These one and three star reviews in here absolutely ridiculous! Tell me you don't know anything about business without telling me that you don't know anything about business.
I have pages of Maria's courses and will be attending her in-person event October 2026. Maria is very clear about who she markets to and how she makes her money. She is transparent and honest and anyone here trying to discredit her are simply showing their true colors, not hers. Don't believe me? Just go and watch her videos or her Instagram.
I'm a seven figure business owner and still find benefit in Maria's courses, although she is honest that she markets her courses to new people in business who are hoping to make only $1,000 a month. Even still, I get value from the courses that her and Rose do together.
If your purchasing her programs, they are basic, but again she's transparent about this and lets everybody know that she gives you the least amount of information to get you to where you want to go. Her business philosophy is Bare Bones, and some might not be okay with that, so you might not want to buy her courses. Although if you don't, you're missing out because as I said even as a seven figure business owner, I get lots of value out of her courses.
A shame on the others in here trying to discredit Maria for their own downfalls. Maybe do better and stop blaming it on other people. One guy actually blatantly says that he wants her $6,500 coaching program, doesn't have the money for it, ask her for a discount, she said no and so he left her a nasty review. What a POS!
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Matthew K.
I Was Duped. Avoid Her Like The Plague.
Maria is not qualified to teach marketing and sales, and is quite irresponsible for the way she sells and markets her courses. I've bought lots of her courses as she seemed like an honest person who just wants to support her kid after a messy divorce, but god was I wrong.
This is an action I've decided to take after the icy cold response I got after explaining my life situation, and why I could use her help getting into her inner circle. It's now apparent that all the free e-books, $27 courses, and improvised one-shot youtube videos were all to get you to that point of being willing to spend $6500. It was never to give you actual insight into selling digital products and making a living from it.
So ignore the amount of money she makes. Jordan Belfort made lots of money too. Ignore the amounts of money she spends to market to you. Most people like her go in the red all the time and will spend 1000s to get a single customer into their ecosystem. That's not a system anyone can suddenly implement into their business.
I've been in marketing for over 15 years and it's horrifying how much she leaves out. Marketing requires instincts and insights you can't gain over a course or two. You can only decide what's not working or working, what makes a good landing page, or how to get people to open your emails etc etc by actually doing it. There's no secret to this stuff. You can learn more by just clicking on ads and studying their pages and materials.
I wish people like this would find a healthier to heal from their trauma than by pimping their kid and tax returns to make it seem like shes just like you.
Maria will not and cannot teach you how to apply any of her materials to your business, which to me should be the whole point of wanting to teach others. In fact she is utterly unapproachable and her staff is barely competent to respond to well thought out emails asking for help beyond "follow the rule of 5 ones," as if it were written on one of Noah's tablets.
The ONLY people who succeed with her stuff are those who already have an audience or who have deep pockets. I've seen this plenty of times now. Just build your audience, and learn how to create engaging content by immersing yourself in great content.
She apparently has never run any sort of business besides one selling make-money-niche products. A lot of it is so basic that I was baffled by the lack of notes I had after consuming her 1k a day program, or her "copywriting" course.
I was duped. I'm paying for it still. Don't give her your money. Look at her profiles to see how she operates her instagram and youtube, and just go make some ads by yourself on facebook and google. You'll learn more that way than with their "help."
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Jaime C.
I am a former marketing professional…
I am a former marketing professional with 15 years experience working with Fortune 500 clients and I now own a small stationery business. I’ve been following Maria Wendt for a while and have purchased a few of her courses. Here’s my honest take:
- I like that she is to the point and produces short videos and doesn’t spend her time on all the stuff that doesn’t matter (like hiring video crews and fancy editing) just to get my attention.
- I have learned a lot of valuable info from her courses. I am not someone who needs a basic marketing 101. I have a degree in that. But I need practical strategies for building funnels, writing persuasive copy, getting people to engage with content, running ad funnels and she has been excellent at teaching that. Every time I try something she suggests, it works. Like selling via instagram stories. Her exact tactic works super well.
- her stuff is cheap for a reason but I would rather pay $300 to learn the thing I need to learn and get out rather than spend $2,000 to learn the same info but with fancier video and PDFs workbooks.
- anyone criticizing her 24 for $24 deal is being overly critical. You only paid $24. If you learn one thing, you’ve made your ROI. It is a bundle of previously recorded webinars that she did 5-10 years ago on Facebook. But it’s a great introduction to the kind of concepts and tactics she teaches.
- yes, she does affiliate marketing like everyone else on the internet. She’s been clear though that she doesn’t make the bulk of her money there. And I find her to be way more authentic about it than people like Jenna Kutcher or Amy Porterfield who have turned it into more of a machine.
- honestly, I think if you’re comparing her to someone like Amy Porterfield, you’re going to find huge differences. Amy is very buttoned up and very thorough in her courses. Some people like that. I find Amy’s stuff to be pretty expensive because there’s a lot of beginner step by step content that I don’t really need. I didn’t end up purchasing her signature course because it seemed so overwhelming with the amount of steps that I thought it was going to take too long to get through the content and actually implement all of it. She’s also a fan of working extremely hard (harder than necessary) because she thinks you have to do that in order to accomplish anything. Surprise, she doesn’t have kids and takes home millions of dollars and has a giant team.
- Maria’s approach is usually way more simple to execute. She has a kid, she likes to cut corners and save time where she can without sacrificing value, I respect that way more than someone who has an entire team and giant budget to produce videos then mostly just promotes her friends stuff as an affiliate.
- Maria does mess up sometimes in ways that I think she should be more careful about. For example, she will send out emails with subject lines like “fraud alert” which is illegal. She should know that by now. So I can see how that rubs people the wrong way.
- Maria’s teaching style is way more similar to Alex Hormozi or Etsy / Creative business coaches I follow. So if you like their style of videos, you will probably like hers.
- yes. She does teach mindset and manifestation stuff. I don’t really get into all that but her advice even there is generally practical. And as much as I hate to admit it, you actually do need some mindset work occasionally to keep going as an entrepreneur. If you are depressed and want to give up all the time, you’re not going to succeed so resetting your attitude is actually important sometimes.
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Ali Irfan G.
Don't listen the haters
Don't listen the haters! I actually made my first sales with her technique that she shares for FREE. I bought her course for €24 and ended up making my first low ticket for €47.
When someone arises he/she will have haters and lovers that's the game. If everyone likes you, then you have an problem. Haters arise the moment you arise ;)
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Spicy
Queen of Upsells
Be a pretty woman and give some information cheaply for 24 dollars, but have entire site packed wiht nothing but upsells and affiliate offers. That's what she does ot make money. That's it. The idea of the x,xxx course is wild to me. Quite the (totally legal) hustle.
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Jennifer C.
I absolutely adore Maria Wendt
I absolutely adore Maria Wendt. I think I own all of her courses and I’m also in her inner circle and private coaching group all of her content is loaded with value and step-by-step instructions that if you follow, you will be a successful.
She’s the reason in 2025 that I was able to finally finish my first digital product and get it out.
She’s also extremely transparent and shows how much money she makes plus where it comes from and how much she pays out for taxes, her staff and business expenses, etc.
I also went to her live event last October in Huntington Beach, California and her mother, who is a stellar event planner, actually put on the event and I have never been wined and dined like that for a $297 ticket price!!!
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Shari R.
Not worth the time or even the discounted products.
All of her content when purchasing the low ticket items are to sell you her 6000 US dollar program. I just purchased the 24 courses that actually don't tell you anything but think positive and post daily...no shit. In one episode she tells you what books you should read. You can get that advice for free through many different millionaire Instagram's. Spending hours listening to someone talk about, nothing and each video ending with joining my personal coaching...everyone of them. So each of the 24 courses that she sells is a sales pitch to her 6000 dollar course.
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Graham K.
Cautious A Waste Of Money !
After purchasing her $27 course she keeps mentioning step 28 & 30 and there are only 6 steps. She keeps mentioning she will add link in description , obviously she is adding You Tube Videos from her Channel.
Her course is not anything I didn’t already know. The information she shares is all on You Tube.
Good Marketing on her part , but a total waste of time and money.