Is Guru XYZ a Scam?

Is Alex Becker a scam? Is Hayden Bowle a scam?

This is the topic that comes up all the time especially now that I am making my own little quick bait headlines and my thumbnails with fast cars and sexy girls on them but I do have a take on whether XYZ guru is a scam.

So, you need to understand that these experts on Youtube, they often make money from teaching than from running their Shopify stores or whatever business model they’re teaching.

They also show their students success stories or their own success stories but they won’t show their failures obviously.

When you start businesses, you start Shopify stores, or whatever you do, you’re going to have more failures than successes.

However, the failures cost you a little money and these successes make you a lot of money, hopefully.

So these success stories, but they do exist and the question is, how often do they happen and nobody’s gonna tell you that, nobody knows.

First of all, I’d like to say that just because an expert makes more money from teaching than they do from their methods, I don’t think that’s a scam because if you take Alex Becker, for example, he doesn’t do Shopify.

He talks about Shopify because he knows a lot of people are interested. However, he has different businesses but you can’t start a software business just like that.

You can’t start a personal brand out of anything.

You need to start slowly, start with a little hustle that makes you $1000, $2000, $10000 a month.

Dropshipping essentially is a hustle.

It is a little easy way, “easy” to make some money.

It’s not gonna scale to millions and millions and millions of dollars and that is absolutely okay.

A lot of people, perhaps you’re one of them, will be happy to make an extra 2 or 3 grand a month with dropshipping.

If you can do that ‘God bless you’ that’s great!

These experts, they teach people how to make a little extra money per month and I think that’s a good thing. I don’t’ think that’s a scam at all.

They’re not showing their failures.

I think that’s just natural.

You want to show your success stories, you want to highlight them, I hope people are not fabricating success stories, aren’t fabricating testimonials because that would then be unethical and illegal. But I don’t think they are because some percentage of everyone’s audience, everyone’s students are gonna be successful.

That’s just the way it works. It’s a lot large of numbers. Don’t get caught up with students’ success stories.

Then there’s a question; why do courses work for some people but not for others?

So, guru XYZ has loads of success stories.

If you try that course, you go through it and then you don’t make any money.

So, the thing is courses, they teach you tactics, they teach you methods. But unless you have the fundamental sales skills, unless you have the tenacity, unless you’re willing to put in hours and hours of work, and more work, better work than everyone else, you’re unlikely to succeed.

And a course, it won’t force you to put in more hours in your competition.

It won’t force you to be more creative than your competition.

In fact, it may not even tell you that those things are necessary.

Do even get started on sales skills.

I’ve tried to focus on in this course, most of the other courses, they just go over it as if it doesn’t exist.

Sales is the foundation of everything.

People that succeed with dropshipping, people that succeed in most online business models, they are good at sales.

Even they learned it, even they had experience from an offline job or career that they have that teaches them something about sales, or they’re just naturally gifted at sales.

Either way, you need to learn sales if you want to be successful and if you want to be one of these success stories, for guru XYZ or even for me, learn sales then go take my course, then go apply what I teach you about dropshipping. And your chance to success just go through the roof once you understand the basics of sales and persuasion.

That’s why some people succeed and others don’t.

Among other things, of course, you can get past the hard work, they’re trying, they’re failing and then they’re trying again.

That’s all just part of the business and just because the method doesn’t work for you, doesn’t mean that guru XYZ is a scam.

Perhaps it’s product overpriced, again, that doesn’t mean it’s a scam.

I always give the example of Beats headphones.

People say they’re overpriced. Okay, maybe they are. But it’s a brand and people want to pay for it, people do pay for it so it’s not a scam.

It’s just, perhaps in your opinion, overpriced product.

You don’t have to buy it.

Cool.

But that’s about it.

Most gurus, in my experience, are not scams.

It’s hard to run a really full-fledged scam on Youtube with hundreds of thousands of followers because you’ll be found.

People know scams.

People instinctively know when someone is lying to.

And there are also rules and regulations against plated scamming.

So, I would not worry too much about whether person XYZ is a scammer and think more whether this person can help me, whether their course, their info is worth my time and money.

That’s how I would think about them rather than worrying about who is a scammer and who is not.