Carlos and Lupe Garcia – Two new rising stars on the Internet marketing scene…?

In case you haven’t heard about them so far, here are the direct links to their videos:

http://traffictacticsrevealed001.com/pl_ar1/
http://traffictacticsrevealed001.com/pl_ar2/
http://traffictacticsrevealed001.com/pl_ar3/
http://traffictacticsrevealed001.com/pl_ar4/
http://traffictacticsrevealed001.com/pl_ar5/

I guess, like many Internet marketers you’ve been intrigued by their videos which were spread through many high profile Internet marketers. You were not the only one who was interested in discovering what this “next big thing” was which they were trying to push with their tactics. I was really looking forward to seeing what this was all about.

After all, in their videos they were showing how their websites received millions of hits and they were telling that they were making 5 million dollars per MONTH… And all this without the search engines or huge mailing lists.

But it seems that there also is a different reality behind it. I mean, who in their right mind would be showing these tactics to the world if they were making them $5,000,000 per MONTH in exchange for what would seem “pocket change” for them? No one – exactly! So why are they doing it and what were they trying to push with their videos…?

Well, the main reason why they have been selling their strategies seems to be because they are not working anymore. Just like I said in my review for Project Black Mask, these guys (and gals) are only selling that kind of techniques if they notice they are becoming ineffective. Or what other reasons could they have when they are showing their traffic stats from 2004/2005? Why aren’t they giving current stats? Internet marketing is so fast lived, new techniques can become ineffective in as little as 6 months.

Ineffectiveness of the techniques was the case with Portal Sites (at least for the average user, maybe not for “hard core black hatters”) and it also seems to be the case with the traffic tactics Carlos and Lupe are putting up for sale. And of course, I knew it wouldn’t be cheap. But what I saw yesterday when I followed the link in their email really made my jaw drop:

You’ll have to pay a $2500 deposit upfront to register your seat for their next coaching program and the rest is collected via the phone once everything has been confirmed. And now hold your seat: It’s $25,000.00 all in all!

This is the exact wording:

“To reserve your seat you only need to put a deposit of $2,500 right now, and we’ll be collecting the remainder of the payment over the phone after you complete this sign up form.”

Another gem from their signup page:

“If you think about it $25,000.00 divided over a one year period is only $67.00 a day!”

– Oh, why didn’t you tell me this before? Just $67 a day… now that’s what I call affordable – lol …..

But it seemed to working… The traffic workshop/coaching program has officially sold out!

Even if it were still a very effective method (and it isn’t because their current Alexa rank is 2,759,627 and everything higher than 500,000 is not getting a lot of traffic) – it simply wouldn’t be affordable to the average Internet marketer and only the ones who are already making good money would be able to afford it.

And on top of that…

… Remember what kind of deals they were talking about in their videos? Something like a $163,000 deal with Advertising.com and $300,000 deal with Yahoo.com which according to them was done on credit. You need to have a very appealing and good selling product in order to make money from deals like that. Most people don’t even get that kind of credit and if they do get it, they must be very careful. If you’re not making enough sales because of a bad conversion rate, you might be paying off debt for the rest of your life!!

The reason why they were doing so well was because their advertising was hyped up. The products they were selling (e.g. cable descramblers and diet patches) did not live up to their promises and according to Eric Holmlund’s blog, they might even face some law suits. According to Eric, the FTC ordered them to shut down their diet patches business (Eric says it’s not yet confirmed, though).

Most likely than not, they are pushing their coaching program to replace the income they lost and maybe even to cover their lawyer’s fees…!

What do you think about this? Please leave your comments…