I'm not exactly a high-profile guy.

You know, I pretty much like my job, I pay my bills well enough, and enjoy staying pretty close to the house on the weekends. But I'm not really the guy who everybody gathers around at parties, you know what I mean? In fact, if there was a party, I might get invited alright, but probably would end up just not going.

Hi, I'm Jim, and I'm an internet addict. I'm a search junkie. You know what I mean?; Search Google Images for the name "Bob" and you will get a look at every dude named "Bob" on the Western Hemisphere. (Which is, incidentally, where all the Bobs have ended up, apparently...) Search the word "foot" sometime, for example. But be CAREFUL!! You should know that image searches often bring up medical sites, and my brother (or sis) there are some G-NARLY "foot" disorders out there... So I've warned you. It's out of my hands now...

So anyway, in my obsessive funk at 1:00 a.m. when I should have been tucked warmly in with my wife, I run across this guy who calls himself The Rich Jerk. Jerks are kindof like train wrecks, you know what I mean? Or like car accidents on the interstate. You don't want to look, you know it's just going to slow down traffic, but for some stupid reason, you just have to at least GLANCE, you know? Or at least dang near break your kneck trying not to. So anyhow, I start reading, an d he's absolutely right; he certainly does come off as a jerk, big time, but man, I started reading up, and this guy's definitely a jerk, but he's doing something on the low end (you know, like small business) that big companies have been doing on the internet for a few years now, and he wrote an ebook about it. I did Youknowwhat-Way back in the day, so I got a snoot full in a hurry. Didn't do jack for me. I'm a pretty hard worker too, but it just wasn't do-able for me. But this whole thing with the internet has apparently made it so easy to buy stuff over the net that people (businesses)pay a little bit for each of those little "click-throughs". The Jerk (Sorry, The RICH Jerk...)made a TON of change when he figured out how to be one of the people who owns one of those really inexpensive little banners that people "click-through" (sorry for all the "quotes")to buy that stuff. It's like you don't have to even be the one selling, you just have the little link that sends people, who are ALREADY looking for whatever it is they end up clicking on ANYWAY!

So I did it.

I know. "Hoser!", you say.

Yeah. Fine. But I'm telling you, it's not only legit, it's a freakin' pretty dang big deal. It took me about a day of figuring out what some of the terminology meant, I wasn't raised with computers like most kids are now, and there are still some things I have to get my head around, but I've been getting some checks from Clickbank, and I'm telling you, I may be able to do it exclusively if this keeps doing what it's been doing, and more impertantly than anything else to me, I think my wife can quit working soon. I'm not kidding, man.

Ok, yeah, you have to have a computer, and you have to learn some new stuff about the internet but frankly, I thought it was all pretty interesting stuff anyway, and at least I'm not trying to sell soap or having all my friends over to try to sell them something so they never speak to me again.

My checks are great and all, and I can see them getting bigger like very fast, but you should see this guy's. He has actual copies of his statements on the site so you can see them. And they're not from selling the ebook. I'm sure he'll make a lot from that too, but most of the stuff he tells you has NOTHING to do with it. There are ten things that he tells you about, and they're all so SOLID, man. Like he says in his characteristically "jerklike" way, you'd almost have to be stupid not to be able to at least make a little of extra money, and when this guys says a little, well, his "little" and my "little" are two different things. Were, anyway.

I'm kinda glad I didn't get this kind of thing in my twenties, frankly. I wasn't totally irresponsible or anything, I was in the military so I would have only gotten in so much trouble, but I've had to work pretty hard most of my life. Think it's done me a lot of good, frankly. But it's pretty dad-gum cool to go get a new scope for my boy's rifle now if I feel like it, you know?

And no, I'm not going to start throwing money at him now that I'm making extra money. But maybe there'll be a few bucks left over for him and whatever family he has when I finally keel-over, you know?

If you're interested, here's how you find the guy and the book:

Click here: The Rich Jerk

Now, I wasn't kidding. The guy really is a jerk, so keep that in mind if you check out the site. Oh, I don't know if he really is, I tend to think people like that are just probably tired of trying to be nice when so much of life would just work a whole lot better if people actually just got to the POINT, you know?

Dang sure got my attention.

About the author:

James is a small business owner who travels a lot. Likes to hunt game, mostly squirrels and such, with his son. Spends most of his spare time sneaking around eating junk food when his wife's not looking...pretending he's out buying parts for the car...