Mark Daniels, CEO of iDrive Media Group located in Orlando, Florida is a professional internet hater. He literally gets paid to hate on successful people like Alex Becker, Grant Cardone and Sam Ovens. You might wonder how he gets paid to hate on successful people, and who would pay for that. It’s actually all a part of an elaborate internet scam ran by 1000s of haters just like Daniels.
To first understand how this scam works, you must understand a few, key components to marketing, advertising and the way search engines like Google work.
When it comes to the general public buying “self help” courses one of the first things the public searches for is reviews of the self help provider aka coach. Most people don’t search for “Grant Cardone success stories” when they are looking into buying his courses. Instead they search for negative reviews with terms like “Grant Cardone scam” or something similar.
Internet con men like Mark Daniels understand this basic principle of how the internet marketing world works and they exploit it by writing fake reviews about products and people they have never done business with. When people search for a program and add “scam” to the search terms sites like iDrive Media Orlando come up and say “Alex Becker is a scam” when in fact he’s not and the author of the article has never done any business with Alex, or anyone else on the site.
This is modern day extortion and racketeering. The internet hit man writes a bogus article then gets free traffic and tries to deter that traffic into clients for themselves. The general public falls for it often too. Studies show that most people trust review sites over actual referrals from their friends. Internet hitmen acting like heroes trying to save people get business from their lies.
One of the most famous sites known for this is the Rip Off Report. The Rip Off Report allows anyone to go on the site and leave a negative review without any proof of being a real person or actually doing business with the person they are complaining about. Then, if you want to remove the negative review, you must pay Rip Off Report like $10,000 to remove it. Another massive con job.
Not to mention sites like the Rip Off Report get massive amounts of SEO and free traffic so they make money from displaying ads on their sites and visitors clicking those ads. The more people that have reviews, the more free traffic the site gets, the more ads are clicked on.
We live in a time where negative news and negative information carries more weight than positive input. These modern day extortionists understand this and use this psychological flaw to exploit visitors and trick them out of doing business with someone who might have helped improve their life.
Extortion has been around since agriculture was invented, so it’s nothing new in that regard, only a modern spin from snake oil salesmen relying on negative feedback to fill their pockets.
The best place to get information about a person, product or company is by simply going on your social media sites and asking your connections. Ask if they or anyone they know has used the product with success. You can also join social media groups with similar interests and ask the members. Don’t just fall for the first negative review you see, because chances are it’s fake news.
