Because I do have a daytime job I spend very little time looking for writing websites. However, I Google searched something today and a site called writeformoney.com popped up so I took a look. It is apparently owned by a guy name John Clausen who believes he is God's gift to writers. Has anyone else looked at the site, or does anyone else know about this guy Clausen?
At first glance the website is impressive. I thought I had found another avenue for my columns, possibly one that pays the big bucks for which we are all looking. I read the first page and it invited me to sign up so I started the process. There is the customary make up a user name box and the password boxes. When you complete those boxes you then jump to a page that asks you for a $7.95 per month membership fee. I have no idea what John or his site can do for me, but I can be a member for a monthly fee.
Maybe it is a prestige thing; the right to say that I am a member of John's something or other…I am not sure what it is…I will get back to you on that one. John must have been successful at doing something for someone at sometime…somewhere. There are other people with profiles posted on John's site. The only one with a picture looked a bit bewildered. Perhaps he just realized that he is paying a monthly fee to be on John's site that does nothing.
I bet John's site that does nothing is where Jerry Seinfeld got his idea for the show about nothing. I have a website. Should I be charging a fee to let people join my website so I can do nothing for them? There is no question that I would be good at it. In fact, I believe I am every bit as good as John Clausen at doing nothing for you. John may have met his match. He will certainly have competition and will have to stay on his toes and practice doing nothing; otherwise I will take away his business.
The amusing part of this is that I believe the advertisement on which I clicked is a pay-per-click advertisement. John paid for me to go to his site, create a user name and be insulted enough to sit down and write this column. I may just go back, click it again tomorrow so John will have to pay again. Rest assured I am going to ask at least one hundred fiends to Google him and click on the pay advertisement.
John Clausen may be likeable, he may have a talent for writing, he may be a great writing coach, but he is number one, the very best at, and has the fastest website in the country at asking for the money while offering absolutely nothing. I am starting to admire this guy, given the fact that there are profiles of others who claim to be writers on his website. He got them to pay money for nothing. I wonder if these guys posted their email addresses so I can direct them to my website that sells them nothing.
Oh, John, before you go into that line of work, remember you do need to show the customer a car before you ask for his down payment. In fact, most people want a test drive. You want my business? Let me take a spin around the block on your website before you ask for my money. I may even want to kick the tires before I sign up.
That is all I have time to write for now; I need to add a paypal button to my website. As soon as I get it on there John will have competition at doing nothing. By the way, if you sign up today, I will give you $1.00 off of the $7.95 standard monthly fee. “But Wait”, as they say on the television advertisements; sign up today and I will give you double the nothing I do for you for the first month. Can you beat that deal John Clausen?
