I wrote an email to Entrepreneur.com
I just wrote an email to the team at Entrepreneur.com after reading an article on their site about a 26 year old entrepreneur who apparently built a 10 Million dollar consulting business inside of 4 years. As a 26 year old entrepreneur myself, I was immediately intrigued by this story and thus began to do some research on how I too could be like him, sitting here myself at a measly 1 Million dollars. Don’t be fooled by people like Sam Ovens. Please. I’ll just paste my email to Entrepreneur.com below so you too can be informed.
Hey entrepreneur.com team! I just stumbled across this article from you all in my Flipboard, https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/281150, and was shocked at what I read. As a 26 year old entrepreneur I suddenly felt very low on the totem pole as I read about someone the same age as me, making $10 million in his consulting business. Obviously I should stop what I’m doing and start doing what he is! Well I did a little digging and was stunned by the first Google autocomplete result when I typed in his name. Scam. Now I run a website dedicated to crowdsourcing scams (Kickscammed.com) which has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Wired Magazine. I know a thing or two about scam artists.
Simply a few Google searches away were multiple review websites stating how Sam Ovens stole their money, refused to refund purchases, sells repackaged and non original content, and overall is a complete con artist. There’s even a Facebook group CALLED Sam Ovens organization is Fraud. Sam’s own product is endorsed by a multi-level marketing (pyramid scheme) guru named Richard Matharoo, who’s own website states his product doesn’t guarantee you any income or success.
Now I myself am a consultant, and we’ve had a pretty good year over here at SoFriendly, up around the $1 million range when you add up everything we’ve done. Now that’s impressive but that’s also revenue not profit. Regardless, even Sam’s own Facebook seems to show where his $10 million figure comes from.
“In the past 12 months I have created 9 Millionaire Consultants with this training.”
Ok so if he made $1 Million, and his customers each made $1 Million, that means he built a $10 Million consulting business? I don’t think that’s how that math works. My last startup went public and is sitting at $19 million right now, does that mean my consulting business is a $20 million business? If so, you should definitely write an article about me!
I only write this email to say, we in the “biz” look up to you all. We read your articles. This makes me not want to any more though. It seems scammy, spammy, improperly researched and overall gives us ACTUAL consultants a bad name. The guy has zero customers with any reputable businesses, the endorsements he DOES have scream of pyramid schemes, just look at these reviews here: https://app.samovens.com/consulting-webinar-acc-universal/
If you look these people up, they all do the EXACT same thing he does! It’s all an endless cycle of online webinar schemes.
Just look here:
I’d urge you to write a follow up article and possibly even remove the original article. We don’t need more people losing their money to people like this. It’s a sleazy, shitty way of doing business and we need actual, passionate, entrepreneurs out there in the world making amazing products; not an endless cycle webinars trying to sell you more shit. Someone once told me what makes us entrepreneurs is that we see the world the way it ought to be, and we make it happen. These people aren’t doing that. They aren’t entrepreneurs. They are selling snake oil. Don’t mix us in with them. It’s insulting to all the blood sweat and tears we as entrepreneurs are putting into our products and our clients day in and day out. Write an article about a REAL entrepreneur.
