I’ve decided to start answering questions via email. Of course, like most so-called Internet Marketing Gurus, my time is worth $2,000 per hour. Since I think it will take me about 5 minutes to answer an email, I’ve decided to charge $166.67 per email. If your question will take me longer to answer, I’ll write you back and let you know how long it will take me, how much it will cost, and will send you a PayPal invoice for the difference.
If you want to ask me a question via email, simply click on the link / image below. After you make your payment via PayPal, you’ll be taken to a form where you can submit your question (use your PayPal email address as this is where I will send your reply). I will answer your question the next business day.
NOTE: Link temporarily disabled while I troubleshoot it. Contact me at this link if you want to take advantage of this offer.
While I do not guarantee that you will “like” my answer, I do guarantee that you will receive a response that answers your question. That is the only guarantee I offer.
Is a five minute chunk of my time worth $166.67 to you?
If you have a question that needs to be answered by somebody with my skill set, $166.67 could be a bargain. If you spend most of your day parked in front of a television set, then you probably wouldn’t pay a bent nickel for my time.
So who decides what my time is worth? Fact is that I can put a price on it, but only you can decide if my time is worth that price. So you, the customer, are the one who truly decides what my time is worth.
Which leads to my next question: on a lot of sales letters, why do people claim that their one hour free consult that is being offered as a bonus (which quite often seems to degrade into a sales presentation) is worth $2,000 when they don’t even offer a way to sell it? Am I going to pay some no-time-in-life kid with no education $2,000 for an hour of their time just because they followed a proven formula for making money and think that they are the Uber-Guru? What makes you think that I even want to talk to you? Does it really build value?
No.
For those with more success in this field, how about this: Why do you claim such high consulting / one-on-one rates but will give practically unlimited access for six months to a year to a mentoring student for only a couple thousand more? Granted, for many it is a form of giving back, but how about this: Can you show me (or anybody else) PROOF that you regularly get $2,000 an hour for your time?
Yes, some can prove it and some can back it up, but I suspect that those people are few and far between. Yet you see stuff like this all the time when people sell their products. The reason is because copywriters are taught to “build value”, but doing it in this manner destroys your credibility.
I laugh when I see a $47 ebook that the creator claims is a $10,000 value because most of that “valuation” is nothing but pure hooey-gooky hyped up doo-doo. $5,000 for a PLR package (I can get it done for under $1,000 and have EXCLUSIVE rights)? Thousands for a sales letter that was spit out of some sales letter generator? Spare me! I can get a good done for under a thousand. It’s “cotton candy marketing” — all fluff and no substance.
Don’t agree with my opinions? Then change your price to $10,000 and see how many orders come pouring in! It’s hype, it’s an over-inflated value, and if I dare say so myself, it’s poor business (not to mention a bold-face lie). You embarrass yourself in my eyes whenever you do this.
And it’s becoming one of the discriminating factors that will make me leave a sales page faster than you can say, “But Wait — There’s More!”
I, of course, have the platform and the courage to say all this in public; how many other people simply say nothing and move on to sales copy that is credibly written by an honest marketer? Just another reason for a “Contrarian” to love this business. There’s plenty of long-term potential for somebody who treats people the way that they want to be treated — and I’ll go even farther and say that I don’t think a true Freedom Business is possible if you practice Cotton Candy Marketing.
There is at least one person who is honest about their high rates. This person says that they charge $2,000 an hour or $10,000 a day for their consultation fee, but that’s because they dislike spending time away from their family — and at that, they’ll only do this once or twice per year (Click here for details about this person. They also dislikes time vampires and this does tend to keep them away. And to be honest, I’d pay those rates if I had specific questions that I knew they could answer.
So there it is. One person does it to make himself unavailable. I’m available and you can click on that button above to see if it’s the real thing (trust me, it is). So there’s two of us who actually charge $2,000 per hour for our consulting business.
And I’ll be glad to write you a “for hire” ebook for $5,000, too (just use the above button to send me your proposal; if I accept, I’ll invoice you for the remainder; if not, then the $166.67 will keep time-wasters away from me). I’ll even create a salesletter for you: Use the above button to contact me with your proposal (if I accept, I’ll apply the $166.67 to my fee). I’m for real.
What about the others? Did they just pull some arbitrary value out of their hat — or are they for real, too? If so, where is the proof? Did disappear faster than a wad of cotton candy put in a shower?
If there’s no proof, beware when you read sales letters. You need answers, not inflated hype.
Thanks for listening,
Tom
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