An Open Letter to my WA "Coach"

Hi David,

Yes, it’s me again.

First, let me congratulate you….your marketing strategy is brilliant. So brilliant, in fact, that it convinced me to join WA under your name rather than the other 40+ review sites I perused. Whew!
You are a master marketer.

You see, when I joined back in January 2012, there was no free 10 day trial period where a curious IM newbie could get a peek into the WA community before plunking down a payment. Since I wasn’t exactly clear on how the whole IM world worked, I was quite precautious and researched WA by reading through pages and pages of helpful reviews. Most were very informative, but yours, David, yours really spoke to me.

Over and over again the one WA “flaw” exposed on all the review sites was this - there was TOO much material provided; a newbie may have difficulty navigating the site. Your offer to provide FREE one-on-one coaching, (“an untouchable resource” as you described it) was the tipping point for me – I’d be a fool to turn down such an offer! (Wow, and do you really charge $500 a month for your coaching prowess? You just have to be good, right?)

Well, based on your auto-responder email that I have received each of the 72 times I have attempted to reach you, you must be extremely busy. It says you get over 20 emails a day and that it can take 24 hours to get back to me. Wow, you must be helping loads of people because it’s been EIGHT months since I’ve joined thru your link and still I haven’t “seen you on the inside”. (Hey, I apologize, my last email was a bit strongly worded, I was impatient to hear from you. )I know you are busy helping others succeed and providing at “no cost whatsoever – to give one-on-one coaching to use the site effectively”. And you must be very busy raking in all those commissions, too. I know, that all takes time from your schedule.

David, you’ll be happy to know, once I joined WA I quickly learned I didn’t need your free expert coaching after all! I found some wonderfully helpful people here and they don’t even seem to care that I signed up for WA under your affiliate link. As a matter of fact, I’d call these people magnanimous; they generously give their time to help me and others here at WA just because they WANT to. I know, you can’t believe it, right? Me too.

I have discovered that along with my WA membership I have inherited hundreds of personal coaches and trainers and a great community to cheer me on, so I just don’t need you.

It’s funny, I don’t see you around the WA community. Where are you, anyway? I sure would love to have a good chat with you someday, and I bet all the others waiting for you to “be a mentor on the inside” would also love to “see you on the inside”

I see that today your review page is still going strong and sits comfortably with first page rankings. Yes, you are a brilliant marketer. Brilliant coach? Well, we’ll see.

Your devoted trainee-in-waiting, Lisa