{"id":1567,"date":"2009-10-13T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T04:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/proline-tv-show-jim-feist-on-life-support\/"},"modified":"2010-10-16T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T21:50:32","slug":"proline-tv-show-jim-feist-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/proline-tv-show-jim-feist-on-life-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Proline TV Show Jim Feist on Life Support?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">It looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a><br \/>\nare not the only ones falling prey to the enormously successful professional<br \/>\nfootball handicappers at <strong><a><br \/>\nhref=&#8221;http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/&#8221;&gt;<span style=\"color: windowtext;\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><span><br \/>\nstyle=&#8217;mso-spacerun:yes&#8217;&gt; <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">Rumor is rampant that the Jim Feist Proline TV show could<br \/>\nsoon be on the brink of extinction as they struggle to make budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">It\u2019s no secret that the company has lost <a><br \/>\nhref=&#8221;http:\/\/www.bigstickmedia.com\/pr-2009-10-07.pdf&#8221;&gt;$2.6 million over the<br \/>\nprevious two quarters<\/a> fighting an uphill battle losing clients to superior <a><br \/>\nhref=&#8221;http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/&#8221;&gt;sports handicapping<\/a> dynasties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">According to industry expert Brian <span class=\"SpellE\">Kayma<\/span><br \/>\nof CasinoBettingNews.com, \u201cFeist built an empire by being the first and biggest<br \/>\non cable television. Wayne <span class=\"SpellE\">Allyn<\/span> Root tried to<br \/>\nduplicate but made the blunder of hiring washed up athletes and middling<br \/>\ncoaches to lend their name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">Steve <span class=\"SpellE\">Budin<\/span>, Brandon Lang, and<br \/>\nAl <span class=\"SpellE\">DeMarco<\/span> have tried a similar model on regional<br \/>\nsports networks. Jonathan Stone, Jeff Allen, and a list of<br \/>\nsuspects purchase expensive radio infomercial time. Johnny Bono is buying \u201c<span><br \/>\nclass=SpellE&gt;telematched<\/span>\u201d calling lists. None of the above can <span><br \/>\nclass=GramE&gt;compete<\/span> with the unprecedented winning of Stevie Vincent,<br \/>\nJoe Duffy, Mike Godsey, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a><br \/>\nhref=&#8221;http:\/\/www.bignews.biz\/?id=816539&amp;keys=mattrivers-sportsadvisors-handicapper-footballpicks&#8221;&gt;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><br \/>\nstyle=&#8217;color:windowtext&#8217;&gt;Matt Rivers<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>,\u201d concludes <span><br \/>\nclass=SpellE&gt;Kayma<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">Boasts OffshoreInsiders.com CEO Joe Duffy, \u201cWe have a<br \/>\nsimple, five-point business model:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">1. Get the best handicappers and let the product sell itself.<br \/>\n2. Get the best handicappers and let the product sell itself.<br \/>\n3. Get the best handicappers and let the product sell itself.<br \/>\n4. Get the best handicappers and let the product sell itself.<br \/>\n5. Get the best handicappers and let the product sell itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">Duffy says that he has been an employee, General Manager,<br \/>\nand CEO in the industry spreading over a quarter century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">If a client purchases at least seven-days (minimum enough<br \/>\nto sample a product), the industry average is that 7-to-12 percent will still<br \/>\nbe a client in two years. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\"><span><br \/>\nstyle=&#8217;color:windowtext&#8217;&gt;OffshoreInsiders.com<\/span><\/a> that number is a<br \/>\nmind-boggling 79-to-92 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">\u201cOver the last four years, 90 percent of my clients were burned by higher<br \/>\nprofile handicappers, but they become a client of BetOnSports360.com and never<br \/>\nlook back,\u201d says Stevie Vincent founder of forensic sports handicapping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\">Why do clients keep coming back and back to<br \/>\nOffshoreInsiders.com, the advisors to 95 percent of professional sports<br \/>\nbettors? Says Duffy, \u201cSports bettors are essentially getting a Mercedes Benz<br \/>\nfor less than they paid for a <span class=\"SpellE\">Yugo<\/span>. The decision is<br \/>\neasy\u201d when it comes to getting winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettorsadvice.com\/\">football<br \/>\npicks<\/a>. The strategy of building a website around the best sports picks is<br \/>\nworking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the sportsbooks are not the only ones falling prey to the enormously successful professional football handicappers at href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/&#8221;&gt;OffshoreInsiders.com style=&#8217;mso-spacerun:yes&#8217;&gt; Rumor is rampant that the Jim Feist Proline TV show could soon be on the brink of extinction as they struggle to make budget. It\u2019s no secret that the company has lost href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.bigstickmedia.com\/pr-2009-10-07.pdf&#8221;&gt;$2.6 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/proline-tv-show-jim-feist-on-life-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Proline TV Show Jim Feist on Life Support?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[270,279,56,278,116,234],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-al-demarco","tag-feist-proline","tag-jim-feist","tag-proline","tag-proline-tv","tag-steve-budin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8658,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}