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How To Be a “Fake” Online Guru

Barry Goss 🐻
3 min readJun 4, 2020

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The dark truth behind making MILLIONS from online courses, mastermind programs and other tiered info-product sales. If you’re into hype, sizzle and/or lack of substance… this is for you (WATCH THE VIDEO).

“There’s a sucker born every minute!”

– Multiple attributions

The euphonious catchphrase fueling the inner-sanctum of the treacherous mind.

We all have heard it. We know its meaning.

And even the learned of us bunch still believe that it must have come from the mouth of a man we have no proof of him uttering the words in the first place.

Still, we hold onto its origin… for dear life, hoping that we never fall prey to its shear, raw truth.

In the mid-19th century, P.T. Barnum may have been the world’s greatest showman, but not even his ego was so twisted as to delude himself; or to try and sell what Brad and I like to call “opportunity vaporware” — experiences, promises and information sizzling on the outside, but so empty and fleeting underneath.

As depicted in 20th Century FOX’s The Greatest Showman (trailer), starring Hugh Jackman, Barnum was a promotional genius and business man; a legit one selling legit experiences to a public hungry for fanciful displays of entertainment.

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Barry Goss 🐻
Barry Goss 🐻

Written by Barry Goss 🐻

aka, The Bear. Here I pass along off-the-cuff thoughts (some by others) about topics that fall under HEALTH, WEALTH, SELF. Message Me: www.barrygoss.com

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