Stephan Ducharme, the "Free Ad Guru" has just released his new 9 steps !
It’s what everybody has been waiting for… For weeks now. Thousands of marketers jumped on it in the same day.
Don’t wonder why. Stephan Ducharme is now a legend
in online marketing.
A Google search on Stephan Ducharme turns up some interesting reading. Seems like he’s one of the leading scam artists/spammers of the Internet.
A review of the book from moneymakingtips.com
Stephan Ducharme – the "Free Ad Guru"
This one tops my list of "Products to avoid like the plague." Stephan is selling an ebook on how to get a million visitors to your website without spending a dime on advertising.
It can be found at MoneyHome.com but don’t bother going there – the sales letter will hypnotize you and suck you in like a vacuum cleaner sucks in dust!
Here’s a little secret…if you don’t order the ebook for $197 on the sales site, then as you exit the site a popup appears offering you a discount at $97. You’d be mighty pissed if you had ordered it for $197 and found out you could have gotten it for $97, wouldn’t you?
In my honest opinion, the ebook is way overpriced even at $97. It underdelivers on the hyped-up promises in the sales letter. It is a poorly-written ebook that doesn’t really teach you how to get lots of targeted traffic the right way…it in effect shows you how to spam (which will get you shut down very quickly these days).
Even worse…he does not stand by his "100% money-back guarantee" on his sales letter. A number of customers, dissatisfied with the ebook, have emailed him asking for a refund and he replies arrogantly and with a bad attitude and tells them to go shove themselves (expletive here).
A marketer worth anything (including me) will always refund a customer if that person is not satisfied with what they get.
For this reason, Stephan Ducharme’s ebook tops my list of marketing products to avoid at all costs.
From marketingauction.com
The Marketing Insider Reports: Stephan Ducharme
Stephan Ducharme, the Free Ad Guru. Stephan Ducharme, the 31 year old internet millionaire. Stephan Ducharme, the guy who came virtually out of no where and spent a few glorious weeks sweeping across the internet. So just who is Stephan Ducharme? And does anyone call him the "Free Ad Guru" except for himself and his staff? Hard to say. But Mr. Ducharme sure pissed a lot of people off with his customer service and resistance to issuing refunds.
Our Marketing Insider brings you a series of firsthand accounts of shady business practices. These are 100% factual accounts, although names and details have been changed. And now on to this week’s report…
Stephan Ducharme: Dropped Like a Bad Habit!
This alleged millionaire swept into our (the online marketing community) lives like a storm–so fast we didn’t know what hit us. But we were impressed. Many became affiliates, selling a few of his books and signing on a few subaffiliates during our short associations with Stephan Ducharme.
Why were so many in the community eager to become affiliates? Were we impressed by the product? Was it because big name marketers were starting to talk about him? Was it because everyone and their mother was getting excited? Perhaps. Many admitted being impressed with Ducharme’s ability to create a "firestorm" on the Internet, and topnotch ad copy (this made it very easy to make money being his affiliate, since his sales copy converted the visitors we sent him–more on this later).
And that right there was the downfall–we "assumed" that this gentleman with the savvy Internet marketing skills is a great marketer in all ways. If he has all the parts of his internet marketing campaign in place, then surely his support systems are in place too, right?
Unfortunately that is not the case. Recently business message boards are buzzing about Stephan Ducharme’s lack of customer service and virtual inability to issue a prompt refund. Interesting observations have sprung up, such as why does an alleged millionaire cling tenaciously to a $97 order instead of just issuing a refund immediately?
That surprised us. But more than anything, we are very disappointed.
Think about it — Ducharme is a great marketer. But you don’t have to buy his book to learn from him. Just follow his adventures on the Internet. If you can create the excitement and hype that he did, PLUS deliver a rock-solid product backed by excellent customer service, I guarantee you will be a millionaire. Stephan Ducharme just didn’t have the follow-through, so his credibility is shot.
Who is still secretly profiting from the Ducharme fiasco?
Listen–many people became affiliates before the shoddy customer service surfaced. We’re human afterall. So the online community affiliates do the right thing and pull affiliate links so that they are no longer profit from this association. Good feelings and renewed respect for marketers who are severing their association with Ducharme abound.
Indeed, many marketers publicly proclaimed that they pulled their links because they wanted to do the right thing. These marketers were then applauded and praised for putting morals over money. BUT ARE THEY?
Not really.
After many marketers pulled their links, they informed their subaffiliates of the decision. But many, many marketers did not do this! So while in the public’s eye they "took the high road" and removed their links, thus earning respect in the marketing community, they are still SECRETLY PROFITING from their subaffiliates!
That’s right–you are praising these marketers for their morals, but they refuse to inform their downline because of the amount of money they are making.
Let’s be honest–that is worse then just outright peddling Stephan’s product in the face of the controversy. These marketers are misleading their fellow marketers (who are praising their supposedly severed association), and they are misleading their subaffiliates, who may or may not have heard about the controversy yet.
If you recommended that other marketers sign up under you as an affiliate because it is a great product and great opportunity, then it is also your responsibility to inform your subaffiliates that evidence has surfaced that’s caused you to retract your original recommendation.
Some of you who are still secretly profiting may be reading this. I urge you to do the right thing and COMPLETELY sever your ties with Stephan Ducharme–including the "invisible ties."
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