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After the news of the sale of ‘the Rich Jerk’ empire last week the Rich Jerk responds to the claims that he is selling his online business to avoid bankruptcy. He says on his blog that his business is not up for sale.

If what ‘the Rich Jerk’ says is true then why was it advertised for sale last week on BizQuest? The ad has since been removed. Sounds to me, like, ‘the Rich Jerk’ has something to hide.

He goes on with his usual trash talk saying how he is better than everyone else and that the rumors were spread by website owners to get traffic to their website. That’s not the case. The fact remains that his business was advertised for sale a week ago and today it is not there.

He went on to say that he was going to sue the big name marketers for putting the news of the sale on their websites. I don’t know what grounds he figures to sue on since his business was clearly advertised for sale.

I know that ‘the Rich Jerk’ is really out there but his response is really off the wall, even for him. You can find his response here.http://www.therichjerk.com/blog/2007/05/24/ha_ha_im_going_brokeagain.html

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Kelly Felix “the Rick Jerk” is selling his entire online business lock, stock and barrel. The Shoemoney Blog reports that he is selling his online empire to avoid bankruptcy.

I knew something was up with the ‘Rich Jerk’ because I always got an email from him without fail at least once a week and haven’t gotten one from him since February when he was peddling his RJ X-Ray software.

Included in the sale is his 2 offices one in Carlsbad, CA. and the other in Thousand Oaks, CA. and the ‘Rich Jerk’ name along with his three websites at:

http://www.TheRichJerk.com
http://www.RichJerk.com
http://www.RichJerkRealEstate.com

You can find the announcement of the sale on BizQuest.com here: http://california.bizquest.com/836910.html

I was surprised by the news since the ‘Rich Jerk’ has been doing late night informmercials and seemed to be doing well. I guess everything isn’t always as it seems.

It’s no secret that I really like using articles to promote my online businesses. The fact that this site got noticed from the very beginning is largely due to the fact that a lot of the promoting that I did was through articles that I submitted to various article sites.

I will tell you again, there are few better ways to promote a business than with article writing. The best part of promoting using an article site is that it is free and is in most cases better than any other type of submission service that you have to pay for. The results are generally far better.

When you submit an article and it is accepted it can be picked up by many other websites which will give you extra back links to your website without you having to do anything more than submit it in the first place. I submitted ten articles for this blog and submitted them to three different article sites. For about four hours work on my part those articles resulted in over 600 back links to this blog all for free. That’s where most of my initial traffic to this blog came from.

I’ve decided to expand my online existence by building a new online business that I think that you, my readers, will be interested in because of what I am willing to do to get it off the ground and moving in the right direction and will be very beneficial to anyone who takes advantage of it.

I have just completed building a new article site. The name of the new article site is Article Knowledgebase. I have populated the site with reprinted articles from various article sites so that I have some initial content for the early going.

I intend to submit a press release on the new article site within the next week to two weeks at the most. The thing about press releases is that they can do very well and be picked up by some big news sites or can flop and may not be picked up at all. It all depends on how well it’s written and how it is presented. I intend to make sure that it gets picked up by many news sites. I won’t release it until it is exactly right. My point is that after a good press release goes live all hell breaks loose and things get crazy. That’s why what I’m about to offer will have to be acted on quickly because once the press release goes live this offer will no longer be available.

Here’s my offer. Go to my new article site and register as an author and then submit your article, or articles, and I will personally tell you what, if anything, is wrong with it and will tell you how to correct whatever problem that the article may have so that you will have the very best article possible for when the site officially goes live. Do it as soon as possible because I can only guarantee this for the next 7 days. After that I can’t guarantee you anything. I will keep you posted if I extend it past that time due to not getting the press release submitted within that time frame.

People don’t just go to article sites to submit articles. Many use them to get information on whatever it is that they are interested in. It’s more of a library than it is a place to promote a business. That’s why properly written articles used for promotional reasons do so well and that’s why it is so very important that it is written well. The better that it is written the more people it will attract to a website.

I can also tell you that far more articles are rejected than are accepted by article sites for reasons from being too spammy or incoherent to poor spelling and grammar. There are a number of things that will get an article rejected. Those are just a few. That’s why it is important to take me up on this while you can because I have never been rejected and all of my articles have done very well because I know exactly what to do to get the best results from every article that I submit.

I have never hyped any of my readers to this point and I’m not about to start now. The reason that I am doing this is I want to get as much original well written articles as I possibly can before the press release goes live. I can’t do that on my own. My helping you will in turn help me launch a better article site. It’s a win, win, deal. I get good information and you get an education on article writing.

Here’s a big reason to get your article submitted before the press release goes out. When the press release begins to attract people to the article site, and there will be many, you will have your article sitting there for everyone to see which will send them to your website if they like what you have to say in your article.

Ok. Before I wrap this up I have one last thing to tell you. I plan to take 5 articles that I feel are the best and feature them on the front page of the article site. That means, no matter how many people submit after you do your article will be one of the first 5 on the front page of the article site. It will be there when the press release goes live which means that everyone who visits the site will see your article listed before anyone else’s.

Here’s one last reason why you should do this. No article site will ever tell you what is wrong with your article or tell you what you can do to make it better. I’m telling you that this is a rare opportunity that will probably never come your way again. So don’t pass this up. Even if you have never written an article before, this is a great chance for you to learn how to do it right so that you will always be accepted when submitting articles to other article sites.

Here’s the URL to Article Knowledgebase. http://articleknowledgebase.com Go sign up now because there isn’t much time. Once the press release is submitted this offer will end.

I don’t know where I’m going with this post but hopefully it will come to me by the time I finish writing it. I haven’t written anything for a few days now because I have been promoting my blog with a vengeance.

I have also been doing a lot of research to get some ideas to post here. While reading through a lot of information on Internet marketing I kept on coming across the same thing over and over again.

It’s no secret that I actively promote the Rich Jerk Ebook since I have his banner on the sidebar on this blog. This post is, and at the same time isn’t, about the ebook and some of the strategies that are in the ebook.

I’ve read the Rich Jerk ebook and there are some great ideas in there but that isn’t what this post is about. I’m getting clearer to where I’m going with this but am not quite there yet.

What kept on jumping out at me is how people were using the ebook, and how they were trying to sell it online that was really bothering me. There is a section in that ebook that tells you how to write effective ad copy. Now this was just a simple example of a certain technique that is a little different than your typical hyped up sales pitch. What a lot of marketers were doing is taking that exact example and using it for their sales page.

The problem with doing something like this is that if you thought of doing a copy and paste to use the example pitch page, you can bet a lot of other marketers have too. I found this same example ad popping up all over the place. Now understand, I wasn’t searching for anything about the Rich Jerk. I was looking for topics on Internet marketing. If I found all of these phony ads without even looking for them, I can only imagine how many times it will come up when someone is looking for information on the Rich Jerk ebook. The sample ad is just that. It’s not based on anything real at all. The fact that the sample ad was signed Jane Doe lets you know that this is not real. The only thing that these marketers changed was the signature from Jane Doe, to their own signature.

If you know about the Rich Jerk then you know that he comes off as an arrogant S.O.B. He likes to talk down to his potential customers by using words and phrases like, ‘loser’, ‘I’m better than you’ just to name a couple. He also uses foul language and uses an asterisk in the cuss words. I guess he figures it’s not so bad if he doesn’t completely spell the cuss words out. His real niche is his Rich Jerk signature and his arrogance. It has worked so well for him that it has made him millions and the distinction of being one the Internet’s biggest gurus.

The whole facade of being the way that he comes off to be along with the Rich Jerk name in my opinion is his marketing strategy. That’s what makes him stand out from the rest. You can bet if that strategy had flopped in the very beginning there would be no Rich Jerk and he would not be the arrogant person that he portrays himself to be.

What else I came across was these very same marketers who are using the example ad that I mentioned before are also trying to become mini Rich Jerk’s by being as rude and arrogant as the Rich Jerk himself.

As I said there is a point somewhere to this and it just came to me. God gave you a mind. Use it!

I agree with the advice to find out what the successful people are doing and then duplicate it. That doesn’t mean to become that person. It means to conduct business the way that they do. Not to take on that person’s personality.

Be your own person. Be your own marketer. Do business that shows who you are, not how someone else is. It will show through big time if you try to be someone that you are not. I found that these sites were nothing but an annoyance and I know that at least, 9 out of 10 clicks will be immediately clicked away.

I don’t like the Rich Jerk as a person and find him very annoying but I do like his strategies. I don’t think coming off as a common thug is necessary because his marketing ideas speak for themselves.

Do copy what the successful people are doing. Just don’t become them. It will destroy your chance of becoming successful because people will see through you.