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I unfortunetely was not able to attend this class. Wondering if anyone got this course? How was it?
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Ben I will try to be as subjective and fair as possible. I personally was very disappointed with the course. It is mainly audio and extremely over priced. It was long and drawn out, choppy and left me knowing hardly more than I knew before. It was marketed very good as you would expect from Mark Kennedy. I don't think Mark has ever cleaned carpets but I may be wrong. It was a power point presentation that had no power in it's presentation.
Overall I was very disappointed with it. I am also very disappointed at the audio cds. I thought I was going to get a on hands visual course. I also felt is was way over priced for what I got. What I got was a bunch of poor audio that will probably end up on my shelf gathering dust. The guy must have said "um" a 100 times and is very hard to listen to. I have it. If you want it you can have it cheap.
Big thumbs down for the Rug Demystified Course. It left me more mystified about rugs. But it did leave me lighter in the wallet.
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I'm sick and tired of a lot of these fly by nighters with their 1980s sales pitches, you would be better off reading up on Lisa Wagners www.therugchick.com blog, visiting their Rug Restoration show that travels around USA or getting in touch with Dusty Roberts of some classes he promotes, but seriously the Rug De-Mystified is a joke.
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Real Name:Cory McCookCompany:Carpet Cure IncLocation:Macon, GAPosts:5Thanks:0Thanked 0 Times in 0 PostsRe: Rug Cleaning De-Mystified
I attended the course when it ran about a year ago. Overall I thought it was worth my time in listening to it. He went a little too far on the whole photography thing but also explained why saying he loves photography. It was not a how-to course necessarily but I thought it had some helpful things in it about rug cleaning. I'm not brave enough to try his idea of cleaning urine contaminated rugs bleach. He gave us the dvd of the class but I have not looked at it to see what quality it is. I have since taken the RCT class that Jeff and Ruth offer. Had I taken that class before the "DE-mystified" came out, then I would have never even bothered with the demystified. Looking back, it seems to me that Kennedy and Williamson are taking advantage of the open opportunity to market to folks who want to clean rugs but aren't too sure about it. Can't blame em for it.
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Ben I will try to be as subjective and fair as possible. I personally was very disappointed with the course. It is mainly audio and extremely over priced. It was long and drawn out, choppy and left me knowing hardly more than I knew before. It was marketed very good as you would expect from Mark Kennedy. I don't think Mark has ever cleaned carpets but I may be wrong. It was a power point presentation that had no power in it's presentation.
Overall I was very disappointed with it. I am also very disappointed at the audio cds. I thought I was going to get a on hands visual course. I also felt is was way over priced for what I got. What I got was a bunch of poor audio that will probably end up on my shelf gathering dust. The guy must have said "um" a 100 times and is very hard to listen to. I have it. If you want it you can have it cheap.
Big thumbs down for the Rug Demystified Course. It left me more mystified about rugs. But it did leave me lighter in the wallet.
LOL. Thanks for the heads up Rob. By the looks of the "sample videos" that they had... it looked like they were going to cover some pretty cool stuff? That's disappointing to here that they didn't deliver.
I'd still like to take a look at it though- is it someone you can email or is it actual audio cd's that you have to listen to?
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The DVDs are audio lol.
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Holy smokes. You would swear by the comments here that this class was garbage and Mark and Robert are vultures.
I in-fact did promote this to my client list when it came out the first time around and was VERY proud to do it as I got a LOT of positive response from folks around the world that did buy it. Best thing about it is you do not have to travel and of coarse you can reference it anytime and even plug new tech in without all the downtime of traveling.
The one downside is that you do not get hands-on, boots-on training. This can only happen with a brick and mortor class.
Perhaps some of the happy clients will get on here and put in their comments.
Dusty
btw, here is a link to upcoming rug events around the world:
http://therughub.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?
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Dusty, I was only giving my personal opinion on the class. I for one believe for the money spent, someone should really invest it into a class that Lisa Wagner, Jeff Bishop or Ruth Travis teaches - I have learned a ton just by one of Ruth's 1 hour webinars and same with Lisa's + her awesome free blog content. According to records, wasn't Mark K. just a marketer from another industry that landed into the cleaning one recently?
I would not personally promote this product on *** at all until it's upgraded.
On a side note, missed your call - ill give ya a call after dinner my friend
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I have the course. I knew when I bought it that it was an audio course. There is a lot of good info in this course. If you learn nothing else but Paul Lucas' phone number it would be worth it. Combine it with Ellen and Aaron's book and you have a pretty good information base that you can go to whenever you want.
From what I have heard, some instructors don't know the difference between a Wilton and an Axminster.
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Tre
Regarding your question about Marks experience in the industry. Marks experience is formidable and was in the industry when you were still in the first grade. So no, Mark is not a shark taking advantage of the industry. I believe his product has very real value and many folks have expressed this to me.
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I unfortunetely was not able to attend this class. Wondering if anyone got this course? How was it?
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Ben I will try to be as subjective and fair as possible. I personally was very disappointed with the course. It is mainly audio and extremely over priced. It was long and drawn out, choppy and left me knowing hardly more than I knew before. It was marketed very good as you would expect from Mark Kennedy. I don't think Mark has ever cleaned carpets but I may be wrong. It was a power point presentation that had no power in it's presentation.
Overall I was very disappointed with it. I am also very disappointed at the audio cds. I thought I was going to get a on hands visual course. I also felt is was way over priced for what I got. What I got was a bunch of poor audio that will probably end up on my shelf gathering dust. The guy must have said "um" a 100 times and is very hard to listen to. I have it. If you want it you can have it cheap.
Big thumbs down for the Rug Demystified Course. It left me more mystified about rugs. But it did leave me lighter in the wallet.
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Real Name:Robert L. Allen III "Tre"Company:Truck Mount ForumsLocation:VirginiaPosts:3,352Thanks:292Thanked 159 Times in 128 PostsBlog Entries:2 Re: Rug Cleaning De-Mystified
I'm sick and tired of a lot of these fly by nighters with their 1980s sales pitches, you would be better off reading up on Lisa Wagners www.therugchick.com blog, visiting their Rug Restoration show that travels around USA or getting in touch with Dusty Roberts of some classes he promotes, but seriously the Rug De-Mystified is a joke.
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Real Name:Cory McCookCompany:Carpet Cure IncLocation:Macon, GAPosts:5Thanks:0Thanked 0 Times in 0 PostsRe: Rug Cleaning De-Mystified
I attended the course when it ran about a year ago. Overall I thought it was worth my time in listening to it. He went a little too far on the whole photography thing but also explained why saying he loves photography. It was not a how-to course necessarily but I thought it had some helpful things in it about rug cleaning. I'm not brave enough to try his idea of cleaning urine contaminated rugs bleach. He gave us the dvd of the class but I have not looked at it to see what quality it is. I have since taken the RCT class that Jeff and Ruth offer. Had I taken that class before the "DE-mystified" came out, then I would have never even bothered with the demystified. Looking back, it seems to me that Kennedy and Williamson are taking advantage of the open opportunity to market to folks who want to clean rugs but aren't too sure about it. Can't blame em for it.
Cory
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Ben I will try to be as subjective and fair as possible. I personally was very disappointed with the course. It is mainly audio and extremely over priced. It was long and drawn out, choppy and left me knowing hardly more than I knew before. It was marketed very good as you would expect from Mark Kennedy. I don't think Mark has ever cleaned carpets but I may be wrong. It was a power point presentation that had no power in it's presentation.
Overall I was very disappointed with it. I am also very disappointed at the audio cds. I thought I was going to get a on hands visual course. I also felt is was way over priced for what I got. What I got was a bunch of poor audio that will probably end up on my shelf gathering dust. The guy must have said "um" a 100 times and is very hard to listen to. I have it. If you want it you can have it cheap.
Big thumbs down for the Rug Demystified Course. It left me more mystified about rugs. But it did leave me lighter in the wallet.
LOL. Thanks for the heads up Rob. By the looks of the "sample videos" that they had... it looked like they were going to cover some pretty cool stuff? That's disappointing to here that they didn't deliver.
I'd still like to take a look at it though- is it someone you can email or is it actual audio cd's that you have to listen to?
Ben
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The DVDs are audio lol.
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Holy smokes. You would swear by the comments here that this class was garbage and Mark and Robert are vultures.
I in-fact did promote this to my client list when it came out the first time around and was VERY proud to do it as I got a LOT of positive response from folks around the world that did buy it. Best thing about it is you do not have to travel and of coarse you can reference it anytime and even plug new tech in without all the downtime of traveling.
The one downside is that you do not get hands-on, boots-on training. This can only happen with a brick and mortor class.
Perhaps some of the happy clients will get on here and put in their comments.
Dusty
btw, here is a link to upcoming rug events around the world:
http://therughub.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?
Helping You to get the MOST out of Rugs
Stephen "Dusty" Roberts
866 885 7847
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visit the forum for rug lovers
www.therughub.com
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Real Name:Robert L. Allen III "Tre"Company:Truck Mount ForumsLocation:VirginiaPosts:3,352Thanks:292Thanked 159 Times in 128 PostsBlog Entries:2 Re: Rug Cleaning De-Mystified
Dusty, I was only giving my personal opinion on the class. I for one believe for the money spent, someone should really invest it into a class that Lisa Wagner, Jeff Bishop or Ruth Travis teaches - I have learned a ton just by one of Ruth's 1 hour webinars and same with Lisa's + her awesome free blog content. According to records, wasn't Mark K. just a marketer from another industry that landed into the cleaning one recently?
I would not personally promote this product on *** at all until it's upgraded.
On a side note, missed your call - ill give ya a call after dinner my friend
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I have the course. I knew when I bought it that it was an audio course. There is a lot of good info in this course. If you learn nothing else but Paul Lucas' phone number it would be worth it. Combine it with Ellen and Aaron's book and you have a pretty good information base that you can go to whenever you want.
From what I have heard, some instructors don't know the difference between a Wilton and an Axminster.
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Tre
Regarding your question about Marks experience in the industry. Marks experience is formidable and was in the industry when you were still in the first grade. So no, Mark is not a shark taking advantage of the industry. I believe his product has very real value and many folks have expressed this to me.
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