Look I promised you that I would only email you when it is was important and to me this is very important. Seriously, my blood pressure is off the charts with this right now and I want to share my thoughts with you about it.

I know this might upset some people but I am a big boy and willing to handle it.

Warning: A little bit of bad language follows.

Attention Offline Marketers:

How To Spot A Fake

I just spent the last 20 minutes reading a well sold and well respected offline marketing report. My opinion – I want my 20 minutes back. Seriously.

This guy through together 18 pages of complete and total horse shit. He did nothing more than slap together an idea, take information off of the company websites and then sell it to the warriors. He said he has thought about doing the method he is selling you but my guess is he is another one of the many “offline marketers” who have never spent their time, energy, or money with the methods they sell you as the magic pill.

Take a look at the screenshot below.

I just grabbed it off the WSO forum on January 10, 2010. It shows that there are 500 Offline Marketing WSO’s happening now.

Why is this?

Greed.

Look one of the things every internet marketer knows is to find a hot niche and jump on it. Find the “starving crowd” and sell them what they want.

Some people don’t have a problem with it – but I do. Why?

Because I talk with my offline marketing students once a week and I know most of them, like you, are watching your budgets right now. Some of you are behind on bills, out of work, or even worse. One of my students just got word that she is being laid off at the end of the month and to make matters worse her husband hasn’t been working for over a year.

Yet people, like the jackass who made this report, don’t care about that. All they care about is selling a dream – making people think that they can make $20,000 to $50,000 a whack while working 2 hours a day from a beach in the middle of the Caribbean.

They pray on people’s dreams and instead of helping them with solid and profitable information they slap together a crappy report, put some lipstick on the pig and shove it out the door like a low rent street walker.

When I spoke at last years Warrior Forum event I was treated to my exact presentation given by someone else the very next day.

Seriously, it was almost a word for word account of the same presentation I had given. When the presenter was asked questions about “her” method she refused to answer them and told the audience that she wasn’t even sure if she was going to be doing offline marketing in a year because she had so many “interest”.

I was so angry I left the conference a day early and informed the speaker and her business partner never to contact me again.

That folks – is just bullshit and I’m tired of watching you suffer because of someone elses greed.

If you are serious about your offline business I think you owe it to yourself to protect your time and money. The best way to do that is by asking whoever you’re going to buy from a few simple questions.

#1 – Have they used this idea/strategy themselves or is this just a concept they had?

I don’t want your theory. I want real world tested material. Look I could sit in my office all day and dream up things to sell you but I don’t. I only share with you ideas that have made me money and that I use in my business daily. I will never sell you an idea or concept that has been proven successful and profitable for me or one of my students. The day I do is the day I will quit the business.

#2 – Have you successfully sold your services to offline businesses and are you willing to show me proof of your income claims?

There are more checks but you get the idea. If they can’t/won’t show you copies of payments received I don’t even bother with them. Seriously. That is why I show copies of checks given to me by local businesses (like the ones below). I don’t do it to brag – I do it to show you, the consumer, that I know what I am talking about and people are willing to pay me for my services. They should be willing to do the same – if not then it is buyer beware.

#3 – How long have they been in business and is this their full time job?

I make no bones about it – I do this strictly part time and the money I make helps support my family. Last year I did over $25,000 and this year I hope to increase it to $35-40,000. I actually get emails from people telling me that I should lie about my income and make it bigger than it is. But I won’t – ever – because I honor you as a customer and a friend and would never break that for a quick sale. If you want to be lied to there are hundreds of people who will do that for you – I am not one of them?

#4 – Can they show that their students have had success with the same system they are selling you?

Admittedly this is the hardest one for anyone to show. Why? Because so many people do so little with the information given. Seriously, I am just as guilty as the next guy. I’ve bought life changing programs only to have them sit on my desk for months or years at a time. But once I got out of my own way and did what the program said I made money with them.

I’ll throw in a customer testimonial that has had success with my products whenever possible to show you that they followed my advice and made money as a result. One of my star students landed a $2,500 contract with the option for more. Again this isn’t bragging, I just want you to know that there is money behind my products.

If the person who is selling you your offline dream business in a box isn’t willing to answer these questions then I wouldn’t buy from them.

The choice is ultimately yours but I want you to know something from me …

My guarantee to you as my customer and my friend

I will NEVER sell or promote something to you that I or one of my students have not tested out first. Seriously, friends tell me how much money I am leaving on the table every day but I refuse to comprise my integrity or our relationship for a few bucks. Never going to happen.

If I am selling you something it will be something that I have done in my own business and been successful with. My own time, talent, energy and money will be invested in it. It won’t be an idea or some pie in the sky thinking. Nope – instead it will be real world tested and battle approved.

Some of you might be angry at me now or think I am writing this to make you not spend money elsewhere. Lets be honest here, you are a grown adult and can do what you want. Most of you own every offline course out there and this email isn’t going to stop many of you from buying everything in sight. I don’t own any other offline courses because I don’t want to be accused of stealing their ideas.

I just want to you take a harder look at the “gurus” out there and make sure that all that glitters is in fact offline gold. Many of the people only have one persons interest in mind when they are selling you something – theirs.

I wish you nothing but success in your offline business and I am always here to help if you need me. Thanks for your time. Friday we start kicking butt and taking names getting you offline clients.

~Tim Castleman