That is more or less insane.
First, they are not even an original site, they are basically a poor Facebook imitation. They just do not have the services, fame, or value to be asking such a high price. Honestly, $9.99 a month would still seem incredibly expensive, specially when you consider how much you can buy with $9.99 a month.
Ok, if you are a big powerful wall street broker o high profile criminal defense lawyer, and you can some how manage all your important contacts on it, then it could have a pinch of merit, but it still would not be offering you anything you can’t already get free some other place.
For $40 a month, I would rather just say to myself, that it is about 500 bucks for a year, then assume I am going to be doing business for at least 2 years, and set myself a 1000 dollar budget to hire a website developer, and make myself a big online resume, with its own news letters, log in systems, and all the other bells and whistles.
They don’t have much fame yet other than USA and UK, the contacts they offer don’t really have all that much value, even though some of them are important people, they will never talk to you, $40 buck a month member or not, and lastly, their site is just not good, it does not feel like quality.
For $40 a month, they are going to have to include more features, maybe an extensive list of good jobs that are exclusive to them, or something, because $40 for what it is now, is just insulting to anyone who buys in to it, as they are more or less saying you have to have more money than brains to want it.