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Take a look at the screen shot below:

It seems pretty self explanatory right? It tells you the three things you expect to get from this webinar which seems very useful. It’s free, but when you hit the registration it does say that it’s only an hour, so you know they can’t go into too much detail. But I signed up thinking that ‘Hey, a little extra knowledge can’t hurt.’

May I say I feel dooped.

I tuned into the webinar with a notebook handy and my mind attentive. But really, I didn’t learn anything. Why? Because they pretty much told you what you already know you need (when they weren’t going on about how awesome they were). They talked about platform building, but only to the point that they reiterated how much you need a platform. They said you needed to market yourself. Another “duh”, but still no actual new (or even old for that matter) tips on what you can do. Truth be told, I don’t even think that they touched on Author growth. Maybe I tuned out by then, I don’t know.

Then came the end where these ladies announced they had a special offer. Yep, get everything this webinar said would be discussed (as in the actual teaching) for the low, low price of $1500. That’s HALF PRICE off the regular retail. Yep, let’s round up all the aspiring authors, Indie or otherwise, with the promise of knowledge and make them desperate by telling these tales of how no agent will take you without a platform, a fan base, a whatever, and then tell them they have the golden ticket for a discounted price.

Frankly, I laughed. Yes, I get that these guys need to make money. I totally, 100% get that. But do something like advertise an eBook, teach a small segment from it and say “there’s a lot more useful info if you buy these”. Which, by the way, is actually what part of this package was, eBooks on how to do this. Maybe the things they wanted to sell you would actually provide some knowledge, but it felt more like an infomercial. They did spend a half an hour out of the hour long webinar talking about themselves so I guess it was a set up to let us know how qualified they are.

I for one thought it was a waste of time. Maybe you listened to it and got something out of it. If you did I’d love to know what it was. Because the only thing I got from it was that these people don’t believe in the underdog, the slow growing Indie, or those who just love to write and want to share it with the world. Why? Because, according to them:

“If you don’t sell a 1000 copies in your first year {self published} you have failed.” Yep, tainted, failure, someone no one wants.

Whatever, thanks for the support and your oh so wonderful tips. I’ll make sure to order you probably also super informative and supportive material. Not.