“The Rich Jerk” May Not Be So Rich!
May 23, 2007 Web News
Over at Shoemoney.com he just made a post that Kelly Felix (the Rich Jerk) is selling the Rich Jerk operation in order to avoid bankruptcy.
Then about 20 minutes ago a friend who I trust in the business who is pretty close to Kelly Felix says he is just about bankrupt and hoping to climb out of the hole and even make some profit. The source also says that Kelly blew a ton of investors money buying advertising on Howard Stern and fake commercials/tv spots to make it look like he was rich.
The business is listed for sale at BizQuest.com. IT has a listed selling price of $8 Million. No real details are listed as to why that the business is being sold other than:
Multiple owners looking to work on various other projects, separately.
To me this is so funny considering the idea of The Rich Jerk is to teach you how to make money online and gain your freedom. Now that same company may be going under. I will do a follow-up if I find out more.
Google the best place to work in the US
May 22, 2007 Google
Fortune Magazine has just rated Google as the best place to work in the United States. Some of the things that make them the best are:
- Free meals
- Swimming spa
- Free doctors onsite
- Free Laundry service
- Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects
No wonder Google gets 1,300 résumés a day.
Oprah got to tour the Googleplex for her show to talk about why it is such a great place to work. Watch the video below.
Choosing Your Right Niche!
May 17, 2007 Making Money
One thing that I have seen over and over again in discusion boards and blog entries is “How do I choose a Niche that is going to work?” This is one question that will have hundreds of answers and none of them my be right for you. This is because each person will market differently, write copy differently and use a different page layout. The one thing that I think is most important is once you find your niche keep testing different things until you find the one that works for you in the niche that you are in.
You will read a lot in the forums that you should go after popular niches. They are the the ones that will have the most traffic. This is true but they are also the one’s that are going to be most competitive. You will also see people talking about going after niche’s int the Longtail arena. Though they will have less traffic they will be more targeted and have a better conversion rate. To me this is all true. There is no perfect niche out there. It is a niche because it is an interest to someone. No matter if it is a dozen people or millions of people. There is always away to make money advertising to any niche. It is all in the way that you market to them that is going to attract them to what you have to offer. So don’t be fooled into thinking that just because you niche is very popular that you will be able to make money in that niche. You have to have the right message and the right ad placement.
So sit down think about what interest you and what you know about and use that as your starting point and not what Technorati says is popular.
Now don’t get me wrong I am not saying that going after what is popular and hot at this very moment is not going to make you money if you do it correctly. I think one great article the is talking about the proper ways to do this is over at Profit JaneMayblogs.com – From A Niche Right Now – A Step By Step Guide. In this artilce she is talking about creative way that you can make money and use the popularity of the niche to earn the money. Will this work for everyone NO! But why not give it a shot.
Google Analytics Gets an Upgrade
At the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. The Google Analytics official blog reports that the New Version includes a redesigned reporting interface, new email and export reports, custom dashboard, trend and over-time graph and more contextual help tips.
This upgrade will be rolled out over the coming weeks and users will have access to the old version for a month.
Search Engine Land has some screenshots of the new version.
