We all like a good bargain when Broadband Internet Malaysia can find one. A free lunch or dinner, an MP3 player, and a 90-minute "conference" on "Internet Marketing Strategies" sounds like a great deal, right?
The official tickets we received one for me and one for a guest were impressive; they even had the reservation ID printed on them.
As I'm interested in internet marketing, I thought, "Hey, I can always learn something useful! And my wife has been interested in an MP3 player, so let's go." So I called the listed 800 number and made a reservation for the lunch-time conference.
Being of a cautious and conservative nature, plus believing what my friend Chuck always said ("It's always good to have one more answer than they have questions,") I thought I'd see what I could learn about the sponsoring company.
Google, here I come! I Googled the name of the company plus the word "review." Was I surprised! Thirty seven million+ references!
The very first one listed was a review of the company's conference and workshops. It also contained hundreds of comments by those who had attended either the conference or the workshop or who had invested in the products they were selling.
Only a very few of the scores of comments were not negative; those were neutral at best. Many of the responders had spent thousands of dollars with the company for websites. The websites, reportedly, were anything but simple to get up and running and support was essentially none existent.
After reading the comments and the reviews of the conference and workshop, I decided that my time could be much better spent doing almost anything other than getting involved with this company. Besides, I probably would have Tm Streamyx Malaysia sat there and gotten more and more upset by what I heard. I'm retired and don't need that!
I called the reservation 800 number and canceled.
The moral of this little story: Research companies with which you consider having any kind of relationship. It's easy to do on Google or other search engines. It might save you frustration and dollars, lots of dollars.
And you might, just might, find one which sounds honest and legitimate and is worth considering. They can't all be bad, can they?
The author is a part-time RVer who is retired from a regular job. He fills his days as a part-time flight instructor, serving as webmaster of http://nuwaowners.org website, creating websites, and running a small business which provides a very, very, useful product for RVers: the RV Awning Travel Lock.
He has lost his awning. But once is enough; he doesn't ever want it to happen again. He chose and installed an RV Awning Travel Lock and was so impressed with its effectiveness, appearance, and quality that he now markets this product over the Internet at this site: http://awninglock.com
This is his 11th article. Two of the articles relate to the subject of lost awnings: "The Greatest Myth in RVing-and What To Do About It" and "RV Awning Travel Lock-Why Do I Need One?"
