I signed up for their program. They made a lot of empty promises. Ended up filing fraud charges with my credit card company and sent them all the dialogue. Guess what my CC company sided with me and I got my money back. If visa finds their fraud, then their fraud plain and simple
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I. M.
I regret ever signing up for T&F’s…
I regret ever signing up for T&F’s course.
I was dying, was sold on their marketing for a coach to help me grow my business. I couldn’t work a regular job because I was sick. Over the course of several calls they eventually had me sign a loan for $10k with the promise of 1o1 coach.
Well, I never got that. The person who was supposed to be my coach gave me typo-ridden, nonsensical “advice” and never truly reviewed my company case. When I complained and finally got them to connect me with someone I wanted as a 1o1 coach, they hit us with the news that they were closing. You know what? That coach was gone in a few weeks.
So now my health is better (thank goodness) but I am in debt $10k with barely enough money to pay the monthly payment. They REFUSED to help me lower my monthly payments or provide a refund. I reached out multiple times. It’s a struggle every month to make money for rent, and these damn payments and I never got the value they promised. Absolutely the worst scam. They are evil.
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Tim
Avoid at all costs
I’ve spent a lot of money on personal development around the digital space but I’ve never come across such low, manipulative and straight up pressure sales as these guys.
Dude on the phone (yes dude, it wasn’t exactly professional), calling me a weak man because I won’t spend $12k on a win for a course that teaches you how to oversell your own course to teach other people to do exactly the same thing. Weak … Haha … I think only the weaker one actually agree to buy.
Sorry but abusing customers by name calling is not cool and pressure sales techniques employed by these are the absolute dirtiest tricks in the book.
The course value is very low as most of the content is available on YouTube with some good searching.
Save some money and stress and simply stay away.
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Rafael
I spent $12,000 on their program and it…
I spent $12,000 on their program and it really wasn't worth it. The program has information that can easily be found on YouTube.
Their program is like this:
They teach people how to teach other people how they can make money. And a scam.
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Jill B.
BEWARE
This company definitely feeds on naive people, so Beware. They know how to push the pain points in the sales call, "How can you NOT afford to sign-up?" The next thing I realized was that the $1000 that I thought we were talking turned out to be $10,000 --at 20% interest! Believe me, the program is NOT worth it! They lost their good coaches, and then no one even cared to take an interest. Paying off this debt has been an extremely difficult learning curve--and I'm the wiser for it--but hope to save others the pain.
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Joseph G.
MLM scam
This was an MLM scam. Regulators should be investigating the owner for a few other things beyond Traffic and Funnels only.
Edit: FTC did end up fining these guys and it's obvious they lied the whole time about their revenue. Read the press release. Known fraudsters.
Pushy salespeople, low integrity "coaches," lack of delivery on marketing promise. If you want to coach coaches to coach coaches, definitely do this.
This is for naive uneducated people who truly don’t understand the real world and business better - look into the founder’s background for example.
Extremely disingenuous, fake social media marketing flash, this is NOT how real business works.
Don’t make this huge mistake getting involved in this scam online coaching program. Do NOT fall for their scam setting/sales training either to sell “high ticket.”
Go to a real industry, plenty of tech jobs hire SDR's (setters) for 6 figures, have benefits, are not MLMs, and don't require you to pay to get a job.
Deceptive marketing, possibly illegal, report to FTC if you got scammed. Also their sales guys... I had nasty experiences with..
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Demian Zur S.
Beware
Beware. They charged me at 8am on the last day of a free trial. The next day I submitted two tickets. No notification about it and no answer 12 days later. Tried reaching them via Email, Facebook Messenger. Nothing.
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Paige P.
Traffic and Funnels got me
Traffic and Funnels got me. I got sucked in by a great sales member who definitely utilized the "don't let them off the phone until they close" training.
I am the one that signed up. No one forced me. But looking back, their sales team is slimy. When I told the guy I only had around 2K in savings, no credit cards, and I'd need to talk to my husband before signing a loan, he took me on this big empowerment speech about "It's your business. Not your husband's. Is his name on the LLC? You can talk through it later, this is your decision." Looking back, I am obviously gullible. But this hour-long conversation with sales was the longest, most in-depth conversation I had throughout the whole program-- tells you something for sure.
I am a freelance writer struggling to scale. The sales member promised me that if I stuck to the program, put my all in, that I could have the $10,000 loan paid off in months. He promised so much great material and insight that would be tailored specifically to my freelance writing market. Weekly check-in calls, group coaching, a few one-on-ones. He promised that I would be walked through how to build my business.
I took a GIANT financial hit. $10K is a lot for me and my family, but I fell for it. Lesson learned, I suppose. I now have a huge loan I am struggling to repay.
The Freelance academy was subpar. NOTHING was tailored to copywriters. I requested several times to work with someone or get insight better tailored to writing. Instead, I kept being pushed into the group coachings that seemed to be tailored for coaches. Super cool-- but not my speed and not what I paid 10K for.
I reached out several times for help, was told to redo packets. When I did, I wouldn't receive feedback. I was told to "just keep pushing" and "sometimes you have to struggle to make it." I'll tell you, when I was working 80 hour weeks for $0 payoff, paying this giant loan on top of my other bills, I could no longer "just keep trying" and following their scripts. I had to take time away from the academy to 1. Get a W2 job, and 2. Sell a bunch of my belongings to feed my family.
The coaches kept switching up, the owner of the company left? Or sold? Or something? The whole thing was a hot mess and I feel cheated.
The 4 months is up, I did all the work, the only thing I learned is to hang up on anyone that tries to sell you something without letting you think about it.
Don't take out the loan. Don't sign up for Traffic and Funnels. The training they provide is easily found in books, or your money would be 100% better spent on a one-on-one coach.