I Am Not Going To Advertise Ty Coughlin’s Reverse Funnel System On My Blog!
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A few days ago, I sent out an email to all my email subscribers and also wrote a very kind heart to heart message regarding my advertisement policy.
Long story short, my policy is that I do not accept ads that point to affiliate based products commonly found in ClickBank or other related items such as that.
The most popular rejected advertisement request is this:
Ty Coughlin’s Reverse Funnel System. Current to date, I have rejected and refunded over 100 requests to advertise this product.
I don’t know anything about this product, I’ll admit that. But I don’t care. I am not advertising it. The simple fact alone of having over 100 people bombard me requesting to advertise their affiliation with Ty Coughlin Reverse Funnel System is enough reason for me to say, “I am not interested in this product!” and, “I am sure as hell not going to contribute towards promoting it!”
Is it a scam? I don’t know… and to be honest, I don’t really care. Products like this do not interest me, and I don’t blog about products like this. In fact, it more closely resembles the type of products I don’t like.
Need Examples of What Is Acceptable?
Just in case people are still not clear on what I am looking for in an advertiser for $5.95 here are a few examples:
Example A:
Example B:
Example C:
Note: Joel Comm is actually paying me for this ad. He owns this product!
Example D:
If you’re still not sure about the kind of advertisers I am looking for, I have taken it upon myself to create really cool game called, Garry’s Advertiser Concentration. Playing this game will help people better understand the kind of advertisers I am looking for.
I am provide, what I would seriously consider, some of the best advertising solutions within my niche. You can advertise a graphic on my blog for as little as $5.95 / month, which literally saves you hundreds of dollars.
If you haven’t noticed yet, I am extremely picky with who I accept into my ad system.
I want fresh blood. I want newbie bloggers. I want product developers. I want people who have written their own ebooks. I want people who want to promote legitimate things (that they own!). I want any advertisers who wants to take advantage of my offer while not exploiting my cheap prices by requesting to advertise trashy products, Internet scams or bogus products.
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The Reverse Funnel System is a scam. It is all about selling a travel product. Bulls Crap.
Hi Andres,
Thanks for the input about it. How did you come to this conclusion?
The outrageous claims and the fact that you HAVE to signup under someone else makes me feel it is a giant pyramid scheme… I never promoted it because I don’t see how you can promote something without having tried it, and since it costs three grand to try, well…
If your ad spots are open, I’ll take one for Blog Premiere (BlogPremiere.COM) when it’s ready. Don’t check it at the moment, still tweaking stuff so it’s a bit messed up
Garry — I love this grand central gadget that you have been using — really cool.
As for reverse funnel — I looked into this when I first started. According to what I read, this falls into the same category as Jeffrey Lant. I don’t have any personal experience with it, but it is well documented to be a scam.
Finally — I just wanted to say “thanks” for everything that you have done to help me personally. I’m one of the “little guys” just getting started that you mention in your post, and I really appreciate the way that you are always looking to help me and people like me. I honestly don’t know how you find the time, but thanks!
Garry, as I’ve told you in the near past. I’m not really ready to try to make money blogging yet. But when I am ready. Would my blog be one you would let advertise or should I look for other ways to do so.
I have had several requests for promoting this as well. It looks like a scam to me, but not having tried it I just don’t know. It’s definitely not the type of product I would promote or let be advertised on my blog without at least having tried it myself (which I don’t want to do)…
@ Mark Krusen,
Sounds like you’re running a personal blog. What would you be looking to get from advertising on my blog? More regular readers, friends, more commenters? I just read your description on the home page, “A little bit of this, a dash of that. An Ex trucker trying to negotiate the crush of information overload with a touch of sarcasm,a dash of humor, a 1/2 cup of knowledge,and a bowl of humility.”
I guess I would like to know some of the things that you’d be writing about? Knowing that would let me know more if it would interest the people that read my blog here. Last thing I want to do is sell you an ad that my readers wouldn’t be interested in regardless of how cheap the price is. $5.95 may be cheaper than a meal at McDonalds, but I’d rather pay for a cheap meal at McDonalds than buy a cheap ad that no one would be interested in.
Do tell me more about your blog and what your intentions are with it.
@ George,
I am glad to see that I am not the only blogger getting slammed with requests to advertise this product. Secondly, I am glad that I am not the only blogger who is rejected these requests too.
Just like you said, I know nothing about this product, nor do I really give a crap about it. There are too many things that I can offer my readers that I know will help. I am not in a position to invest time into researching things like this.
If a reader of my blog or George’s wants to investigate this and report back to me, that would be great. If a reader has purchased Reverse Funnel System and has some feedback they would like to share about it, please drop a comment.
Hey Garry,
Good post, I like it. This is something I have learned the hard way, I don’t want to speal the whole story, it would take too long. But it had to do with government grants and in the end it yielded exactly zip! It wasn’t even an online deal, it was a flyer I got in the mail where this company advertized a free seminar, it’s during the free seminar that they do their selling and they sold like crazy.
Anyways, today I see a commercial on TV that’s been running for months now, it’s the same commercial with a different web address everytime, they mention business during the commercial and how much money these people make in a month, I actually wrote down the web address once and went to check it out. The website did not have any information about what the program was about, it was a fill out this form with your personal info type of thing so the BS meter went off as I had suspected.
The thing about these programs is that they all almost always have the same thing in common, which could make it easy to pick up if they’re full of it. When they emphasize a luxurious lifestyle, or they make these ridiculous guarantees of success, or if the author is this super guru extrordinaire who’s done this and that and has sold millions of this and the other, it just reeks of BS and that’s exactly what I saw at the seminar I attended. This was back in 2003 and I still get ticked when I think about it, but let’s just say I know better now and I’m glad I didn’t lose a lot.
Hey Gary – RFS is 100% a true business, but it IS based around a network marketing based company. It’s a marketing SYSTEM that promotes Global Resorts Network… I promote the travel membership in addition to my other affiliate/internet marketing that I do (ebooks, my coaching program, etc) because the membership does have a good value.
Network Marketing (NM) has been around for decades, and it’s legitimate. I’m sure they’ll be plenty of posts after this one arguing whether or not NM is a scam or not, and I’m not posting this to try and start a debate.
I’m posting this response to fill you on how the “virtual back office” of RFS works. When you signup as a marketer/independent business owner/affiliate/whatever you get access to a HUGE database of places to advertise online. Many people will go right to the list of business-related or affiliate marketing blogs and start posting their banner ads. The back office makes it easy for newbie internet marketers to put this together, hence why you got 100+ requests for the ads.
And even after this post, I bet you’ll still get more because you’re probably still in the RFS database.
Solution? See if you can get ahold of the company and get your site removed from the database and then you won’t have to worry about it.
Hope that helps!
Adam Holland
http://www.Adam-Holland.com/
[...] Conn ) is complaining about receiving over 100 requests to advertise the Reverse Funnel System on his blog. He insists on not advertising it because it’s not something he likes however he was very [...]
Just so there is at least one key FACT on the table about RFS.
In the approximate 35 weeks since its inception the Reverse Funnel System has paid out over $11 million dollars in affiliate commissions to its members.
This info can be easily found at the top of the first page that you see when you DO actually enter your name & email. There is an up to the second running clock and the dollar amount is updated weekly since that’s how often they fedex out all the commission checks.
Ya’ll find me some more “scams” that are paying out this kind of money to all the poor ignorant fools that have been so stupid as to get sucked in by some of the most successful and inovative minds in MLM & affiliate marketing. Ty and his team have more daily dedication and commitment to helping others learn and become successful leaders themselves than many of you have seen in the 20 places you’ve looked put together.
Yes you struck a nerve here – because I’m in RFS AND I’M BRAND NEW to internet marketing. I can assure you it is ANYTHING BUT a scam. Ty Coughlin is a hellacool guy and so are the rest of the the folks at RFS and GRN.
I am not only literally getting a million dollar education in marketing (on AND off line) but am starting to generate some of those $1000 profits for myself. THE FUNNEL WORKS !
And it works damn well from what the numbers are telling us. Ty and Don Glanville have done an incredible job putting this system together and it is helping a growing number of people become truly free in their lives.
Mom’s who don’t have to work, dad’s who are home to see their kids grow up, able to afford frequent family vacations, and to take care of loved ones in need. These are the things that this “scam” is producing daily, and the rate at which it’s doing it is growing very rapidly.
I know all this as FACT because I have been there for a couple months now and am on many of the training calls which occur 5 days a week and I here stories every day from people who’s lives are literally being transformed into what they only used to dream about. And the proof that this system works is the fact there are numerous people getting great results in under six months of starting who didn’t even know the difference between a blog and a website, or what an ezine is, had never heard of “affiliate marketing on the internet”, or what an autosponder or a capture page is. Literally as newbie as you can get – - just like me. But we A R E making money – - and lots of it.
$11.4 million + in 35 weeks. So P L E E E E E E Z E tell me alllllllll about how “it sounds / looks like a scam to you” I just sit here and laugh. Well – - – actually I laugh on the way to the bank too !
As for the original topic of NOT allowing RFS & other similar ads on this blog – - hey that’s totally cool ! It IS your blog and you should follow your convictions. The internet is a pretty damn big place and I’m sure your blog is very very far from the ONLY place we can NOT promote RFS / GRN. In fact they teach us that very way of thinking. And if you SHOULD ever get any grief or sass from someone in RFS for saying no to them, you should contact the folks at the corporate office down in Phoenix, AZ and let them know that they aren’t quite getting the point accross. That type of lame behavior is NOT what is being taught – but rather the very opposite.
NOT EVERYTHING that generates great wealth is a scam ! And trust me – the “wealth” that Ty Coughlin and his team are creating goes far far beyond money and riches.
Jeffrey Stewart
Oregon – USA
Too bad a lot of other chowshoe bloggers lack common ethics and readily accept money to advertiser the reverse funnel system. I’ve personally turned down thousands of dollars worth of advertising on my blogs and forums from RFS pimps.
A bit of trivia : Does anybody know the name of the lame failed EMO-punk band that Ty Coughlin used to front before he became a lazy beach bum sipping shirley temples by the pool with his laptop ??
RFS WORKS, try it and by the way, “narrow minds think alike” and yu orl do on this blogged site!! good for all us rfs’ers out there – we are making thousands every week. the only “b.s.” is this blog … full of it …
Hey RFS guy. If that is true, where is your proof, and why are you too scared to leave your URL?
Mark
Garry, you said : “You can advertise a graphic on my blog for as little as $5.95 / month, which literally saves you hundreds of dollars.”
Is that offer still on?
I checked your adv. page which had higher pricing now…
I see the “what you can buy for 595…..” but wanted to check if that is still on?
Thank you & best wishes !
Ricky
i have good things about it…have not tried it.
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