Death of the Jaguar Marketing System
April 23, 2009 by Len Estrada
Filed under Life
In 2006 I joined the company Mentors on a Mission and became a reseller of their product, “The Jaguar Marketing System.” I joined as a Platinum System member, which is the most profitable and most expensive, it went for $3995.00.
The Jaguar Marketing System came with two training courses, “Make Money, Not Excuses,” and “The Journey Continues.” There was supposed to be a real estate training course, but I never saw it. The system also included live training from some fairly experienced Internet marketers, salespeople, and an assortment of specially skilled people.
We also had a website on which we could promote 4 other business opportunities, services, or products. The idea was to use the training we received from Jaguar Marketing, couple that with the Veretekk System to drive “Massive” traffic to our Jaguar Marketing website so that people would dive for their wallets and throw money at us.
There were many members who were making a killing with this product, we’re talking 10’s of thousands per month. The problem was getting these top earners to give precise instruction and training on how to duplicate their success. I got the feeling that they just didn’t want to create an army of competition.
On December 31, 2008 Al turnquist sent out an email to all Jaguar members. Here’s a slice of that email:
Effective immediately I am suspending sales of the Jaguar Marketing System. I have wrestled with this decision but it had to be made. We will continue hosting the Jaguar websites until December 2009 but we will remove the compensation plan movie.
You will have full access to your Jag back office and the training materials until December 2009.
In that same email, Mr. Turnquist tried to renew our faith by informing us that we can still sell the two training courses that were at the core of the Jaguar Marketing System. He also promised major updates to the two programs, which I was looking forward to because they were grossly outdated.
Also, in 2006 we were given a prospecting website that presented benefits of owning a home business. The website was called, “Why Start and Never Quit a Home Business.” Earlier this year this site got an update and was renamed Why Start 2.0. The sites looked great, but there was complete information overload.
Everyday there seemed to be some kind of update, new features, new training, new documents, new prospecting tools… it was just too much. This is when I started to step back from promoting this system. It was becoming way to volatile.
On April 5th of this year, I got another Interesting email:
Why Start and Never Quit and Mentors On a Mission (M.O.M.) is closing it’s doors. In the Entrepreneurial Jungle, we like to say; “When one bridge fall – build a bigger better bridge!!!”Why Start is now Web Rhyno!
In the following days there were more updates, upgrades, a new compensation plan, an affiliate program was implemented… and I was “DOWNGRADED” to an affiliate. The training that cost $3995.00, was now unavailable to me!
Needless to say, I’m a little more than pissed off. Turnquist promised us that it would be available until the end of this year. I’ve always had respect for Al, but it seems he just sold off his company and headed for the hills. No one has heard from him.
Kinda reminds me of Bill Osterhout of the Prosperity Automated System. That company was shut down by the SEC in 2006. The owner, Osterhout, dropped of the face, owing a lot of people money and at least an explanation.
Most of the training I received from Jaguar was fairly basic and took me from an absolute newb to a novice Internet marketer at best. It wasn’t until I ventured beyond Jaguar into blogging, social media marketing, and sucking knowledge from the Internets most badass bloggers, that I became a Professional Internet Marketer.
With all that said, I’m moving forward and washing my hands of Jaguar, Why Start, Web Rhyno, or whatever the hell you wanna call it. Nothing can compete with social media marketing and blogging, I have the cutting edge resources at my fingertips. What Jaguar can teach me, I learned and mastered years ago.
This Co. disappeared because it was hooked up with Internet Scam Fraud, Butch Hamilton (Caledon, TX. at last info.) – internet SEO Scam Artist. Try looking up Butch Hamilton OR his ‘partner’ Duffy Rogan (aka: Roger Longpre – Canada – at last info.) on the Internet. ALL YOU WILL FIND is PARKED domains. If that isn’t more evidence of people disappearing into the woodwork, I don’t know what is.
Butch was actually a trainer with Jaguar Marketing and I believe still trains at Veretekk. The downfall of this system and company as a whole was solely on it’s proprietor, Alan Turnquist. The real reasons for Al closing the doors on this system is speculation and will probably never be known.
Butch has great information for the new Internet marketer and has some great insight into search optimization. Just because he was a prominent figure in this company, doesn’t mean he was a spammer or the reason for it’s demise. I can attest to that.
As for the parked domains… there are many reasons for this, including: these domains are no longer needed or their SEO value has become outdated or useless. Obviously, domains created specifically for Jaguar now will be irrelevant.
It was once beneficial to your online success to purchase 100’s, even 1000’s of domain names. Of course, in this time of social media marketing and blogging, this is not really necessary. Subsequently, domains from Butch may be seen as empty. Domains come and they go, it’s the nature of this business.
Sounds like Butch posted the above comment, LOL!
Still shovelling your crap yes Duffy Rogan (aka: Roger Longpre, and Butch Hamilton… still scamming I see.
Want to make others a ‘millionaire’… do it for yourself first!
Where’s those thousands you both took for ‘SEO Work’ and then you (both) disappeared?
Anyone wonder WHY someone like this with all this supposed knowledge doesn’t make himself rich first? Oh, I guess because he’s just a good person.
Check ANY link on the Internet at the end of ANY Duffy Rogan article and you’ll see it leads to either a defunct or ‘parked’ domain.
You on the run again Duffy (Roger), you too Butch, yes… talkers!?
See you soon, scammers.
Take a look around… this blog belongs to me, Len Estrada. I have no affiliation, nor do I have contact with Butch Hamilton, and there are no other authors I allow to post here. The response to your first comment, was by me, not Butch. Whether Butch scammed people out of their money or not, I have not a clue. I guess we’ll have to wait for those people to step forward and make a claim.
Tread lightly though, false accusations can get you in some hot water. We SEO’s take our business seriously, which also includes our reputation.
As for this “Duffy” guy, I have never heard of him. And to properly respond to your claim that Jaguar “disappeared” because Butch was a member is completely false.
If you want to be spammed, inundated with totally unwanted calls, constantly bugged with zero way to get off his auto dailer list, then sign up to Al’s site. I must have received 27 calls from him with no way to opt out. I did not subscribe to him and am sick of the phone spam.