The Rich Dad Forums

[LinkAdage]

So i check out www.richdad.com from time to time and usally review the forums. I feel it is almost a complete waste of time now (BTW i notice peter posts there from time 2 time as well)

What I mean by a waste of time is that so many people are just starting out and don't have a lick of real world business experence. I was reading a post tonight about a guy who wants to start a food delivery business for TGI Fridays and others. His orignal plan was to charge a 5 dollar delivery fee per order and that was it. Any how there are about 5 people on those forums that give out worthwild advice (peter being one of them) everyone else has no clue. I know everyone starts out with no clue but i really wish there was more knowledge there so that the forums could benefit some slightly more experienced people as well.

Shaun

[Arlene M Passalacqua]

Shaun, I agree. I think the biggest problem with that forum is that it's completely unmoderated. There's nobody keeping the spammers under control, and so much of the stuff posted is self-promotion. It drives away the good people. Then, there's nobody left to offer advice to the newbies, except the spammers and a handful of hardcore people who haven't give up yet. Not that I like overmoderated forums too, Webmasterworld, for example, takes moderation to an extreme.

[shugotenshi]

I'm read many of the Rich Dad books, but I only briefly visited his web site and forums. I feel the books are a great primer to anyone wanting to be an entrepreneur, but in my opinion, the books really lacked substance. The series is 95% motivational and only 5% substance (motivation is not a bad thing, but it is not everything). Unless you want to get into the real estate business, read the books, enjoy the content, but then move on.

The forums were a real turn off for me because it lacks direction. I agree 100% with Shaun and Peter, too many spammers, too many self promoters. The reason I enjoy the small-business-forum so much is because the forum is moderated and most of the posts are "how you do business", not "buy from my business". If I wanted cheesy pop-up ads and MLM scams, I'd surf more porn sites.

The other thing I didn't like about Rich Dad series (both the books and the web site), I really started to get the "give-me give-me give-me" feel. I believe in self promotion to a point. Robert Kiyosaki takes self promotion alittle too far in my opinion. "Look how great I am". I feel that his prices are too high as well. $100 for a newsletter and over $350 for some of his book/game packages. If his prices came down a little, I might consider buying more things from his series.

[1bad98gmc]

I enjoy deleting MLM threads.



We do get some clueless people here but it usually ends up on tax issues or something the average person would have no knowledge about. I would much rather help a person with this than someone trying to sell "member" enlargement products.

[gringolerdo]

Hi to you all,
I posted a few times on the Rich Dad forum and all I can say is that Im over it luckily I found this forum its good to read posts from real business people who have the experience to back up there advice.
I have read all his story books and yes for me it started my thought process but then the real world kicks in and that’s when you start to learn VERY quickly the rules and it isn’t all fun and games...

Ron.P

[veljad]

I've never been to the Rich Dad forums, but I have lightly read some of Robert Kiyosaki's work and tend to agree that it's pretty light on substance and heavy on "sound bites". I have mentioned this on other forums and found my opinion is not well recieved.

Anyway, if you're interested in following his advise, you may want to check out the VERY-biased-against analysis by real estate author, John T. Reed, clearly one of Rich Dad Poor Dad's strongest critics. Many of his points seem quite vindictive and probably detract from the actual value of his research, but most are based on some findings into Mr. Kiyosaki that the author apparenlty has made.

The link is here if you're interested,
http://www.johntreed.com/Kiyosaki.html

Again, this whole site is very biased and seems a little trite at times, but if you dig around the you'll find a lot of materials debunking other "get-rich-quick" authors, my favorite section is the "where are they now" page:

http://www.johntreed.com/bestseller.html

[gringolerdo]

Read all that, actually thats what made me think!!! those articles John wrote are very interesting...

[Oleks]

You've gotta start to follow your inner wisdom. It's easy to be jerked left and right by opposing sides of anything. Kiyosaki makes so much sense.. Reed makes so much sense..

At some point you realize that you're all alone and no one is gonna look out after your well-being except one person: NUMBER 1.

There's lots of great information on these forums - still - you have to process and digest it all and use your common sense.

Peace to all entrepreneurs.

Originally Posted by Ronstaa

Read all that, actually thats what made me think!!! those articles John wrote are very interesting...

[1bad98gmc]

I read some of those links Plastyk posted. It looks like Kiyosaki (the author of rich dad) is either a complete fraud or too stupid to know the difference.

[cwneri]

If you know how to weed through posts / threads to find the quality information, there is plenty of it on the richdad forums. Pick through the weeds, toss aside the posts that do not have any meaning to you, and run with it.

As with every forum, there will be newbies, and those who don't have the time of day for anyone else but themselves. Both of these kinds of people are present on every forum, in every group, in every job, and in every company.

Plastyk,

Learn to weed, worrying about the details will kill you.

Karen