I just read an interesting article over at CNet about how the latest internet gold rush is officially dying.

For those of you who don’t keep up with stuff, allow me to translate - recently, all the hype on how to make quick riches online had to do with Facebook Applications.

Basically, you create some type of software widget people could put on their Facebook pages, you get the billions of retards on Facebook to use it, and then you sell out to people with money (that is, if you hadn’t figured out some way to monetize your application your own damn self).

According to the CNet article, Facebook has reached critical mass, and Facebook Apps as a way of getting rich online are going the way of the dodo. Mass proliferation of crappy applications, plus the advent of OpenSocial, and the fact that Facebook is run by a raging loony-bin of retards, means that the gold rush is over.

Can you not make any money off a Facebook App? Sure you can. I’m certain it’s still possible. Would you want to go through the trouble of doing so? Not in my opinion.

Lemme tell you a little sumtin’ sumtin (and pay attention, because this knowledge bomb is gonna make you a lot of money in the long run)…

New developments on the internet have a fast lifespan. They burn bright and hot for a few months, and then they die. In order to take advantage of them, you have to be ON TOP OF SHIT. You gotta be reading about the latest technologies comin’ down the grapevine, you gotta beat the crowd to them, you gotta know how to make money with them, and you have to know when to LEAVE and move on.

It’s sort of like day trading.

Do people get rich day trading stocks? Sure. Do they get wealthy? No. They’re always too busy working to make a quick buck rather than to get the big money.

To me, all this social media, web 2.0 horse ka-ka is nothing but another avenue for LEAD GENERATION.

If you have a solid business, you use these outlets to generate leads for that business, and that will make you money LONG TERM. A business is something you can keep going indefinitely, a perpetual money machine. A fad is something that will make you money in the short term, but is unsustainable in the long haul (stuff like adsense sites, Facebook Apps, etc.).

So for those of you out there who are worried about missing the boat on the next “big thing,” don’t sweat it. Stick to the fundamentals - the kind of fundamentals I teach you in my book. That stuff will ALWAYS make you money. And you don’t have to chase after it like a desperate snake oil salesman. You can take your time, master it, and make real sustainable money.

For instance - everyone is looking at Facebook and writing off the App business. Some people are testing out their advertising system too (which sucks huge donkey balls, by the way). But if you really want to know how to use Facebook to make MFM, here’s what you do…

Create a profile…

Get an ass-load of friends…

Promote as many offers to those friends as you can.

It works! Because you’re generating LEADS and then MARKETING to them. Simple, straightforward, and effective. Good ol’ marketing brew-ha-ha. And you don’t have to be a geek programmer to do it.

It’s easy to get caught up in hype. But always, always, ALWAYS stick to the fundamentals, and you can never go wrong.

Later Losers,

-RJ

Hey Losers,

After careful review, I have determined the winner of the ass-kiss contest to be none other than Mike Hock.  Here is his winning kiss:

Mikehock kissed:
RJ,

You are a f*ckin GENIUS!

Great new Blog!…

I’m glad you fired that putz who is not even worthy of woring in the same room/building…no…no…no…STATE as you.

I hope you gave him a good kick in the ass while you were giving him the boot.

I like the stripper hanging upsidedown from the pole. SEX sells baby!

Only you would have the internet marketing GENIUS to put a stripper on your blog about making money.

There sheer concept that you created - a no name no face leader in there respected field is beyoned BRILLIANT!

And you have helped countless people make tons of money putting these simple internet marketing strategies to work - In a way that a freakin retard could understand.

I guess you really did some research into your target market…LOL

This blog kicks your last Blogs ass - HERE’S WHY……………….

#1. Half naked upside down stripper on blog - YES!

#2. Half naked stripper on pole hanging upside down!

#3. Do I need another reason?

Just take a look to your right——————————>

All the usefull links and other cool sh*t that wasn’t on the last Blog.

$$$ Kudo’s…..RJ - Sheer marketing Magic!

The man throws internet mareting EVENTS at the F*ckn PLAYBOY Mansion!

I would give my first born Child/Mother/Grandmother/My dog….and I’ll through in my girlfriend to - just to sit in the same room with you just so I could learn from osmosiss.

HOLD ON…………….My lips are getting sore….

Thank you for the great Blog /site and the kick in the pants I needed.

You are the KING dam it!

Thanks!

PS…Remember - Mikehock RULES!

It was a difficult decision, because there were a lot of great kiss-asses.  What put Mike over the top is that besides his meticulous attention to the half-naked woman on my website, he was the only one who offered me his girlfriend, grandmother, and dog.

Way to go, Loser.  You just won yourself a free website critique from one of my top marketers.

Go to the “Questions” tab on the blog and send in an email with the website address and your contact info, and my guys will contact you.  I won’t, though, I’m much too important to do that.

Later Losers,

-RJ

Hey Losers,

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from hanging out on this blog, it’s that you’re all pathetic.

If there’s another thing I’ve learned, its that you guys always want to know how to get more traffic to your websites. The problem is, your ass is too CHEAP to go out and buy it. You want to know how to get it for free.

Okay, that’s cool. Free traffic is awesome. I’m awesome. Therefore, if anyone can teach you how to get free traffic, it’s me.

One of the big crazes sweeping the internet is this notion of online video. Sites like Youtube get hundreds of millions (if not billions) of losers wasting time on there every day, and chances are, out of all those idiots, you can find a few to buy the crap you’re selling them.

So if you know how to make good videos that appeal to your market, you can use them to drive traffic to your site.

Here are some tips for getting free traffic from videos, just for you:

1. Keep videos useful, but incomplete.

The inner-filmmaker in everyone wants to freakin’ deliver their magnum opus to Youtube. Screw that. Keep your videos short - two minutes max. Give away some good info your prospects will want, but at the end of the video, tell them to take an action (ie: visit your own damn website) to get MORE information.

Let’s say you are doing a product review. In your video, you can spend the whole two minutes talking about how you got this product, and it made you $5,000 in two weeks, doing a total 90 minutes of work. You can show people the checks you got, the product itself, etc. Then, at the end of the video, you can say: “If you want to learn more about the tactics this course taught me, visit my website at…” whatever.

So you show the benefit (useful), and tell the viewer to take an action to find out how you got that benefit and how they can do it too. (incomplete).

2. Plaster Your Website On That Dang Video.

Don’t wait to show people your website. Put it on the bottom of that video and keep it up on there the WHOLE DANG TIME. I believe video geeks call this the “bottom third” where you take the bottom third part of the video and display your website address on there. Any moron with iMovie can do this, so you should too.

3. Piggy-back off popular videos

Find videos on Youtube that are getting lots of traffic, and create a video response for them. This will show up beneath the video, and you’ll get to siphon off some of that massive traffic that video is getting.

4. Trick The Public

If there’s a super-popular video on Youtube, did you know you can totally trick people into watching your video because they think they’re going to be watching a super-popular video? It’s a very easy trick. First, you need to know that Youtube takes a screencapture of your video 30 seconds in (or in some cases at the half way mark of your video), if you did not specifiy one yourself, to be shown next to that video in it’s results listings.

So what you do is this… take a screenshot of the popular video that is the same as the screenshot that shows up next to it in Youtube. (You can do this by pressing CNTRL+PrtScn) Then, you insert this picture as 1 frame of video, 30 seconds into YOUR video (or half way through). Then you upload it to Youtube using the same title, description, etc. as the popular video.

So when people go searching for that popular video, and they click on your version of it, instead of seeing what they want, they’ll see YOUR video.

Is this sneaky? You bet. Is it underhanded? You bet. Will most people click away and leave once they see it’s not what they’re looking for? You bet. But if even a SMALL percentage of people on a video that’s being searched for 1,000,000 times a DAY decide to watch your full video, you’re going to make some sales. Period.

5. Get Listed In The Search Engines

Did you know putting up a video on Youtube can get you top ranking in the search engines for keyword phrases in a matter of hours? it’s true. You just need to know the tricks to writing your descriptions properly, and how to keyword-load your title.

But taking it a step further, you can also get an RSS feed for your Youtube account and ping that sucker at pingomatic.com, and have search engines from all over crawl your video and INDEX it. So not only do you get listed in Google, but suddenly your video is in Yahoo, MSN, ASK, and all those other lame search engines people use.

Each Youtube user has their own RSS feed, even though YouTube doesn’t advertise it. The format is:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/username/uploads

Just replace the part where it says “username” with your own username. (simple, yes?)

Now, you might be thinking “Wow, RJ - You’re so smart! This info is worth serious cash!”

Well, you’d be right. But to be honest with you, I don’t concern myself with these things. I have people who do it for me. I’m much too important to sit around on Youtube all day watching something that ISN’T two hot girls making out.

When I want video traffic for any of my websites, I call one guy, and one guy only… Jason Moffatt.

Yes, he is a freak who ate too many paint chips while living under some powerlines as a child, but all the tips I just gave you are just some of the things he uses everyday in addition to many more sneaky strategies. Seriously, this kid is a wizzard when it comes to getting free traffic with videos.

He will give you tactics that will blow your freakin’ mind with the amount of traffic they’ll get you. Heck, I think he even has a way to do this stuff without even making your own freakin’ videos. Perfect for a lazy SOB like me.

I asked Jason to give Rich Jerk students a special gift today and he agreed to make a bonus video explaining more of his tactics. Go to his website now (see link below) and check out the video he made just for my blog readers:

Jason Moffatt’s Video Tactics Don’t Suck…at all

After Jason is done with you, maybe you’ll stop being such a moron and get all that free traffic you’ve always wanted. Or don’t use his tactics. I don’t care. I’ll still be rich and you’ll still be… well, you.

Later Losers,

-RJ

S’up Losers.

After I decided to start blogging again, I came back and realized how embarassingly bad my blog looked.  I’m RJ, baby - I do everything first class.  So I fired my lame-ass programmer and hired a new one who wasn’t as lame and told him to make me an awesome blog worthy of the Rich Jerk or I’d bang his girlfriend and put the video up on Youtube.

As you can see, the new blog is awesome.  I’m awesome.  You still suck.

So here’s the deal… register for the blog and leave your comments in this thread kissing my ass about how great my new blog is.  Tell me how much you love it and how much you love me (in a non-gay way, of course).  The commentor who’s the best kiss-ass will win a free consultation with one of my top guys who’ll critique any website you want and give you pointers on how to improve it.

Who knows?  Maybe I’ll be generous and pick more than one winner.  It depends on how well you all pucker-up.

So let me just drop my pants and bend over… now get to kissing.

Later Losers,

RJ
(RJ Headquarters)