Excerpt from: Public Comments For Critiqued/Reviewed Business Opportunities
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| March 30, 2006 | | A review of Agora Publishing by a customer | | Review...
Agora Publishing is primarily a reseller of other peoples ideas. They are extremely prolific in both the quantity and scope of what they offer but mostly it is about getting rich. Their courses usually offer a lot of information and have more substance than many while maintaining reasonable prices. I've subscribed to various publications of theirs over the years including "International Living" magazine which first made me aware of the overseas opportunities that eventually put me living in Fiji on seven acres of pristine rain forest complete with waterfalls and deserted beach on a quiet bay with surrounded by a couple thousand acres of virgin rain forest with no neighbors within a mile. I'd give them a higher rating but they advertise opportunities that you think you'll find out about if you buy their publication or publications. In fact I could not find many of the ideas that sold me on their products though I suspect that they may have been in back issues or something like that. Their publications tend to be general in nature and are far from being as comprehensive as you'd expect for the price. However they do produce enough substance to get you going and thinking differently and render you more informed with the information they provide being relatively representative of reality. I've purchased courses from them that appeared to provide what they claimed to deliver. I have never finished one of their courses because I am not a study on my own kind of guy. I'd rather pay a lot more for classroom instruction where I can pester the instructor with my questions and hold up the class in case they are going to fast for me. However left to my own I tend to go too slowly. Agora has been around at least 25 years and will probably remain for some time to come because they do churn out a lot of products that are well marketed and offer some value. I've never gotten a scam from them. My biggest beef with them is their slowness to adapt to technological advancements. As I mentioned I live overseas and like to download whatever I buy. Their information kits could easily be marketed in download format or other web based video/audio format but that would probably defeat a potentially huge publishing machine that still needs to pay for its existance. I don't know if that is true but I cannot think why they have stuck with their "ship it by mail only" way of doing business so long. They have made huge money in the investment letter business which I've personally avoided but they have been able to tout some pretty big names in the analyst letter biz. I'll probably be a customer for life because they are a reliable source of solid information and the keep coming up with things that catch my fancy sufficiently that I seldom return them. | | |
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