I was a member of SFM for 5 months and I left 3 months ago. I wanted to leave it a while before starting to post my experiences online so that the information I share is level headed and not tainted with the emotion that comes with giving recent reviews.
I write this out of a sense of duty and responsibility to others who genuinely want to change their lives for the better and to save them from potentially getting into huge amounts of debt and being sold pipe dreams.
The truth, from my experience is very simple.
If you are serious about learning internet marketing then DO NOT sign up for SFM (Six Figure Mentors) of their partners DEA (Digital Experts Academy).
The reasons for this are as follows:
They will charge you astronomical amounts to get into their most basic programs.
The training is very lacking, they only teach you how to use paid advertising (not organic) which is pretty much a financial death sentence for beginners to this industry.
Even when you buy into the higher levels which cost up to $40,000! (I personally know many at this level who have been there for years without any sales or success) Plus around $3,000 a year ongoing costs, you still won't really be getting anywhere near the support or training you would receive if you were to invest a fraction of this money say in private coaching or other online platforms such as MLSP or Wealthy Affiliate (neither of which I am affiliated with and both of which charge a FRACTION of SFM/DEA's costs and offer far superior training and support.)
You will only be taught how to market and sell SFM/DEA's products - unless you purchase their platinum level for $25,000 which offers personal brand development. Again you can get this kind of coaching for a tenth of this investment with much better support and results.
If you attempt to share any useful information you gathered outside of SFM/DEA with your fellow members you will be banned from their FB groups and accused of cross recruiting as I was. I also received threats of legal action via FB messenger from one of their support staff members
I began reaching out to SFM/DEA members on FB in their 'Tribe' and I found that around 50% of them had already left and many more were very unhappy with their experience - they did not feel they got value from their investment or achieve what they set out to achieve.
When people get into SFM/DEA they generally want to learn online marketing so they can leave their job and live the 'laptop lifestyle'. SFM's marketing focuses heavily on this front end and really promotes this dream life strongly with their 7 day video series. They essentially play on people's desire for a better life (simple marketing I know) but do not deliver on the real 'meat and potatoes' as it were...
Somewhere along the line the online marketing training gets replaced with a personal development training program and everything becomes all fluffy, the onus gets shifted from them teaching you the actual nuts and bolts of the business, to you having to become 'personally developed' enough to become successful.
After 5 months with them and investing thousands of dollars I made zero sales, but when I looked elsewhere I got 6 sales and earned over a $1k in a few weeks.
The bottom line is that becoming successful in online marketing is extremely difficult and requires a great deal of commitment and desire to succeed. The figures are something like 93% failure (don't quote me). SFM is a reflection of this, as being a closed system (all the money earned within it stays within it) only the top 5% or so actually really make any proper money.
Please think hard before spending anything - there are multiple opportunities out there.
My advice - AVOID any multi level program that has numerous overheads to pay, because you end up paying them. Get yourself a decent online marketing coach, find one simple program that you like, such as Wealthy Affiliate, and STICK WITH IT.
Do not let yourself become a victim of 'shiny object syndrome' - for when you get into this business you become fresh prey for all those other, experienced marketers who only want to get you into their sales funnel/
Learn it all yourself, after all its your business you are building - not somebody else's!
