I woke up and chose violence today.
Let’s talk about your value, Ben. Your Acquisition Ace course ad finally fell into my Facebook feed.
So I ended up buying it for what I thought would be $27.
That turned into $47 with the ClickFunnels checkout. Total of $74.
BUT WAIT- THERE IS MORE!
Before you even access the course, you have to jump through multiple (including some broken screens) with a $197 upsell to get community access/talk with you, calendar link that is broken .
Then you hop into the course- and it’s the most obvious vibe coded website ever. THEN you can maybe schedule a call with you (I’m honestly debating doing that just to finally call you out to your face).
Thumbing through material, it’s clear AI compiled most of it, and the goal is an upsell for the community and god knows what else (I have had some people tell me they have paid you $15k in total) , just like @HelenGou_ but she LESS apparently at $12k . Atleast
@Codie_Sanchez doesn’t hide it as much as you two. I have found zero evidence Helen has ever bought a business other than starting one that got her on the Forbes 30U30, and same with you other than this course Ben. Atleast with fucking Codie I know she has other businesses, because I had the misfortune of fucking dealing with one of her “portfolio companies”. You, Ben, embellish your JP Morgan past when you were a private banking teller at a fucking branch. Not even back office, as I would have more respect for that.
Here is the conclusion - this is just like a stupid course that floated around the Salesforce community called Talent Stacker. Tl;dr- An individual found a way to charge unsuspecting people $2,500 for a course to get them to pass Salesforce certification exams, in which the material to pass is $0-20 max. The same thing applies here on all fronts- a NPC/Stupid Tax. I’m actually shocked that none of you have gone full tilt into an AI course like they did there , and eventually a consulting course like what is making them $$$ now.
The sick thing is that all three of you live in States where your personal assets are heavily protected when people wake up and want to sue or the Feds come after you. Two of you are in FL, one is in TX.
Now you might be wondering, “Ross, why do you even give a fuck?”
Because the SMB communities here on X, LinkedIn, Instagram/Facebook are full of snakes in the grass like these individuals- taking advantage of those unsuspecting. It’s the biggest reason I’ve cut many of those people out of my life. Some of them hide behind religion or a smile, others are thankfully throwing out red flags and attending events I would never be caught at.
My hope and prayer on this is that many people skip the influencer courses and actually believe it or not consult AI/do their own research before buying a business or starting one. I’m actually more in favor of people being self employed, and starting one before EVEN thinking about buying one. It might be time for us all to file FRC & SBA complaints and bring it up to to the Feds. Who the fuck knows, I doubt it goes any where even though I’m sure it might cut down on SBA default rates.
You never know, some of us with scars, success and stories from entrepreneurship would love to just give you free advice if you ask, including myself. Personally my dream is to likely open a community up in the north woods of MI to incubate some cool fucking startup ideas instead of buying a god damn business that is boring as hell. First I got some other shit to do.
My DMs are always open if people want to chat about entrepreneurship , don’t listen to these numb-nuts with a negative value to society who have zero fucking experience except trying to put a fake neurodivergent mask in front of a camera.
"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
— Warren Buffett