Get Rich Quick or Start Trying Part One?
My last post attempting to start a new feature called this Week in Dickness was an abject failure. I was initially excited because I thought this was a good opportunity to get rich quick. In hindsight it was not practical and even if it had taken off, it would not likely have made much money for me. Still I will not give up in my quest to get rich quick or slowly or even to become moderately wealthy in a reasonable amount of time. I now give you the first edition of Get Rich Quick or Start Trying.
Here are my three latest get rich quick schemes:
1) Twitter - I have never used or read Twitter before, but it seems to me if Ashton Kutcher is the most followed person on Twitter than it can’t be that difficult to gain a large following on Twitter. There are far more interesting and more famous people out there than Ashton.
I know you are thinking, that may be true Mr. Dickness, but you are not more famous than Ashton. I will give you that, but I know someone who is more famous. Wait for it. Jesus.
Yes Jesus. Just hear me out for a minute. Who has more followers than Jesus? Maybe Oprah, but Ashton had more followers on Twitter than her last I heard. So there is a huge target audience just waiting to hear what Jesus will tweet next. Sure it may be boring to hear what someone ate for breakfast this morning, but I think everyone would like to hear what Jesus ate this morning. Also you think people rush out to buy whatever book Oprah recommends, well I imagine they would be interested to sign up for Jesus’s book club too.
Pros -
1) Already has huge following
2) Many people believe he is the son of God so everything he says has instant creditability even more so than Dr. Phil who is the bastard son of Oprah Winfrey.
3) Opportunity for merchandising limitless
Cons -
1) Many of his followers although quite devoted to Jesus may actually be disillusioned to hear how much different he is than they imagined
2) I have been unable to reach Jesus or his agent to see what they think of my idea.
3) Jesus much like J.D. Salinger has been notoriously wary of the media in recent years and may be reluctant to participate in this Twitter account.
4) With Twitter’s recent insistence on confirming any celebrity’s identity before allowing them to open an account it will likely be difficult. (see Cons number 3 for more)
5) I have seen no evidence yet that having a Twitter account can make you any money. Also even though the Catholic church did not invent Jesus they probably collect royalties on any merchandise, etc. in the same way that Donald Trump patented some saying about firing people even though millions had said it before him.
At this time I will not go forward with this idea mainly because of reason five under cons. Also I suspect many people would get upset about this project and since it does not have much chance of getting me rich quickly, it is probably not worth the hassle. Since I have not done any research on the topic it is a distinct possibility that someone else already has an @Jesus Twitter account making this a moot point.
I have a few more ideas that I was going to include in this post, but this post turned out to be much longer than I initially anticipated so I will save that for another time.
Until next time remember to Get Rich Quick or Start Trying.
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