What a joke this Jim Gillespie is. Go to his site and enter your email and the page you go to has a link to the email marketing company. Site looks like a pile of dogpoo and his picture looks like chester the child molester... His articles on Realty Times are hardly insightful, it sounds like he takes the same garbage every real estate guru is spewing and adapts it to "commercial" agents. Seriously tired of the so called gurus running around. Watch Mike Ferry's free 15 minute webinar and thats when you realize he has been saying this stuff for 45 years and it still hasn't changed!

Wow, Adam, that is really harsh. I'm glad I posted this before taking him on as an affiliate. I do not add affiliates frivilously. I am looking at them closely as my reputation is the one that's on the line when I endorse someone. I am the type of person who gives everyone a fair shake, until proven otherwise.

I haven't seen anything bad about him until today, but I'd love to hear why you don't like him. I'm not above saying I'm wrong, if I am wrong. Please, even if you'd rather email me than post it here, tell me what it is about him that you don't like.

I mean, if the only problem you have with him is that his message is old, I don't see a problem with someone spewing old info because there's always someone who hasn't heard it. But if he's dishonest in any way, especially tricking people, then I certainly don't want to be endorsing his products.

Crystal,
The top of the line commercial training is Top Dogs.

Thank you, Paul. I appreciate the info. I will check them out.

I do skim Jim Gillespies columns to find useful tidbits of information from time to time. Yes, most of it is rehashed from many other "me too" real estate speakers and trainers but sometimes the repeated information jumps out at me the 3rd or 4th time when it appears in his column. (I guess I'm slow...)

Yet a recent Gillespie column made me laugh at his incredible display of arrogance (and ignorance). In the column, he whined about how if you do a Google search for the word "failure" the #1 result in the search results links to a biography of President George Bush on the White House website.

He suggests that someone in Google did this on purpose rather than recognizing this is the result of the Google algorithm. If many people on the web link the word "failure" to a bio of George W. Bush, then Google will display the bio at the top of the results. The reason why Google is the most popular search engine by far is because the Google algorithm works. One can find highly relavant search information quickly and easily.

Gillespie goes on to suggest that Google should start filtering search results to avoid possibly offending people who put George W. on a pedestal. Get a grip Gillespie! Where would this filtering end? And more importantly if it was enacted how could any of us count on quality results from Google? Remember before Google came along many of the results of other search engines were bought and paid for...not a good way to find quality search results. Obviously Jim is not particularly savvy with the "internets".

Bottomline, if you want rehashed real estate advice with an occasional right wing Republican slant, then Jim Gillespie is the man for you.

Here's the original link to Gillespie's "Google needs to be filtered" column.

http://realtytimes.com/rtapages/20051020_image.htm

LOL, Austin. I thought everyone knew why Bush comes up when you type in Miserable Failure.

Point taken. See, I said I was not a commercial expert :rolleyes: . I intend to become one after this, though! Maybe not "expert", but definately more knowledgeable.

I apologize for the comments above, I don't have anything specificaly against Jim, I just think if he is such a guru he would have the money to make a decent site. I am tired of the know all attitude of these guys. His bio talks about 20 years of "real estate" sales experience, how much of that in commercial? He just rubs me the wrong way.

It "is" what it is, guys. Pretty intelligent online business model, though -- push everyone to a site membership.