The Think Rich Club: First Impressions

I’ve recently joined one of the newest membership sites out there, Think Rich Membership Club. Honestly, I don’t know how exclusive they are, but since the trial 14 day membership was only $3.95 (and you can cancel at any time - no commitments), I figured I’d give them a try. And, if you sign up by April 30 and want to stay in, you only pay $47.77/month rather than $97.77 they claim the price will be once they officially launch in May.

The site was started by a husband and wife team, Ray DuGray & Maria Ngo, The Entrepreneur Doctors who work out of Las Vegas. They are founders of the extensive Niche Information Center site that provides free articles for newsletter publishers on a wealth of topics.

I’ve been impressed with the stuff they currently have on their site. There are about 40 interviews with “featured experts” like Dave Lakhani, Mark Victor Hansen, Tom Antion, Steve Pavlina, and Ted Ciuba. Each interview is about 60 minutes. The only downside to these is that most aren’t downloadable (you can download the interviews with Mark Victor Hansen, Les Brown, Ted Ciuba, and Charlie T Jones in a different “download library”). You must listen to each through their online mp3 player. It’s not a big deal, but I guess that’s motivation to remain subscribed.

There’s also a section that has affirmations on Think and Grow Rich. There isn’t much happening on the discussion forums, but I suspect once this gets up and running, they will be quite valuable.

While there is a lot of information on the site, I found it to be a bit cumbersome, buggy and difficult to use.

• There are a lot of links that don’t work yet and a number of sections under construction.
• Right now, there aren’t any downloadable ebooks, and I couldn’t find any videos - all the video links took me back to the homepage or to the audio links section.
• They also have 90+ experts listed on the site, but when you click on several of them, you’re taken to the generic audio page where their audio is nowhere to be found.
• Parts of the side menu also repeat, so it’s very confusing.
• A number of the side navigation links take you to pages that claim you don’t have access and to join the membership site. Since I only saw one level to the membership subscription, I have to assume that I should have access to these pages…
• There are a lot of ads on the site, which makes it confusing what’s part of the site and what’s not.

My advice is that if you do decide to join, forget about the site navigation and look for the “site map” link (it’s about a quarter down the page under the side navigation header called “info center”). This page contains a list of all working links on the site and is a lot less frustrating than trying to figure out where stuff is located.

I’m hoping they’ll clean up the site by the time they launch in May because the layout is really annoying. You have to spend time finding all the info they promise in their sales letter. That said, they do have a lot of good information on the site if you’re willing to dig (again, go straight to the site map page!). The 40 interviews are well worth the $3.95 trial cost.