Death of the Jaguar Marketing System

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 He also promised major updates to the two programs, which I was looking forward to because they were grossly outdated.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.