Around this time last year I decided to buy the Rich Jerk’s eBook. I wrote a short review on the main site which you can read here:

The Rich Jerk – New Profitable Internet Marketing SystemThe review was pretty positive because, although the writer acts like an arrogant “jerk”, there is some good stuff contained in the manual for someone who is new to internet marketing.

Of course, the Rich Jerk is just a caricature of a real human being – a great marketing ploy. When it was released it was a new and fresh and people responded in their droves, making it a Clickbank bestseller.

Behind the Rich Jerk is a young American man called Kelly Felix. He did create some very profitable websites and has made a fortune from internet marketing. It’s probably an understatement to say that he has increased his fortune somewhat by creating the Rich Jerk character.

After the initial website and eBook offer, the Rich Jerk branched out into infomercials in the US. Everything he did was geared towards creating a huge email list so that he could promote other products to them in order to make more money.

A couple of months ago emails started appearing from the Jerk advertising “Stompernet”, a search engine optimisation course from Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins. The emails were rude, many telling the reader to “**** off” at the end!

Also, the Jerk decided to make up some ridiculously over-the-top stories about torturing an employee for giving away his secrets or something or other.

Apparently, although I haven’t received the email yet, RJ has sent out another email today which says some rather silly things about something he really shouldn’t have mentioned…

By all means join up for the Rich Jerk’s program if you are interested, just don’t expect to receive professional and courteous emails from him. He seems to like to appeal to juveniles…

I have been buying a lot of stuff on eBay recently, some great stuff too for pennies on the pound.

Of course, it is all biz opp related gear (as if I haven’t got enough of the stuff already!)…

Recent wins included:

Stephen Pierce’s Multi-Dimensional Marketing home study course. This is an A4 sized manual, 2 DVDs and 2 CDs all wrapped up in a nice presentation folder.

If you’ve never heard of Stephen before then it’s fair to say that he is a very successful online marketer.

My only previous experience of him was from the Entrepreneur’s Bootcamp in November 2005 where he did a two hour set (see https://www.Entrepreneur-Bootcamp.org) and also from some DVDs I have of Carl Galletti’s Internet Marketing Superconference from 2003.

I think he is friends with Andrew Reynolds as he is now on the Entrepreneur Channel with a couple of segments (Sky 682).

I also got hold of yet another Streetwise Publications product – “The Streetwise Internet Poker Home Study Course” which is well over 100 pages long. To be quite honest, I’ve never played Poker in my life but I know that it is huge so it is worth looking into.

Thirdly I got hold of Vince Stanzione’s seminar from 2002 – 6 videos and a workbook.

Now, this particular video set doesn’t come up for sale that often on eBay.

There is someone who sells videos of a Stanzione seminar on eBay. Although the seller claims they are from “2002/2003”, when you watch them you find out they were filmed in 2000 and Vince is recommending that you use futures pagers. Well past their sell-by date!

Three bargains there then, when I really should’ve been Christmas shopping! Oh well, still 2 weeks left for that…

Just had an email from a subscriber which I am afraid I cannot answer because I have had no experience of the Fleet Street Letter from Fleet Street Publications.

The subscriber asked:

“I want to know what value you think the Fleet Street Letter is. Ever since I subscribed to Red Hot Penny Shares I’ve been getting these. They seem very sensational and I’ve got conflicting information regarding the economy, house price bubbles etc. If I were to take this seriously I’d be terrified. Your views please!”

Any views, reviews or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Simply leave a comment on this blog or submit a comment on the main site:

https://www.BizOppsUK.com/feedback.php

Thanks, Ben

Here’s a brand new tool which helps you ruin a usually great experience for thousands of internet users.

If you’re too bone-idle to actually visit a forum and post messages and interact, there’s no need to worry anymore!

Rod Beckwith and Jeff Alderson have been hard at working creating a new forum-spamming software program called Forum Equalizer.

And it’s yours to use for just $77 at … (no way am I sending them any traffic)

Like email and blog comment spam before it, forum spamming is hated throughout the internet. There is zero justification for posting adverts or automated messages on a forum for one simple reason:

Forums are for interactionAnyone using Forum Equalizer to post messages is extremely unlikely to ever go back and post follow-ups to the replies. People will be duped into posting answers to questions that only exist so a signature can be shown.

The “benefits” of using this software according to Rod Beckwith are:

“Submit your comments and questions to an ever growing list of over 2010+ forums to flood your site with quality backlinks”

Or get your site blacklisted by Google and have you host and domain registrar have severe words with you…

Google aren’t stupid, they will have people working on countering this automated forum spam – and you can bet that offenders will see their websites drop out of the search engine results…

“Get your website (and expertise) in front of tens of thousands of eyeballs”

Or, get your name out on the web next to the words “renowned forum spammer”. There are no winners who use this software.

Forum moderators will have an increased workload, readers will have to wade through a load of junk posts to get valuable content and anyone who uses this Forum Equalizer software will end up losing business, if not more…

“Get detailed reports of how your submissions went”

Maybe you do, maybe you don’t… what I would like to know is: do you get detailed reports of how many forums banned you?

There’s plenty more from Rod Beckwith and Jeff Alderson on the sales page of Forum Equalizer but I’m not going to give you a link because I refuse to give them the one-way link which they want so much…

My recommendation – AVOID

I’ve recently been having a clearout of my bookmarks and struck upon something quite sad.

Over the last couple of years I have collected hundreds of bookmarks (or “favorites”) for lots of different websites.

Mostly these are blogs or new start-up sites where the publisher is new and fresh to internet marketing and is having a real go at making some money and building a business.

In a lot of cases they go from a standing start to creating lots of new and unique content over a couple of weeks. For this reason I bookmark their sites because I want to hear more about their experiences and find out how well they are doing.

The problem is, they put loads of effort in over the first month or so… and then quit!

It’s a real shame (and quite frustrating) because I specifically bookmarked the site or blog so that I could go back time after time to see their progress.

For example, one young lady from London set up a site where she was aiming to pay off £10,000 in just one year.

Her story was that she was sick of being in debt and wanted to do something about it. Her site got press coverage and she even had someone promise to match whatever she made and donate it to charity.

She kept up with it over the whole year and, although she didn’t quite make £10k, she did very well and paid off a large chunk of her debt.

However, the challenge ended on the 15th August 2006 and she wrote in her online diary on the 14th promising:

“I’ll write a lot more in the next couple of days”

But there has been nothing since! Talk about leaving us hanging 🙂

Check out One Girl, One Year at https://www.OneGirlOneYear.co.uk (opens in new window)

A second example is a very interesting blog called “The Internet Marketing Novice”.

This blog had excellent ranking in the search engines for some good IM keywords and was being updated very regularly.

Carl, the blogger behind it, had decided to have a good go at internet marketing and was documenting his progress nicely.

However, one day it just stopped… dead…

After 6 months of excellent, unique content and posts, the blog just stopped.

I keep on going back to see if there has been any change but nothing has been written since July. I even went so far as to email Carl and ask if he was going to update it again but I haven’t had a reply!

Check out The Internet Marketing Novice Blog at https://carlmorgan.blogspot.com/ (opens in new window)

These two examples are two of the best I found on my search engine travels but there were plenty more. Of course, there could be a very valid reason why these people quit or stop posting. It could be personal circumstances which prevent them for carrying on.

Or, it could just be a lack of enthusiasm.

It’s a shame though because a lot of them had the right idea and probably quit just before the big pay-off. It’s called Sod’s Law…