Peter P

Andrew William Smith – Training Courses

Andrew William Smith – Facebook Mastery Training Course Although a little informative in some instances, be prepared to receive the following: • Extremely arrogant and self-centered Andrew Smith (bragging how he tells potential clients to “****off”), that he is worth R80 000 per day, and that he doesn’t need other people’s money. He also talks a lot about his expensive watches, cars, etc., and makes no secret of being “flashy”. This was a major turnoff. • The adverti*****t of the course was misleading. We were under the impression that one would be able to do what is advertised in his course leaflet (being able to do online Google and Facebook advertising and promoting your company yourself, by the end of the weekend). This was the reason for us attending the seminar in the first place. • The main purpose of this seminar was the selling and promotion of his own “congruence services”. • Andrew creates the feeling of “non-worthiness” and humiliation of all attending companies, and the idea that all companies’ websites are (in his words) “kak”, and needed urgent attention and upgrading (which, of course, needs to be done by one of his companies). In fact, he quoted our company an insane amount just for updating our existing website. • He also sold “CLUB CEO” courses during the course of the seminar, amounting to R40 000 each, which he insisted had to be paid immediately (which quite a few attendees did). • The attendees who did not buy any of these extra courses just received less attention, if any. I feel that all had to be treated equally, as we all paid to go home enriched after two days, offering up our whole weekend. • He is unapproachable, and reminds all that he is worth R7 500 per hour for his services. He will refer you to his associates that are the “best” in the business, even though they appear to be not much older than 20. • The information that he “created” on a stick on “how to create your own business facebook page” was originally advertised for R12 999. Just before the seminar ended on Sunday, he advertised it as a “special” for R4 999. According to him, it will be very difficult to gather this information in order to set up your own FB page. Mention needs to be made of the fact that his company, FB2Go was hugely promoted in this regard. • As mentioned in my first sentence, the seminar was a little informative, however, I will advise prospective attendees to consider if the seminar is worth your hard-earned money. Andrew also mentioned the fact that, should one not have R2 499 (which, in this instance was a “special”, as the course is usually twice that amount) to spend on a course, your company is in “bigger kak” than you think. I think that is very insensitive and unprofessional, as we as company attended the seminar in order to be taught how to make our business more profitable and successful. I don’t feel as if we came out of the two day course enriched at all or with any more knowledge regarding advertising our business online.