Traffic Geyser and Become A Blog Consultant Are Both Good But Not the Same

I received an e-mail today from Lynette Chandler of complaining that the big gurus are launching a program that is *very* similar to the Become A Blog Consultant from Kelly McCausey.  She wasn’t accusing them of plagarism only that the idea the gurus are promoting isn’t exactly new or revolutionary.

Only the “guru program” ( Main street marketing by Traffic Geyser) is many, many more times expensive.   Actually, I would highly recommend either of these programs, but they are completely different. I took Kelly and Lynette’s Blog Evangelist course which morphed into   A Blog Consultant.  I am also a Traffic Geyser certified virtual assistant so I’m familiar with both programs.  Both programs are worth purchasing, the one to choose depends on your pocketbook, but also to a large extent on what you want to do for local clients.

Become A Blog Consultant focuses on creating a business developing blog-based websites for clients.  Over the year-long Blog Evangelist course – Lynette and Kelly cover creating blogs and marketing yourself as a professional website consultant.  I completed the entire course and really mastered the ins and outs of WordPress.  I haven’t  marketed myself locally as a designer, but I am confident that I could if I followed the step by step instructions they offer.  The course is also very inexpensive – just $27 a month.  Even if you aren’t starting a local business, the   is well worth it for the marketing and technical skills you pick up over the course of a year.

Unlike Become a Blog Consultant,  Traffic Geyser Main Street Marketing does not teach you skills, but rather gives you access to a swiss army knife software program that helps build traffic for an existing website by distributing videos, articles, podcasts and blog posts to hundreds of websites and social media platforms.  The software even allows you to develop iphone (and soon, Android apps).  I’ve done some experimenting with the program as part of my Traffic Geyser certification.  The program helps tremendously with google rankings,  I was able to get top 10 rankings for medium popular keywords in just 24 hours.  The software program comes some very tools to link your marketing efforts together as well as cut and paste templates, sample video scripts and dozens of training videos on everything from making movies on the mac to keyword research.  If you have a few thousand dollars to invest – this is truly a cut and paste situation.  Everything is provided.  Everything is also dependent upon remaining a member of Traffic Geyser.  If your business is going well, it won’t be a problem – but it is a risk factor.

On the other hand, Become A Blog Consultant teaches skills that you will have after the program is over.  Yes, you are dependent on WordPress, but WordPress is free.  Become A Blog Consultant is not nearly as cut and paste as Main Street Marketing and would require more work upfront to build your business.

If I had all the time and money in the world, I would buy both programs.  The businesses that need blogs also need SEO and marketing help. If I didn’t want to actually work and had the money to invest, I would purchase Traffic Geyser.hey   Materials are cut and paste and the software really is very good.  They even have a VA service to do all the grunt work for you once you have sold local businesses their packages.

However, if I didn’t have a lot of money and wanted to learn skills and not be dependent upon someone else’s technology I would certainly give Blog Consultant a try.

* Unrelated rant – why aren’t there very many female software system gurus and why do they  charge so much less for the products/technology they develop?