Below was a comment left on an interview between Adam Dicker and Michael Cyger about his reputation repair business. So poignant and suitable considering it was over 3 years ago. Michael Cyger claims in a subsequent comment that he had seen Dicker's financials confirming the $150k/mo claim. Wouldn't we all love to see that.
http://www.domainsherpa.com/reputation-repair/
Geppetto
May 30, 2012 at 9:41 AM
An interview about reputation.
Interview started with “Adam: The first month, I think, was about forty thousand dollars and last month, it was about a hundred and fifty thousand and the month before that was about a hundred and fifty thousand.”
Interview ended with “Adam: I set up eight people so far and each person is making over five thousand dollars a week…. That’s their commissions”
8 people all making over $5000 per week. 8 x $5000 = $40,000/week. At a 20% commission, the total sales are $40,000 x 5 = $200,000 per week. With 4.3 weeks in a month, $200,000 x 4.3 = $860,000 in monthly sales!
By those calculations, he made an additional $700,000 in sales between the beginning and the end of this interview.
The company was started in 2012, but their website claims “Reputation Repair Consulting Since 1992” and at least one of those glowing testimonials thanked them for amazing service in 2010.
Time travel really is possible.
Their first customer paid a sum of $6000 to have them contact a newspaper and say that his charges were dismissed, and $99/year to sign up for free Google Alerts.
What was that customer originally charged with, stupidity?
In a previous interview, Adam was asked “Michael: Have you sold a domain name in the seven figures?” and he answered “Adam: Yes but like I said I can’t talk about the exact price. Two or three but I can’t talk about them because of the non-disclosures.”
Two or Three. Would you remember a minor detail such as if you had sold 2 or 3 million dollar of anything?
Michael, your interviews are inspirational, but how concerned are you that they are truthful?
