Mike Litman Coaching review: Took $6.500, Gave NOTHING 69

This fast talking con artist is SLIME. I gave him $6, 000. for coaching and they never call me back. He sent me a recorded call and the guy that was suppose to help me said that he no longer works for Mike because of all the complaints and told me good luck trying to get my money.

My husbands hiring and attorney and it seems that these slime balls, Mike and his sleezy brother, have ripped lots of people off for millions of dollars.

I spoke to several other people who have had NOTHING but bad experiences from these criminals.

RUN don't walk away from anything these sleezy hype artists do!

They stole money from me too.

I am suing the ###. They have everything protected through phoney corporaions and crap.

I lost $5000! They took advantage of my vulnerability when my 19 year old son died in a car accident. Mike Litman and his cronies added insult and injury to an already injured soul...

They actually hooked me up with a "coach" - I had to make long distance calls to Canada to listen to some fast talker give me some vague points on how to bring out the author in me... There were homework assignments I didn't understand and he wouldn't take the time to work with me. When I asked for my money back, he said it was out of his hands - he took me on as a favor to Mike Litman.

I was the dummy, I admit, looking back. I could have taken that $5000 to a REAL coach in my area - who would have helped me progress through my grief and become someone with a CAN DO attitude.

Sounds like I got a better deal out of Mike Litman than the rest of you posting a complaint here did. Still, I am disappointed in my overall outcome.

Three years ago I said yes to Mike's persuasive marketing skills in being able to provide me with a lucrative stream of income. I was, like 'goldstalk', going through a vulnerable phase in my life. Divorce.

I was interviewed, and apparently passed the test in being worth their time and effort. Initially I paid $3, 200.00 to get this thing off the ground. Six months later, I expressed my unhappiness about how it was all going. I was told if I was really serious about turning it into more than just a sounding board for my passion, then I would have to pay for more coaching to turn it into a good source of income. That was another $2, 500.00. So I invested $5700.00 total.

I did have a good coach for about 1 year. Then I was assigned another guy that wasn't all that great. He worked with me for about a year, and I haven't heard from him in a year. Can't even get in touch with him anymore. His email is still valid, but his inbox is always full.

I can get no response from Litman either. I have made less than $100.00 dollars off my initial investment in three years, so far. But, I am still hopeful and searching for another service to help make what I consider myself lucky to have better and work for me. Considering how hard I have worked at it.

I am starting to understand a few things about marketing what I have to offer. I was told that you don't need any special computer skills to do this. That may to be true, but you do need to know something about uploading files to a web page (FTP) and I do not know how to do technical stuff like that. It was done for me for the first two years I bought into this deal, and was told not to worry about stuff like that. It was only important for me to continue to write.

Now that I have been left to fend for myself, I realize that there are some critical things I do need to know about doing this, if I am going to continue, that someone else was doing for me.

Has anyone ever heard the saying, "it takes a village to help raise a child"? Well, it seems to take a village to help put up a reputable web site too.

I paid something like $5 shipping to have a motivational CD mailed to me "FREE" a few weeks ago. This morning I looked at my bank account and see that on 09/29/2009 Mike Litman hit my account again for $25.90 for "training". The charges then show as reversed the very next day. Problem is, he got me to within a few cents of being overdrawn, which would have cost me $35 minimum!

Does anyone have legitimate contact info for this guy so I can make contact and demand that all my banking info be removed from his database?

Mike Litman just called me (about 2 minutes after I sent him a message to his account on this board) and let me know what happened. Seems there was an offer on the page where I signed up for the free CD which automatically enrolled me in a program. He and his staff decided on their own that since people hadn't seen the offer clearly, they would reverse all charges.

His response was courteous, professional, and has restored my faith in him.

Thanks Mike!

I've had a similar experience with Mike Litman. Sent off for a free book for which I only had to pay P&P for in early December. A week ago £20.56 was debited from my account which took me into my overdraft. I've tried to contact his organisation but have had no response and have now asked my bank to take it up because I don't know how else to contact him. Sharp practice!

vlb78,

I just emailed you.

Please email me and tell me your Name, what you ordered and let me look into this asap.

Thanks...

Mike Litman

In regards to the coaching... well I can't say since I haven't enrolled, that's why I got into this site in the first place, to do some research, but everything else Mike teaches is excellent, the putting in practice and what are you putting into practice to make the money, is the other side of the coin. I have the what to do and how to do it, all I need is the doing, thus the coaching program, guess have to go elsewhere for this. Sorry Mike.

I agree with the comments on board. I just have participated in one of his free programme named GREATNESS NATION for four weeks. They asked to send a free CD with postage to be paid for about USD6. They charged my credit card last month. The programme is over this week. I was taken aback they have again charged my card for US$ 97 earler this week without any authorisation. I hve no phone number to contact him. email to customer support has not been replied to my complaint even till date. can any one advise me where to lodge a complaint. I am from India
Vijay K. Sharma New Delhi INDIA

Ok Mike - if you are out there somewhere, I find myself in the same bind as many other people here. I purchased your Conversations with Millionaires book in January and have now been dinged monthly charges to my visa for a monthly program I did not sign up for and do not want. I have a complaint into Visa now - they will refuse any further payments from your company because I can not get any response back from your company. Check Ticket #274 which has received no response.
Karen Armstrong

I've had similar experience with Mike Litman. I've decided to order a "free" CD (agreed for the payment of $11.95 for shipping & handling). I gave my credit card details and after that my credit card was debited 2 more times without my authorization! I did not want to buy any other products. There was no order form and I was not asked to authorize it! My card was debited for $47 and $111.95 and the order form was displayed after the money had been taken without my authorization !

vijay10,

We have a 7 day trial and we clearly say we do on all the information.

You wrote "I was taken aback they have again charged my card for US$ 97 earler this week without any authorisation."

When you enrolled into the program it said if you don't cancel, you become a member for $97 a month.

You could have emailed us or cancelled right inside the program.

I am emailing you personally my email address through this system and we'll help you cancel your account immediately.

Mike Litman

Karen,

Many of this issues here are very similiar...

When we offered the book, we gave people a free 30 day subscription to additional training.

It seems like you missed it in the sales material. That's my fault.

I'm emailing you through this system and we'll get this taken care of immediately.

Sorry for the confusion.

Mike Litman

Hiram,

I'd just like to comment on your post.

No business is perfect, including mine. We've made our share of errors over the last 10 years.

I would like to say they're 2 sides to every situation.

Some of the recent posts here say they were charged without authorization which isn't true.

On every page that offers additional training we very clearly tell people what they're purchasing.

It seems like on many of these sites the fault is always with the company and the customer has 0% responsibility for what they purchased.

I guess that's just how it is.

Hiram, thanks for your kind comments about my information and I wish you great success.

Mike Litman

Mike, I would like to thank you for following up on my above posting. I feel confident that you will cancel any further mailings and charges to my visa and am appreciative that you have issued a credit for the last charge. This has taught me to be much more aware of any purchases that I make online - I have never experienced this before. Take care,
K.Armstrong

Hey Mike
The same thing happened to me. I signed on for the 2-week trial and didn't realize when I gave my credit card that I was authorizing future payment. I agree that if that information was indicated in the materials, then I should have read it more carefully. But I too assumed incorrectly that I would get some kind of reminder and not be charged beyond the initial $5 unless I got a separate notice. And now I see that I have two $97 credit card charges Jan and Feb and I can only assume that I'll see one for March for something I have never used. Ouch. I have been out of town and busy and have not used the Greatness Nation site or the conferences at all since the first week of the trial. From your daily emails that found me last year and from the original GN invite, I felt you had a very positive message and I got the sense that you have a lot of integrity -- that's what initially drew me to the materials. So I really don't believe that you set this up to scam people or intended to cash in from the expectation that people are busy and either don't realize they have to send an email to cancel or they forget to cancel. That just seems antithetical to your messaging, and I can't imagine that you want people who are not participating in any way to be charged or unhappy. Because there are so many unscrupulous companies out there that do scam, I think an inquiry from your company asking if one wants to continue with the program post-trial would be a better practice than automatically charging without a reminder. That seems fair --especially since it seems from this board that there are many who've had similar misunderstandings about the payment policies-so it makes sense to keep everyone well informed and make the payment policy information as user-friendly and frequent as the Web conference reminders. I think it would be mutually beneficial as well. I had no idea how to get in touch with you to address this. When I put just your name into the Google search box, the drop down menu included the words "Mike Litman Complaints" and "Mike Litman Scam." I am shocked and disheartened because last year when I got a few emails from you, I thought they were upbeat and enlightened and passed a few along to friends -- your message did not in any way seem like something shady. You seem like an honest and decent guy, and I don't believe those words should not be associated with your name. Please let me know next steps and how to contact you or your company. I'm sure the program is great, and I'm happy to recommend it to others, but it's not the right fit for me and I don't want to be charged for something I haven't used. Thanks.

SWR,

I'm sending you an email through the system on how to best reach us and we'll cancel your account today.

We've helped thousands of people and as I've said we've made some mistakes.

This site is just for 'complaints', it would be great if along with the 'complaints' they asked for positive feedback.

Maybe one day they'll add that.

I'm emailing you now.

Mike Litman

My issue with Mike Litman has been finally straightened out. I received a full refund for 2 unauthorized charges promptly. I also received a CD I ordered, however after over a month from my cc charge and my reminder (charged 3/13, posted 4/14, received 4/27). I would definitely not call Mike Litman a scam. After contacting him here, I received a courteous and professional response and he got everything taken care of for me. However, I find his selling techniques highly doubtful, as so many people feel that they'd been taken in.

I've kept sending email after email to cancel my subscription with Total Coach.
Radhika, originally responded to me and said it would be taken care of, but it never was.
Finally, I had to dispute and challenge the charges on my credit card.

When I tried to ask for my domain name to be transferred back to GoDaddy...NO RESPONSE.
I finally got a number to Brian Litman (Mike Litman's brother) but he doesn't return phone calls.

Any ideas on how I can get my domain name back from being held HOSTAGE by the Litmans?
Please email me at djxanthin@yahoo.com Thanks!

DJ Xanthin,

I'm looking into this now for you and will respond to the email address you provided.

Mike Litman

Mike Litman called me personally and was polite and professional.

I'm happy to state my issue is being resolved and as things improve financially for me, I will revisit the possibility of joining Total Coach.

I feel that Mike Litman's heart is in the right place and during the different phases of building a successful company, things happen, as there will always be a few glitches here and there, but he's doing his damnest to work them out.

I wish him all the best.

Comment from 2008. Here is what I have found over the past year.

Everyone has different experiences – in life, with family, working and with Coaches. Spring 2009, a friend told me about Total Coach and Mike Litman’s passion. So, even with more than 40 years of experience, I was encouraged and pushed by Mike to get going and I signed up. Nothing is ever perfect, but what Total Coach was able to accomplish for me is to get off my comfortable recliner. Web sites, blogs, tweets and writing was not a problem for me as I brought those skills with me. My collaboration with Total Coach helped me assemble my personal jigsaw puzzle and get me focused to do what I could with what I had.

As an alumni, I do not regret my time as a member. I met and am still connected with some good people, including Mike and Brian. Things are what they are. If you need a lifeline, some direction and encouragement, assess, consider and decide. It is always about what works for you.

Hi Mike:
You had responded to my post here in April and contacted me personally via email about my Greatness Nation account. I have been out of the country for several weeks without email access. I now can't access the contact email account I set up for this board, so I can't access your email address. You responded to my post here (see your response below, see my original post on this board - from swr) and you sent me two emails about my account in early April. You may have tried to reach me again while I was away, but I discovered upon my return that I was charged again for Greatness. Please contact me at the new email I've provided (note, I changed my screen name here from swr to sxr so I could use a different email address). I had not contacted my credit card company before leaving because you had contacted me immediately after I posted here, which I very much appreciate. I tried to reach you via the support team - they contacted me once a week ago, but as the payment period is fast-approaching, I didn't want to wait any longer. I'm assuming it's just some kind of mix up.
Thank you
SXR (formerly SWR on this board)
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SWR,

I'm sending you an email through the system on how to best reach us and we'll cancel your account today.

We've helped thousands of people and as I've said we've made some mistakes.

This site is just for 'complaints', it would be great if along with the 'complaints' they asked for positive feedback.

Maybe one day they'll add that.

I'm emailing you now.

Mike Litman

I'm emailing you now through the system.

Please connect with me and we'll get this taken care of.

Mike Litman

Kudos to Mike Litman for his attention to this board! I'd like to say that his close monitoring of this board is further evidence to me that he is not a scamer, he's a guy with integrity and a positive message trying to run a business and address issues raised by the consumers. Out of curiosity, I opened and tracked a few other threads about other products/companies on this site - I did not see responses from anyone from the company in question. Mike Litman contacted me within minutes of my posting here and is in the process of addressing the situation right now. I am most appreciative of his concern and his speedy response. Per my previous post, I sure there was just some kind of mix up while I was away.
sxr

Thank you folks, I was about to order some coaching material from his website, I am in india and an email guided me towards his website, personally I have a similar passion but no direction so I decided to look for some stuff thinking the secret philosophy is working :) ... reading these comments, I am not going to put my credit card info on his websites - Thank you !

Someone from Mike's organization or Mike himself - Can you please certify the authenticity of your website "http://www.launchmycoachingbusiness.com/blueprint1.php", I have a similar passion but cannot trust the orgznization reading all these quotes, as said in my previous message, i was about to use my master card ... but an instinct told me to google mike litman, and I reached on this page ... help someone ... i need direction to help others - Ty - Anuj K ( India, New Delhi )

Anul,

I respect whatever decision you make about my programs.

As I've said many times here, no company is perfect, we haven't been, though we work everyday to make our company better and better.

My programs have helped the lives of thousands of people. I think it's unfortunate that you've read a few complaints on a 'complaints board' and you make your decision not to see how my programs can help you. I respect your decision though.

Here's a free download of my 'Greatness Held Hostage' CD. I hope it helps you and I wish you all the best.

http://www.greatnessheldhostage.com/ghhty.php

Mike Litman

Anuj,

Yes, that is one of my programs.

I'm going to message you my personal email address.

Any questions, please ask.

Mike Litman

Hi All,

I have had interactions with Mike Litman for a couple of years now. My experience is that he has great passion in helping others. And definitely like anyone in business, he is also in it to make profits.

I had joined his TotalCoach program on a trial basis, and found it was good. However since I personally found it too expensive, I opted out of the monthly continuity program. I was not hit with any charges after that.

Most online internet marketers have continuity programs, where they do mention about ongoing monthly charges. Sometimes they probably need communicate this much more loudly and clearly so that many complaints such as these could have been avoided.

It is important for us as customers to read the sales page clearly to understand if there are going to be monthly charges, and to WRITE IN TO THEM that we want to opt out so that they will not charge again.

In my experience, I find Mike a person of integrity and not a conman.

I wish him the best.

Binod Maliel

Binod,

Thank you very much for your kind comments.

I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

Mike Litman

When I received an email from Mike Litman about being set up in a coaching business
the first thing I did was a google search and found this complaints board. Reading
all of these negative comments convinced me not to deal with this guy. However after
getting another email from him I was intrigued. I sent him back an email and said that
with all the complaints I've been reading I was very hesitant to do any business with him.
I fully expected him to just delete my email and that I would never hear from him again.
To my surprise he wrote right back and gave me his cell phone number and told me to
call. Well I didn't, but a week or so later I wrote another email again expressing my
negative impressions about him. He wrote right back and asked when he could call me.

We had a great conversation about my goals and whether or not coaching was a good
fit for me. He is a very positive guy and the more I talked to him the more I came to
realize that I really wanted to get started with this. He didn't give me any big sales
pitch he just told me what he could offer me and what he would expect from me. I
received some motivational stuff and some training DVDs. Also, he set me up with a
great coach !

Now it's only been a couple of weeks but so far I have no complaints. In just a couple
of sessions my coach has helped me come up with some great ideas. I'll soon have a
website up and running and I'll be working on some information products and start
marketing. What more can you ask for ? I'm getting information, coaching, inspiration,
website, help with marketing. The rest is up to me.

Anyway, that's been my experience with Mike so far. How many other people who are
as successful and busy as this guy is gives you his cell phone number and tells you to
call if you have a question ? And calls you right back when you leave a message.
Have you noticed that he responds to the complaints posted here ? Who else does that ?

Also, remember, this IS a "complaints " board ! How many positive comments to you
expect to read here ? My guess is that all the people with great experiences with Mike
are too busy being successful to write something on a board such as this.

Roger Audy

Mike Litman has serious issues with any coaching program that he might have originally developed that could have had value. In seeking a quick and easy buck through diluting his services and trying to scoop off charges from "free" materials like his FREE CD that costs $7.95 for shipping.

I signed up for a 1/2 hour trial coaching with Mike Litman. 30 minutes prior to our scheduled time, a family friend of his called the number I'd provided for my coaching trial with a "pre-screening" sales pitch. The guy I talked to wanted to sell me "premium" packages of $5-8 K, $8-12 K, and $12-15K." Basically the coaching was going to be with Mike's brother, Brian Litman. "Student" of the coaching could expect to learn how to use blogging and video to build bigger lists. You can get this information free from a couple of online webinars from sites like Hubspot. I asked the guy on the call to follow up with a meeting with Brian, and never was contacted again. Guess when I told their high pressure sales closing hype guy that I didn't take his word that Brian was an amazing guru, they realized they didn't have another easy scam target on the line.

Sorry, Mike, you should be checking how you're marketing yourself. You give coaching, an honorable career, a bad name.

Amiamiconsumer,

I just sent you an email through the system with my personal email address to connect.

Thanks...

Mike Litman

Hi Mike, your sales person, who said he was a family friend, should have my contact information. Please check with him and call me.

When I had scheduled my appointment with you, I provided my phone. He called me on it, and said he would be setting up a phone call for your brother to call me about your premium packages. Is this individual still working with you?

I know you work less than an hour a day per your webinar today (screen capture attached), but perhaps you can spare some time to check with the people you work with?

AMiamiconsumer,

I just sent you a direct message with my email address.

Connect with me and I'll give you a call.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Mike Litman

Hi Mike,

I sent you an email reply with my phone number on 20 August 2010 15:54. Please look for it to give me a call. Thank you.

Hello Mike,
I understand from the above posts that you read this complaints/comments board
Please understand that these sites would not exist if queries were dealt with quickly and correctly by you or your team.
I shall not harp on save to say would you, or someone connected with your business, please read and respond to message #1550 on your helpdesk mail please
Yours
Martin Woodbridge