You’re Welcome Kirsten 🙂

Thanks for your pertinent comment Alex. We’re actually working on a blog post about honesty in marketing and addressing that exact topic of inauthentic marketers publishing misleading/unfounded/unresearched reviews with the single intent of luring unsuspecting opportunity seekers into their nets. As with a lot of stuff online, people need to read between the lines. But honesty and authenticity will always win out in the end!

I am actually a member of both SFM & Wealthy Affiliate. They are also vastly different and both have their pros and cons. However, if I had to pick which one I was going to give my money it would be SFM no question. The training is far more engaging if you ask me and is not just about affiliate businesses. Plus SFM provides far more actual ‘hands on’ support in my experience. Yes, they do charge for it, but to me it’s very worth it.

Within the first 6 weeks of me being a member of SFM I had used some of the training and tools to move my offline business online and got my first internet lead and customer.

I am seriously considering closing my account with Wealthy Affiliate as I am so turned off by how so many of their members are spewing out blatant lies in order to try and make sales of WA.

Hey Rob

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment – and well done for choosing to leverage marketing online to further promote your business.

Many people don’t understand the depth and breadth of Six Figure Mentors marketing education and the millions of possibilities the education provides people. For example, members are becoming marketing consultants, running marketing agencies, running social media training services for small and local businesses, helping charities with their list building, promoting affiliate products and services they’re passionate about – the list goes on.

As for people pretending to be something they’re not – that’s inauthentic and unattractive – and it won’t bode them well in the long term because prospective customers will see thru the falsehood sooner or later.

But, at the end of the day, people will believe what they want to believe – you can tell them the truth and they’ll choose not to listen…

Hope that helps.

Greg & Fiona

Thanks for sharing this article. I was thinking about this matter myself as I just joined SFM and a Ponzy scheme did cross my mind. However, as you rightfully mention the products / services offered are of very high quality. I have an online business already and will definitely benefit from the trainings in that business. Especially if people will afterwards use their knowledge and apply it to other business areas this definitely is not a pyramid game / MTM. At the same time I do have my doubts about certain members that actually just start their online business and pretend they are already living their laptop lifestyle. I guess that for some people to reach their dreams they are OK with “Fake it untill you make it”? What’s your opinion on that? Best regards, Rob