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Podcast: The Nope Coach
Episode: Stop buying courses with Deanna Seymour
Description: The Harsh Truth About Online Course Scams Suzanne and Deanna discuss personal experiences expressing frustration with online courses that over-promise and under-deliver. The example is shared of spending a significant amount on a course that claimed to offer personalised advice, only to find it lacking in customisation and applicability to different backgrounds and skill levels. They discuss gross sales tactics used by these courses, such as pre-recorded webinars made to appear live, countdown timers that reset, and misleading success testimonials. They reflect on the realisation of being deceived and the emotional response to being manipulated.<...