Im a fledgling marketer, and I want to post this message to all of you successful women marketers: all things being equal (meaning you know what you are doing and have your systems in place and are making excellent income from them,) I would choose to put my “learning dollars” in your pockets. Not a male bashing—for the sake of bashing all males. It would simply be my way of backing women who deserve their success in return for the work and contibutions they make. (They give a lot of free stuff to help people get started. Just like the guys do.)

Success is always about putting in the efforts and having the dedication.

I’ll bet there are many others like me who want to get into this business; and who feel like I do about this. And for what it’s worth I am very proud of you Lynn, Rosalind, Rhea Perry and others…..very proud. May your successes continue to multiply.

And for the women and men marketers with high morals and values; well I am veyr thankful for you!

Sincerely, Gloria

I also think that a successful online business should be promoted more as a Lifestyle, instead of a “get rich quick” opportunity…

Having all those big name marketers in once place while might be a great networking opp, the venue is pretty trashy in my opinion.

It just glorifies money and the rich, making it seem like that’s the lifestyle we should be after if we’re “online” at all. I wish more marketers would promote “independence” messages more than promote big lavish parties, pictures of fast cars, boats, and big houses. Not everyone who wants to be financially independent wants “things”. I had to opt-out too of a number of lists after getting blasted by this one…

I think the changes were made after many internet marketers complained to the RJ team after the response from their promotions. From what I understand, many of them hadnt seen the sales copy before they sent the link to their list – that there was a temporary pre-launch page up that was then replaced with the offensive sales copy.

I found it funny that the subsequent apology included “BUST and BUTT” in the same sentence – [They bust their
butts and work extremely hard]. Not sure if this was by design or totally by coincidence.

But I’ve said before that I *hope* this info about the charity comes out wrong and that they are legit because I would want at least something good to come from all of this. Sadly, so far, it looks shady. I’m just surprised no one checked this out before defending the event as “FOR CHARITY” (it’s always in big letters with these guys for some reason) before promoting.

Yes, the “charity” thing is dubious at best. There are several marketers (including myself) who have attempted to do research on the “charity”. Almost all web references to that URL point back to poker sites. In fact, we haven’t been able to find one credible source that shows that the “charity” has actually done anything charitable!

So not only did the people who have promoted this “party” (notice the word used is “party”, not conference or seminar) offended women, possibly marketed it to children by accident, hid themselves behind their “help desks” so they can’t be confronted, but they also blindly promoted it as a charity event without even knowing the name, cause of the charity or how much would even be donated!

Weren’t “guru-types” supposed to be SO good at research and due diligence? How many times have we heard THAT one?

Seriously, this is a black eye on the whole industry, and I for one, will not spend a penny with any of them until or unless they stand up and say something for themselves.

It’s really pretty sick if you ask me!

I did get the JV invite from Mike Merz for this ‘event’ and replied to suggest that he should parse his list… parse me right out of it, even.

Like you, Lynn, I see nothing wrong with holding a a charity event at the Playboy Mansion and might have considered promoting the party – or even GOING to it – had it not been for the Jerk’s sales letter that completely negates female participation in any capacity other than that of sex toy.

Here’s just a small sample of the copy…

“You’ll then be given an exclusive guided tour of the grounds by playmates. You’ll gain unrestricted and 100% private access to the gardens, the infamous sex rooms, the zoo – EVERYTHING.

And THEN, the party will begin. Our world famous DJ will start spinning, the free booze will begin flowing, and over 200 babes will be frolicking around, giggling, dancing and catering to your every need.”

I’ve lost a lot of respect for some of the men in this industry and seriously wonder how the wives of those who plan to attend would react if they had actually seen that sales letter.

Lastly, if it is truly a CHARITY event, then why are affiliate commissions being offered?

It’s a flippin’ scam!

Men like to toot their horn, women like to focus on where they’re going. What do you think?

Or, maybe there are more women and I have yet to discover them?

At any rate, we don’t want the web to become the “good ole boys club” like you can run into offline.

At least this internet marketing woman doesn’t want to see that happen.

But it does obviously help events appeal to larger markets.

I just found it interesting that there wasnt mention of a single woman attending this particular event…

Please explain.

It’s obvious they don’t want a woman speaker because it would interfere with their objectifying the Playboy models and treat them like sexual objects.

Thanks!