Comments on: Run, Charlotte, Run!!

By: Your LinkedIn Discussions are Disappearing Down the Drain — Hidden Business Treasures

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:15:22 +0000

[...] We bumped into Charlotte’s Stallings again this week out on the speaking trail. We hadn’t seen her for some months and it has been almost 11 months now since we wrote about her in Run, Charlotte, Run!! [...]

By: Take a Flying Leap! :

Take a Flying Leap! : — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:30:15 +0000

[...] thread, but people emailed me directly, while others called to warn me. Two great folks, Michael Benidt and Sheryl Kay chimed in and wrote about all of this on their own [...]

By: Michael Benidt

Michael Benidt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:45:13 +0000

Thanks Jim,

It’s amazing how many people we’ve run into who’ve been ripped off by either ISN, or Brenda and her mimic of a company. How do they keep in business?

I’m convinced that access to information like LinkedIn and other social networking sites allows will finally do them in.

By: Jim Mathis

Jim Mathis — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:15:07 +0000

Brenda Keefer used ot work with ISN. She lefet shortly after I got my money back from them (thank you American Express) and ISN sent out a tattle on her leaving. Now she is in business for herself and up to the old tricks. A speaker friend sent me a message on Linked In from her: “Looking for a speaker on economy for event in the fleet trucking industry” on Speaker Site group.
Beware, this is the same thing under a spinoff and different name

By: Michael Benidt

Michael Benidt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:03:39 +0000

Thanks Megan – and omigosh, Margie,

You wouldn’t believe the number of people we’ve run into in workshops, consulting or this blog who’ve either already been ripped off by these yokels, or who just missed being ripped by them.

The sad thing is that they’re now adding social media to their mix of seedy selling tactics, trying to friend me on Facebook and link to me on LinkedIn. Don’t they ever search their own company name on the Internet?!!

Glad we could halt that check, Margie.

By: Margie Seyfer

Margie Seyfer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:48:11 +0000

I was just approached by ISN and before I sent them the membership fee of $525 I decided to investigate them. This led me to your page. Thanks so much!

Margie Seyfer

By: Anti-Social Networking Disorder — Hidden Business Treasures

Anti-Social Networking Disorder — Hidden Business Treasures — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:05:29 +0000

[...] LinkedIn’s “Discussions” accompany each LinkedIn “Group.” They are the equivalent of the general “Answers” section in LinkedIn, but you must be a member of that group to participate in those discussions. (We wrote more about the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of group “exclusivity” in “Run, Charlotte, Run.”) [...]

By: Megan Walker

Megan Walker — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:24:18 +0000

Just started following you on twitter at the recommendation of @DarlaDixon. Glad I did if these are the sort of articles I can expect! Great info!

Thanks
Megan

By: Michael Benidt

Michael Benidt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:22:03 +0000

Oops, Sorry John,

That lost uncle just might not be part of your real lineage.

For an entertaining journey through the scammiest of the scams on the Net – go to Quatloos.com (http://www.quatloos.com/) – as they say, they are “A public educational website covering a wide variety of financial scams & frauds
including wacky “prime bank” frauds, exotic foreign currency scams, offshore investment frauds, tax scams, “Pure Trust” structures and more…”

Next time, OK, John.

By: Jon Schallert

Jon Schallert — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:05:16 +0000

Michael:

Damn! Good snooping, Sherlock! I wish I had gotten advice from you before I just sent $40,000 to my lost uncle who has been trapped in Liberia. He needed the money to get back to Colorado. Oh, well, I’m sure it’s legit, and he promises to give me $80,000 when he gets here.