Dropped $200 on a 'career coaching' webinar that was basically a sales pitch

Last fall I got an email from some career platform about a special webinar for teachers looking to transition into corporate training roles. They promised insider tips on resumes and interview strategies specifically for education folks like me. I paid $200 (which is huge on my salary) thinking I was investing in my future. Turns out the whole thing was just a 45 minute ad for their $3000 coaching program. The free tips they gave were basically stuff I could find on a free blog somewhere. I felt so stupid when they started pushing the upsell at the end. Has anyone else gotten burned by one of these expensive webinars that turned out to be a sales funnel?

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thomas.parker1mo agoTop Commenter

Spent $200 on a webinar and now you're calling it a "burn"? Sounds like a cheap lesson compared to what some folks lose on Amazon drop shipping courses. Did you really think they'd hand you all the secrets for 200 bucks when they could charge 3 grand? The free advice online is usually just as good anyway, you just gotta dig a little.

jordanc3217d ago

I see where you're coming from, but I gotta push back a little. Not every webinar is the same, and some actually have live Q&A and specific systems you can't just google. I've sat through free YouTube videos that turned out to be outdated or just teasers for a $500 course, so sometimes paying $200 saves you hours of hunting through bad info. The real kicker is that cheap lessons still cost you time and money, and not everyone has the patience to dig through dozens of free guides that contradict each other. But I guess it depends on what you're trying to learn and how deep you want to go. Did the webinar at least give you one solid tactic you actually used?

mia7481mo ago

Agree with @thomas.parker, free stuff online is just as good if you know where to look. $200 to find that out is actually cheap.