Do you recommend seminars for finding new marketing strategies?
Q: Do you recommend seminars for finding new marketing strategies?
A: Here's what you'll typically find with any sort of marketing seminar that you'll find online: you get what you pay for. Most of the people running the online marketing teleseminars are the Internet marketers themselves. As such, their goal usually isn't to inform you, but rather to sell you something. To that end, they use both free seminars and paid seminars.
The free seminars aren't usually much more than advertisements for something they're selling, be it a paid seminar or a product of theirs. Usually there will be some useful information provided, but for the most part, it will be minimal, with the goal of the seminar being the sale, not education.
There's always some education that rubs off from the free seminars, though, because without it, people would stop coming, so they're not totally useless. In fact, they're something that relative newcomers to Internet marketing can usually pick up a lot of the basics from. Ultimately, they cost you nothing but time and can provide you some new insight, so if you have an abundance of time (or are new to Internet marketing), they're worth looking into, at least a few times.
Most of the actual education you'll get from online seminars comes from the paid seminars. Most Internet marketers that offer paid courses or seminars of any variety go to great lengths to make them useful. They're almost universally quite expensive, and to offer a product at a high price point that offered no value would hurt their brand and dry up their income streams. As such, you can usually expect to get your money's worth.
Now for the caveat emptor moment of our article. This is the Internet, and there's always someone out there looking to cheat you out of your money. As such, do a little research before you buy into a program to make sure the instructor is well-respected.