I had the opportunity to read The Rich Jerk's ebook the other day and I
figured this would be a good time to post a review. I found a banner
advertising it on the million dollar home page which said something
like "haha I'm rich and your not" (note the misspelling of you're). Ok
you'd think this jerk would be able to afford someone to spell check
his advertisements, but anyway... I thought to myself "wow, what an
***hole" and after reading his website I knew I was right. He has an
ego the size of China, and it is questionable just how rich he really
is. His web site has supposed proof of his huge paychecks. Is he really
that wealthy? Perhaps. He claims if you took away his money he could
get it all back within a year if given a copy of his book. He purports
to be that guy you see driving the Ferrari thinking "look at that
jerk". You can see what I mean about the ego in the banner below.
He claims to be able to show you how to become rich by creating and
advertising web sites. If you are proficient with the Internet and
computers you have a better chance of making use of the tips he
presents. If you are an existing webmaster and have your own web server
already, you are pretty much setup to put his ideas into motion. I
don't think that any of his ideas will make you rich overnight, since
it takes time/money/effort to get something like this going, but it is
definitely easy to try. It would help to have a few hundred dollars
handy to get some of these ideas put into motion faster, but it isn't
required. The more resources you have available to fund this venture
the better off you'll be and the faster you'll be able to get the money
rolling in. Prior to reading this book I thought I knew quite a bit
about google adwords/adsense and other forms of generating revenue with
affiliate programs, but I was wrong.
I let the ideas presented in The Rich
Jerk Book marinate in my head for a
couple of days before I
suddenly had an epiphany and had to rush home to put them into motion.
I don't want to go into details about my other sites/ventures/ideas but
time will tell whether it works out or not. The Jerk is so confident
that his book will blow your mind that he's offering a money back
guarantee, so I don't see what there really is to lose. The price is
very good considering the content, and I can't imagine putting these
ideas to work and not having them pay for the book at least ten times
over. He is so confident that his book will put you on the right track
to making serious cash that he offers a full guarantee. If you buy the
guide, try it, and fail, he is willing to offer personal support and
assistance. If that fails he'll happily give you a refund.
Many of the methods provided in this e-book are not limited to
webmasters, as it covers a few ways of making online such as buying
items wholesale and reselling them, as well as selling items on eBay
and drop shipping. There are a few other things as well which can be
utilized without being a webmaster, but I feel that many of them would
require additional investigation and research prior to diving in. This
isn't to say they aren't good ways to make money, but dumping a pile of
money into something seems silly if you don't know anything about it.
You wouldn't go spend $300 on a stock you don't know anything about
just because someone told you it was good would you? If the answer is
no, then you are like me. Unless you already have piles of money laying
around.. and if you did you probably wouldn't be here reading this!
Only time will tell if these methods are truly effective or not. You
have to find a niche to fill that isn't already highly competitive.
This I believe is the key to making money online. Find your niche and
fill it. You'll hear people say it a million times. You'll never be
able to compete on the search engines for the most popular keywords.
You're better off ranking #1 for a less popular keyword than you are
ranking #93 for a very popular one. Anyway, I am straying off the
subject here.
Having a small network of web sites of my own, I decided it was time to
step them up a notch. I work a normal job during the day and take home
a decent salary. I decided that it would be extremely stupid of me not
to invest some of my regular income toward generating additional income
for me (in addition to my normal investments). Using extra money that I
already get on a regular basis to generate more profit for me sounds
obvious, but I don't know why I didn't think of it before. I was
spending it on performance car parts, computer stuff, movies, etc. Well
now I re-invest the money I get out of my sites and am using it to
build my Internet Empire. See my other article about my Search Engine
Optimization guide for more information about this. By this time next
year I plan to make 4x as much money from my web sites as I do right
now. You could easily do the same thing.
This guide also has a section about making web sites that sell. It has
some very good information about writing good sales copy. If there's
one thing I personally suck at, it is selling things. I hate selling
things, even to people that want to buy products from me.
The Rich
Jerk feels that selling an informational product online is
the easiest way to get rich. You create a product of your own and let
some affiliates sell it for you. All you need is to write a good sales
copy (there's a great section in the book about this), create a product
of some kind that people want (get rich, lose weight, etc). All you
need to do is provide the download and let a company like clickbank
handle the payment portion. With a bit of promotion and a product to
sell you can get other webmasters to sell it for you with an affiliate
program. I have my email setup to send a message to my cell phone when
I make a sale and to me there's no better feeling than getting a
message telling me I made some money while I'm on on vacation, or
driving down the freeway. Both of those things have happened to me in
the past week (woohoo!). I may not be a rj yet, but I am looking
forward to getting there.
Personally I think this book is good enough to recommend to close
friends, which I have already done. I even think it is good enough to
tell them to buy their own copy of the book rather than pirating it. It
is very easy to read, and kept me reading for a long time the first
day. This is huge because getting me this excited about something and
ready to act right away isn't easy. Also, if you sign up for his
affiliate program you can sell it to your friends, which would easily
pay for your copy (it would only take 2 referred sales to pay for your
book).
In fact, I found this book to be so motivating, I would say that it is
worth the price JUST for the inspiration you will get from it, even if
the information in it is completely useless to you (which it couldn't
be!)
UPDATE: I have been putting some of these ideas to work the past couple
months, and last month my sites made a record amount of revenue (2.5
times higher than they've done before). Obviously this means the book
paid itself off many many times over already, and things are continuing
to increase.
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