Dear Loser,

A lot of you guys out there, who are affiliates for stuff, are playing the Google Adwords game, right? And as we all know, Google is the online equivalent of the creepy, popular, born-again stepdad who's boinking your mom and trying to be a good guy, but he's just a loser you secretly wish would die.

(Daddy issues? Nah...)

Anyway, if you're using Adwords to get affiliate traffic, you are probably having a hard time - especially with their dang quality score nonsense.

Well, here's a nifty little trick I use for my affiliate marketing efforts you should definitely begin using immediately.

However - it DOES cost a bit of money, so all you broke-ass losers out there, stop reading this post right now because I don't want to hear you bitching about how broke you are - especially if you can't afford the $10 it's gonna cost you to do this little ditty.

All right, that said, here's the trick...

Go to GoDaddy.com, and register a brand new domain name with your main keyword in it somewhere. So if we were an affiliate for some car product, we'd get a domain like "www.findanewdamncar.com"

Once we pay our $8 (or whatever) to buy that domain, we set it up so that domain is masked to our affiliate link for the car program. You can do this pretty easily in GoDaddy. Just go into the control panel for that domain and go to "forwarding," but instead of forwarding the domain, you'll be masking it. This means that domain name is still in the address bar when a visitor visits the merchant's site, even though your affiliate link was the page that loaded.

Then you go and create your google adwords campaigns using this link. The key here is to have your main keyword IN the link. If you have this, it will actually bump up your quality score. Use this as the display and destination URL.

What does this do for you?

Well, number 1 - as I already said, Google will increase your quality score if you have your primary keyword that you're targeting in your domain name.

Number 2 - If your affiliate program is sucking, you can go into GoDaddy and change the affiliate link. If you went into Google to change your link, your ads would stop running until the changes were approved. This way, you can test numerous programs and not miss a beat or mess with your adwords. (You can even set up a split test link and test multiple affiliate programs at the same time by doing this)

Number 3 - It makes it hard for people to spy on you. If you have multiple keywords you're targeting, get a new domain name for each one, each with the keyword you're targeting in it. This way, if someone stumbles across one domain of yours and SpyFus that mother, they won't have all your keywords and ads, just a small piece of a larger puzzle.

Yes, if you get really into this, like me, you'll be buying up lots of domain names, and it can get expensive. But an added benefit is that a targeted domain actually tends to increase conversions, so this technique could end up making you more money than you spent in the long run.

Later,

-RJ
(RJ Headquarters)

Posted by The Rich Jerk at 09:00 AM
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Dear Loser,

Check this:

JoeF over on the Warriors Forum posted this:

JoeF writes: Hey All,

I can't figure this out for the life of me and I'm hoping you can help.

I have a Yoga/Breathing program for athletes (with a unique twist) that I created.

If you were doing it, would you create a general "catch all" website for all sports and athletes - trying to brand yourself/program as the go-to/authority. Which of course could be broken down into individual sports inside the site in a message forum (or whatever).

Or...

Would you create 10 or so sites and put a spin on the general program for each individual sport (i.e. Yoga for Golf, Yoga for Volleyball, etc...)?

I've been researching to no avail.

I would be very grateful for any insights.

Thank you,
Joe

First of all - you can't be everything to all people. If you have a product that could be applied to many fields, don't be a "jack of all trades." Why? Because a jack of all trades is a master of none (ie: it sucks, you suck, everything about your product sucks.)

Let's say a football player comes to your lame yoga (with a twist!) website, and he sees lots of stuff for tennis, basketball, and football, he might be interested. But let's say he then goes to another site that JUST caters to football players. Which one do you think he's more likely to respond to?

That's right - the one that's catered to his sport!

This is true in all markets. Specialization sells better than generalization. So make a new, unique website for each field you want to be in and drive targeted visitors to that.

But that's not why I'm using my valuable time to write this post. I actually want to talk about something far more interesting.

Notice Joe talked about how he's marketing some type of YOGA to hard core athletes.

Now, I got nothing against Yoga. I love to go to Yoga classes to pick up hot MILFs. It's fun. But do you really think some pro (or even amateur) athlete is going to wake up one day and say "You know what? I really want to do some freakin' yoga!"

HELL NO.

Why? Because YOGA is something hot MILFs do in their spare time to keep from getting a fat ass. Athletes are looking for a "magic bullet" to give them a competitive edge. A pill, a new technique, a new training method, new equipment... whatever.

So if you have a product you're selling, don't sell what the "twist" is. No matter what twist you give something like "Yoga" it's still going to sound LAME.

Selling is about getting people excited about what you have to offer, and convincing them they need to get it from YOU.

And we do this by focusing on people's pain, not your special "twist" or unique selling proposition or whatever you're hippy draft-dodging professor taught you in business school. (or "be useless school," as I like to call it!)

You focus on people's pain, and offer them a solution, and the solution just happens to be YOGA. See the difference there?

I'll explain further for those of you who ride the short bus...

Let's say you have a product that teaches people how to quit smoking using hypnosis. In all your ads and marketing, you say shit like "Use the power of hypnosis to magically cure you of your need to smoke!" or some crap like that.

In this example, you're using your "twist" to try and sell your crap. In other words, you're selling the fact that you're using hypnosis to help people quit smoking (Hey, that's unique right? Right???).

The problem with that is not many people believe hypnosis works. So before you can convince them you can help them to stop smoking, you gotta convince them that hypnosis is the way to go.

And that is a "business bummer." Because you ain't gonna make a lot of sales if you have to take the time to create credibility with your potential customer.

But check this out - if you focus on people's PAIN, instead of your lame-ass twist, you don't have to convince them of anything. Their focus of attention goes to where they DON'T want to be, so when you finally show them a way out of that pain, they will JUMP on it without thinking.

So let's say in your marketing for your hypnosis/stop smoking product, you do something like:

"Is your addiction to cigarettes ruining your life? Do your clothes always smell like stale nicotine? Can't get a date because your teeth are stained nicotine yellow? Do your friends and family not like being around you because it affects their health? Do you get short of breath and cough painfully? Do you have to sneak out of your kid's recital to catch a smoke and let your child down that you couldn't sit still and watch them for two minutes? Are you worried you're headed to an early graved proceeded by a long, painful, and expensive disease like cancer or emphysema? Have you tried all the pills and patches and found to your despair nothing works? Well, I've found the secret to help you to stop smoking, and it's a secret no one else knows - but it's brutally effective, and I'll reveal it all to you when you buy my course..."

See the difference?

In one case, you talk about hypnosis. In the other, you talk about all the pain people who smoke experience. Which is more effective?

Selling is about CONVINCING people they need your product. When you focus on people's pain, you harp on the fact that these people desperately need a solution. Then, when you've made them experience all the pain they can endure and they're practically BEGGING for a solution, you offer them one (yours), and they buy. No special "twist" needed.

That's how you make the MFM.

It's that simple.

Why do you think I recommend you make review websites talking about how you got scammed a billion and one times? Because you're able to focus on people's PAIN, and then offer them a solution - because you experienced the same pain and found something that got rid of that pain for you. That's why if you do what papa RJ tells you, you make money - because I know my shit.

Okay, now off to find some more MILFs to hang out with.

Later,

-RJ
(RJ Headquarters)

Posted by The Rich Jerk at 09:00 AM
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Dear loser,

So some incredible duche - like, the MOTHER of all losers - posted a rant on this blog a few days ago bitching and whining about how he can't make money on Google.

The Rich Boy spewed: Google adsense is the most scammed and overcharging click network that exists. The majority of the clicks are FRAUD on top of that. If you spend $3750 on advertising on a site with 100,000 views, you probably will only make $1000.

Google is home of the WORST PPC conversions I've ever witnessed. Of course, google doesn't want you to know or think that. But take $10,000 on adwords, and TRY to make a profit. Well, I DID, and never made a dime of profit.

$10 grand, flushed away in clicks who never intended to buy SHIT.

But then, I spend $200 a month on PRIVATE advertising on blogs, and I make a 500% return on investment?? How the hell can google try to say they are better than private advertising when i make -200% on google, but +500% on private ads.

Take a warning from me, GOOGLE ADWORDS IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PROFITABLE. Sure, if you're a 'godlike pro' with tens of thousands of $$$ to BLOW, and a team of super smart monkey specialists testing different ads all day long....you might be able to pull a profit.

But even the ABOVE average internet marketer will quickly find out that google adwords is basically a scam.

Boo-freakin'-hoo.

You know how I can spot a loser? Like, a real, honest-to-god, beyond all help because they just like to wallow in their own loser-juice Loser? When I hear someone complain about something and call it a SCAM because they can't get it to work.

There are ass-loads of small businesses out there making google work for them. But this douche is running around screaming about how Google is nothing but clickfraud. Well, I got a bank account that says otherwise, bitch-boy. So clean the stupid out of your ears, because papa RJ is gonna drop a knowledge bomb and hiroshima your sorry ass.

First of all - Google's content network is good. Why? Because they have SO MANY WEBSITES in their network, your small internet business can get a huge reach instantly. This gives you a big advantage. But like douche-boy said, there IS clickfraud going on. But let's face it, click fraud is actually a small piece of the puzzle. Most of it is just junk traffic from poor quality websites.

And in a network like Google's, you're going to get lots of poor quality web traffic - because their network is so big. That's just the nature of the beast. Not all websites get the kind of traffic that are going to convert for your offer. But the trick to making the Google Content network work is to FIND these websites that convert for you, and focus your advertising dollars on them.

We do this in two ways...

WAY #1: PPSeer.com

PPSeer is a service that tracks what sites are sending you visitors. But it also allows you to track actions from these websites. When I set up a Google campaign for a site I own, I use PPSeer to track conversions as well as Google's conversion tracking.

Because while Google will show you which campaigns are converting in the content network, they won't tell you jack about which websites are converting. But PPSeer will. So when you make a sale for a google campaign, you pop on over to PPSeer and you can see the website that actually made that sale for you.

But more important than seeing the websites that make that sale, are seeing all the websites that AREN'T making you sales!

In fact, you'll find a handful of sites that are sending you incredible amounts of JUNK TRAFFIC.

So what you do is you take those sites, and you go into Google, and you exclude those junk traffic sites from your campaign immediately. Then, your ads stop showing up on these sites, and you stop wasting money on non-converting traffic.

Bitchin', right?

Well, it gets even better. Log into PPSeer every day and take a look at the website clicks. If a website gets 200 clicks and no conversions, ban that sucker in your Google account. That's statistically significant enough to know that website ain't gonna convert for you.

So when you start eliminating websites that are sending you the junk/nonconverting traffic, your Google spend goes WAY DOWN. Because you're only targeting the sites that have proven to have good traffic for you.

Way #2: Placement Targeting

The next step in this technique is to take the sites that ARE converting, and create a placement targeting campaign in google to target those sites specifically. This way, you can make it so your ad shows up on these websites directly, and you can increase your ad spend to get more of their quality traffic.

Another way you can use placement targeting to your advantage is to automatically exclude all the "big" websites from your content network spend. I'm talking about sites like Myspace and Youtube and any other big site that uses adsense. Then, you target these big sites specifically through placement targeting to see if they convert. If they don't, syanora. If they do, raise your ad spend.

What you'll find is on these big sites, you'll have certain types of pages that convert for you, but most won't. In placement targeting, you can actually eliminate the pages on the site that aren't converting, and target your ad spend for that site to just the pages that do convert for you.

It's actually pretty cool.

Also - use your site and category exclusion feature in Google! In addition to banning lame websites that don't convert, you can actually go in and eliminate entire categories of web pages. Did you know part of the content network is error pages and parked domain pages? You can actually choose to exclude your ad showing up on those infamous junk traffic pages! You can also do the same for video sharing sites, rude/crude humor sites, etc.

Doing this will also give you mucho control over where your ad shows up, which means less money being spent and more money being made.

Then there's negative keywords. I don't want to get into that now because that's more writing and I've already wasted enough time on this post (I could be getting a massage right now for Chrissakes!). But if you use negative keywords, you'll exclude your ad from showing up in the wrong context.

Oh - did I mention doing all this stuff raises your Click Through Rate and lowers your bid price for keywords? Yeah, that's sort of important.

Okay, knowledge bomb dropped. Bask it the glory of it's radioactive awesomeness.

Later,

-RJ
(RJ Headquarters)

P.S. And on the clickfraud front, use the ad scheduling feature in Google to minimize this. Most Clickfraud happens between 1 am and 5 am (you know, the time period where all those sweatshops in india clicking on links are working?). So just schedule your ads not to be displayed in that time.

Posted by The Rich Jerk at 09:00 AM
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Dear Loser,

Some dude named "zsolt" over on the Warrior's Forum wrote this post about how every niche is occupied.

zsolt complained: Of course, not every niche is occupied, but it sure seems like to me more often than not. I am newbie who just started to give some serious thoughts to IM. I don't have any experience or background in any kind of business or marketing. I have read many ebook lately, and 99% of them said you gotta find a niche where is a demand, but the competition is not too fierce. OK, sounds simple. But it not. In fact I find this task downright hard. One can only be good at so many thing. So you start searching among those topics and niches. You think you have some idea that might just work. There is a demand, you're good at it, have the needed skills. But then comes the part of "what about competition". And this is where I lose all my faith and enthusiasm. No matter what niche I have researched recently, I find that there are already at least a few well established names, companies, websites. There are alreaedy people who made themselves home in the niche, have good reputation, tons of traffic, excelent search engine rankings, etc.

I feel stuck at the very first step every ebook begins with: "find a niche". I feel like I am not making progress. I have doubts, fears. Shall I just jump into a niche where there are already some big dogs? Or keep on looking and find some very exotic niche there's probably not much demand for, and I don't know a lot about?
I got the newbies' blues, and don't yet know how to overcome it.

This afternoon I thought I had an excellent idea. My excitment only lasted a few minutes when I found out that my "this gotta be a winner" idea is not unique at all.

Gurus, newbies...how do/did you cope with frustration of not finding that money making niche.

So I know there are probably a lot of you dudes (and dudettes, I'm not sexist... rofl) out there who feel the same way as zdolt over here. You're trying to find that golden "untapped" niche that you can sweep into and make mucho dinero with little to no effort.

Well, let me be the first to tell you - you're wasting your time.

This is OLD SCHOOL niche marketing, jack. Underachiever-style. Maybe when you could get $0.05 cent clicks in Google, finding these untapped niches was profitable. But no longer. Listen - no one has EVER gotten rich marketing to niches.

Have they been successful? Sure! It's possible to make an extra $5K a month doing hard core niche marketing stuff. But you gotta find these niches, then you gotta test them out, and if you do find a winner, you gotta guard it closely or else have someone swoop in and ruin your business with competition.

But while you're working your ass off in some niche that no one has ever heard of, I'll be making even more millions killing it in a BIG niche.

See - you gotta forget about these little niches no one has ever heard about. The big money is in the really COMPETITIVE niches. The ones with billions of competitors. In fact, the more competition, the BETTER!

Why?

Because if you see a lot of people in the market, that means there's TONS of money to be made in it! The more competition there is in a market, the better proof you have that market is sustainable.

The big markets break down into 3 categories:

-Health
-Wealth
-Relationships

Focus on those three niches and only those three. Why? Because there are literally BILLIONS of dollars in each of these fields.

Then, you can further sub-niche these suckers to find something you can cash in on. For instance:

Health: Weight loss, supplements, exercise & fitness, fat burners, natural cures, etc.

Wealth: Make money, stocks, bonds, trading, credit card debt, mortgages, loans, etc.

Relationships: Viagra, male enhancements, better sex, dating sites, etc.

These are all very competitive niches to go into - but that's where the MONEY is, baby! Don't waste your time killing yourself trying to make a couple hundred bucks in the sausage making niche. Instead, kill yourself trying to make a couple hundred thousand bucks in one of these super-competitive niches.

I know what you're thinking - "But RJ, I'm a total noob! I want to start out small and work my way up!"

Pft!

Listen, bub... cut your teeth on something ambitious, and the small stuff is a walk in the park. I made my first millions teaching people how to get out of credit card debt, not teaching people how to macrome. Get with the program. If you are playing with the big boys, you'll have to raise yourself to their level to compete.

If you're playing with the retarded losers, you just stay at their level and compete.

Which would you rather do?

Spend your time going for the money. The hidden niches are a waste of your resources.

Later,

-RJ
(RJ Headquarters)

Posted by The Rich Jerk at 12:54 AM
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Dear Loser,

What you are about to read is a true story. Well, sort of. It's a story anyway. I don't give a crap whether you think it's true or not.

Here's a fact: I'm filthy stinking rich.

Here's another fact: I'm always looking for ways to be even MORE filthy stinking rich!

And I'm going to share with you a powerful technique I use to make me more money than the combined GDP of most countries in Africa.

As you all know, I love to throw parties. My party at the Playboy Mansion was a thing of legend. Every internet marketer who was lucky enough to get invited is STILL talking about it.

Well, every day seems like a day at the Playboy Mansion in casa du Rich Jerk.

People are coming in and out all the time. Most of them super-hot chicks and wannabes. But occasionally, I get VIP guests.

In this case, I had two very big VIPs come over for a visit, and I didn't even know who they were!

So there I was, chilling in my hot tub, entertaining a few ladies, when in walks my right-hand man Ryan. And he's got two Mexicans with him.

I take one look at them and automatically assume they're here to clean my house. So I get out of the pool and start telling them where they can find all the cleaning supplies.

Until Ryan pulls me aside and lets me know "RJ, these guys aren't housekeepers! They're Carlos and Lupe Garcia!"

And of course, my response is: "Who the F**K are Carlos and Lupe Garcia?"

"They're geniuses at getting massive amounts of traffic to their websites," Ryan tells me.

"So am I," I shot back.

"But these guys are able to get more traffic than most fortune 500 companies!" Ryan says. "They've been making millions in the weight loss industry for years with their secrets!"

I stopped for a minute and thought about it. Mexicans are really good at at managing large numbers of people. After all, how else could they fit so many illegals in the back of those tiny vans? So suddenly, what Ryan was telling me made sense. Leave it to a Mexican to know how to get lots of people somewhere.

I told all the hot chicks to take a hike and invited Carlos and Lupe into my mansion. I never mix business and pleasure. And it was time to get down to business.

"So," I said. "What can you people do for me?"

Carlos and Lupe explained that they were getting ready to release a course called "Traffic University," where they teach people how to get tons of traffic doing big media buys.

(That means, spending lots of money to buy banner ads on highly trafficked websites, for you dumb-asses out there.)

"So how does that help me?" I asked.

"Well, we want you to help us promote it," Carlos said.

At this point, I openly laughed. Not because I it was funny, mind you, but because I wanted to make it very clear what I thought about their offer.

So while they were sitting there, watching me cackle on mercilessly, I went on to explain:

"I'm RJ! Everyone and their mother wants me to promote their programs! Why should I do anything for you if you haven't proven you're worth my time?"

I had to laugh because Ryan looked like he was about to sh*t himself. He's overly-polite and was afraid I was going to piss off the Mexicans.

But Carlos looked at me and smiled. "How would you like it if I helped your company triple it's traffic overnight?"

This got my interest.

"Do tell..." I said.

Then, Carlos and Lupe went on to lay out a traffic strategy for the Rich Jerk that was so hot, so sexy, so elegant, I wanted to jump on the table and slap the smile right off Carlos' face. So simple. Damn him!

It turns out my instincts were right. These Mexicans know how to get lots of people where ever they want!

So here was the jist of their plan...

1. Buy advertising on highly trafficked websites to test out your ads.

2. Once you find a winner, take that and use the sales message to craft your landing page, autoresponder emails, and other banner advertisements.

3. Roll these out to new websites and media networks, and buy more traffic for sales messages you know for a fact WORK.

4. Once fine tuned, take your program onto the CPA networks and get lots of people promoting your stuff.

5. Then, move on to mainstream media exposure, like radio and TV ads - all using your highly perfected offer and sales materials.

Now, this might all seem like beginners hour, but the brilliance of this system was the way Carlos and Lupe structured the deals.

See - what USUALLY happens when you go out and do these big media buys is you end up getting locked in to a big ad spend - whether the traffic converts or not!

(And that type of stuff will burn a hole in your pocket faster than a high priced hooker, covered in hot sauce!)

But they came up with a system designed to protect you, so that if your traffic isn't converting, you can stop paying for it immediately!

Not only that - but they had also developed some kick-ass spy tools that saved them TONS of money in testing their offers. Basically, they used these tools to SPY on their biggest competitors, find out what their banners, offers, autoresponders, and all the other stuff they use to get traffic is.

Then, they take what they discover and use THAT as a starting point, and then test small, incremental changes until they find a perfect offer that converts like mad.

In addition to all that, they also have a system of using Other People's Money to buy traffic, so the risk is completely off their shoulders!

Imagine - getting millions of site visitors a month, and not having to pay for it out of your own pocket! Nice.

Needless to say, I was impressed. (Something that doesn't happen often.)

So I tell Ryan to get off his ass and start doing some of the stuff that Carlos and Lupe shared with us.

Sure enough, my company saw immediate results. Our traffic got a huge spike. We were doing infomercials and radio ads - I was even on the Howard Stern Show.

Understand - in online business, traffic equals MONEY.

The more traffic you get, the more money you get.

It's that simple.

Now, I get emails from you losers all the time saying crap like:

"I don't have any money!"

"I don't have a website!"

"I can't get any traffic to my site!"

Blah, blah, blah.

STFU. Stop bitching. If you're one of those people who's broke-ass poor, a loser, someone who likes to whine, knows nothing about computers, and has balls the size of raisin crumbs, what I'm about to tell you is WORTHLESS.

Seriously. Newbies need not read any further. This is for SERIOUS marketers only, who can afford a four-figure price tag and are willing to grow out their business online.

Let me repeat this for all the retards out there:

IF YOU'RE NEW TO INTERNET MARKETING, IGNORE THIS...

Last year, Carlos and Lupe started a coaching program for people who wanted to learn their traffic secrets.

It cost people $25,000 to join this program.

(Chump change for me, but that's a lot of money for some.)

While they were coaching these people, they recorded a lot of videos and educational material to help their students not only LEARN what they did, but implement it and use it in their businesses as well.

And more than that - their students actually got real success with these tactics! Not like the rip-off artists in this market who promise the moon and deliver ghonnoreah.

One student started with 100K a month and is now making over $2.2 million - A MONTH.

Another was (only) making about $30K a month and is now making over $500K a month.

One student made 691 sales at $197 per sale in 2 DAYS!!! And this was just last week - April 28-29.

And then we have the more "realistic" examples...

One started in the negative - and made $20K NET PROFIT in only 10 days.

Another started with nothing and hasn't released their product yet, BUT they've acquired $1.5 MILLION IN CREDIT to buy traffic with.

Another student doesn't even have a product, but runs other peoples' products through affiliate networks. He started making $3,000 a month online and is now making over $16,000 a month.

And believe you me - none of these people are "special" or "gurus." They're just average losers who took the chance, did what they were told, and became winners.

So what does this mean for you?

Well, first off - don't worry, you're not going to be spending $25,000 to learn these secrets.

Carlos and Lupe are opening up a special membership website where they are going to make their teachings available to members, as opposed to those rich enough to afford their mentorship program.

This means YOU now have the opportunity to enhance your business and bring your traffic to the next level, all for a much, much cheaper price than these other people got it!

And me being RJ, I'm going to help you out even further...

So here's what I want you to do:

1. Go to this website:

Click Here For The Massive Mexican Traffic Program

2. Sign up for Carlos & Lupe's Massive Traffic program.

3. Learn their secrets and make mucho dinero.

4. Claim your special bonus from me for buying through my link.

What's the bonus?

Well, after my initial meeting with the Mexicans (well, that's what I call Carlos and Lupe), their traffic strategies worked so well, I immediately demanded full access to their course so I could exploit their hard work like the rest of America exploits the Mexicans. (Hey, someone's got to, right?)

So I immediately set my team - led by Ryan - to the task of planning out ANOTHER massive traffic buy for the Rich Jerk company.

What we plan to do is give our students special "over the shoulder" access as my team plans, preps, and executes our traffic strategy, using Carlos and Lupe's techniques.

So not only will you GET full access to these traffic secrets...

Not only will you TAKE your business to the next level...

You'll get to see first hand how it's done.

Normally, I would charge you losers $10,000 minimum to get inside access to my company like this. But since Carlos and Lupe were kind enough to share their teachings with me so early on (and since they refuse my offer to pay them for their time in tacos), I'm going to be making this special offer to anyone ambitious and smart enough to get their course through my website.

BUT THERE'S A CATCH...

I don't want too many losers crowding into my "over the shoulder" mastermind, so I'll be limiting the number of spaces available.

I'm thinking maybe 10, or 20 at the most.

So you need to sign up RIGHT NOW for Carlos and Lupe's course to be eligible for the bonus.

And if I hear any of you bitch about how you want the bonus but can't afford the course - shut up. I will slap you. I will slap you and then drop kick your dog. I'm serious.

Do not beg me to let you in on the bonus if you don't get the course. It won't happen. In fact, I'll actually put your name on a special list and keep you from getting any bonus from me EVER. That's how strongly I feel about not wanting lame-asses bugging me about this.

Carlos and Lupe are sharp people. Not as brilliant as me, but still, they're pretty darn smart. If you're lucky, maybe some of that intelligence will rub off on you.

Because the true beauty of their course is that it's full of practical techniques you can actually DO. It will help you take action.

So go here now:

Click Here For The Mexican Traffic Program

Reserve your space in their course. And you'll get my bonus along with it.

Still on the fence? Ask yourself:

Are you a Mexi*CAN*, like Carlos and Lupe? Or are you a Mexi*CAN'T*, like Hitler, Stalin, and that German guy who held his daughter captive in a basement for 18 years? I hear they didn't get enough traffic to their websites either.

Man up. Get inside this course now.

Seriously - Click This Freakin' Link For The Mexican Traffic Program Right Now.

Later,

-RJ

Posted by The Rich Jerk at 12:48 AM
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Dear losers,

A lot of you out there think you need money to start your online business. The fact is you really don't. There are so many ways to do stuff for free online nowadays, even if you're broke and one step away from living on the street, you can still get your online business going.

But let's say some of you need the extra money to get something going, because you want to buy a domain name, host your own website, buy some software, or WHATEVER. Fact is, you need to pay for something, and you ain't got no MFM.

To those of you looking for some start-up capital, I have one word for you...

EBAY.

Ebay is awesome. Why? Because that entire website is set up to make people money! So I'm going to tell you how you can get some start-up funds using this great service.

1. Sell your crap

How much stuff do you have lying around that you don't need anymore? TVs, baseball cards, old computers, George Foreman grills...

Take all the crap you have an no longer need and SELL IT ON EBAY. People on Ebay will buy anything. I'm sure by getting rid of all the stuff you don't want anymore, you can make a few hundred dollars - enough to start your online business.

2. Sell your services

You can also use ebay to sell your time and efforts to do tasks for other people. Did you know you could offer to send out 1,000 friend requests on Myspace in exchange for $100? Seriously, there are people on Ebay doing that type of thing!

Think of some type of service you can offer people and auction it off - make money that way. Its easy! It just takes a little bit of time and effort on your part.

3. Sell your body

People auction off their body parts on Ebay all the time. Pregnant women auction space on their fat bellies. Some people auction off their foreheads. Basically, the winner of the auction pays to get a temporary tattoo applied to the person's body part. You hear about these auctions all the time. As long as you have no shame, go for it.

4. Broker auctions

Go on classified ad websites (like Craig's List) and see what people are looking to buy. Then email them a link to an ebay auction that has what they're looking for in it, but use your affiliate link instead of a direct link. That way, if they sign up and buy the auction, you get money!

Simple right? So easy, a brain damaged poodle could do it. So what's stopping you?

Quit complaining about how you got no money and make some money!

Later,

-RJ

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Some chick named Linda wrote:

How do I get advertisers to my website, since my company is quite pricey on a monthly basis? Thank you.

Linda Parrino

Okay, Linda, I got two questions for you...

Question 1: Are you hot?

Question 2: Do you put out?

Answer the second question first. Send it to groupies@therichjerk.com. Include a headshot.

Now that I'm done with my questions, here are my statements...

First of all, if you want to get advertisers on your website, it's really easy. Google's Adsense program is an ad program. Use them. Or, sign up for Adbrite.com and use those guys. They'll be happy to serve ads on your site.

Will you make a lot of money off these ads? Probably not. A little, yeah, but not enough to retire on.

Why? Because ad rates are entirely dependent on how much traffic your stupid little website is getting!

If you ain't got no traffic, why should some advertiser shell out lots of money to advertise there?

See what I mean?

So unless you're getting a million unique visitors or more a month, you ain't gonna be able to charge a lot for advertising.

But there are ways to change this. The first is to get more dang traffic to your website. The more traffic you get, the more money you can charge.

However, that's only half the equation. You also need to know a very important metric, called eCPM.

eCPM stands for "Effective Cost Per Thousand." (Why? I don't know. Some dumb-ass decided to throw a roman numeral in there or something.)

This metric basically says "How Much Money Do I Make For Every 1,000 Impressions Of This Ad?"

See, in order for you to calculate and maximize what each of your web pages makes, you must break down every ad shown down to an eCPM value. Then, you add up the values on that given page, and that gives you an idea of how much that page is worth to advertisers.

So let's say you have a single banner ad running at the top of your web page, and it earns $0.75 cents for every click the banner receives.

Let's say after showing that ad 10,000 times, it received 500 clicks. This means you're averaging 50 clicks for every 1,000 times that ad is shown.

Since you are earning $0.75 per click, you are making $37.50 every time that ad is displayed 1,000 times on your web page.

Therefore, this web page is worth $37.50 to you every time it's viewed 1,000 times. Or eCPM = $37.50.

So let's say you have 100,000 page views a month. Divide that by 1,000 to get 100. Multiply 100 by your eCPM of $37.50, and you get $3,750. That means you can get away with charging advertisers that much to show their ads on your site.

Of course, eCPM changes depending on how many ads you show on a page, and what kind of ads are shown. So first you have to decide what the optimum number of ads on your page is to maximize eCPM. Then you need to test out different offers to see what gets the best response.

How do you do this? Well - go to Quantcast.com and look at what kind of demographics your website is getting. Then, figure out what advertisers are targeting those demographics, and test their banners to see how many clicks you get. Assume a conversion rate of 0.5% and multiply that by the average price of their products. This will give you an idea of what type of eCPM that advertiser could expect from your website.

Then, email the advertiser with your results, and let them know "Hey, this is how much we estimate you can make by advertising on my website." Then give them a price quote for a monthly ad buy. If you estimate they can make $1,000 a month in sales from advertising on your site, quote them a monthly ad rate of $500, so they are making a 200% return on investment.

See if an advertiser will turn you down then!

This is how the game is played, boys and girls. Enjoy.

Later Losers,

-RJ

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Some dude named Rob posted this on my blog...

Hay guys,

I have been a memeber of the rich jerk for 6 months now and you are very right that most programs you buy on the net are a hole lot of information and they do not tell us how to put it in to motion! I have made close to $1000.00 in the last 6 months using bum marketing methods "means I try not to spend money on advertising"! Here are some examples of lens that I would love some help with!

The pre-school lens has had 500 hits since 02/28/08 but has not been converting very well at all, whats wrong?

http://www.squidoo.com/top-used-car-auctions
I have no idea what is wrong with this lens, I did the reseach and seems to struggle, Any ideas on this one!

http://www.squidoo.com/loweryourgolfscores This is my favorite but I get no traffic at all, maybe 5 hits a day and I have tried social booking it to death and I even tried the lastest tool Comment Kahuna and still NOTHING!

It would be awesome to have some people help me out with these DUDS!

Thanks evereyone
Rob

Well, take out your happy-pipe, Rob, 'cause RJ is gonna lay some knowledge on your sorry ass.

But first, let me just say you are the type of guy I like to see posting on my site. Your ass may be sorry, but you ain't no loser. You've made your first $1,000, you haven't been spending jack on traffic, and you're motivated to improve. Gold star to you, junior.

All-righty, on with it...

I took a look at your Squidoo Lens at http://www.squidoo.com/top-used-car-auctions. And I can tell you the number one problem right away is this:

YA GOT TOO MUCH STUFF ON THERE.

There is just too much for visitors to click on, follow, and do. Making money is about a FOCUS OF ATTENTION. If you have three affiliate programs you want to promote for car auctions, make three damn lenses - one for each program.

Sell one thing and one thing only. Make your entire page centered around selling that one thing. You'll see your conversions go up instantly.

Get rid of sending people to places that don't make you money. Yeah, the Youtube and Ebay and RSS shit is fun and easy to put on a Lens, but it don't make you no MFM. (That's mother-f*ckin' money for you who aren't hip to my jive)

Only put stuff on your Squidoo Lens that's going to make you dough. Period.

Second of all, you make NO attempt at all to try and connect to the people who visit your lens. It's just a bunch of faceless, formal info on car auctions. Ain't no one gonna buy that.

People want to buy from "Bubba, a broke-ass plumber from West Virginia, who's crappy 1978 camaro broke down and he needed a cheap car which he found through this great and dependable auction site. Here's a picture of my lame-ass camero, which nearly killed me when the transmission fell out the bottom of it. Oh, and here's a picture of my new car, a shiny dodge pick-up truck, which I got for a steal because I was smart enough to use this special website I found. You should check it out by clicking this snazzy banner they gave me when I made my purchase."

People like pages built by real people, offering real experiences and real advice. The more "home made" something is, the more people believe it's real and of value. The more faceless and corporate, the less likely they are to trust what you're selling.

Selling is about storytelling. Ya gotta tell people a story when you're selling them something. They have to be able to identify with the character who basically is a physical manifestation of what they want to be.

Is your average customer some moron who knows nothing about cars, but needs a new car and doesn't have a lot of money? Guess what - I'm a moron who knows nothing about cars and doesn't have a lot of money, but I used this website to get a great deal on my new car, and if it helped me, it'll help you too, because I'm just some out of work plumber from West Virginia.

Catch my drift?

Okay, now onto your traffic quandary.

Trying to get free traffic is like trying to get free sex. Sure, you can get it for free, but you either have to work really hard for it or settle for something you aren't really happy with.

If you're going the free traffic route because your broke-ass can't afford adwords or whatever, here's what you do.

First off, bookmark your lens. I know you said you already do this, but you're probably doing it wrong. Go to www.onlywire.com. Create accounts for everything on that bitch and then use those accounts to bookmark your lens.

Now, the big mistake here is that people try and get people from the social bookmarking sites to visit their lenses. Uh-uh. Wrong. What you do after you bookmark that bad boy is take the RSS feeds from all the accounts you created, and then you go to Ping-o-matic.com and ping them bitches. You ping the RSS feed for every dang bookmarking account you made.

What does this do? Well, when you ping your RSS feeds, you're basically going out to all the search engines and saying:

"Yo! Search Engines! Get off your lazy asses and come check out my website!"

The Search Engine spiders will then visit the bookmarking accounts you created, see they're linking to your lens, and visit your lens. And then the spiders will say:

"Well shit, look at all these bookmarking sites linking to this Squidoo page. We better index this MF."

So then your lens gets in the search engines. Then what you do is you start creating a "link network" linking back to your lens for the keyword you want to rank for (in this case, golf scores). You do this by creating hubpage accounts, wetpaint acocunts, wordpress.com accounts, blogger accounts, and other squidoo lenses. All of which link back to your page with your keyword term in the link. And you create brand new bookmarking accounts too.

Then, you PING all those suckers too!

And you do this EVERY FREAKIN' DAY until your lens starts appearing on the first page of the search engines. (Usually Yahoo and MSN are the first to notice and rank you. Google can be a bitch.)

You can use these tools to keep track of your progress. They're free.

Keep using your Traffic Kahuna software to get backlinks from blogs. Then ping the comment feed for those blogs.

Remember: building up free traffic is a PROCESS. Process is shit that needs to get done every single day. If you're not spending 4 hours a day on building your traffic, you're wasting your time.

And if you can afford to outsource the traffic building, that's even better, because to be honest with you, doing that stuff yourself sucks ass. The sad reality is that unless you're willing to spend some money, getting traffic to your site is a SLOW endeavor.

Unless you have an email list you can blast to whenever you want. Then it's fast. But that's another matter all together.

Repost a comment when you start making the changes and let me know how it goes.

Later Losers,

-RJ

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Some chode-breath named Lee posted this in one of the comment threads....

My problem with you guys, why I do not bother with you, you lode us with too much Info, that I don't have time to read, and fallow.

And by the time I reach a few page of the how, and do, you told us about,something else.

so you do not have time to see what works.

You guys just go for the almighty dollor, you dont really care about people, and how they make it.
As long as you get your e-book sell.

when I see sincerly care in what ever you or trying to sell me I will ack.

Blessings

Lee

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa! You give me too many great ideas to make money with! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

I have a low IQ coupled with ADD and failed hooked on phonics, so I can't read all your stuff! Waaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

I hate you because you're rich, and I'm a loser, and even though you're practically TELLING me exactly what I need to do to become rich too, I'm too freakin' LAZY to find the time to actually do what you tell me!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lee, if you were here right now, I'd happily bitch slap you until you cry like a little girl.

Seriously.

If we ever cross paths, just let me know who you are and I will immediately plant a rosey-red palm-print on your dumb, stupid, loser face, and you can brag to all your buddies about how honored you are the Rich Jerk graced you with a nice big can of "STFU."

You know what? You're right. I AM all about the money. I could give two flying poops what you do with your life. I'm rich, and your not.

But honestly - do you want to learn from someone who ISN'T about the money? Do you want to learn from some lame-o who's poor but nice? Or do you want to learn from a take-no-prisoners mercenary who'd sell his grandma for a nickel because he worships at the church of capitalism?

I make money. Lots of it. So shut up and listen to me.

If you don't have time for my advice - MAKE time. Stop looking for excuses to fail, and start looking for reasons to succeed.

Stay up an extra hour every night and just focus on what I tell you to do.

Find ONE THING I suggest you think is interesting or fun, and just DO THAT. There's lots of things you can do to make money, but you only have to start with one. The others will still be around and working after you've mastered that one thing.

Be a winner, not a victim. Victims talk about the reasons why they CAN'T do something - like you. Winners think of reasons why they CAN do something - like me.

You think I just magically became the head of this huge multi-million dollar online empire overnight? HELL NO! I worked at it, damn it. I found the time to learn the skills I needed. I found the time to see what works and what doesn't. I found the time to do what I needed to in order to succeed.

What I DIDN'T do is go one someone's blog and bitch and moan about how helpless I am.

Anyone can make money on the internet. ANYONE. There are some guys who are two IQ points away from legally being retards who are making millions.

So as long as you are not mentally handicapped, YOU CAN TOO.

And if you think you can't, stop trying. Seriously. Go get a job at McDonalds. That's nice and safe and predicable. They'll tell you how to make fries and heat up hamburgers, and that's IT. You'll have plenty of time on your hands to learn that, I'm sure.

Later Losers,

--RJ

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So some loser named Brian was bitching in one of my other blog posts. Check it:

Brian whines: HOW THE HELL IS GETTING MORE TRAFFIC GOING TO HELP ME IF I DON'T HAVE A BUSINESS NEVER THE LESS A WEBSITE.

I WAS HOPING YOU COULD HELP ME OUT
ENJOY YOUR MILLION'S AND NOW I HOPE YOU CHOKE ON A $100.00 BILL WHILE TRYING TO LIGHT
ONE OF YOUR EXPENSIVE CUBAN CIGARS.

LATER JERK.

First off - I wipe my butt with $100s. I light my cigars with $1,000 bills. Get it right, loser.

Are you seriously asking me this question? Seriously.

Seriously?

Are you writing to me from one of those special institutions where they tape pillows to the walls so you don't hurt yourself when you start banging your head in your cell?

Do you find you're often forced to wear earmuffs and a football helmet at the same time?

Are you hijacking your neighbor's internet connection and writing to me from your single-wide trailer on your lunch break from the porta-potty-emptying business?

How will traffic help you if you don't have a business? Gosh. Sometimes it's all I can do to keep from ramming my multi-ringed-in-expensive-jewelry-fingers through my laptop.

Okay - retard - here's how you start an online business. I'll use small words to help you follow me so you don't get confused.

Ready? Here we go...

1. Go to www.clickbank.com.

2. Sign up for an account.

3. Pick a product to promote.

Boom! You're in business.

You don't need to create a store, you don't need to make a website, you don't need to warehouse or ship anything. All you need to do is send traffic to OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF.

And then they give you money.

Is that so hard to understand? Really? Maybe I'm actually the smartest man on the planet and just don't know it. I don't know. But you know what? This is why I am a winner, and you Brian, are a LOSER.

Because you bitch and moan about not having stuff. If I don't have something I want, I figure out a way to get it! I'll actually take time off from lounging in the hot tub, and sit and think, and go "Hmmmm... how can I get this thing I want?"

If I can't figure it out on my own, I call up someone I know who could advise me.

If they can't help, I go online and try to find people who've gotten what I want and then do what they did.

What I don't do is sit around and BITCH ABOUT STUFF.

Complaining never gets you any results. It just makes you feel better because you get to play the helpless victim. Well, I got news for you, buddy --

THERE ARE NO VICTIMS IN BUSINESS.

There are just winners, losers, and consumers. Period. Ain't more complicated than that.

Listen - making money on the internet is so easy. Heck, you don't even need a website anymore. You don't need to know HTML. You don't need to buy a domain name. You don't have to make or write anything. You just sign up for a good affiliate program, use their materials, send traffic their way, and make some Gursh Durn money.

Write me again when you graduate from first grade.

Later Losers,

-RJ

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John Reese, one of the few marketers out there I really respect, has a pretty cool post about YouTube shenanigans you need to check out.

YouTube has just added some new features and a new layout.

Look at the “Statistics & Info” tab under a video.

This tab will show you any ‘awards’ that video has won but more importantly will show you REFERRING SITES and how many clicks those incoming links have sent to the video.

* It currently appears to only show the top 5 referring sites.

EDIT: These stats have been available before but many marketers chose to ‘hide’ them. (Read on.)

This is extremely VALUABLE marketing information.

Now you can look at any of your competitor’s videos and see ‘where’ most of their traffic is coming from!

This is a great way to find new JV partners or content publishers in your market that would be ideal to send traffic to YOUR videos.

Users can apparently hide this information but YouTube displays it by default with the new layout. (For now.)

So GO NOW and do some valuable research into your competitors’ videos before they HIDE this referral data.

UPDATE: I meant to emphasize that it looks like ALL of these stats have been turned on by DEFAULT. A lot of this info was already there although the layout has changed. In the past this information did not appear to be turned on all videos by default — not sure if this is an error by YouTube that will be corrected soon.

So what can you do with this information?

Well, let's see... find videos on YouTube related to your market. Copy all them websites referring to the videos into a spreadsheet. Go into google adwords and site target those bitches. Relevant Content + Market Message Match = Money.

Then, make your own damn video and post it as a video comment - make sure your website address is in that sucker. Watch the traffic roll in.

Then go back to using YouTube to watch videos of girls making out with each other.

Later losers,
-RJ

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S'up Losers.

Today I stumbled across some blog entry called "How To Succeed Online" (original title, I know). It's written by some guy named Doug Champigny - never heard of him, but whatever. Anyway, he actually had a cool bit of writing I wanted to share with ya. Here it is:

And that brings us to the third group, the rarest of the Internet marketing newbies. They're easy to spot - they're the ones who seem to come out of nowhere and suddenly land in the 'successful Internet Marketing circles', not yet big dogs but easily observed to be heading there quickly. If you've been 'playing' at Internet marketing or making a half-hearted effort for some time now, you've probably wondered how they shoot by you so easily...

First, they're smart - they pay attention to what their coach or mentor tells them, and to what they see of that expert's current operation. They're not really interested in how their coach GOT to that lofty position - they intend to skip all the trial & error, all the mistakes and mis-steps their mentor made - and just imitate what actually works!

Secondly, they're inquisitive. They do their best to understand WHY Internet marketing tactics work, why certain strategies pay off big time while others flop. They watch what the big dogs are doing and, rather than following it blindly, ask their coach or mentor why this Internet marketing hotshot or that super-affiliate is doing what they are, and what they're liable to achieve from it. Also, whether it's something they should be incorporating in their own Internet marketing processes.

Thirdly, they're innovative. They take that new-found knowledge and set up systems that will bring in the bucks, all the while looking for ways to improve the systems, to add in additional income streams and, eventually, to eclipse their coach or mentor. And any coach or mentor worth their salt LOVES that, and brags about that person incessantly... ;)

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, they stay focussed and ACTIVE. Not content to just maintain the status quo, they're constantly looking to improve their Internet marketing processes, acheive Super-Affiliate status and show up on the JV leaderboards, and are CONSTANTLY building their opt-in lists. You see them running giveaways, networking at the social sites and the live internet marketing events whenever they can, and creating products by interviewing those more successful than themselves, knowing it's a very powerful way to learn from the best while making money at it!

This third group, albeit the smallest fraction of the online world, are still part of today's newbies. But they are tomorrow's Big Dogs - and the next day's Internet marketing superstars, the marketing gurus who pull down millions a year from Internet marketing, affiliate marketing and niche marketing empires others envy so openly. These are tomorrow's versions of the Stephen Pierces, the Marlon Sanders, the Ken MacArthurs, the Joel Comms, the Rich Schefrens, the Liz Tomeys and the Jimmy D Browns who rule the online world today.

I wanted to highlight this excerpt for a reason.

Most of you losers reading this aren't like the newbie internet marketer he just described. Chances are, you'll never be a Big Dog on the internet.

But you know what? Screw 'em. You don't have to be a big dog and get "well known." You just have to MAKE MONEY.

Succeeding online isn't about gaining recognition, or even building a huge business. It's about meeting goals you set out for yourself. Screw being a guru. Trust me - you don't want billions of retards emailing you every day begging for your help. You just want to make some cabbage, am I right???

So set out a goal - $500 a month, $5,000 a month - whatever.

Then, do what you gotta do to achieve that goal.

That's how you measure success. By figuring out if you're getting what you want. If you want to be a Big Dog, list that as one of your goals and "grow into" that role. But don't start off trying to be like that. Just focus on making your first dollar in profit, then go ahead and try and make your goals come true.

That is how you REALLY succeed online.

Later losers,
-RJ

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So a lot of you guys like to bitch-and-moan about how you never have any money to do stuff online.

Screw you. Seriously.

There is so much you can do to make money online that doesn't cost you jack. But you're too busy complaining to notice it.

For instance - getting traffic to your website. People think it cost you money. And you know what? FAST, INSTANT traffic does. But you can also get traffic for free. It just takes a bit longer.

Just check out this video by Aaron Wall over at SEOBook. Sure, he sounds like a complete pansy when he talks, but this guy knows his stuff.

His 10 minute video is all about using social media to get free search engine traffic. And as web 2.0 gets bigger and better, opportunities like this are RIPE for the picking.

The problem is that you just need to work your ASS off creating content for these sites. But if you work smart, this isn't really an issue.

Here's a good tip for ya...

Pick out a converting keyword you really want to rank for. Let's say "Car Insurance" for example. You know - a keyword you can use to make some dough.

Write an article (or get one written) about car insurance.

Go to Squidoo.com and create a lens (web page) optimized for the keyword Car Insurance, and post your article on there, and link back to an affiliate program or something that has to do with Car Insurance.

Then, go bookmark the hell out of this site on places like Digg, Delicious, Furl, Reddit, etc. Ping the lens at Pingomatic.com to alert the search engines about it. Do what good ol' Aaron does in his video. Get people to link to your lens using the keyword "car insurance." Watch your stuff rank on the first page of Google and start making some money.

It takes work, but it's worth the time investment. And it costs you NOTHING.

So if I hear any of you complain again, I'll have to bitch-slap you.

Later losers,

-RJ

Posted by The Rich Jerk at 09:00 AM
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Hey Losers,

Check it - I'm on the bathroom right now.

Seriously. I am on my gold-plated toilet pinching out a loaf as I type this on my lap top.

You may be asking yourself... *grugh* ... you may be asking yourself why I don't just wait until I am done moving my bowels to write to you.

I am doing this to illustrate a *grunt* point.

You see, by sitting down and typing this post while I am soiling the porcelain throne, I am essentially prolonging both the time it takes for me to write to you, and drop a deuce.

To put it bluntly: By not focusing on one thing at a time, it is taking me (literally) longer to get shit done.

*ploop*

Ah, much better.

Anyway, back to my point...

One of the biggest challenges of running your own business is GETTING SHIT DONE. The longer it takes you to GSD, the less money you make. And part of not getting shit done is jumping from one opportunity to another as they present themselves.

You *grrragh* follow me here?

See, as the CEO and mastermind of a multi-million dollar empire, I get losers coming up to me constantly and wanting me to promote crap for them.

"RJ, I got a launch I want you to promote!"

"RJ, let's do a JV!"

"RJ, I'll give you my first born daughter if you help me make some money!"

Blah, blah, *grunt* blah.

I get bombarded with offers EVERY DAY to make more money. And you know what? I turn 99% of them down!

If I were to whore myself out to every lame-o that comes my way, I could probably be making lots more money. But here's the catch - if I did that, it would take me SO MUCH LONGER to get anything done - which means that in the long run, I'd actually be making LESS money.

See - what most of you losers don't understand is that you're so desperate to make money, you will jump from opportunity to opportunity as soon as they present themselves hoping to make money. But you never FINISH ANYTHING.

And in my *uuugh* experience, the only way to make money is to FOLLOW THROUGH and GET SHIT DONE.

Get your ebook written.

Get your emails written.

Get your PPC accounts going.

Get your articles published.

Get your site in the search engines.

*ploop*

Ahhh.

Because of the nature of online business - new stuff is always going to be coming out to help make people money. Today it's adsense. Tomorrow it's CPA networks. The next day it's media buying. And on, and on, and on.

You know what? Screw that noise, jack. Find ONE THING. Just ONE THING you want to do to make money. And stick with it. Ignore everything else and just do that one thing until you "get 'er dun."

I don't care if that one thing is being a Rich Jerk Affiliate, or an adsense site builder, or a CPA traffic kingpin. Whatever it is, just make your business about one thing and one thing only.

And once you master that one thing and it's going - ONLY THEN should you take on something else. And then you stick with that until you "get 'er dun."

Business can get overwhelming if you let it. But trying to do too many things at once is a big mistake, because it takes you longer to get ANYTHING done when you do that. If you need an email sequence, don't do anything else until that email sequence is created. If you need a product, do nothing else until that product is created.

You know what I do? When I start a new project, I create a list of everything I need to make that project happen. For example:

1. Buy good domain name.
2. Create a product.
3. Design a website
4. Write sales copy
5. Design an email sequence.
6. Buy PPC Advertising
7. Recruit affiliates
8. Make own porno movie

Once I am done with that list, I only focus on one thing, and I don't do anything else on that list until I can cross off what I'm working on.

This is how I GSD. By prioritizing what I need to do, doing one thing at a time, and ignoring everything else. If I tried to do everything at once, I'd never GSD.

Understand - new opportunities will always come your way. If you ignore them, you won't lose much. But you can gain so much more by focusing on just ONE opportunity and getting really good at that, and making money that way, then moving on to something else.

And that *uhnnnnn* is how you become awesome like me.

*ploop*

Later losers,

-RJ

Posted by The Rich Jerk at 09:00 AM
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Hey Losers,

You know how I can always spot the losers from the winners? Its simple really - the losers always focus and obsess about the WRONG CRAP, and the winners are always focused on the RIGHT CRAP. So what separates the two is a bunch of crap!

Let me explain...

I get emails DAILY from people complaining about how they don't have any money.

"Waaaa! I'm not rich! Waaaaaaa! I have no money! The economy is bad! Rich people are out to screw me! Evil Corporations should be taxed so they can pay my wellfare! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!"

I fart in the general direction of people like these. Not because they are whiny little snots - no sir. 90% of the world's population are whiny snots. But because these types of people just don't GET IT. And they never will. So it's really a waste of my valuable time to deal with them. (Seriously, I could be doing more important stuff like eating pop tarts or watching late-night Cinemax.)

What is it that these losers don't get that rich people do? Well, to put it bluntly, it's a mindset. Look at me for instance - I am filthy, stinking rich. Seriously. I can wipe my butt with $100 dollar bills and flush them down the toilet. That's how much money I rake in. But for good ol' RJ, it's never BEEN about the money.

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Posted by The Rich Jerk at 11:02 AM
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