❀ the cult of: ➥motivational speakers ➥life coaches ➥personal growth gurus ➥new-age charlatans ➥AWESOMENESS FEST

does anyone actually make money from affiliate-SEO-link-baiting whatever stuff? and if so, who do they make the money from? where does this SEO money come from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk4yqqRSBeY

have you ever gone on a date w/ someone who you knew was a terrible match, but they were very pretty to look at?

i just laughed @ her bad joke b/c shes hot :(

in the valley of the mind

ponzi-style affiliate link selling and weirdo SEO shit underneath a veneer of "awesomeness"

No yeah I spotted that with all those fake wordpress blogs someone posted and the guy with his business "expanding and contratcing" and etc - its just weird cybergrifting innit. It is fascinating that there is so much of this - surely the centre cannot hold?

i think the elitism and appeals to elitism are my favorite part tbh

The money comes in from the linkbait sites hosting AdWords ads or Amazon affiliate links or some other such crap that pays per click. The scammer gets juice through SEO on a bunch of interconnected spam sites and tries to get up in the rankings for some profitable google search or other, their sites get clicked on in Google searches, people come to the site, inevitably click an ad, and the scammer makes a nickel.

The WP Mage fellow up at the top is the most obvious example of the SEO shit itt.

my uncle has been CFO for half a dozen diff startups and either his last or most current one is an SEO firm.

i wonder if i should ask him about these ppl... only thing is i have no clue where to start :\

i think the elitism and appeals to elitism are my favorite part tbh

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:49 PM (20 seconds ago)

v otm

I once thought for a second that I wanted to get a executive coach. That was a weird second.

Ariel is an Energy Healer and Sexual Empowerment Coach working with women, men & couples since 2005. Here she describes her experiences as a guest at the Mindvalley Team Retreat in Langkawi in 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTpE23btwY

(99 views)

kept on noticing how much the cute girl in the above vid was talking about working with "leaders" or "really smart people" over and over (and obv how awesomeness fest is invite only)--like i gather this is designed to *look* like it appeals to management types who are really striving (tho probably actually takes advantage of ppl who are a lot more desperate). like if ron donald worked for an internet marketing company.

does anyone actually make money from affiliate-SEO-link-baiting whatever stuff? and if so, who do they make the money from? where does this SEO money come from?

― Mordy, Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:44 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what silby said, and what i think is the most fascinating is the guy selling a $1500 package to create websites that i think just sell that same package and give you an affiliate cut

http://www.infiniteessence.com/page/page/7051653.htm

http://i.imgur.com/wT37L.png

so these guys are basically just suckling at the teat of amazon + google?

Born in the American mecca for health, Boulder, Colorado, Ariel began her path of holistic healing and conscious exploration.

oh boulder, colorado must be blushing right now

that, plus suckers get affiliate cash from selling these guys' stuff

has anyone explained yet how all this stuff relates to BH Ideas?

yeah on further investigation, WP Mage is not selling you a way to build up an SEO linkbait network, he's selling you a way to become an affiliate marketer for WP Mage. Which is slightly different! More pyramid schemey.

kept on noticing how much the cute girl in the above vid was talking about working with "leaders" or "really smart people" over and over (and obv how awesomeness fest is invite only)--like i gather this is designed to *look* like it appeals to management types who are really striving (tho probably actually takes advantage of ppl who are a lot more desperate). like if ron donald worked for an internet marketing company.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:53 PM (1 minute ago)

otm, its almost like Awesomeness Fest is more of an advertisement for Mindvalley instead of a legit annual conference

yeah on further investigation, WP Mage is not selling you a way to build up an SEO linkbait network, he's selling you a way to become an affiliate marketer for WP Mage. Which is slightly different! More pyramid schemey.

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:58 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's what it looks like to me... right?

has anyone explained yet how all this stuff relates to BH Ideas?

― Mordy, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:57 PM (54 seconds ago)

i think BH Ideas/megacycles are artfully clowning the way a lot of this plays out on social networking sites and how depressing it gets the more it trickles down.

unless i misunderstood your question?

yeah confirm s1ocki xp

no, for sure that was my question. but all the people he's interacting with who are also looking to connect -- are they these people? more desperate versions of these people? like, there's a hierarchy, right? with the attractive looking people at the well-designed website mindvalley on top and BH connects kinda working around the dregs at the bottom?

is mindvalley really a front for a bond villain who surrounds himself w/ beautiful women à la on her majesty's secret service?

no, for sure that was my question. but all the people he's interacting with who are also looking to connect -- are they these people? more desperate versions of these people? like, there's a hierarchy, right? with the attractive looking people at the well-designed website mindvalley on top and BH connects kinda working around the dregs at the bottom?

― Mordy, Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, if i had to guess, i would say whoever is behind Bill is fascinated with the way that that ideal elitism has trickled down to the lost souls trying their best to just figure out facebook let alone how SEO marketing or Personal Growth products work

and then obviously the whole "there for the whole world to see" part

http://i.imgur.com/TcAnD.png

oh no!!!

http://www.beingawesomeisawesomefest.com/

Being in the Being Awesome is Awesome fest is Awesome!

A GATHERING OF 100+ PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF-DECLARED AS AWESOME.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

saw a really amazing doco on tv a couple of years ago called 'beyond our ken', about an aussie self-help org called kenja. they looked pretty innocuous on the surface - their technique was basically just one-on-one meditation - but it slowly unwrapped the seedier stuff like unstable people getting kicked from the group disappearing, and the leader getting charged with sexual assault against female group members (including teen girls). it peaks with him snapping out of charming leader type into volcanic rage at the filmmaker for ten minutes - it's incredible to watch. the guy shot himself ten days before the doco's premiere at the melb film festival. maybe more actual cult material than the rest of this thread but def worth seeing.

Nudism and orgone energy have sure come a long way since the 1920s!

kept on noticing how much the cute girl in the above vid was talking about working with "leaders" or "really smart people" over and over (and obv how awesomeness fest is invite only)--like i gather this is designed to *look* like it appeals to management types who are really striving (tho probably actually takes advantage of ppl who are a lot more desperate). like if ron donald worked for an internet marketing company.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:53 PM (1 minute ago)

otm, its almost like Awesomeness Fest is more of an advertisement for Mindvalley instead of a legit annual conference

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:58 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get the feeling that these people really believe theyre associating w/the best minds of their generation, in general they seem to believe everything, deep self delusion as con idk

yeah that's otm

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

but i dunno much about cults i guess

there's probably a double consciousness at work

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

i was just sating this to deej. imo everyone learns from everyone else how to behave... i seriously think there might not be anyone meeting behind closed doors going "ok here's how you screw people"

yeah that's otm

really wonder who isn't "in on it" tho. it all seems like they've culted each other out somehow. the whole vibe/ideology of it is so seamless, like i find it hard to believe that even the ringleader awesome guy is like "heh these suckers, ok bring on the chicks"

but i dunno much about cults i guess

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:14 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think it's gotta be 100% self-deluding if this is your full-time job

this is pretty off topic, but Ariel White is in a few of these ppl's youtubes:

http://www.tantratheater.tv/index.html

o_O

grady for design alone you really should have put some kind of warning on that link

lol

okay that is literally the most disgusting thing i have ever seen on the internet.

and i've seen tubgirl

This evening I had the bittersweet honor of giving a Eulogy. My dear friends Kim Heil and Chris Rubino died in a car accident on their way home from a Cuddle Party TM lead by Valerie in Joshua Tree on Feb. 16th 2009.

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i feel like the human mind is complex and can sustain two seemingly contradictory beliefs at once, or perhaps in alternation, while repressing the cognitive dissonance. so maybe some of these folks _both_ understand they are ripping people off _and_ believe they are helping people.

i think they just think they've found an awesome way to make money and feel great and avoid asking hard questions