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I Was A Rich Jerk Once

Posted by Paul B | September 8, 2007 .

You must have seen it? One of the many adverts that abound the internet for an exclusive rich club. Some arrogant bloke ranting at you via the medium of a black on yellow filled squeeze page? The talk of millions of dollars a month, fast cars, expensive holidays all just by signing up to their exclusive limited number, members only get rich website!

Well a long time ago when I was a bit stupid (ok, maybe not that long ago) I decided to give one of these Rich Jerk clubs a go. It was at a time when I still had the stability of my day job, my internet earnings were bonus money and $30 a month was neither here nor there. I was making a very good amount from Adsense and affiliate earnings but there was always just that niggling thought that I was missing out on my fortune. My first impressions of the Rich Jerks club were mixed.

For A Millionaires Website This Looks A bit….Amateurish

If a picture paints a thousand words then all the words I could see were cheap. It looked like a badly put together template hovering slightly off centre above some sort of CMS. Each of the menu options brought you to a page that looked just as bad as the previous. What made it worse was that just as I joined there were switching templates, this resulted in broken links a aplenty and lots of lost forum posts. For a billion-squillionaire you’d think they could afford a half decent web developer to put their site together? Anyhoo, I wasn’t here to look at nice things, the content was what would matter, the forums and downloads and at a first impression these looked good. Lots of downloads and lots of forum posts from active members and I couldn’t wait to get stuck in.

Bugger

As I started to read the exclusive members only forum it soon started to become apparent that I’d made a mistake. For a completely full members club with hundreds of members very few people were posting. There seemed to be 2 groups, those fan boys that did nothing but shout out praise for the owner of the site in any situation and were always on the look out for people to exchange links with. The other group being those asking questions about how to get the various free software tools and content he was giving away working. A few hours of reading through this was enough to kick me into action, I decided to have a look at the downloads myself. Various things ranging from PLR content and software tools for disguising links, making random paragraphs, other junk, I think the idea was that you would download the stuff for free to re-brand and then sell. To be fair there really was a lot of this stuff. The trouble was that you could find hundreds of copies of the same articles and content plastered all over the net. You’re not going to do a lot with the search engines with that. The software all seemed rushed, buggy and if you were willing to try and sell if for the $60-$90 that they recommended then you’re a braver man than me.

After several weeks in the club it became obvious that the real way of making money here was to make your own members only exclusive internet Rich Jerks club. The only people in the forums who were making real money were all talking about setting up their own clubs. The owner himself was constantly on about setting up at least 1 other club for us all to join. It was also clear that the majority of the “Rich Jerks” here were earning a lot less than me in an average month. The talk of dollars here and there was enough to give that away. The promise of an exclusive club of rich jerks all making money and sharing advice sounds great, until you realise that there is only 1 jerk actually making the money. I did what anybody else would do, downloaded everything (just in case 1 day…you never know) and left the club before my second payment was made.

As part of the deal it is made very clear that once you quit you’re never allowed back, I guess it’s some way of trying to scare people out of quitting. It’s such a shame, because I’m desperate to get back in…

(I’ve just had a thought, if I was a real millionaire guru type I should have posted a great review with an affiliate link, damn!)

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  1. Marguerite Jasmin HAITI Windows 2000 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6  September 10, 2007 3:08 pm

    What a coincidence, no later than last weekend I came across a web site called the Rich Jerk dot com. The Rich Jerk promised to build me my very own money making web site for free. I didn’t like the idea of doing business with a jerk so I did not join.

  2. Paul B UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6  September 10, 2007 7:31 pm

    There are a lot of these clubs out there so who knows maybe some are worth the money? Somehow I doubt it !

    Get rich by making a get rich members only website, there’s probably a working business model there.

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    Human are greedy (when speaking about money), so if someone can make you rich why he would not (in first place) make himself even more rich than what he/she is…to me, it smells…fishy.

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