{"id":118,"date":"2006-10-06T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T03:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/118\/is-one-internet-marketing-guru-better-than-another\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T07:03:47","slug":"is-one-internet-marketing-guru-better-than-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/is-one-internet-marketing-guru-better-than-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Is one Internet Marketing guru ‘better’ than another?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt very disturbed after I read an email from Edmund Ng, Chief Executive of Infinique Technologies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Who’s Edmund? He’s a Singapore-based Internet business owner.<\/p>\n

Last week he sent out an email entitled: “Forget about those ‘So Called Guru Seminars’ that costs thousands that don’t teach you much.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

He had some pretty negative things to say about a recent concluded seminar and claims he doesn’t want to refer to the Internet guru by name.<\/p>\n

My best guess is that guru is Derek Gehl, head honcho of the Internet Marketing Center.
\n\"Andrew<\/p>\n

[Left: Andrew Wee, Derek Gehl, head honcho, Internet Marketing Center]
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In the email, Edmund asks a seminar participant:<\/p>\n

For 2,388 what did you learn from the 2.5 days? <\/em>[quoted directly from the email]<\/p>\n

To which the unnamed event attendee answered:
\n there were just case studies after case studies…that took up 40% of the time…Oh…the guru’s then started selling their stuffs. $3,888 for their softwares and $12,000 for their PERSONAL COACHING<\/em>‘<\/p>\n

Edmund goes on to proudly proclaim: “Gosh…I hope not many of my subsribers<\/em> attended that hyped up seminar. There are better things out there.” [spelling has been left intact…]<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but the Internet Marketing world is pretty small.<\/p>\n

If you start slagging one of the big guns, whether it’s Derek or somebody else, pretty soon everyone’s going to know about it, especially if you sent it to your entire list. (email takes about 2 seconds to forward onwards to others!)<\/p>\n

I’m not sure about the wisdom of picking a fight with someone 1,000 bigger than yourself.<\/p>\n

Are you going to come out on top?<\/p>\n

To be diplomatic, it’s not going to be a pretty sight.<\/p>\n

Aside from creating personal animosity<\/strong>, let’s look at this from a business point of view.<\/p>\n

You create illwill with that Internet Marketing guru and their inner circle. Some may not realize that Derek and the IMC work closely with:<\/p>\n