Hot take: I took a $200 'guaranteed leads' course and got zero real clients from it

Either I fell for fancy marketing or the system actually works for some people - but I lost a full weekend and $200 on something that felt like a pyramid scheme. Has anyone else tried one of these 'lead gen' programs and actually gotten a return on it?

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matthewking3d ago

Got scammed by a similar thing a few years back, paid $150 for a "proven lead system" that turned out to be a bunch of copy-paste scripts for cold messaging people on social media. Spent three days sending out hundreds of messages that got zero replies, just felt gross and spammy the whole time. The guy running it kept posting screenshots of his own "results" but all the testimonials had the same stock photos I recognized from other sites. Pretty sure these courses just recycle old tactics that maybe worked five years ago before everyone got sick of them. Learned my lesson the hard way, now I just stick to building relationships slowly instead of paying for shortcuts.

milalewis3d ago

Gotta push back on this one a little... I actually paid $180 for a lead gen course last year and it worked out okay for me. The key is you can't just follow the steps blindly - I took their scripts and rewrote them to sound more like me, targeted a specific niche instead of blasting everyone, and followed up three times instead of just once. Got 4 clients out of it within a month, enough to cover the course cost and then some. Most people who fail at these things skip the actual work part, they buy the course expecting magic and then do the bare minimum. The system works if you treat it like a real business tool instead of a lottery ticket.