The Truth About StudioTraffic: It's Not Really YOUR Company
This was posted by a member of talkgold who made previous posts parodying John Horan. In actuality, that member is me. I made the John Horan account, as a means of entertainment. This ST stuff is downright depressing and sickening, and frankly, it's nice to have some humor once in a while. People have doen the same thing during the 12 Daily Charis Johnson debacle.
But here, I stepped out of my character at talkgold, to post something very serious. Frankly, I am sick and tired of these ST cheerleading goofballs with no hearts at all coming on forums like talkgold.com, being rude and disrespectful to others, insulting and offensive, and overly arrogant. I am sick of ST cheerleaders posting on ST forums and other forums how nothing can stop ST and how ST is immune to the law. I am sick of it, plain and simple. I have reported ST to the SEC and to CNN in hopes of getting them reported in the media for the general public to see. We'll see if those cheerleaders still think ST is so invincible.
The following post is one I made under my joke name "John Horan" at talkgold.com, in response to a nasty insulting ST cheerleader, who felt it was his responsibility to insult and degrade other members who wish to speak the truth about ST. Read on to see my response. I want everyone reading this to read closely and think hard on what I am saying here. I am a major in advertising. I'm not some fancy hot shot CEO, but I have learned and am still learning many things from my professors, professors who are actually actively involved in advertising and advertising companies and the media. Everything I say in this post is real, and not lies, or "speculation", it is all based on cold hard facts. I could care less what the real John Horan or any ST mods or cheerleaders have to say. I trust my professors, who have actual credentials and years and years of real hands on experience in advertising, over some phony shadowy figure online pretending to run a legit business. This one is for you, the REAL John Horan, the scamming slimeball behind StudioTraffic. Any of you who wish to, may feel free to post what I say on the ST forums. Post so that the cheerleaders, mods, and John himself can see what I have to say. I especially want the innocent ST members who have done no wrong and are worried about what is going on to read, so that their eyes can fully be opened as to what is really going on.
If my posts seems overly harsh, I am sorry, but this person made very rude and disrespectful comments to myself and others, and I will NOT stand for it.
"I shall step out of character here to address the ramblings of this buffoon. See, my posts are merely entertainment, parodies of the real things John says. It doesn't take much to pretend to be John, just post in broken english and piss poor grammar, and constantly contradict yourself in each sentence.
And your disrespectful comments are mere assumptions and not even necessary at all. Tell me, why would I want to actually be John Horan? Who in their right mind says "I want to grow up to be a filthy lying scammer"? No one, that's who. I would rather earn my money in an honest and decent way, providing an actual service. I have far more respect for people who own stores on ebay than I ever would for John Horan, because they provide real products and services to people.
Tell me, what does John provide? ST paid in the beginning, but the program has proven to be a flop as all ponzi scams do. All John does now is BS his way through, making up phony programs to fool people like you into thinking ST is doing well. You know what? I hear John swear up and down that ST is not his company, but YOURS, the memebrs. So you tell me, since John says ST is YOUR company, what is the revenue earned by each of the branches of Studio Programs? Why is StudioBlogger, StudioWalker, and many other Studio Programs not up and running? Why is it that you can't even tell me who John Horan is, and where he is located, despite the fact he claims he is simply your partner in business? if I ran a business with partners, not only would I know their names, their faces, and what they are like, but I would also know where they live and have real ways of contacting them. Has John ever given you his phone number? His business card? His location? No, he hasn't, and yet you blindly trust him, all because at one point in time, ST USED TO pay people.
If ST is a great and fresh new business opportunity, then why have I seen no ads in any legitimate form of advertising? Ads on autosurfs and sites promoting HYIPs don't count. Where are the newspaper ads, the magazine ads? Where are the television spots? I am currently majoring in advertising in college, and I know for a fact that it is more than feasible for ST to have produced television spots, if the revenue they claim they have is real, they could easily have done it, so why haven't they? Why is a so called business that claims it is legit and prides itself on being so revolutionary, happens to be so scared to take the essential steps any real business takes when wanting to be known?
You do realize this same man you put on such a high pedestal doesn't even understand basic advertising concepts that people like me learned in our very first classes? John says revenue is down and they have less advertisers, because they "wooed less advertisers"? Sorry, that's a lame excuse. One of the basic rules in advertising is to NOT stop "wooing", you press on and keep your name out there. You search for opportunities when you can find them, you don't simply stop, especially due to something so BS as audits. These so called audits have no affect on advertising. Advertising would come from ST's own budget. You know, because REAL companies have actual budgets reserved solely for advertising? Since this is YOUR programs too, then tell me, what is your advertising budget? What are your campaign plans? What media vehicles do you plan on using to attract consumers? What is your target market and how do you plan to get their attention? Do you even know what is going on with your supposed company?
John makes the worst decisions anyone can make. He claims bad press is good, and that all the constant anti ST stuff going around online is good for ST. He honestly thinks bad press will cause people to look at ST and sign up hoping for the best. It doesn't work that way. Bad press is NOT good, regardless of what John tells you. One of the basic laws in advertising is that bad press is not good. Companies do not want bad press, why do you think companies spend so much money on Public Relations agents to spin stories and take the heat off of them? If bad press is so good, then why does John send people like you to spam forums in hopes of defending his awful scam's reputation?
Face it, ST is not a legit business, and this John Horan person knows jack shit about running a business or advertising. he made a ponzi scam that was successful for a time, and the time has come that it has stopped paying the vast majority of members. The fact that the forums are so ridiculously moderated to the point of insanity is just further proof of this. Anything posted is considered speculation or wrong when it is against ST. Yet when ass kissers make threads claiming ST will last forever till the day they die, no one seems to care, despite that being HUGE speculation.
Btw, I was looking on the ST forums and noticing certain cheerleaders boasting that the SEC cannot shut down ST, as ST is registered in Panama. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. ST has scammed countless US citizens which puts them in the jurisdiction of the US government. Not only that but:
-With the new anti terrorist laws in place, the government can go outside US jurisdiction if necessary. They could do it even before those laws were in place, now with these laws, they can be more aggressive than ever before.
-ST at one point allowed memebrs from anti US countries to sign up and make money. This alone looks extremely bad on their record. Doing "business" with people from Iran? I have nothing against people from the Middle East, but the government sure will find it interesting to know that a scam has been opening up the possibility for terrorists in anti US countries to earn and launder money.
-ST's TOS is meaningless. The government could care less if the TOS says payouts aren't guaranteed or if the payout percentage can be lwoered at any time. They sure as hell didn't care about Charis Johnson's TOS, which was the same garbage ST has on their site. The Feds don't give a rats ass about your measly TOS, to them it's just scammers garbage and they won't even bother taking it seriously.
Frankly, I got really sick and tired of all the BS going on with ST and these stupid cheerleaders, both on the ST forums and these forums as well as others. The lies, the bullshit, the constant defending of John Horan, a man with no moral fiber at all in his body, the constant denial and the blame of members for John's misdeeds, it has to stop. I'm sick and tired of cheerleaders trying to sucker in people from foreign countries like China into joining ST. It is sickening as hell to see people bragging about how many referrals they can get from China and India, how many poor people who really need money as badly as possible are getting tricked into joining ST. The constant abuse from mods, the verbal abuse from ST cheerleaders getting pissy when people tell the truth about their garbage scam. I saw a blog with a person who received death threats from ST cheerleaders all because his blog told the truth and didn't lie and sold ST as some grand business.
So, I sent complaints to the SEC, and sent reports to CNN. Since ST cheerleaders like to boast on their forums that the SEC can't touch them and that ST can beat the US government, we shall truly see now. Go ahead and post this on the ST forums, I want all their members and cheerleaders to see this. This isn't a bluff either. I can't wait for CNN to report this scam and bring it out in the open for the public to see, and I can't wait for the SEC to crack down on this crap like a sledgehammer and bring John Horan to justice."
Thread with full post can be seen here: http://www.talkgold.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75941&page=3
But here, I stepped out of my character at talkgold, to post something very serious. Frankly, I am sick and tired of these ST cheerleading goofballs with no hearts at all coming on forums like talkgold.com, being rude and disrespectful to others, insulting and offensive, and overly arrogant. I am sick of ST cheerleaders posting on ST forums and other forums how nothing can stop ST and how ST is immune to the law. I am sick of it, plain and simple. I have reported ST to the SEC and to CNN in hopes of getting them reported in the media for the general public to see. We'll see if those cheerleaders still think ST is so invincible.
The following post is one I made under my joke name "John Horan" at talkgold.com, in response to a nasty insulting ST cheerleader, who felt it was his responsibility to insult and degrade other members who wish to speak the truth about ST. Read on to see my response. I want everyone reading this to read closely and think hard on what I am saying here. I am a major in advertising. I'm not some fancy hot shot CEO, but I have learned and am still learning many things from my professors, professors who are actually actively involved in advertising and advertising companies and the media. Everything I say in this post is real, and not lies, or "speculation", it is all based on cold hard facts. I could care less what the real John Horan or any ST mods or cheerleaders have to say. I trust my professors, who have actual credentials and years and years of real hands on experience in advertising, over some phony shadowy figure online pretending to run a legit business. This one is for you, the REAL John Horan, the scamming slimeball behind StudioTraffic. Any of you who wish to, may feel free to post what I say on the ST forums. Post so that the cheerleaders, mods, and John himself can see what I have to say. I especially want the innocent ST members who have done no wrong and are worried about what is going on to read, so that their eyes can fully be opened as to what is really going on.
If my posts seems overly harsh, I am sorry, but this person made very rude and disrespectful comments to myself and others, and I will NOT stand for it.
"I shall step out of character here to address the ramblings of this buffoon. See, my posts are merely entertainment, parodies of the real things John says. It doesn't take much to pretend to be John, just post in broken english and piss poor grammar, and constantly contradict yourself in each sentence.
And your disrespectful comments are mere assumptions and not even necessary at all. Tell me, why would I want to actually be John Horan? Who in their right mind says "I want to grow up to be a filthy lying scammer"? No one, that's who. I would rather earn my money in an honest and decent way, providing an actual service. I have far more respect for people who own stores on ebay than I ever would for John Horan, because they provide real products and services to people.
Tell me, what does John provide? ST paid in the beginning, but the program has proven to be a flop as all ponzi scams do. All John does now is BS his way through, making up phony programs to fool people like you into thinking ST is doing well. You know what? I hear John swear up and down that ST is not his company, but YOURS, the memebrs. So you tell me, since John says ST is YOUR company, what is the revenue earned by each of the branches of Studio Programs? Why is StudioBlogger, StudioWalker, and many other Studio Programs not up and running? Why is it that you can't even tell me who John Horan is, and where he is located, despite the fact he claims he is simply your partner in business? if I ran a business with partners, not only would I know their names, their faces, and what they are like, but I would also know where they live and have real ways of contacting them. Has John ever given you his phone number? His business card? His location? No, he hasn't, and yet you blindly trust him, all because at one point in time, ST USED TO pay people.
If ST is a great and fresh new business opportunity, then why have I seen no ads in any legitimate form of advertising? Ads on autosurfs and sites promoting HYIPs don't count. Where are the newspaper ads, the magazine ads? Where are the television spots? I am currently majoring in advertising in college, and I know for a fact that it is more than feasible for ST to have produced television spots, if the revenue they claim they have is real, they could easily have done it, so why haven't they? Why is a so called business that claims it is legit and prides itself on being so revolutionary, happens to be so scared to take the essential steps any real business takes when wanting to be known?
You do realize this same man you put on such a high pedestal doesn't even understand basic advertising concepts that people like me learned in our very first classes? John says revenue is down and they have less advertisers, because they "wooed less advertisers"? Sorry, that's a lame excuse. One of the basic rules in advertising is to NOT stop "wooing", you press on and keep your name out there. You search for opportunities when you can find them, you don't simply stop, especially due to something so BS as audits. These so called audits have no affect on advertising. Advertising would come from ST's own budget. You know, because REAL companies have actual budgets reserved solely for advertising? Since this is YOUR programs too, then tell me, what is your advertising budget? What are your campaign plans? What media vehicles do you plan on using to attract consumers? What is your target market and how do you plan to get their attention? Do you even know what is going on with your supposed company?
John makes the worst decisions anyone can make. He claims bad press is good, and that all the constant anti ST stuff going around online is good for ST. He honestly thinks bad press will cause people to look at ST and sign up hoping for the best. It doesn't work that way. Bad press is NOT good, regardless of what John tells you. One of the basic laws in advertising is that bad press is not good. Companies do not want bad press, why do you think companies spend so much money on Public Relations agents to spin stories and take the heat off of them? If bad press is so good, then why does John send people like you to spam forums in hopes of defending his awful scam's reputation?
Face it, ST is not a legit business, and this John Horan person knows jack shit about running a business or advertising. he made a ponzi scam that was successful for a time, and the time has come that it has stopped paying the vast majority of members. The fact that the forums are so ridiculously moderated to the point of insanity is just further proof of this. Anything posted is considered speculation or wrong when it is against ST. Yet when ass kissers make threads claiming ST will last forever till the day they die, no one seems to care, despite that being HUGE speculation.
Btw, I was looking on the ST forums and noticing certain cheerleaders boasting that the SEC cannot shut down ST, as ST is registered in Panama. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. ST has scammed countless US citizens which puts them in the jurisdiction of the US government. Not only that but:
-With the new anti terrorist laws in place, the government can go outside US jurisdiction if necessary. They could do it even before those laws were in place, now with these laws, they can be more aggressive than ever before.
-ST at one point allowed memebrs from anti US countries to sign up and make money. This alone looks extremely bad on their record. Doing "business" with people from Iran? I have nothing against people from the Middle East, but the government sure will find it interesting to know that a scam has been opening up the possibility for terrorists in anti US countries to earn and launder money.
-ST's TOS is meaningless. The government could care less if the TOS says payouts aren't guaranteed or if the payout percentage can be lwoered at any time. They sure as hell didn't care about Charis Johnson's TOS, which was the same garbage ST has on their site. The Feds don't give a rats ass about your measly TOS, to them it's just scammers garbage and they won't even bother taking it seriously.
Frankly, I got really sick and tired of all the BS going on with ST and these stupid cheerleaders, both on the ST forums and these forums as well as others. The lies, the bullshit, the constant defending of John Horan, a man with no moral fiber at all in his body, the constant denial and the blame of members for John's misdeeds, it has to stop. I'm sick and tired of cheerleaders trying to sucker in people from foreign countries like China into joining ST. It is sickening as hell to see people bragging about how many referrals they can get from China and India, how many poor people who really need money as badly as possible are getting tricked into joining ST. The constant abuse from mods, the verbal abuse from ST cheerleaders getting pissy when people tell the truth about their garbage scam. I saw a blog with a person who received death threats from ST cheerleaders all because his blog told the truth and didn't lie and sold ST as some grand business.
So, I sent complaints to the SEC, and sent reports to CNN. Since ST cheerleaders like to boast on their forums that the SEC can't touch them and that ST can beat the US government, we shall truly see now. Go ahead and post this on the ST forums, I want all their members and cheerleaders to see this. This isn't a bluff either. I can't wait for CNN to report this scam and bring it out in the open for the public to see, and I can't wait for the SEC to crack down on this crap like a sledgehammer and bring John Horan to justice."
Thread with full post can be seen here: http://www.talkgold.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75941&page=3
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