Beware of Marketing Wannabes
Beware of marketing wannabes who in 2025 are known as YouTube Bros.
These are self-proclaimed marketing experts who shout and sell their world renowned Internet, SEO, AI and marketing skills to anyone who falls for the clickbait and watches their videos.
There’s usually a lot of red and fluorescent green headlines, arrows, question marks and exclamation points.
Volume and intense warnings and even viral videos showing the experts at play after having sold so much to so many.
Pyramid schemes, fakes and phonies entered the website and marketing arena and have filled clients with distrust and marketing burnout.
The faux marketers promise instant conveyance of computer skills, marketing knowledge, amazing but true secrets to DIY SEO, website traffic and guaranteed money.
Talk to Clients to Weed Out Fake Marketers
Talk directly to a fake marketers clients listed in the tell-all testimonials. Call clients and find out the revenue or at least whether the sales increased from the “marketing expert’s” work.
Pre-packaged, priced right, with FREE training and even networking events to help people started quickly. Apparently, you too can make millions on the Internet for as little as $50.
Who knew?
Start by watching a video. Watch a few tacky homemade videos, go to classes taught by untrained, self-proclaimed Internet and online experts. Learn about blogs, how to engage people through newsletters, form e-mails and useless links and long, boring copy.
Then start a personal website. Pay up to $5,000 to build it. There’s magical traffic-building included so the site incubates and then launches causing an explosion of your name and brand on the webisphere. No skills or talent needed.
(Kidding!)
Next, and here’s the key: get people to sign up for this miracle and training under you. Have websites built in your group and snare more people to do what you did and become successful online.
But Wait, There’s More
Next, you and your firm are invited to take advantage of a free team training session. You will learn the basics of SEO and how to code!
You will learn everything you need to know and there’s a Marketing Master on-site to tackle all questions with slick and easy answers.
Then, at the end, when you’re worn down by confusing terms and learn that it’s actually tricky and grueling to code and post on websites, you give in and pay the Marketing Guy. You lock into an expensive year-long contract where they do all the work.
You sit back and watch the new clients roll in.
Nothing worth having comes easily. If someone found you and sold to you online, via email, or, even in-person, vet the marketing firm.
Legitimate advertisers and marketing agencies have nothing to do with freebies, or, teaching non-tech folks “how to code.”
Be Wary of Freebies
Marketing Bros have tried to impart knowledge with free consultations. They offer to give you freebies, they’ll run software on your website, check security, offer you FREE key words to get placement on the first page of a Google search.
They yell through e-mails and voicemails that video will instantly drive traffic to websites.
Apparently, while actually working in advertising, events and PR, we’ve missed out on what’s happening in the real world of marketing.
Everyday, regular folks have become overnight Internet sensations filled with knowledge and skills not available to actual advertising and marketing experts.
Dang, all that actual experience we have at The Marketing Square, learned for nothing. Decades wasted? No.
Don’t Trust Easy, Cheap, or, Free
…there are FREE and EASY programs to optimize website search engines.
…there are networks of digital Internet empires we should be linking to.
…at DISCOUNT prices.
…that Fake Marketers magically optimize any and all websites and for only $50 to $500 a month.
…forget about work: these marketing gurus have Internet marketing secrets that they have been keeping from the general public for years. Until now.
Vet Your Marketing Firm
Keep the $500 and vet your marketing firm.
Yes, those flashy infomercials shouting the joys and ease of SEO and website posts with AI sound good, don’t they?
The Internet is new to many, but not to The Marketing Square.
We continue to honestly explain to clients how to build traffic truthfully. You may not like it, but you have to earn it.
It’s done through programming, coding and content and it’s worth every penny.
