Kind of Scammy But Good People
Let me start off with I think Jess and Ross and my coach Meleah are all really great people and I absolutely respect them. But its been a year since I left Smart Coach and now that I've been in other mentorships, I see A LOT of issues with this program and think I wasted a lot of time and money here. The modules are great and they did a great job of explaining how to literally start your business (how to open LLC, what bank to use, etc.) This was very useful to me at the time. However a lot of info was very generalized. They don't even teach TOF, MOF, or BOF with content.. they teach you to "mirror" other high performing content rather than teaching you how to create good content yourself. The same goes for Ads. They didn't actually have any strategy here other than copying other high performing ads. They literally couldn't tell me anything whenever I asked the data behind what makes a high performing ad (my new mentorship explains this WAY better and I can tell they actually track their data). They also told me I was ready for the higher level version of their program like 3 months after I started my business and then they couldn't actually help me scale at all and I ran out of money and had to leave the program. My coach was a dating coach and I am a fitness coach. Again I think she's an awesome person but now in retrospect, I got a lot of really bad advice that I believe set me back (like telling me to charge $5k and then when I asked Ross for advice he was like why are you charging $5k!? you should be charging 3k- so my direct coach didn't even know my market). I am now currently in another mentorship and the level that this mentorship is at made me realize Smart Coach was kind of scammy. They post so much about "building a business should be easy" and I really think they undersell how difficult building a business actually is. It feels like they sell a dream. And it wasn't until I understood the REALITY of what it takes for me to turn my business around. Also they have some stats posted that when you go and do the math on them, their average client makes way less than $10k/month. Like I said, I think they are good people and have good intentions and I do like them a lot as people. And it's great if you need to know the step by step of getting started. But honestly I feel pretty burned by this experience now seeing what other mentorships look like. *** in response to your reply: You do realize that $15k over 3 months is only $5k per month right? Yall advised me to do uplevel from that revenue which uplevel was $2k or $2.5k a month when only making $5k + was advised to spend another $1k on ads per month. I was NOT able to leave my in person job bc of this not sure why are you claiming that in your response. Not to mention most of my income was from moving my clients I already had into my program so your method did not help me. And I did follow EXACTLY What you recommended. I was so excited about it I seriously spent 8+ hours a day AFTER working my training job I already had watching and rewatching your modules, attending calls, and trying to put your method in place. Teaching “mirroring” without teaching clients about how to create content on their own that works just tells me yall either don’t know how to create content that works or you just gatekeep that. After experiencing numerous other mentors, and trust me there are MANY people inside of these mentorship’s that all were burned by their experience with yall and they all agree, yall don’t teach anything that helps coaches learn how to do things themselves. It’s literally just “mirror what someone who is already successful does for content then send a ton of cold outreach”. Yall are literally the only program still advising cold DMs which every other coaching program out there says that’s the WORST thing you can do.