Will the power of the people (those whom seek coaching) eventually overcome the people in power (biggest, most popular coaching entities) is my overall question. I’m seeking experienced opinions here.

Considering the dog and pony show I’ve discovered through executive, business, career, personal, and other forms of coaching I became attracted to it. Not to play into its bait and switch bluster, but for the opposite reasons. That is because in my past, I have been no angel, business wise, reversing that previous behavior for over 10 years. Yet numerous relationships have asked for or depended on my advice; still do.

Circumventing the whole credential game I used nothing more than clear, vivid, confirmable experience. Nothing overly specialized but applying reasonable confidence from 6 years’ colleges, 2 relevant degrees, businesses founded from 19 years old, running (small) corporations, also employed by others over 38 years with significant physical activities, competitive sports, travel, many relationships from early family issues evolving to my own.

No need for displaying details; this coaching interest was literally because of my mistakes, seeking a coach then realizing this puffery. I decided with many relations: cohorts, vendors, competitors, law/regulation, small and large entities mixed with intimacies, big family issues and significant history that I may help or guide others.

I do see there are (I may refer) some coaches who are quite legitimate and have helped a fair number of individuals or entities. It’s in fact why I became more interested of its potential growth. But there is no question of the racket I see in different sections of this industry starting with the credentials‘ vapor wave of persuading their coach wannabes into selling the same system for a chunk of that revenue. I’ve commented in other subreddits it reminds me of the Alaska Gold, Rush.

This is about Boxing, not general business or World control. Yet, as a very pure boxing student and fan I must digress: monopoly, ever since the breakup AT&T, in its own sneaky ways, especially with the internet certainly made its way back. There is no way that DAZN or any promoter for that matter should even have the opportunity to negotiate, controlling Ring Magazine and their rankings. Notwithstanding their articles, internal operations, etc.

The previous elegance of Ring Magazine was in fact it’s dead-set honest rankings. If that’s over, it simply joins WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO, maybe Zuffa, and who knows what other manipulative, BS sanctioning, bodies or management teams or promoters who attempt to or do in fact, control the competitive nature that made up the traditional Bible of Boxing.

Don King has attempted this when he was younger and more energetic, succeeding on some fronts. All promoters do this however they should have no power over any ultimate ranking system. And there should really be only one. So? While this comment is not about to change history, I certainly see how most of the industry, that includes the media has, for the most part, sold its soul to the devil.

And that includes Turki. Has anyone ever looked up the actual Arabian regime, and the stuff they have done, as that journalist Khashoggi?
I don’t know of specific connections with Turki Alalshikh but it certainly included rough, monopolistic activities.

I see a ton of complaining in this sub about Google Business Profile. A small amount of it seems legit. Look, I’m no fan of massive tech monopolies, and I’m definitely not here to defend Google. But after reading through these posts, I think a lot of people are leaving out crucial context.
In my 30+ years running businesses, I’ve done my share of impulsive internet tactics that came back to bite me—skirting rules, taking shortcuts, or pushing boundaries. Most of the time I got away with it, but occasionally I paid for it.
Years ago, we hired a "map builder" SEO crew for one of my companies. They spammed local maps across our major metro area with listings where we didn't have real physical locations. We also rented a few small satellite offices just to verify addresses in key service areas. We actually serviced those areas and did great work, so to us, it felt like a gray area—not total fraud, but certainly not the pure truth either. Eventually, those cheap, poorly managed duplicate listings crumbled, or they simply stopped generating enough calls to justify the effort.
That’s my point: most games people play with GBP, fake reviews, or location spam are far worse than what we did.
While a tiny percentage of people genuinely get screwed by Google after doing everything right, I suspect the vast majority of people whining on here are omitting something. They either did something they shouldn't have, or neglected something they should have done.
Google’s review and map ecosystem isn't perfect, but it's built to catch people gaming the system. If you try to cut corners with GBP, don't be surprised when the algorithm eventually catches up with you.

I am trying to advertise a tour in tripadvisor.com. Between them and what they “say“ is their partner, viator.com along with some other partners they talk about it has been impossible to get this job done. We are all IT literate. Have experience with this. We put the profile in eight or nine times. It never submits properly. It doesn’t show up at all or pieces of it show up, but not the full submission.

They don’t clarify if anything was wrong with our images, text, contact information, payment methods, etc… We are willing to use their system of payment and give them their cut, which is totally unclear. I did use AI to ask about as it notified me that I should not put any of our own contact information in our profile, although there are places to submit your contact information. There’s nothing that says that you cannot do that.

Can anyone please advise as to the shenanigans that go on with submitting a new profile and a new trip to this organization?

Thanking anyone who helps!

I am trying to advertise a tour in tripadvisor.com. Between them and what they “say“ is their partner, viator.com along with some other partners they talk about it has been impossible to get this job done. We are all IT literate. Have experience with this. We put the profile in eight or nine times. It never submits properly. It doesn’t show up at all or pieces of it show up, but not the full submission.

They don’t clarify if anything was wrong with our images, text, contact information, payment methods, etc… We are willing to use their system of payment and give them their cut, which is totally unclear. I did use AI to ask about as it notified me that I should not put any of our own contact information in our profile, although there are places to submit your contact information. There’s nothing that says that you cannot do that.

Can anyone please advise as to the shenanigans that go on with submitting a new profile and a new trip to this organization?

Thanking anyone who helps!

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Ruiz: “Jake Paul said AJ refs Fury & me next”

 Forget Wembley. Apparently two British heavyweights fighting in Britain in front of a massive British crowd would make entirely too much sense. So naturally, MSG it is—because nothing says British boxing super-fight like an American corporation deciding where the British people should watch it from.

 At this point, Netflix should just appoint the entire fight staff. Jake Paul almost got the referee job. He’s American, he’s not an imagrant, and he understands the Netflix business model: make the biggest possible spectacle and worry about boxing afterward.

Andy Ruiz Jr. got ref job leaving the ring-announcer job to Jake Paul, just to make sure AJ has a nice, relaxing, memorable evening. NYC Moslem Mayor Mamdani and Don (King) Trump take two judging chairs. They obviously agree on everything, so reaching a unanimous decision together should be effortless.

Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller handles timekeeping, assuming someone can get that enormous 1970s afro through the arena door. Industrial-strength epoxy recommended this time

For the third judge, let’s go international and invite Hamas Leader Marwan Barghouti, because apparently the only for some positive geopolitical incident. Even Benji Netanyahu agrees.

And ringside will be Julius Edward Lupowitz, executive coach, whose known, high-end, commercial coaching also covers the highly complicated field of personal emotions. Fortunately, executives like Tyson Fury, Eddie Hearn, AJ and Jake Paul have already mastered their emotions, strategic thinking, psychological warfare and general bullshit—skills painstakingly developed through the science-engineered coaching methodology of Coach Lupowitz:

 AJ: “I’m fighting Tyson Fury in New York while Netflix has turned my Wembley Stadium into a remote viewing location.”

 Coach Lupowitz: “Anthony, let’s reframe that. You’re not fighting in America. You’re participating in a global content experience.”

AJ: “I fucking hate my coach.”

Jules (short for Julius): “But Mike Tyson is getting a % to wear his old Iron Mike mask and harass Robin Givens into remarriage! 

AJ + Fury: “OK, you’re right”.

**** Now we got it: two, rich, lazy, Ukrainian-Battered, British fighters, one American streaming company, one American venue and a judging panel capable of creating 3 diplomatic crises before round one… This isn’t Fury–Joshua. This is Netflix: World Peace — Live from Madison Square Garden.

Reputation management can also be called reputation repair. Management assumes their is or maybe a small problem, it might get bigger or some form of preventive maintenance so there is no problem in the future. By my own definition, reputation, repair is repairing a bad reputation.

How bad matters in there are techniques. The most popular technique talked about amongst well-known RM people is is to, “bury it” amongst either neutral or positive links. That all depends on the level of “bad“. A person or entity marketing, and selling product(s) or service(s) who had no reputation issues with a complaint or a few or some issue. It’s usually easily repairable. Maintenance to prevent something like this from happening is usually also easy.

But the links, website(s), image(s), video(s), etc appearing either searching for your offer or directly searching the name of your company or your personal name, if it’s a personalized business reputation it matters. Greatly.

Example 1: A restaurant most everyone likes, many love, but there was some issue with a few people getting sick. Or an employee with bad attitude. A few patrons made complaints online somewhere. That’s easy to bury, especially with something like Google reviews especially or Yelp. Resolving the issue, then motivating your clients to leave good reviews can resolve it. Especially if they’re inclined to write details about how good the food and service is. There are many other things to be done, positively and honestly to bury a few complaints. Especially if the restaurant is truly credible.

Example 2: A law firm handling divorces who have a neutral or decent reputation. They do what many divorce lawyers do; inflame the problem, inflame those involved to create animosity between the participants. That’s a bad thing however it’s not necessarily unacceptable depending upon many things like the jurisdiction and their relation of them to local authorities. But it is wrong and we know that. One or just a few clients catch some of their efforts to create a bigger and more expensive case then expected. They complain to local authorities, various complaints websites, comment in Facebook, posting facts and documents that display this manipulative behavior. That’s a lot harder to bury or repair. Although it can be done with creative measures. I should know. I was involved in this.

If any issue goes to court, crimes or suits or corrections made or something illegal was done and published on the net. To an otherwise productive or positive organization that does do a good job elsewhere, something like this can really hurt revenue. Not just law firms of course, but in any type of a business or single professionals with reputable names.

Many links that come up before your name when searching it or when searching relevant to your business are soft or easier to bury. Others are more powerful, especially big news, media and government links.

Burying these things may take a very long time and can even be impossible. If they’re strong enough or if there are a larger number of them. This can be done, I know how to do it because I’m doing it right now with myself. It’s working out well because I’m helping a lot of people. I’m not in this business, but I may be.

My personal and business issues are very hard to solve. They’re not 100% resolved, but they will be. Why? How?

Simple. By helping people in similar situations. I’m not a born do-good-er but it is enjoyable, especially as a strategy. It helps me in many ways; not just personally. I’m getting better at it. Legitimately. Honestly. Measurably. I’ve done this for a few others. Decent people with thorns in their sides. Financially very costly thorns. In my case, it’s more than money. It’s just my personal reputation amongst all friends, family, cohorts, associates, who just know me. Correcting the issue by coming clean with it was part of it, but it’s much more than that. Now some entities are requesting my advice. That’s not burying it. It’s changing my behavior.

That story coordinates like a bull’s-eye to guide people who have, usually, much less intense negative links before and around, searches for them.

It’s just a great feeling just being who/what I am, always was, not what media, government displayed. I’m getting correctly recognized, helping others and just sharing publicly at this point.

Reputation management can also be called reputation repair. Management assumes their is or maybe a small problem, it might get bigger or some form of preventive maintenance so there is no problem in the future. By my own definition, reputation, repair is repairing a bad reputation.

How bad matters in there are techniques. The most popular technique talked about amongst well-known RM people is is to, “bury it” amongst either neutral or positive links. That all depends on the level of “bad“. A person or entity marketing, and selling product(s) or service(s) who had no reputation issues with a complaint or a few or some issue. It’s usually easily repairable. Maintenance to prevent something like this from happening is usually also easy.

But the links, website(s), image(s), video(s), etc appearing either searching for your offer or directly searching the name of your company or your personal name, if it’s a personalized business reputation it matters. Greatly.

Example 1: A restaurant most everyone likes, many love, but there was some issue with a few people getting sick. Or an employee with bad attitude. A few patrons made complaints online somewhere. That’s easy to bury, especially with something like Google reviews especially or Yelp. Resolving the issue, then motivating your clients to leave good reviews can resolve it. Especially if they’re inclined to write details about how good the food and service is. There are many other things to be done, positively and honestly to bury a few complaints. Especially if the restaurant is truly credible.

Example 2: A law firm handling divorces who have a neutral or decent reputation. They do what many divorce lawyers do; inflame the problem, inflame those involved to create animosity between the participants. That’s a bad thing however it’s not necessarily unacceptable depending upon many things like the jurisdiction and their relation of them to local authorities. But it is wrong and we know that. One or just a few clients catch some of their efforts to create a bigger and more expensive case then expected. They complain to local authorities, various complaints websites, comment in Facebook, posting facts and documents that display this manipulative behavior. That’s a lot harder to bury or repair. Although it can be done with creative measures. I should know. I was involved in this.

If any issue goes to court, crimes or suits or corrections made or something illegal was done and published on the net. To an otherwise productive or positive organization that does do a good job elsewhere, something like this can really hurt revenue. Not just law firms of course, but in any type of a business or single professionals with reputable names.

Many links that come up before your name when searching it or when searching relevant to your business are soft or easier to bury. Others are more powerful, especially big news, media and government links.

Burying these things may take a very long time and can even be impossible. If they’re strong enough or if there are a larger number of them. This can be done, I know how to do it because I’m doing it right now with myself. It’s working out well because I’m helping a lot of people. I’m not in this business, but I may be.

My personal and business issues are very hard to solve. They’re not 100% resolved, but they will be. Why? How?

Simple. By helping people in similar situations. I’m not a born do-good we but it is enjoyable, especially as a strategy. It helps me in many ways; not just personally. I’m getting better at it. Legitimately. Honestly. Measurably. I’ve done this for a few others. Decent people with thorns in their sides. Financially very costly thorns. In my case, it’s more than money. It’s just my personal reputation amongst all friends, family, cohorts, associates, who just know me. Correcting the issue by coming clean with it was part of it, but it’s much more than that. Now some entities are requesting my advice. That’s not burying it. It’s changing my behavior.

That story coordinates like a bull’s-eye to guide people who have, usually, much less intense negative links before and around, searches for them.

It’s just a great feeling just being who/what I am, always was, not what media, government displayed. I’m getting correctly recognized, helping others and just sharing publicly at this point.

Reputation management can also be called reputation repair. Management assumes their is or maybe a small problem, it might get bigger or some form of preventive maintenance so there is no problem in the future. By my own definition, reputation, repair is repairing a bad reputation.

How bad matters in there are techniques. The most popular technique talked about amongst well-known RM people is is to, “bury it” amongst either neutral or positive links. That all depends on the level of “bad“. A person or entity marketing, and selling product(s) or service(s) who had no reputation issues with a complaint or a few or some issue. It’s usually easily repairable. Maintenance to prevent something like this from happening is usually also easy.

But the links, website(s), image(s), video(s), etc appearing either searching for your offer or directly searching the name of your company or your personal name, if it’s a personalized business reputation it matters. Greatly.

Example 1: A restaurant most everyone likes, many love, but there was some issue with a few people getting sick. Or an employee with bad attitude. A few patrons made complaints online somewhere. That’s easy to bury, especially with something like Google reviews especially or Yelp. Resolving the issue, then motivating your clients to leave good reviews can resolve it. Especially if they’re inclined to write details about how good the food and service is. There are many other things to be done, positively and honestly to bury a few complaints. Especially if the restaurant is truly credible.

Example 2: A law firm handling divorces who have a neutral or decent reputation. They do what many divorce lawyers do; inflame the problem, inflame those involved to create animosity between the participants. That’s a bad thing however it’s not necessarily unacceptable depending upon many things like the jurisdiction and their relation of them to local authorities. But it is wrong and we know that. One or just a few clients catch some of their efforts to create a bigger and more expensive case then expected. They complain to local authorities, various complaints websites, comment in Facebook, posting facts and documents that display this manipulative behavior. That’s a lot harder to bury or repair. Although it can be done with creative measures. I should know. I was involved in this.

If any issue goes to court, crimes or suits or corrections made or something illegal was done and published on the net. To an otherwise productive or positive organization that does do a good job elsewhere, something like this can really hurt revenue. Not just law firms of course, but in any type of a business or single professionals with reputable names.

Many links that come up before your name when searching it or when searching relevant to your business are soft or easier to bury. Others are more powerful, especially big news, media and government links.

Burying these things may take a very long time and can even be impossible. If they’re strong enough or if there are a larger number of them. This can be done, I know how to do it because I’m doing it right now with myself. It’s working out well because I’m helping a lot of people. I’m not in this business, but I may be.

My personal and business issues are very hard to solve. They’re not 100% resolved, but they will be. Why? How?

Simple. By helping people in similar situations. I’m not a born do-good we but it is enjoyable, especially as a strategy. It helps me in many ways; not just personally. I’m getting better at it. Legitimately. Honestly. Measurably. I’ve done this for a few others. Decent people with thorns in their sides. Financially very costly thorns. In my case, it’s more than money. It’s just my personal reputation amongst all friends, family, cohorts, associates, who just know me. Correcting the issue by coming clean with it was part of it, but it’s much more than that. Now some entities are requesting my advice. That’s not burying it. It’s changing my behavior.

That story coordinates like a bull’s-eye to guide people who have, usually, much less intense negative links before and around, searches for them.

It’s just a great feeling just being who/what I am, always was, not what media, government displayed. I’m getting correctly recognized, helping others and just sharing publicly at this point.

Over the past several months I’ve researched executive, business, personal, and reputation management coaching. I’ve looked into many of the better-known certifications, credentials, and diploma programs, spoken with coaches, sat through AI intake systems, taken advantage of free 15–20 minute consultations, and tried to verify referrals and past successes.

Surprisingly, I didn’t find the larger, higher-ranked organizations to be any more convincing than smaller competitors. I even paid for one service, but the results were uncertain. Most of what I found was marketing language about experience and success, with very little that could be independently verified. Testimonials often led nowhere, or I couldn’t reach the people behind them.

One thing I also noticed is that many certification programs appear to be taught by coaches who also sell coaching or reputation management services.

So here’s the question I’d like opinions on:

If someone is truly making an excellent living coaching clients or repairing reputations, why would they spend time creating certifications and selling courses instead of simply coaching?

Is it because teaching is more profitable? Is it about building the profession? Creating another revenue stream? Or am I overlooking something?

I’d especially like to hear from people who have earned coaching certifications, built successful coaching practices, or hired executive or reputation coaches. What has your experience been?

I’ve done a couple of crimes, one went slightly viral because it was relevant to other idiotic crimes like mine. Another one is both a .gov link as well as a few media driven newspaper links.

I’ve had a business for 38 years, but served two years in federal prison for one of these crimes. Both make me look like a real idiot. But I’m fully educated, great schools, have referrals of clients, friends and other professionals, including family, and I even started my own Google review page under my name where three reviews already started in that - five stars.

I started a website less than a year ago, which is absolutely helping as I’ve written on it and posts I’ve made in various media with reasonable links to those that are quite relevant (to my criminal actions) to those subjects in general and who what I actually am. I am known as very creative, fairly successful, but those bad links destroyed my or any trust unless people know me well.

Burying them with over 100 posts irrelevant to these crimes or my issue has helped but hadn’t pushed the bad links far as in pages away…..

The damage on these links is of course intensely incriminating. Yet I have well over 100 images and videos of myself in life before and after (jail) that’s quite vivid and positive with travel, showing that I’m quite normal or respectable. Some unique… So I’ve decided to add the links with the photos with those mug shots that are so disparaging in a section called my credibility on my website.

That page starts off with my true self, education, which are known on the Internet involved with me, etc. Along with more realistic photographs of myself with different people, some of them also ranked, plus in the testimonials on the website. It’s become an incessant chase if not obsessive over getting trusted by new contacts who don’t yet know me then judge on first impressions of what that media, under 10 links has done to my name.

The reason I’m putting those links with those mug shots and the damaging complaints onto my website along with text and links on related issues about how negative media on net destroys immediate perception vs facts on a person: My goal is when my name is searched, even though my website does come up with LinkedIn profile first, second or third is to obliterate those mug shot media links by displaying my more accurate versions of them with details, truth and other links & images that are much more relevant to me along with detailed text that is also more relevant to who and what I always was.

If anyone has handled reputation management or especially reputation and succeeded at it I’d love your opinion.

Let’s not misunderstand here; I certainly have my complaints about AI issues. Mostly with virtual receptionist which never have the option you need to press or address. It’s obvious that AI could not handle what basic clerks can handle. Many small businesses use these as “intake systems” to appear “big or corporate or professional”. It’s completely annoying.

More so when they so obviously send you into a circle so that you hang up and don’t bother them. Mind you, that cannot be done with the smaller, competing businesses. It’s always big business, big entities, government, medical, sometimes educational. It’s absolutely a variation of what used to be called monopoly. It just comes out in a different way today. And the AI with virtual receptionists’ purposefully unsupportive design is the message today versus what used to be something as simple as price or market control.

That being said, this annoyance will dissipate (same as standard oil or AT&T, breaking up). Same as iPhones took over cell phones took over land lines or voice mail with tape recorders. Some evolution is automatically more efficient. Microwave ovens for instance. Digital watches. Newspapers and magazines versus radio versus television versus YouTube & the net. And streaming.

Remember the worry, computers were going to destroy jobs? Computers, like evolution createed more jobs. Complex industries.

Historically, the industrial revolution left plenty of initial conflict. The automobile threatened the horse and buggy which was more reliable, at first. We can certainly go on. Most uneducated people don’t recall or don’t know this. Evolution cannot be stopped. Along with new perspectives which always existed. Like the sexual revolution. It’s always been there just with lots of frustration for unique people. So? Coming out of the closet was a sadly unfair connotation but it’s dissipating; as it’s evolving.

Yes, that’s a different subject. Although it’s quite related. In what way? One overwhelming fact: many progressive people can get affected negatively by inexperienced, less educated, shallow or prejudiced people. Not in the long run, however.

Im no different than most folks frustrated with AI systems and apps attempting to provide services as information, support, simple answers. It’s absolutely trickle down from Giant to large to medium, and now even small businesses. The message is us the same: pass your money, don’t bother us.

This recent post summarizes it: The Entrepreneur article by Natalie Ruiz is titled "AI in Customer Service Is Eroding Trust — Here's What You Need to Know Before It Derails Your Business"

I am no proponent of things like this which bother most of us, and scare others. But I also know the annoyance will dissipate quickly enough. It’s similar to an essay required in my management class at Hofstra University in 1985: Are computers destroying jobs. The answer was more than just no. That evolution was in fact creating more jobs, just changing the types of jobs; replacing traditional work with evolved positions.

Im no different than most folks frustrated with AI systems and apps attempting to provide services as information, support, simple answers. It’s absolutely trickle down from Giant to large to medium, and now even small businesses. The message is us the same: pass your money, don’t bother us.

This recent post summarizes it: The Entrepreneur article by Natalie Ruiz is titled "AI in Customer Service Is Eroding Trust — Here's What You Need to Know Before It Derails Your Business"

I am no proponent of things like this which bother most of us, and scare others. But I also know the annoyance will dissipate quickly enough. It’s similar to an essay required in my management class at Hofstra University in 1985: Are computers destroying jobs. The answer was more than just no. That evolution was in fact creating more jobs, just changing the types of jobs; replacing traditional work with evolved positions.

To be even more accurate I am on the big end annoyance or frustration when it comes to things like taking over everything from virtual receptionists in Giant entities to making a reservation in our local restaurant. However, I was also around during the Cold War, which disappeared along with various threats to the United States, the year 2000 connected with the coming of some bad spirits or Jesus, multiple UFO stories, Bigfoot, etc. I recall the story of a radio message or commercial popularized before I was born, where the men from Mars will be attacking the Earth.

It’s one thing to be bugged by a system like AI that will backfire to some degree. It’s another thing to think that stuff like that is gonna take over Earth.

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