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Review: The Rich Jerk: making money on the internet

The Rich Jerk: making money on the internet

The Rich Jerk is one of the most famous affiliate products in the internet marketing niche, and a classic example of anti-marketing. The Rich Jerk is well-known for the purposely obnoxious attitude. Does anti-marketing work? Is the Rich Jerk worth a purchase? Let’s take a fresh look at this old product.

The Rich Jerk table of contents

As with all my reviews, when possible, I will post the table of contents so you get an idea of what the product offers and also to prove that I have actually read the document.

The Rich Jerk table of contents are:

1. Creating an affiliate website that sells like crazy
   • Affiliate networks
   • Sales letters
   • Offering rebates
   • Getting paid per lead
   • Building your affiliate website
2. Unique search engine PPC strategies that kill the competition
   • Pay-per-click
   • Google adsense
   • Google adwords
   • Building your own traffic middleman website
3. Search engine optimization strategies (SEO)
   • Incoming links
   • Page content
   • Miscellaneous SEO strategies
   • Cloaking
4. Selling your own informational product
   • Creaing your product
   • Building your website
   • Getting affiliate to promoter your product
   • Emails
   • Legitimacy
   • Miscellaneous
5. Buying wholesale and selling on eBay
   • Wholesale buying rules
   • Wholesale supplier list
   • Buyer and seller communities
   • Useful wholesale resources
6. WEbsites you can make profitable right now
   • Clickbank websites
   • Examples of websites that made me over $1 million dollars
7. Other online ventures to consider
   • E-currencies
   • HYIP
8. Supplemental info for beginners
   • Creating your own website
   • Placing affiliate tracking codes and ads on your website
   • Affiliate networks and affilaite programs: what are they? How do they work?
   • Google adwords
   • Google adsense
   • Pay Per Click (PPC) Search Engines
   • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
   • Clickbank: How to create and sell a product on Clickbank
   • eBay - how to set up your own eBay store and sell goods
   • Website cloaking for beginners: what it is, how to do it
9. Quality products/services, highly recommended
   • Affiliate programs and tools

That’s it for this 64 page ebook.

What’s good about the Rich Jerk

The Rich Jerk provides a fairly comprehensive primer of affiliate and internet marketing, covering most of the basics. If you have no idea how affiliate marketing works, you should obtain a decent idea of what you are getting into from reading the Rich Jerk. There are also a good number of examples and pictures to help visual learners.

Also, the Rich Jerk now costs just under $10. That is a great deal compared to other ebooks offering exactly the same information for five or ten times the price. The quality of the writing is professional, and this is clearly a polished product, unlike the Six Figure Yearly program that I reviewed earlier.

What’s bad about the Rich Jerk

As usual, most of the information can be obtained for free from elsewhere. However, beyond that, the Rich Jerk also offers some simplistic or naive views that can confuse or harm beginners. The fundamental techniques are fine, but the reader should realize that there are many people who are trying similar things now, and the market is saturated. For example, the sample sales letter in the ebook is duplicated many, many times on the web. The jaded visitor will not be influenced by that. You won’t find any killer “secrets” in this ebook. Then, again, you won’t find such secrets in any book because they don’t exist. Just realize what you are getting - an introductory text.

The notes on high-yield investment plans (HYIP) and e-currencies are dangerous. Stay away from them. They are pretty much all scams or high-risk deals with no rewards. I can’t believe the Rich Jerk mentioned them. The section on website cloaking and “blackhat” techniques is laughably simple. It’s okay to play around with blackhat techniques, but they can be costly if you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s better to spend your time on the fundamentals first, but if you are interested in blackhat techniques, spend your time reading blackhat forums.

When the Rich Jerk was overpriced, I would NOT have recommended. However, seeing that it only costs $10 now, I guess I’m neutral. That’s about the price of a movie ticket. Eh.

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