this is very useful since they're a digital service.
Everything can be accompanied by the same since all the marketing would be digital, so the easiest thing is this instead of hitting the streets and seeing what we can find in our locality. So why am I making this video as I told you, these people wrote to me without me writing to them, that is to say, they were simply, I don't know how you say colloquially, out there fishing for clients or whatever, so I want, as they say, to evaluate them a little and in case you have a similar situation again, I think or hope that the arguments that I am presenting here are of interest to you and obviously if you also have something to comment on something that I have not said and you also consider important, obviously you can comment on this video and anyone who has a similar situation again can gain a little nourishment from what I am commenting on here with what they comment on, etc. so
Bluehackers
Let's start with them as a company that ultimately helps with the marketing part. I'm not going to talk a little about their slogan and so on, that's basically it. I want to keep it simple since in the end all we want is to get a larger audience. I'm not going to talk about sales and everything else because that comes once you have a larger audience, that is to say, you have to improve whatever it is with marketing, call it whatever you want, but in the end that's what we want. So I'm going to compare it with a person who is very famous, which is Romuald Fons, or over here. I did a search, you can also put it here in Google and here it will obviously appear first. He is an SEO in Spain, Barcelona, I think he is there and you probably already know him. So I'm not going to present much about him, besides that he is also very public and you can search for more information, for example on YouTube, which has a lot of material. So here the comparison begins a little, as I told you at the beginning, what do I see to measure if these people can help me or not? If everything is a scam, do they serve or what? I will. The first thing you have to do is obviously a simple Google search. In this case, for this type of service, I would go directly to YouTube, which would be a little easier to understand. So, for example, you look for the person of Romuald Fons, which again is not the same service, but in the end, everything is the same, regardless of where it is, whether it is by itself or by YouTube, or by marketing. I don't know what the hell the people at Blue Hackers are still doing. I'll talk about that a little later, but in the end, all we want is to increase the number of audiences. You look for the person of Romuald Fons.
30% Free marketing is Key
You will see that you can already get a lot of interesting material for free, that is to say, in terms of marketing, one of the things they say is that like 30% of the material that you teach is like 30% of the material that you want to sell.
In my case, it's the courses and books, you have to give them away for free, which is something a little bit like what I do, eh, you can easily see that on my YouTube channel that I upload every day and I emphasize that every day I upload some videos, whether they are exclusive like this one or directly that I take from my courses and books to solve anything about software development, I also take out publications and etcetera and I also give some courses for free, whether I stack them directly in my Academy application or whether they are playlists on YouTube etcetera in the end they are videos that I upload practically every day, so that is part of the free material that I give and anything that anyone who wants to buy any of the courses or books can go to Google, the internet, whatever, do a quick search about me or directly through the channel through which you found me on YouTube and see everything I talk about.
With all the free content, you can decide if you are interested in the content that I teach, if you like the way I speak, etc., etc., etc. And from there go to any paid resource, it's a bit always the idea. What is my problem with these people who practically give us absolutely that type of content, it's free, therefore it's very difficult to get to know them, you look here. Well, I'm not going to look on YouTube right now because they're not that famous. I saw it's a bit for the same reason, because to give yourself that fame you can't just present yourself with paid content, but you also have to give content again that provides value for free, just like Romuald Fons does, so therefore I'm going to go directly to the email.
Evaluating your offer from the email received
So you can see that everything is going well, luckily, browsing here is the corporate email. Right now we are starting to evaluate the email a little bit, this would be the page here:
Hello, how are you?
I saw your course Getting Started with Forge2D and Flame with Flutter on Hotmart and noticed that it has the potential to be converted into a "High Ticket" program, that is, a program where you bill a minimum of 2,000 USD per sale.
Can I send you a video to explain it in more depth?
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Regards,Marcos Razzetti
Founder, BlueHackersIf you are satisfied with the billing of your course (reply "satisfied" to stop receiving emails)
The first thing I see a little strange I don't know if it's normal but notice that it's going to be a redirection they ignore Blue hackers watching. com a simply Blue hackers then Well I don't know a little detail but nothing much happens Here the videos appear
Note that there is not much there are some resources there but they are I don't even know since when they have not updated it and there is not much really around here let's go here directly to success stories what they do what is this basically the people who supposedly hire them in the end they put together a quick video with them and basically it is a way of selling themselves it is simply that they start to ask that hey where would you be if you hadn't taken the course they start talking around there therefore it is not a content that in itself offers any added value since something that offers added value is like this and How to start working with Artificial Intelligence in 2024 How to make a desire course for YouTube whatever those are contents that offer value for free and that obviously is part of their complete course that is paid but again as mentioned 30% that is offered for free so this is what you can find here let's get into one because what I want is to fall on the YouTube channel here you can see it then
Evaluating the YouTube channel
Here I'm going to click on the channel. Note that it's an extremely small channel. I'm literally six times bigger than them, so as I told you, it's not directly that they're not going to offer a service directly for YouTube, but it's all about the same thing. I think that this part is very important because marketing has to exploit everything that you have, so if they're selling it as a company that obviously allows you to increase your traffic, why is that in the end? Because to have more sales you have to have more traffic, more audience, it doesn't go a bit with their philosophy, I say no. So it doesn't make much sense and also a bit the same one of the ways that they would have to sell themselves is to give valuable content for free, which I don't see here since they are all videos of success stories according to them they are people as I told you they go looking for people who hire them and in the end they put together a video with that but this doesn't offer value to me in itself it's simply a way for them to sell themselves So I don't see anything here so you can see some problems here So I don't understand very well How is this person's marketing and therefore there are already points in favor is let's go with this part of the questions in this case
Evaluating the mail
I am showing this email not to be gossipy but because I follow my own well first to see so that you understand that this is real and second I am only going to show you part of the conversation that I have had with them since I take the liberty of showing you this piece these pieces of text at least this initial email since this was an email that they sent me without me requesting it therefore as I am not subscribed in any way to them I have every right to show any email that I have received at least the initial one from them and from there that I have answered and that obviously I have not put it in spam because I consider that it is a real company and that part I am not going to show because it would be a slightly more private conversation and I do not want to get into that but first I am going to show it because of what was commented then several little things here as I told you are also losing a few points because I am not subscribed to them but it is an email that they directly sent to me and therefore that obviously has much less value than one goes That is to say that they are Fishing for clients has much less value than someone going directly to me, for example, to look for a room phone and I contract it. Mind you, there is a difference, because for example, I am also subscribed to RF with his company and therefore sometimes I receive one or another email of interest and sometimes he sends it, sometimes he sends it according to the email signature, sometimes he sends it or sometimes some people on his team send it, which is completely different than you receiving an email without you having requested it. I hope that is clear then.
From 10 dollars to 2000$
I'm not going to read it there you can read it perfectly on the screen but basically they say that they can one of the courses that I sell literally for 10 15 in emia a little cheaper on my Academy platform they say they can raise it to 2000 then you will say 2000 for sales so here you also have a little strange you don't know it's literally 200 times there also goes something a little strange because when something sounds too good well You should know how the sentence ends another problem that I see around here before continuing with the content first they don't even write correctly you can see
Redacta bien…
Aquí que coye con le con una mayúscula por Dios eh tampoco el asunto está bien sabes pregunta rápida no me estás diciendo mucho pero bueno a lo mejor es una forma de enganche no sé pero me parece una forma de enganche bastante mala Ya que ellos tienen que por más que sea mantener una bueno ser un poco más corporativo En ese sentido otra cosa que me causa aquí un poco de bueno de de duda o o me llama la atención me llama el botón es que dice que escribe directamente el fundador entiendo yo que el seo sería por lo tanto me parece un poco absurdo que el se es el que se ponga simplemente a buscar es decir no tiene nada más importante que hacer que ponerse a buscar posibles clientes Eso debería serlo un Junior o otra persona de su equipo pero él directamente tendría que tener un trabajo un poco más importante digo yo tú puedes decir bueno puede ser que esto sea la firma cosa que no apece porque está aquí también en el medio que no tiene firma tampoco pero si fuera la firma también me estás engañando porque que me esta escribiendo otra persona haciéndose pasar por otra persona tampoco sería correcto entonces sea como sea no queda bien.
The course they think is worth more is a very specific course
So here we also have another point that is not in favor. So we already have the URL that is a little strange, the matter of the signature and also the thing about the 2,000 that seems a little strange to me and this I will continue tying the following that I am going to tell you. Look what is the course that they are here telling me that they can raise to 2000 per sale, the first steps with forge 2D, flame and Flutter, mm let's see, I am going to clarify my point a little, obviously flurer is a technology for mobile developers, suppose you are mobile developers. Here I am going to put mobile developers that there are 5 million people in total, that is your total audience, this to give an example, which ones develop for flurer. Imagine yourself that there are a million people, that is 5 million people since this is a pyramid, what I want to reach, as long as you are more specific as in this case it is the technology with which I am referencing here, less public, you will surely also have less competition but you also reach less public. So this is in case you do not know, flame and flurer is for I say flame and for 2D is for games 2D games flame is an engine to develop video games, well 2D games with Sprite, that is to say with images and forg 2D is a kind of engine, that is to say to add physics and such, then apart from this you also have to develop video games or you have to at least be interested in video games. Well I'm not going to continue putting values here but you already understand that it's a pyramid, that is to say, each time you go more specific, you're going to reach less public since, for example, you can't say that there are 5 million mobile developers but for flurer there are 8 million, that doesn't make sense because those 8 million would be added to the general one that is to say mobile developers, then it has to be Here, well, this is a has its parenthesis because it has to be mobile developers who are also interested in video games, develop in video games, that is to say, you have to get both things, but more than this I'm going to put it here below, you have to develop in flame and more than this you have to develop in forg 2D or you have to be interested in developing in forg 2D, which is where I would take my courses, then there you can see that the pyramid becomes very small at the top Then it causes me since it is such a specific course and I have more general courses, for example the one on codin 4 for example, it causes me a lot of suspicion that I go precisely for that course because again it is a very specific course so that you understand it a little more easily and this is something that I have already tried. I sell the Arab course But obviously the Lightware and Inerti courses are going to sell much less than the Arel base why is this because of the pyramid that I just told you about, you to learn to develop the Arvel removing the bases that has to be PHP in my learning curve I would say that you go for Ciner with a small ful so as not to kill yourself directly with Laravel but that is another topic that I have already talked about then Laravel and then Laravel Livewire or Inertia but the base in this case is being Lar therefore I always have fewer sales with those courses therefore It would be more difficult to say as they comment on High ticker, that is to say that it has many sales for what commented if I would go for a more basic course not directly for this then here is what I can get And surely it is so that this person has no idea of the course in question, that is to say, he is telling me that sales can be increased but he does not even understand what I am selling there so that goes neither is he speaking well of them because it is simply a generic message and also how can I be that this is a generic message Well here you can see the dates but notice that a few days later.
Another email with the same format but intended for another course
I received exactly the same format of email here you can see that it is another email you can see that I changed here the well the Laravel and here you can also see the days I received exactly the same format Notice that with the errors and all the grammar and the capitalization and so on it is exactly the same but asking about the Laravel course and since I did not answer they wrote to me again because it seems that these people are their way of marketing and well writing until I do not know how to achieve something and well this is where I am going with the situation Therefore and here I gave you even more context.
High costs for a service that does not clearly state what it is
So what is the next thing I want to tell you about the cost, the cost of their services, as I was telling you, in the end everything depends on that, in the end they want to offer me a service regardless of what it is because it is still not clear to me, that is the worst and I am going to talk about it, but to have a larger audience they will surely want to fiddle a little with the prices of the things I am selling to increase the price here, the redundancy, I am not going to say the exact price because as they do not disclose it
Your course or assistance costs more than 1000 dollars
So no, I don't want to be a gossip either, but it's more than $1,000. And why do I say $1,000 as a base because the courses that rw fone also offers and you can look this up, for example, how they call it Armada digital, which is not the same thing again, but it's all about the same thing and he is also offering or was offering or was offering from time to time, I don't know how I questioned him to grow on YouTube, which right now I don't remember what he calls it, which also costs around $1,000 or well it costs $1,000, therefore I want to start from that price and the service that they offer is also higher than $1,000. So what do I want to comment on with this first, for everything mentioned before, RF is a fairly public person, therefore, as they say, you start to get to know him, you already know what he offers, he is already giving you free material and with that you can already measure his capabilities again, if you don't know him, I recommend that you watch some of his videos and simply draw your own conclusions, if he is a person who does not know What they are talking about directly follows a bit the same tune as me, something that I cannot measure with them.
The RF course costs 1000 dollars
So there we have many problems and here too everything is specified everything that I was able to get from these emails that have come to me Here I also want to talk about a very important point the RF released about two years ago at the date on which I am recording this video he released the course for YouTube of which when he released it for the first time he generated and that was public news therefore I can also search for it on the internet he generated about 1000 sorry
“Solo” got 1000 submissions with an audience that is measured in millions
He generated a million dollars that course as I told you he was selling it for 1,000 then you say hey obviously a million dollars is a lot of money especially for this type of ventures can't imagine that someone has a venture and suddenly you get a million dollars perfect great but even so if you analyze it a little more notice that it is not that much again the figure Obviously yes but $1,000 per course for 1000 registrations that he had this gives you the million dollars that I am mentioning that is to say there were simply 1000 registrations 1000 registrations for a person who on YouTube you can look for him here He has to date obviously this one has a little less but he has close to 1 and a half million subscribers apart from all the fame that he has for example in Spain where he says that he is the number one seo in Hispanic etcetera etcetera etcetera if you know him as I told you you already know what I am talking about and even so he only got 1000 registrations That is to say, with all the marketing that he has and with all the professionalism that he is, he only had 1,000 registrations, therefore, if I am now taking this and that is why I am comparing it to the service that they offer, which is much more expensive than $1,000, I find it hard to believe that this type of course offerings, or whatever it is that they offer, are really profitable in the sense that if I can only receive 1,000 registrations in everything mentioned, that they can receive a similar or greater volume, I find it very hard to believe that they are capable because again, they are a much smaller company and therefore, if they are a much smaller company, then I highly doubt that they can have a figure even similar to what RF did, for example, I hope that is clear.
If someone smaller than RF tries to sell a course at the same price, they probably won't get good results
That point, but what I mean is that for me, their offer doesn't make much sense because, to give another example, it's as if I decided to sell one of my courses not for $1,000 but for $2,000, obviously no one would buy it because they're going to say, "Well, who the hell are you to be selling me a course for $2,000?"
Another example, courses on Udemy
If I can perfectly go to udemy of forge surely you will not find But suppose you are from flurer and buy any course for $ because here for example that is a little what one does what I want to get to if you go to kemi and you look for example flurer you are going to rely a lot on what appears to you here in this case you see Fernando Herrera again then you say Well let's see it has excellent weighting you have a pretty big switch well there is his information he has 150,00 or something like that 250,000 I remember and students he has a lot of reputation many students you say well everything goes Well well well but it is difficult for you to go to buy I do not know the worst rated course that you find around here Well This is not I am going to go down a little more for example go to page three hardly instead of for example from ROM phone you are going to buy I do not want to point out any for good no e no not to be toxic but you are not going to buy a course that has I do not know three stars and that has only seven reviews Obviously you are going to go because it has more reviews therefore it is the one that would have more sales and it is as you say well how the hell is it going to get for example a course that has less reviews less weighting is going to get more sales than a course that is going to have more weighting and more ratings it does not make sense to me and it is a bit what I want to comment there and you can compare that perfectly with what I am telling you between RF with the YouTube course that only got 1000 registrations at least for that period that these people did with it and here we go a little further
Final words
So far I have gotten nothing but negative things in that sense, that is to say, nothing positive because they are not offering me something that I can really buy because I don't even know what the hell I would be buying. So I hope that all this has been of some use to you so that if you have a similar situation and you already know what I am evaluating, you can simply, as they say, replicate it based on some service that you also want to acquire out there, which does not necessarily have to be them, that is to say, or these, that is to say, I am not saying that they are scammers, as I commented at the beginning without I do not know them but I cannot say the opposite either, or rather, I cannot have information about what they are selling, since when I have asked them I have said directly, please, but give me some material or something about what the hell are you offering me, because it cannot all be simply spoken in a generic way, because what they have told me is that they ask me four things about my market, how much I bill, if there is another person working on the team, whatever, general things, that you see yourself here for a few months and so on, that is to say, you are not telling me anything, you are not telling me anything about what you are selling, you are simply Speaking about everyday things, which obviously can't be like that, well, I don't want to drag this out any further, as I told you, I already got a little bit into all this in the sense that once again to go back to what I was commenting on before.
I hope that my words are useful to you for when you also want to acquire any type of resource, which again doesn't necessarily have to be this, and you have some doubts, well, you can take here some criteria that I just mentioned so that you can analyze it based on your situation and you can replicate it in whatever it is that you want to acquire, so nothing more to say. Remember that you can also comment on anything that you haven't understood, anything that you also see in addition or that you want to add in addition to everything that I commented on in the comments section, and without further ado, I'll see you in another video.
Second Example
You are still here I wanted to tell you one more thing that I had pending since as I tell you I receive this type of emails from time to time precisely because I am a person as they say public and well No matter how much they always fall either spam or potential clients or people giving you advice what do I know or well that is what they say also a few months ago here you can also see the date is 2024 this other person came to me in which well you can see that everything is in English and they are telling me that I want they want in a few words to take my course I will tell you which one to the next level What was the Laravel Livewire course you can now understand a little what I was telling you before about the pyramid and not only that but it was the old one to date I renewed the arel light course to version 11 and when he wrote to me it was already renewed At least it existed and what I was asking was about the old one that I keep there in Emi But obviously that would be the one that was least worth advertising therefore here a little of what was commented is to say that these people write to you and they have no idea what they are saying, that they can help you to either increase the value of that product or to help you in any way that is to get more sales, which are in the end what one wants for good because obviously that is a business or it is the business that one aspires to have more sales, obviously here the proposal was a little different there you can read the first eh the first message s gonna show you a little bit because really this seemed audacious to me here you can also see the URL so in the end they told me that they could get well according to here you can see the link of well there is this work platform that is like freelancer they say that you can get 1000 real purchases, that is to say 1000 people who join your course and I said but this is excellent you are telling me that for 50 which is what they are valuing this I am going to get 1000 I understood no But obviously I didn't understand it but it is like who says what I would see the most sense 1000 real registrations understand 1000 real purchases no because it is a paid course it is not supposed to be that no you do the math suppose you because since it is 1000 reais it is supposed to be for some affiliate coupons or whatever therefore if it is for em which is where I got it here you can see all those purchases will come to me directly and well you do the math no you say 1000 for 10 000 for investing 50 but this is great don't imagine the same with all the courses and I buy a house I buy a yacht and well I take 3 years sabbatical contal well obviously you know how qui says those are bullshit that one has but you see here that this doesn't make sense right then what is it about him that I have to give him a free coupon for my course I mean so that it is understood a course that I am selling that I am selling that he has no idea what it is I have to pay him 50 to obtain in monetary terms nothing nothing so that he well no I know what he will do, he says that he has some students who are specifically interested in learning Arabic lel lare and that they are real students with real interactions, everything that you could read here at the beginning, that is, this seems to me the height of absurdity, as if one were desperate. Sorry, here I went to the other, as if one were desperate, that is to say, you are desperate for people to see you, I don't know how this person saw me or whatever, but it's crazy. That you are selling something. Then someone comes to write to you, look, give it to me for free and pay me, give it to me for free, not to me, but to 2,000 more people, or 1,000 more people, and I'm not satisfied with that, pay me, that is to say, I am paying, so that they see my courses, that is to say, the height of ridiculousness, really, and well, to make things worse, to make things worse, they are from Nigeria, that is to say, from Africa, what I mean is that I don't know what language they speak there, but Spanish I know is that it is not their native language, so to speak, then you know? A Chinese person tells me that he is interested in my course, you say, well, that's fine, but I don't speak Chinese, and well, the stars, well, well, three little cats and coincidentally all in five no what a coincidence surely that is something very organic surely they were not sent or anything like that surely it was like that and anyway So as I say you have to keep all this in mind because you really get some that you say but almost literally it is an assault on the pocket no because I mean this seems to me the height of ridiculousness and this.
It is precisely what I criticize in the platforms as I call because precisely because of having those bad practices that they have so much that they give too much importance to the comments of the students. Look, I do defend that everyone can have their opinion this is an opinion video precisely but the opinion has to be based on real facts you can't you come to say like It happens a little bit in Emi that if it is red then based on the to the to what criterion he may have that says that the sky is red he qualifies you saying any nonsense as it happened to me that he tells me you do not have source code I the mother who gave birth to you have a repository in guijo and all are public to section of 3 cu Here I have 157 repositories and he says no Or those people who do not have that I do not place the source code thing that even in each section I place the source code at the end but anyway that that type of things should always improve it and this you can also annex it a little with these guys the registrations that precisely for being selling yourself even if you are not earning anything you are even losing you are losing money you are losing $ 50 to have here the nonsense of being qualified as if it were here the typical social networks that you go out there that people are even hurting themselves, self-harming or losing their lives Doing nonsense simply to get like this is the equivalent but in this case in courses in udemy
Second part of the analysis
There are a couple more things that I forgot to comment on and well there are several things that I forgot to comment on and I was attaching them as texts to the other video so that you could understand me. But there are a couple more things that I wanted to comment on. Mind you, again I'm not doing all this because Well, it is a criticism but I would say that it is constructive criticism, it is not destructive because they are things that I am seeing and as I say, everyone has the right to have their opinion and I believe that in this type of service, no matter how much you do on the Internet that you do not have a person face to face, it is not completely transparent. Any other time, anything that you do because you are not seeing the other party. So I believe that it is very important to be very careful to see if it is what you expect or not what you expect. As I say, I believe that if it is a real company, I do not believe that they are scammers. I have reviewed a little and as much as it is, it is very elaborate for you to say that it could be a scam, but as much as it is what I want to get to because not everything has to be black and white, it can always be a little bit of gray and those grays are supposed to be the part that you have to evaluate especially if you know that it is not a scam and more than anything for the little information they give as in this case the little that you can obtain from information or directly what they tell you to see if it really is allied or not to what you want what you expect the service that you expect to solve is what I want to get to this and that is why I make these videos to give my opinion again and that of course anyone can also share their experiences Through the comments or directly comment on something else that I have not seen as is what I am going to comment right now that I am also missing an important point when I was analyzing the email that is what I want to get to with this and that is why I also start a little with the introduction that if both client entities can be aligned which in this case would be me with a company independently of but in this case I am evaluating that of blue hackers well continuing a little with what was commented something that also and this did bother me a lot really that this or that is are one of the few things that get me out of wanted fairly
Orders or mandates
This term that says if you are satisfied with the billing of your course, respond satisfied to stop receiving these emails, well. Look at the most worded subject that is to stop receiving emails, it will be to stop receiving these emails, then well, several little things, now you are seeing a bit like who says the level. So why does this bother me, as I told you, this email I received it without me being subscribed to anywhere, the email directly arrived to me as has happened to me a lot from any student who buys a course from me from anyone who wants to sell something, directly spam, whatever, they all arrive without you writing or you requesting it, which is the important thing. Therefore, to get into a little context, this makes a little more sense if you, for example, are associated with a bank, let's call it BBVA and obviously you already have a relationship with them, clients, company clients, whatever you want to call it, and therefore at that point they are in the fact or to see how you want to see it, to demand you so that it is a bit the most typical, I say precisely the thing about banks because it is always the, as who says, the most delicate contact that you can have or the more delicate relationship that you can have because we are talking about money and both for the bank that you are not Well a money launderer a money launderer as the people of W r told me once that I told you about in another video or directly you because you are giving your resources there So it is always a slightly more delicate relationship whenever it is talking about money therefore to keep your account there for example they are not charging you taxes or whatever you have to provide certain papers so that everything remains in the same state That it is or directly they do not suspend the account they do not block it etcetera they Yes at that point they have the duty or the right Better said that they can request a response from you whether it is written or a document whatever because again there is already a relationship which is the important thing here but that they are telling me So if apparent reason Well what I just expressed I see it as rude really yes and there they are placing themselves as if one part or they want to place themselves one part above the client that is to say them you are the subordinate and they are the ones that are going to indicate to you what it is what you have to do, which I again see as rude, of course, according to that, as you say, seeing it in the healthiest way possible, surely it is a marketing strategy for fools, that is, it is directly that, as if one were a fool who, as someone who says he has a communication to start talking, a communication since it is as it is said, if you are not there if you want them to help you then obviously you are going to write it, if you do not want them to help you then you are also going to write to them satisfied because well, they are imposing it on you and this is precisely because of nonsense because I am sure that they are not even monitoring, that is simply to, as someone who says, act like a fool with you and put together a communication and surely if you put satisfied then they will write you something else and so you go until they respond to you, that is, it is a marketing strategy, if you can say, an aggressive nonsense and it is here where you or I add it a little with what was commented at the beginning that obviously both client and well server or whatever have to go hand in hand, one cannot step on top of the other, something that you are already seeing a little around here at least in The perception that I have with all this because I really, for the first time in my life not being subscribed to absolutely anything again, for example a bank, for example Demi, for example any website like leut or anything that is selling you something and money is being handled. Obviously, in order to comply with the entities or wherever they are running or whatever, they have to comply with certain criteria, and obviously the client has to provide that data, and that is why from there on, either you give it to me or, well, we really have to cut the client-company relationship.
They are there in the duty to be able to write you this type of with this as who says with this tone but a person a stranger obviously not that no Or it is the first time in life I saw that I see so that I get an email they put something like that that is like who says requests you in the best of cases is requesting or ordering that you write satisfied if you want to stop receiving these emails So you see that we are not as if in tune because one wants to put himself on top of the other That is what I saw here too apart from the spelling error in what other little thing I wanted to tell you as you can see here in the trace Well This was the second the first I had it I think it was up here around here it is eh Remember that they loved me s times I contacted them because well as they say one always tries to go for the positive to see if one gets something and to see if it is one's misinterpretation or whatever. So I communicated it and obviously there were a few calls a couple of calls and here we go also a bit like who says the ugly we agreed to talk at 10 and sorry they agreed to call me on a Monday at 10 I told them that on Monday I couldn't that they would call me please on Tuesday mind you they are the ones who give the time or rather one says when one can one can't and from there they adjust to their schedules or their or the time in which they can attend to you well there was a confusion as always That always happens to me I am always the first in everything but for the bad and they called me the same day but they didn't even call me the same day at 5 in the morning that I didn't understand Why when I had told them that I couldn't, that is to say they had initially told me that they wanted to call me on Monday at 10 in the morning to give you an example I told them that No, I couldn't get them to call me on Tuesday at 10 in the morning because I was going to leave and they called me on Monday at 10 in the morning and in the end I didn't answer because, mind you, I wasn't here from the home phone and I left precisely because of that that I couldn't answer and they called me at 10 in the morning so here you can see how it says an organizational failure on their part in the end they called me again on Monday the same Monday at 5 in the afternoon which was not a legitimate date but because supposedly there was a problem again and they didn't understand when I told them to call me I don't know why on Tuesday at 10 in the morning so this is going badly After that we talked a little they told me that the call was more of an informative type which is what I didn't expect again things that give values like still at that point I hadn't obtained an apparent value because this doesn't offer any value which is a bit the idea as I say all marketing companies work a little with that they give you something for free so you see or understand how they work and so do you you learn something and get excited and hire them So I thought that the call was going to help me a little bit for that but well I understood a lady that I didn't understand half of it because I had a somewhat strong accent I don't know what it was but a little strong it was like American but trying to speak Spanish but I didn't speak it very well it's a call that didn't give me any value directly they told me that they weren't going to sell anything but in the end they were selling me something so here you also see a bit of the same thing what you based on what was commented So it's not one thing anymore but it's already two because on the one hand they tell you that the call is not going to try to sell you anything if it's directly one it could be understood in the context like that a call that is beneficial for both or well for us at least for the client but they tried to sell me something that was precisely the product course I don't know what the hell the accessory they are the ones that are selling something that I don't really see wrong because one is not stupid either But because I directly wanted to know what they offered So I told her that well That obviously I have to think about it and so on because it's a large figure like I was telling you and right now we are in December obviously I am not going to put into that and I told him Well, they themselves said Well but if you want we will call you a few days later That was like a week 10 days ago something like that or the first of December I don't remember and the next call was going to be from them that they told me on December 26 at 10 in the morning and that was the fixed date, I mean I'm not giving an example.
They did not comply with the call
I waited for the call and they didn't call me Well okay well they called or they called me back or they made the call Better said because in this case I did have the phone next to me there was no such confusion that I mentioned to you at the beginning at 3:44 that is to say like 4 almost 5 hours later obviously I didn't answer I was already exhausted and I didn't see the call either but now it's me, as I say I start working early at 5 in the morning and at that time I don't want to be bothered by it that's why I don't answer almost anything Unless it appears to me by a message but for example in udem I don't answer anyone at that time because I'm tired and I didn't really want to get into that I was dizzy and I didn't even want to put myself with that dilemma I didn't answer them But I did return the message because they were calling me now on WhatsApp and I was asking them because that's what I wanted send me in some document a page I don't know where where it tells me clearly what the hell you are selling me because until now I don't know So Now here they answer you and again do not show that information because this is something a little more one-on-one, that is to say something a little more personal. I do show this one because of what was commented at the beginning because it is an email that came to me without me requesting it, so I have every right to expose it. But now when someone starts a conversation that is a little more private, that is true. I prefer not to show it but I can give you, as they say, talk a little colloquially what happened there, eh. Like who says commenting again or leaving it or continuing where you left off. A few moments ago I was asking them to give me some document, a page or something that is not obviously spoken about what they are selling, it simply happened, they do not want anything with documents, it seems that it does not exist and they answer me that well, we are going to set up another call to talk to you more about our services. I do not want anything spoken because at least I have the peculiarity, I do not know if everyone is like that, that what I speak with another person I am left with like 20% at the end because the rest I forget I spend my time with 1 things in my head and It doesn't really work like that
Things have to be written down
I like to have things written down so I can analyze them throughout the day several times a day to see little things just like I'm doing right now. That's my way of being, therefore, I don't work when I talk, apart from the fact that it also looks very bad because again, if you are going to buy a filthy little course on Udemy through SAA, how to put a derogatory term in the sense of the price or the price it has if you compare it with this type of prices that you have to pay that are more than $1,000, that's what I mean and they present you with all the details of the same thing that has to be like that, how the hell are they not going to present you with the details of the same thing for a much more expensive course? It doesn't make sense, so here you see that they are not on the same page, if not a person, if not the company wants to run over you, which I don't like and why am I also talking a little about all this since they seem like nonsense, because what worries me enormously is precisely this that they are indicating here because this sounds excellent, assuming that they can do it or not. they can do even if they raise it to 200 or that is already an outrage much more because this is a course that I don't even sell for $ I, for example, the H academy I sell it cheaper because with a very short course for what was commented because more than anything from a niche of people who know flame forg 2D and the whole question it is a very short course it is a course that by its definition for what was commented before because it is very high in the pyramid eh It is not going to have many sales and therefore I am not going to give you much more material either I simply give the basics so that people understand a little how to work with forg 2D with all the what was then flurer flame and all the whole question and little else therefore it is a short course and therefore when I make the short resources I also put a price below obviously on the Academy website which is where I can manage the prices, I even think I can show you how much it costs here at the Academy they also contacted me it was through hogp that I have some courses there too that well complicated to sell eh I'm going to put here clo that flower for the filter here first steps here is $8 less than 10 So therefore the price would be not only not only 200 times as I commented before it would not be more if I compare it with the lowest price which would be this one that I have here so precisely That is my concern Because if you see it in the background what is it and based on how they work that as I tell you or you have to do what they say or you have to do what they say because if not you are bad because they also have a return that you can also see on the website And from there you can assume How much does the course cost in this same video Only I am not going to reproduce it because Well I do not know copyright what do I know in this same video He tells you What is the return guarantee that if they do not comply or what they say that will happen does not happen which is that you try to bill at x or such amount which I suppose that that Med you would say later how much would really be the amount that they commit to that your billing has to increase they return you a certain amount of or that is to say you They give a guarantee, that guarantee is exactly what they are telling you, basically they will give you your money back. There you can get more information about that video. So that is what worries me a little.
Raise the price of all your products or there is no deal
Because I'm sure that they're going to tell me that you have to increase the prices of all your products because that's precisely what they're telling you here, which for me is a guillotine because for all that has been said, it doesn't seem entirely professional to me, at least for how they're expressing themselves and precisely because they agreed to give me a call, which by the way, the second call they told me that no, that they have a very high volume of calls, which I don't think is true, or rather, I apologize but I don't think it's true, both because of the time of year, which is December, I think that everyone is involved in something else, both because it doesn't seem to me that they have that many sales, a little also because of what was said when I indicated the example with r fone, this is already my section, and also because of the amount of traffic that they get, on YouTube they don't have anyone, I'm afraid to tell myself that, they don't have views, therefore they themselves should use their own service in Here too, Well here I did a search on YouTube, I say it on Google, Here it is, I entered the first links
Low-impact networks
This is this one, well on Instagram it has a little more than 8000. But well, it's fine for a company it doesn't seem like that much to me and here you also have some opinions that I don't think everyone who buys a service has to come here but there. It's good, now I'll leave the first ones there, eh, let's order them by most recent. Here you can see that it's not like they have many sales in 2024, which is the current course. Well, you can see that here it says 15, surely there are some in the text, so there are like six, seven people if anything who wrote here. And also another thing that you can consider about not having as many sales is that if they had a success story and so many calls and so many sales and so on, I think they wouldn't even bother much to reply. Mind you, it's always good to reply. I do it. But there are some where they become too confident in what they say, of course, it's not for less because we're talking about a very high amount but usually, I don't know, that's not so common, as I say, because I have a bit of a short fuse really and injustice bothers me a lot, especially, you can see a a few things that I tell you This type of treatment bothers me a lot, I always try with people in this case for the products that I sell I always try and it is a phrase that I always use I always try to give more than what they are really paying me in terms of courses, for example when I sell a 70-hour course of Arabic for 8.10 in the academy account it costs 89.8 or 9 and in udemy you can get it for 10 because of the offers, obviously it is a price much or much lower than what I should sell it for. But well, one lives like that because that is the current market but that is what I mean. So therefore I expect a reciprocal response when I also want to obtain a service from a person or at least something similar and not that they want to pass you over. So here you can also see a little what people think who also have a similar perception or at least what they comment that one also does not know if it is true or not but well, it is what there is, one has a similar perception or based on what they comment more or less the same perception that I have and finally to conclude what I was telling you that I have already said like three times and I have not finished it, sorry if I got a little dizzy in these videos. But I also do this is precisely to improve professionally since I believe that recording videos here for tutorials goes very well for me but when they are things like this a little more open more general I do tend to get a little lost but well little by little I am improving so I also make these videos for that reason to force myself to do that and grow a little as professionals to finish here a little. That is what worries me that they are going to force you that you have to increase your billing Yes or yes, some people who again do not seem to me to be completely professional or that they know what the hell they are doing or at least with the course the material that you are teaching that you are the 100% connoisseur of it since I believe and maintain all this I know to the letter what I am selling therefore these people are going to force you to say it in some way based on how they write and everything else has to you. you have to raise the billing, that is to say, they are not forcing you to have to raise the price of the product, therefore for me they put me in a dilemma because a little as commented, my even sales are in Emi with the low prices that they sell them, therefore assuming that I can do it directly, which I think I can't, I can tell Udemy to look, raise my prices, which again cannot be done directly because I am affiliated with what is the offers in Udemy, I don't remember what they call it. Then they set the price that they consider based on their offers and so on, then I would have to get out of that to have the base prices and place prices of 2000 here also on the Academy website you would have to place expensive prices of 2000 or whatever and well after that I don't know what the hell strategy they will say, therefore you can see that it is complicated because there are many things, on the one hand raise the price to not know what because you have to trust them 100% based on their strategies and if they don't work, well, I end up badly. because I am the one who ends up without traffic and without earning anything for 3 months if in case they are not sold and well basically that for some people who again are very opaque in the information they are providing So that is above all what worries me the most because if you refuse to do as they say based on how they say you can see here their impetuosity their impetuosity Then you will be guilty of their courses not being sold and therefore on the one hand they will not return the guarantee and on the other hand You are going to be left with much less money since you have to pay for the course itself And also on the other hand you are obviously going to get fewer sales because Obviously if you are complaining because you do not want to raise prices or simply
Raise the price and then...
Whatever is going to happen there, you are not going to sell anything either, so again you are going to lose the money that they are asking you for their training, you are going to lose time, surely you will learn something along the way but I do not think it is worth all the effort as well as the money that you have to invest and on the other hand you are going to get less sales during all those months and on the other hand you are going to have to somehow regain both the trust of potential clients who could not buy anything and on the other hand the traffic and everything else since all this for example in Udemy while I suppose I do not as in Google and everything else and what is the part of interaction with the resource that must also weigh quite a bit when you position yourself therefore if for example I raise the price of a Laravel course to 300 if a person comes and comes and or to 200 whatever and they come and from there they are going to claim to me that this course is too expensive for what it offers, which I would also consider the same, then all that is going to affect me negatively and in the end who is going to pay the broken dishes? Obviously then this is precisely why I would not decide to work with them.
Final words
Again that is my opinion based on everything that I sell obviously These are things that one has to evaluate and I have just presented to you how I evaluated all this maybe for your case if it is of interest I would recommend you In case you are also seeing these people that you see here a little what are the success stories that are supposed to be from people who wanted the product and so on and if what you are selling is a little affiliated or related a little with what the resource that they helped to sell more than a long time ago Well there you have to see it may be worth it for you for me I don't really see it and it is a little what I wanted to try to get them to explain to me but I don't want to force things and therefore I preferred to leave it here So most likely I will not work with these people neither in the short nor medium nor long term for what was said Unless they change their way of being a little which I do not believe You know or the service that V or a service a little lighter a cheaper price something that is not so so aggressive what what refers to the way of doing marketing Which I suppose they will also translate it to what one has to do is to say therefore if I do not like this they will probably also force you to have to do things that you do not like so that again you can get more sales then well nothing this video was going to be short but I already saw that it got quite long so well nothing more to say I hope that all this has been useful to you Remember that you can comment on anything again I do not do this to make destructive criticism I do not think I have made any destructive criticism I am simply evaluating thinking and giving my opinion this is simply an opinion I have not had any contact with them the things that I have not liked that they simply have not fulfilled for me for example the part of the calls and others can also be things that happen and that can happen but and it is not something so serious that you say Look we have to crucify what we have to crucify the company or the rest But well they are things that I personally see and it is like as I indicated to you at the beginning I feel and what I I would evaluate to decide whether to take a service or not but of course it doesn't have to be No you don't have to measure yourself the same way I measure myself everyone can draw their own perception everyone can have their own opinion based on their criteria and based on what I or what you want to sell so nothing more to say see you in another video
- Andrés Cruz
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