Dave Ramsey - What do you think?
05-26-2020, 08:20 PM
I really liked him when I first started listening to him. I have never had a ton of debt but I had a car payment and house payment at the time. Monica got me listening to him and I have worked from home forever so I always need something to watch or listen to and he's on for 4 hours every afternoon so I would (and still) listen to him a lot.
The more I got into affiliate marketing the more I realized how much of the show is really just a sales pitch and lead generation for his various products. That doesn't bother me because you have to have a way to monetize free content. But then Monica and I went to one of his events and it was actually Chris Hogan (a "Ramsey personality") that was the presenter. Two things about that event turned me off. The first was it was a paid event, you had to pay to be there and it was still a sales pitch of these other products... I already paid you stop selling and give me information that isn't available on the radio every day. The second thing was I didn't believe Chris' stories. The one that sticks out the most was he was talking about a motorcycle he had and I think it was something about him having to get rid of it for this or that reason. The whole time he told the story their was a stock picture of a motorcycle on the screen. Has anyone on the planet that has owned a motorcycle not taken a picture of them either on it or standing next to it? You want me to believe this story with a backdrop of an image you bought on some website for a buck? I felt like not only am I being sold but I'm being lied to.
Come up with a true story that proves whatever point you are making.
That being said I still listen, I just listen in a different way. More for the comedy of peoples shit show situations than for much actual knowledge.
The more I got into affiliate marketing the more I realized how much of the show is really just a sales pitch and lead generation for his various products. That doesn't bother me because you have to have a way to monetize free content. But then Monica and I went to one of his events and it was actually Chris Hogan (a "Ramsey personality") that was the presenter. Two things about that event turned me off. The first was it was a paid event, you had to pay to be there and it was still a sales pitch of these other products... I already paid you stop selling and give me information that isn't available on the radio every day. The second thing was I didn't believe Chris' stories. The one that sticks out the most was he was talking about a motorcycle he had and I think it was something about him having to get rid of it for this or that reason. The whole time he told the story their was a stock picture of a motorcycle on the screen. Has anyone on the planet that has owned a motorcycle not taken a picture of them either on it or standing next to it? You want me to believe this story with a backdrop of an image you bought on some website for a buck? I felt like not only am I being sold but I'm being lied to.
Come up with a true story that proves whatever point you are making.
That being said I still listen, I just listen in a different way. More for the comedy of peoples shit show situations than for much actual knowledge.