Prospect Match Javelin Marketing Ex employee hear to set the record straight and alert you all about this horrible company concord, California

It's interesting to read all the accusations and assumptions that people make in regards to Javelin Marketing. The sad part is, many of you are taking shots in the dark: even sadder is many of you are hitting the target (though not the bulls-eye). So here it is. It is all going to be put on the table by me.

I am not going to claim that Javelin Marketing is the best out there. I'm also not going to claim it's innocence. Most importantly I'm not going to claim that Javelin Marketing is a ripoff. I'm simply going to lay it all out there, and let you be the judge of whether or not you want to get in bed with a company that is representative of that fling you had when you were 25 and your vision was blurred by beer goggles.

So one of the largest things I want to get out there in the open is going to be the one that I am most hated for; not by you the reader, but by Javelin Marketing and all of it's associates. I'm letting it be known that Larry Klein is in fact running Javelin Marketing under the guise of Bob Richards, Rich Stevens, or any other name he may come up with here in the future.

Larry Klein is one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. I honestly believe that NF Communications was an unintended incident. (For those of you who don't know about NF Com, it was Larry's last company who shut the doors the same day they were accepting money for future subscriptions [do your research]) After NF Com, I know Larry wanted to have another go at making the idea a success. What were his motivations? I don't know. The guy is impossible to read. He is very generous boss: he keeps our fridge in the break-room stocked and buys us lunch two times a week and once a month a great dinner out with alcohol if we choose. (I hope when he reads this he does not become bitter to the employees and stop doing that).

He's also a great trainer. Most of the staff are talented when they come in but Larry takes them to a new level. It's very impressive how fine tuned the sales staff become. The downside, Larry is Ruthless. If you don't show him within days that you can make a sale, your gone. It's very quick.

As for the company and the leads. I will play the Devil's advocate. The leads can be s**t, crap, however you want to put it. There are good leads occasionally though. There are some very impressive testimonials (Larry's cringing reading this because he hates them being referred to as testimonials) available on the web-site: they are real. Some people have made a killing off of the leads. I'm not over-exagerating. Some have profited in the million dollar marks (few, but it has happened). Most successful people make less of the leads, but definitely a comfortable living. Others make there money back, though it may not be worth the time served. Most advisors period (sorry to say) are complete idiots. They don't know how to properly work a lead and do not have the balls to do something with a proper lead. Then there are those that are seasoned in sales that just don't ever get a good lead.

When it comes to the leads, there are various sources of the leads. The primary source is crap. Yes you guys have read it before and those people have nailed it on the head, the leads come from people trying to win something. It's one of those annoying schemes when your on the internet and you have to complete an offer to get to the next page of some internet scam to get an IPOD or your IQ test results, or what have you. Unfortunately this process makes your leads poor leads; however, this is why the price is so cheap at $18 dollars a lead. One point I'd like to make is that Larry does not set up this bait and switch method of marketing. Larry is contracted with marketing companies that does this part of the prospecting. The honorable thing about this is that if Larry receives a lot of complaints about a certain source he will question them and cancel if they are really bad. Larry does not intentionally screw anyone nor does he endorse screwing people. In fact if we feel that someone would have a hard time navigating our website to get their leads we are instructed to not sell them.

Lastly, when it comes to the lead gaurantee. They will credit you back for bad leads: leads without a name, address, or email address. The crappy thing here is that it states must have a valid name, phone number, address, or email address. So there is a loophole here, if the phone number is bad but the email address may be good then they won't credit you the lead. This is something that always bugged me. The girls in the office, however, are very good about crediting the leads back when they are legitimately bad.

Would I recommend them to you? As I said the purpose of writing this is to clear my conscience of all the calls from people I sold calling to complain about the source of the leads and the ineffectiveness of them. I say this: the leads are inexpensive, there are people that are making money on them, the method they promote to follow up with your leads are great, they provide good training for you. The training alone is worth much of the cost of the enrollment and some leads. However, if you try it. Start off with a small area so that you are not bombarded with leads, because they will not refund you. Then adjust it once you get a feel for how many will come in. Try 40 leads. That's about 800 dollars. If you don't get anywhere, cancel. One thing they say is that you need to be willing to invest to grow your business. It's very true. It seems that about 2 in 10 will have success. I sold many people while I was there, never got to hear a success story from my clients.

A thing for me.

Why did I stay and sell something I didn't really believe in. To learn from one of the best sales guys I have ever met. Lying to people about the companies effectiveness was my cost.

John Doe
Somewhere in the Bay Area of California, California
U.S.A.