You have to hand it to marketers. For all I can tell you had some absolute Chads back in the 50s just ‘Mad Man’-ing the profession. They came up with all the best hooks and characters and brain hacks to get people to buy.

Fast forward to today and it just feels like slop.

Anyway, this is all very tangential to the post today. I just laughed as I typed the title and channeled the ‘Save so much money’ marketing pitch I used tongue-in-cheekily. Maybe I have been seeing too many President’s Day sales in my banners and it rubbed off…

But today’s post is going to basically go over all the budgetpoor courses out there. They market hard and have all these souped up reviews that make it sound like there is going to be some secret sauce on the inside. You just need to work your way through the 4 purchase levels on their sales funnel and the next one is the one with the big life-changing secret…trust.

But having had numerous people reach out after dropping $50, $500, and even $5,000 on joining these courses and groups and saying what was offered…it really is all a scam.

Sure, some people need emotional support (or just like it). And paying to have other similar people be in a chat all cheering each other on is worth the money to them (I guess). Just like some people will pay 5-figures a year to have a therapist to listen to them for decades at a time.

That seems like a huge waste of money to me…but also the 1 time I was forced to talk to a therapist in HS (friend and neighbor died tragically and school made all people that they knew hung out with him see one they brought in) I just replied with “I plead the 5th” to every question so I likely am not the target audience for emotional support.

Anyway, if you have ever seen claims that seem too good to be true:

Just know that the service they are selling is just the following few steps….