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		<title>Dominating Video Exclusive Bonus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my Dominating Video Bonus Page! Sign up for &#8216;Dominating Video&#8217; through my link on this page and you will also receive the following INCREDIBLE BONUSES&#8230; Dominating Video Bonus #1: One Year unlimited access to Video Post Robot version 2.0 ($300+ value): The doors to this are not open because it is being used [...]]]></description>
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<p>Welcome to my Dominating Video Bonus Page!</p>
<p>Sign up for &#8216;Dominating Video&#8217; through my link on this page and you will also receive the following INCREDIBLE BONUSES&#8230;</p>
<h3><strong>Dominating Video Bonus #1: One Year unlimited access to Video Post Robot version 2.0 ($300+ value): </strong></h3>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5894" title="videopostrobot2" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/videopostrobot2-300x29.png" alt="" width="300" height="29" /></p>
<p>The doors to this are not open because it is being used by my private members right now only and is going to be released to the public in 2011 but you can get free access to it for one year. This is not just a video submission tool but also ties into my network of 10000+ blogs and will post your videos there as well&#8230; flooding the internet with your videos.</p>
<h3><strong><strong>Dominating Video</strong> Bonus #2 &#8211; Private webinar with myself, Jason Potash and Mark Dulisse:</strong></h3>
<p>This is for only those that buy through our link and will take place in a couple weeks. This webinar will be for our private group where you will be able to talk directly to Mark, Jason and I about dominating Google and making huge revenue.<strong> </strong></p>
<h3><strong><strong>Dominating Video</strong> Bonus #3 &#8211; Free Access to Mark&#8217;s &#8220;Dominating Google&#8221; course that he just released a few months ago ($197):</strong></h3>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5895" title="dominatinggoogle" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dominatinggoogle-300x78.png" alt="" width="300" height="78" /><br />
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<p>I had to call in a favor to Mark Dulisse to get this one and talked him into it. This is not something being given away for free or has resale rights, the only other way to access this now is to pay $197&#8230; but I got this thrown in for free.</p>
<h3><strong><strong>Dominating Video</strong> Bonus #4 &#8211; Free Access to two of Alex Goads best selling products ($100+ Value):</strong></h3>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5896" title="alexgoad" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/alexgoad-300x134.png" alt="" width="300" height="134" /></p>
<p>This was another arm twisting and begging but I convinced Alex Goad (partners with mark on Dominating Video) to also throw in &#8220;Zero Friction Marketing&#8221; and &#8220;Google Traffic Loophole&#8221; absolute FREE!</p>
<p>As you can see these are all AWESOME bonuses that are not simple resale right packages you can get anywhere. These are solid products that compliment each other and will give you EVERYTHING you need to succeed with this system.</p>
<p>This product has my full 100% support&#8230; it is very worthwhile and i give it my highest recommendation. Do yourself a favor and check it out now.</p>
<p>Remember, to get the bonuses, you must use this link &#8211;&gt; <a href="../dominatingvideo" target="_blank">http://www.johncow.com/dominatingvideo</a> (Yes it is an affiliate link and I will make a commission from it)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">To claim your bonuses, you MUST use this link &#8211;&gt; <a href="../dominatingvideo" target="_blank">http://www.johncow.com/dominatingvideo</a><br />
(Yes it is an affiliate link and I will make a commission from it)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Then email your receipt to&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">dvbonus &lt; at &gt; kahunaware &lt;dot&gt; com</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8230;with the subject &#8220;Dominating Video Bonus&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Free Video Marketing Webinar (Few Seats Left)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am hosting a webinar with the creator of Dominating Video tonight at 9pm eastern. This webinar is not a sales pitch, instead I told Mark I want two things from it&#8230; 1. Some awesome take aways that will be able to be implemented by everyone on the call now so they can get amazing [...]]]></description>
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<p>I am hosting a webinar with the creator of Dominating Video tonight at 9pm eastern. This webinar is not a sales pitch, instead I told Mark I want two things from it&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Some awesome take aways that will be able to be implemented by everyone on the call now so they can get amazing value from the call. Mark assures me you will want to take notes&#8230; cause he promises to teach some really cool stuff on the call.</p>
<p>2. A clear understanding of exactly what Dominating Video is all about and why he is someone to listen to.</p>
<p>As a surprise, everyone who registers will be entered to get one of two lifetime membership to my Web2Mayhem system that also  includes life-time access to my BlogBlueprint Platinum and my soon to be released Video Post Robot version 2.0</p>
<p>PLUS</p>
<p>One lucky person will also get complimentary access to the Dominating Video system.</p>
<p>These are only for people who register and actually show up for the call.</p>
<p>I also have a couple other &#8220;not telling you now&#8221; surprises for everyone on the call (hint hint&#8230; in rhymes with funny and is delivered via paypal).</p>
<p>I promise that this call will be VERY much worth your time and  hope to see you on it.</p>
<p>Register now at&#8230;</p>
<p>http://bit.ly/e3VTro</p>
<p>The bad news is there are only <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">500</span> (126 left as of 11:20am EST) spots available and they will go fast&#8230; so register now&#8230;</p>
<p>http://bit.ly/e3VTro
<p><a href="http://www.johncow.com/make-money-online/" rel="nofollow">Click Here</a> Now to Download &#8220;How to Build a Business Not Just a Blog&#8221; for FREE and Learn the Right Way to <a href="http://www.johncow.com/make-money-online/">Make Money Online</a>! &#8211; Copyright JohnCow.com &#8211; All Rights Reserved</p>
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		<title>Dominating Video? But Does Video Marketing Actually Work&#8230; You May Be Surprised!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>I LOVE using SEO and free traffic sources to rake in loads of revenue. Whether it be my own product or an affiliate offer&#8230; the fact is I don’t just teach about doing this, I use it and love doing so!</p>
<p>I am not one of those people (which seems to be more and more common these days) who release a product and when you actually look at the product owner&#8217;s actual results&#8230; they are no where to be found in the search engines.</p>
<p>That is NOT the case with my business. For example, my software CommentKahuna ranks number one in Google for both…</p>
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<li> link building software</li>
<li>free link building software</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.johncow.com/dominatingvideo" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5873" style="border: 0pt none;" title="Dominating Google" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/3.png" alt="" width="406" height="239" /></a></p>
<p>Because of that, Google alone (this is not including jv partners or any other traffic source) sends me 50 to 70 opt-in&#8217;s EVERY day&#8230; and these convert into sales on the back-end (EVERYDAY).</p>
<p>I am not telling you this to brag but because I want you to understand that I am extremely good at SEO and the reason is I love it&#8230;  but I have to be honest, there are some things with SEO I hate.</p>
<p>As you know, video is one of the most powerful ways to quickly rank in the search engines but I have to confess that I HATED video marketing (notice the word hated and not hate&#8230; that is because I no longer hate it). I knew it worked, I knew it got amazing results… but the fact was that out of all the ways to get free traffic, video marketing was my obsolete least favorite strategy.</p>
<p>I am not saying I did not use video marketing. In fact I am the owner of one of the original video submission tools called Video Post Robot and I am in the process of releasing a version 2 which is completely online and SUPER powerful (you can actually get complimentary access to it but you need to keep reading) and I use it regularly and get great results. I have used Video Marketing for years&#8230; but that did not mean I was getting the results I could have and it certainly did not mean I enjoyed doing it.</p>
<p>The problem was, I never had anyone show me how to really make videos that are first of all easy but actually get excellent results&#8230; without costing a fortune or taking days.</p>
<p>Yes you can use tools that turn articles into videos.. with an automated robotic voice… but ask yourself honestly, do you watch these videos&#8230; do you enjoy listening to &#8220;Mr Roboto&#8221; tell you about some product&#8230; do you buy things because of those videos?</p>
<p>Well, I have had my eyes opened to the full potential of video marketing, thanks to a guy (you may or may not be familiar with) named Mark Dulisse. The guy is an insanely intelligent marketing genius when it comes to video marketing and he has taken video marketing to a completely different level for me and all I can say is this guy is someone you need to listen to.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.johncow.com/dominatingvideo" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5874" style="border: 0pt none;" title="2010-11-30_1200" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2010-11-30_1200.png" alt="Dominating Video" width="426" height="79" /></a></p>
<p>Mark (in partnership with Alex Goad) is releasing a product today at 3pm called Dominating Video (<strong><a href="../dominatingvideo" target="_blank">CLICK HERE and check it out</a></strong>) and it has totally blown me away with more &#8220;ah ha&#8221; moments then any other video course out there. If you want to take your business to a higher level than I encourage you with every bit of personal recommended encouragement I can muster to check this out. I am so impressed with it that I am even throwing in a few bonuses that I think you are going to be VERY impressed with.</p>
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<li><strong>Bonus #1 &#8211; 1 Year access to Video Post Robot version2 ($300+ value): </strong>The doors to this are not open because it is being used by my private members right now only and is going to be released to the public in 2011 but you can get free access to it for one year. This is not just a video submission tool but also ties into my network of 10000+ blogs and will post your videos there as well&#8230; flooding the internet with your videos.</li>
<li><strong>Bonus #2 &#8211; Private webinar with myself, Jason Potash and Mark Dulisse:</strong> This is for only those that buy through our link and will take place in a couple weeks. This webinar will be for our private group where you will be able to talk directly to Mark, Jason and I about dominating Google and making huge revenue.</li>
<li><strong>Bonus #3 &#8211; Free Access to Mark&#8217;s &#8220;Dominating Google&#8221; course that he just released a few months ago ($197):</strong> I had to call in a favor to Mark to get this one and talked him into it. This is not something being given away for free or has resale rights, the only other way to access this now is to pay $197&#8230; but I got this thrown in for free.</li>
<li><strong>Bonus #4 &#8211; Free Access to two of Alex Goads best selling products ($100+ Value):</strong> This was another arm twisting and begging but I convinced Alex Goad (partners with mark on Dominating Video) to also throw in &#8220;Zero Friction Marketing&#8221; and &#8220;Google Traffic Loophole&#8221; absolute FREE!</li>
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<p>As you can see these are all AWESOME bonuses that are not simple resale right packages you can get anywhere. These are solid products that compliment each other and will give you EVERYTHING you need to succeed with this system.</p>
<p>Skeptical?</p>
<p>Hey, I do not blame you at all&#8230; so  I have a couple options for you.</p>
<p>If you need no convincing and see that this is something that will explode your business, then <strong><a href="http://www.johncow.com/dominatingvideo" target="_blank">CLICK HERE and check it out now</a></strong>.</p>
<p>But.. if you are just not sure, well then I have scheduled a webinar with Mark for Wednesday at 9pm eastern time just for you. This webinar will serve two purposes.</p>
<p>1. I asked Mark to ensure he brings to the table something very cool that everyone on the call can take away and implement right away. So no matter what the webinar will be worth it for you.</p>
<p>2. It will give you an opportunity to get a better picture of exactly what this course is all about and make a more informed decision.</p>
<p>If you want to be part of the webinar, you need to register here &#8211;&gt; <a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/681975923">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/681975923</a></p>
<p>Now for the good and bad news.</p>
<p>The good news is you need not worry about the bonuses, we will be keeping these up until after the webinar&#8230; but they are time limited. The bad news however is if you want to be on the webinar, there is only room for 300 people&#8230; so you better register now.</p>
<p>This product has my full 100% support&#8230; it is very worthwhile and i give it my highest recommendation. Do yourself a favor and check it out now.</p>
<p>Remember, to get the bonuses, you must use this link &#8211;&gt; <a href="http://www.johncow.com/dominatingvideo" target="_blank">http://www.johncow.com/dominatingvideo</a> (Yes it is an affiliate link and I will make a commission from it)</p>
<p>To claim your bonuses, you will need to email your receipt to&#8230;</p>
<p>dvbonus &lt; at &gt; kahunaware &lt;dot&gt; com</p>
<p>&#8230;with the subject &#8220;Dominating Video Bonus&#8221;.
<p><a href="http://www.johncow.com/make-money-online/" rel="nofollow">Click Here</a> Now to Download &#8220;How to Build a Business Not Just a Blog&#8221; for FREE and Learn the Right Way to <a href="http://www.johncow.com/make-money-online/">Make Money Online</a>! &#8211; Copyright JohnCow.com &#8211; All Rights Reserved</p>
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		<title>Top 13 Auto Blogging Blunders!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>OK, if you have been around Johncow for a bit you know that this is a blog.</p>
<p>**SHOCK!!** OMG&#8230; really.. your kidding right? Thanks for the insight &#8220;Captain Obvious&#8221;</p>
<p>Yup.. it is&#8230; but this is not an &#8220;Auto Blog&#8221;.</p>
<p>The reason for that obvious but needed statement is to clarify that there is a HUGE difference between the two and I actually have been &#8220;Auto Blogging&#8221; longer then I have just been blogging&#8230; in fact I have been auto blogging since 2006.</p>
<p>One of the reasons I got into auto blogging initially was for creating blogs that were used just for link building. That however, quickly turned into something of its own and today I am responsible for working with thousands upon thousands of auto blogs.</p>
<p>The reason I wanted to let you know that is because when it comes to Auto Blogging&#8230; <strong>I know my stuff!</strong></p>
<p>What I have done (with the help of my business partner Jason Potash) is created a really cool PDF called&#8230;</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/johncow1" target="_blank"><strong>The Top 13 Auto Blogging Blunders</strong></a></h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong></strong><a href="http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/johncow1" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-5843 alignnone" style="border: 0pt none;" title="report-book" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/report-book.png" alt="" width="162" height="184" /></a></p>
<p>You can check it out at&#8230;</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/johncow1" target="_blank">http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/</a></strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a quick read, only 17-pages. But, boy it is loaded with good content&#8230; and no filler.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;m sure you know&#8230; auto blogging is a HOT topic these days, but sadly, most of the information out there is still based on stuff that worked in 2007-2009.</p>
<p>In Internet time, 2009 was 6 years ago.</p>
<p>Things change fast, that&#8217;s why I know you&#8217;ll like this report.</p>
<p>It will get you up to speed on what&#8217;s working right now with autoblogging.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the report:</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/johncow1" target="_blank">http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/</a></strong></p>
<p>Hope you get a lot out of it!</p>
<p>Oh and i am giving away 4 Amazon Kindles for downloading the report and leaving a comment&#8230; so PLEASE leave a comment at</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/johncow1" target="_blank">http://blogblueprint.com/blunders/</a></strong>
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		<title>Did You Win the Niche Files &amp; Syndicate Kahuna Prize?</title>
		<link>http://www.johncow.com/did-you-win-the-niche-files-syndicate-kahuna-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>WOW&#8230; I knew I was impressed but the feedback from everyone else  is totally amazing!</p>
<p>A few days ago I mentioned to you about a new resource for helping you eliminate the tedious work of&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>Market research</li>
<li>Keyword research</li>
<li>Content Creation</li>
<li>and more</li>
</ul>
<p>PLUS this resource gives detailed plans of attack for dominating each market.</p>
<p>Well as I said, I was impressed with what was being offered and when I shared it with you I asked for feedback on the free monthly offer and the comments I got back are&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Impressive!</strong></p>
<p>In fact I let the owner Marc know that he can use these comments as testimonials&#8230;</p>
<p>Yes that&#8217;s how good the feedback as been (you can <a href="http://www.johncow.com/get-a-free-membership-at-nichefiles-syndicatekahuna/" target="_blank">click here</a> to read them yourself)</p>
<p>Comments like&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;After having purchased numerous niche packages and subscriptions over the years, NicheFiles is by far the most comprehensive and total package I have seen to date.&#8221; ~ Abi Carmen</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m blown away by this package. I&#8217;ve been a member of a website that starts with Niche and the ending rhymes on the word psychology, and this one simply blows the other site away.&#8221; ~ Michael</p>
<p><strong>BUT THERE IS AS PROBLEM!</strong></p>
<p>As good as Niche Files is, there is something vital missing.</p>
<p>Yes it has great content, fantastic research and gives you a detailed plan of attack for killing it with the data they provide&#8230; but its missing something BIG.</p>
<p><strong>TRAFFIC!</strong></p>
<p>You can build the most amazing site but if you cant get traffic to it, then what&#8217;s the point.</p>
<p>So, I figured I would make this an incredible no brainer value for you. Sign up as a gold member with Niche Files and I will give you a complimentary membership to my SyndicateKahuna blog network  (currently only available to web2mayhem members for $127 a month).</p>
<p><strong>PLUS&#8230; </strong></p>
<p>I will have a one hour webinar that will give you a detailed plan of attack (plus you will get a checklist and pdf) that will have you killing it.</p>
<p>I guarantee that if you follow what I show you, you will destroy anyone else trying to compete with you!</p>
<p>Time for the bad news&#8230;. I am only offering this to 50 people.</p>
<p>Sorry but if more then 50 people get in on this, then it will dilute its effectiveness</p>
<p>So here is what you have to do.</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to <a href="http://bit.ly/c4pbWy">http://bit.ly/c4pbWy</a> and signup for the &#8220;GOLD&#8221; package.</li>
<li>Send an email to support@web2mayhem.com and send your proof of purchase.</li>
<li>Give us 48 hours to set up your SK access and we will email you the date of the webinar (will be scheduled for next week).</li>
</ol>
<p>PS &#8211; I am seriously limiting this to 50, so don&#8217;t wait and try emailing me later. Go to <a href="http://bit.ly/c4pbWy">http://bit.ly/c4pbWy</a> now!</p>
<p>Oh and the winner of the previous days contest is Robert McCluskey (Congratulations), we have sent you an email <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Market Research and Content Creation Do Not Have to Suck!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>&#8220;Market research and content creation suck!&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>That is pretty much the biggest complaint I hear day in and day out from my subscribers, members, customers and pretty much 99% of everyone else I talk to in this industry.</p>
<ul>
<li>They struggle to find <em>good profitable niches</em> that are not already dominated by someone else or will actually convert into revenue.</li>
<li>They cannot seem to grasp how to effectively research the right keywords and domains that <em>get traffic and conversions</em>.</li>
<li>They cannot write good content that provides “<em>value</em>” and will actually give readers something to digest.</li>
<li>Then to top it off, they have <em>no time to do all this and still manage life</em>.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you can relate to this at all… even the slightest bit, then you are going to want to check out this completely free offer from my good buddy Marc Quarles at&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/bCCGpp">http://bit.ly/bCCGpp</a></p>
<p>What he has put together in my opinion is one of the <strong>most impressive packages of research, content, templates and even niche action plans</strong> that I have seen. He covers all your bases and all you have to do is take what he gives you and take action with it.</p>
<p>Now, I am sure that you are sitting there and saying…</p>
<p><em>“Let me be the judge of that!”</em></p>
<p>Well of course and I can help make it easy for you to do that because&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Marc is giving away 100% free a niche pack EVERY month!</strong></p>
<p>I am not talking about just one, one time… but one every month at…</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/bCCGpp">http://bit.ly/bCCGpp</a></p>
<p>This is packed full of 100% fresh, unique and well written content, complete research with an action plan of how to attack the niche and even custom (not cheap or recycled) templates.</p>
<p>It is an extremely good value for the cost of an email address.</p>
<p>But then you say…<em> “What if 500 people all get the same niche pack?”</em></p>
<p>Well then I say… <em>“So What!”</em></p>
<p>I can guarantee you that first of all only 5% of the people that download it will take any action on it. That means only 25 people will do anything with it and only 20% of them will even know what they are doing. That now leaves you with only 5 other people that will do anything worth-while.</p>
<p>That means all you have to do is modify the content (which is very well written) and put it in your own words to make it unique.. and BANG you will have a profitable niche site up in no time…</p>
<p>Yes, it is that easy!</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/bCCGpp">http://bit.ly/bCCGpp</a></p>
<p>Listen, if you struggle with time or just hate doing this part of the business (research and writing) then do yourself a big favor and check out the free niche pack and I know you will be impressed.</p>
<p>Even just check out the research and you will learn a great way to research your own niches.</p>
<p>Check it out at…</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/bCCGpp">http://bit.ly/bCCGpp</a></p>
<p>Do me a favor and once you check out the niche pack, come back here and comment and let me know what you think about it.
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		<title>Nothing is Guaranteed To Make Money Online So Get Off Your Ass And Get To Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>Over the past couple of days I have been private messaged and emailed from a few people, who seem to want me to be able to predict the future for them and make everything OK.</p>
<p>They ask questions like&#8230;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;If i do this, how much money can I make?&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;What do I have to do to make this much $$$  in 60 days?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8230;and the list goes on and on and on.</p>
<p>I have bad news&#8230; <strong>NO ONE CAN GUARANTEE anything like that!</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5803" style="margin: 5px;" title="make money online by getting off your ass" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/donkey20oatie20image1-300x224.jpg" alt="make money online by getting off your ass" width="300" height="224" />Now before I sound too hypocritical&#8230; yes there are things that can be &#8220;Guaranteed&#8221;&#8230; but that does NOT mean that they work for absolutely everyone.</p>
<p>What I mean by that is I can 100% guarantee that if you join my <a href="http://bit.ly/bYGaOk">Web2Mayhem system</a> and you use my tools and strategies that you WILL get a dramatic increase in traffic. I can offer that because I back it up with a 100% money back guarantee and if you get lazy and do not do anything or you do a half ass job; then you will not get good results and I will simply give you your money back.</p>
<p>What I can NOT and will NEVER do however, is tell you that I guarantee that if you do A,B and C that you will earn this much money.</p>
<p>There are just WAY TOO many variables.</p>
<ol>
<li>Is the traffic made up of &#8220;buyers&#8221; or &#8220;freebie info seekers&#8221;</li>
<li>Does the content relate to the audience and cause them to want to take action</li>
<li>Does the offer convert</li>
<li>and the list continues&#8230;</li>
</ol>
<p>There is one secret to success&#8230; and one secret ONLY&#8230;</p>
<p>HARD WORK!</p>
<p>You need to understand that I have busted my ass off to create a business that earns 7+ figures a year&#8230; nothing &#8220;just happened&#8221;. The affiliate marketing side of my business for example, is not made up of me making one site and suddenly earning $14000 a month (like a recent product claimed).</p>
<p>THAT IS BULLSHIT!</p>
<p>What you need to understand is it is all about testing, tracking and tweaking&#8230; and doing this over and over again. Not just building one site and BANG you are rich.</p>
<p>My personal affiliate marketing system is made up of making a certain number of new sites every month and then after a couple of months I look to see which ones have taken off and I focus consistent promotion and new content on them.</p>
<p>The thing is NO ONE can be 100% certain that any niche will make them money&#8230; you need to test and try lots of different things.</p>
<p>As a real life example (I am revealing this exact test, showing the domains and everything in the Web2Mayhem next week), I built 5 small niche blogs that are focused on amazon products. I built these blogs following a super easy strategy that was focused on what someone just starting out could realistically do. These are 5 related niches to each other but are each a tight niche blog that only contains a couple pieces of unique content and then is added into my auto content system (which web2mayhem members get) and after 2 months now, I have identified three of the five that are doing very well traffic wise and are converting and this month will net about $400.</p>
<p>The two that are not doing well I am going to give another month and if nothing, I will sell them&#8230; which will more then pay for the cost of them.</p>
<p>The point here is if I just built one or two of them, I might have built only the two that are making no money and from the initial research&#8230; they looked just as good as the winners did. I also made sure to build them correct, use great content and promote them.</p>
<p>You see the only guarantee is the effort&#8230; you have to do something to achieve results.</p>
<p>If you ever saw chariots of fire, a quote that really gets to me is when the character Sybil Gordon says to Harold&#8230;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t run, you can&#8217;t win.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>You see Harold was pouting because he got beaten badly in his last race and as a result refused to race anymore because if he could not win he did not want to race.</p>
<p>Well it goes the same with trying to make money online, you do not quit just because you did not succeed on a single attempt. You have to keep racing!</p>
<p>I have heard so many people cry a river saying &#8220;this or that does not work&#8221; only to find out they never really tried or tried some short cut and never put any real effort into it.</p>
<p>It is NOT&#8230;</p>
<ol>
<li>the tools</li>
<li>the training</li>
<li>the niche</li>
<li>the&#8230; enter your own reason here</li>
</ol>
<p>It IS the work. You have to use the tools, implement the training, test different niches and see what works and then keep doing what works.</p>
<p>Hope that speaks to you on some level and would love to hear a comment or two from you <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>The $1 trail to my Web2Mayhem is coming down tonight and if you want to sign up right now <a href="http://bit.ly/bYGaOk">CLICK HERE NOW</a> to go to the order page.</strong></p>
<p>If you want to check out our sales letter then go here <a href="http://bit.ly/dn7QKB">http://web2mayhem.com/W2Mvideo.html</a> and watch the video.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>One thing I am very adamant about is that no matter what system or strategy you are using to try and generate revenue; if you do not make it &#8220;Yours&#8221; it is never going to effectively achieve the results you are after.</p>
<p>For example, in the <a href="http://bit.ly/dn7QKB">Web2Mayhem</a>, I provide a very detailed three phase traffic system that walks members from start to finish on not only how to use the tools but more important then that is <strong>how to GENERATE TRAFFIC.</strong></p>
<p>The training is made up of detailed checklists, videos and flowcharts and is designed with one purpose in mind&#8230; to get more traffic!</p>
<p>There is a HUGE risk though&#8230; and this is why I hate making such detailed strategies sometimes.</p>
<p>The person becomes a robot and does not think for him or herself.</p>
<p>No matter what, the most important thing you have to do, no matter the strategy that you are following, you have to make it your plan.</p>
<p><strong>What Does That Mean?</strong></p>
<p>First of all let me say that this does not just relate to my Web2Mayhem training, but it relates to any system or membership (even ebook) that you purchase with hopes of success. You need to figure out how to make the system fit in with what you are currently doing and figure out how to make it work for you.</p>
<p>That might sound super obvious&#8230; but it is not&#8230; NOT AT ALL.</p>
<p>What works for me is by no means what works best for you. We each have different strengths and ways of thinking and as a result what might flow and seem logical to one person, might be not be optimal for another.</p>
<p>You need to own what it is you are doing, you want to ensure you don’t simply stop what you are currently doing and you need to tweak and test and do what works for you.</p>
<p>A huge thing I see a lot of people doing is they start trying some seo strategy and then a mailing comes out for a new cpa course and they stop what they were doing and start trying that, then a new social media course comes out and they stop again and start over with that&#8230; and the cycle continues.</p>
<p>As made famous in the 80&#8242;s&#8230; STOP THE INSANITY</p>
<p>The fact is lots of money can be made with SEO, PPC, PPV, Media Buys, Social Media and more&#8230; Yes they ALL work. But anyone I know that is doing really well did not focus on all those, they picked one&#8230; got good and profitable with it and are expanding to another. In fact most of them stick with one or two only, cause they are good at it and can manage it.</p>
<p>Stop following butterflies and looking for the next best thing. The diamonds are in your backyard now (read Acres of Diamonds. its a great book) and you need to just stop, pick one thing to focus on, follow the training and advice, figure out how it works and then tweak it to work for you&#8230; then follow the money. What I mean is see what is making you money and then improve on it. Then once you have a system and can maybe hire people to do things for you, and then move on to try something new.</p>
<p>If you have not gotten good at any one thing, have not been able to make your own plan that works for you&#8230; then chances are I can bet you are spending way more money then you are earning.</p>
<p>Enough of my rambling on <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Don’t forget, there is only a couple days left for my $1 fourteen day trial to my Web2Mayhem traffic system&#8230; you will be glad you did!</p>
<p><strong>If you want to sign up right now <a href="http://bit.ly/bYGaOk">CLICK HERE NOW</a> to go to the order page.</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>If there is one thing I am REALLY good at, it is getting boat loads of traffic to my affiliate sites and what I use&#8230; no exceptions&#8230; is my own tools that I have made and constantly tweak to make better.</p>
<p>These tools are all available in my Web2Mayhem system, which I introduced to the public a little while back.</p>
<p>Some people called this a new service but actually it was being used by my other TrafficKahuna and PortalFeeder members for a couple years.</p>
<p>Web2Mayhem is not a simple tool, not another ebook but rather an <strong>Traffic Generating System</strong>. I provide detailed training with a step by step checklist PLUS the tools to implement the system fast&#8230; and effectively!</p>
<p>Our members who use the system get results. Not only fast results but results that get them TRAFFIC and lots of it!</p>
<p>Its easy for anyone to say they can get you ranking in the search engines&#8230; well I care more about traffic and anyone can rank in the search engines if the term is obscure enough. But how about a term like&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;college jobs&#8221;</p>
<p>Yup, thanks to the web2mayhem, one of our members is now dominating for that term and killing it with traffic&#8230; and that is just one unsolicited result shared just last week at one of our webinars.</p>
<p>What we have done is we have opened up a $1 fourteen day trial that we are taking down on in the next couple of days&#8230; this is no marketing ploy.It will be down by Thursday at the latest.</p>
<p>We only wanted to do a test on this $1 trial and are taking it down on when we either hit a goal of new members or Thursday.</p>
<p>So&#8230;.</p>
<p>If you want to invest ONLY $1 and test my system for 2 weeks&#8230; I GUARANTEE if you folow it, you will see a crap load of traffic and search engine rankings.</p>
<p>Then you can decide to stay as a member or simply say no thanks.</p>
<p>Then even if you say OK and stick around for another 30 days&#8230; you are 100% covered and can cancel and refund (which i know you will not do) and it will have cost you absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>If you&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>Want traffic</li>
<li>Want kick ass training</li>
<li>Want a proven traffic blueprint</li>
<li>Want tools to save you time</li>
<li>Want amazing support</li>
<li>Want to tie into a network of experienced users and marketers</li>
</ul>
<p>Then do not bother paying thousands of dollars and/or waste your time with ebooks.</p>
<p>Check out my Web2Mayhem and you are going to LOVE IT.</p>
<p><strong>If you want to sign up right now <a href="http://bit.ly/bYGaOk">CLICK HERE NOW</a> to go to the order page.</strong></p>
<p>If you want to check out our sales letter then go here <a href="http://bit.ly/dn7QKB">http://web2mayhem.com/W2Mvideo.html</a> and watch the video.</p>
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		<title>Major News &#8211; The Cow is Heading Out to Pasture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 13:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>In spring of 2008 I purchased Johncow from Bob Jones (hard to believe its been over two years now) and over the past two years I have had LOADS of fun&#8230;. but sadly, all good things come to an end eventually.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-5738 alignright" style="margin: 5px;" title="2010-05-14_0945" src="http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/2010-05-14_0945-300x269.png" alt="" width="258" height="231" />Now before anyone starts to make an assumption&#8230; no this is not the end of my blogging career&#8230; in fact it is probably better labeled as the rebirth.</p>
<p>You see Johncow was originally created back in 2007 as a twist on the infamous <a href="http://johnchow.com/">JohnCHOW.com</a> and when it came up for sale I thought it would be a great opportunity to get into the blogging side of this business.</p>
<p>The time has come however that Johncow is not relevant to my business direction anymore.</p>
<p>When I took over johncow, there was only 1200 RSS subscribers, now there are over 30 000. We have created an ebook, lots of blogging series and competitions, been featured in a bunch of ebooks and on blogs and have had loads of fun&#8230; but its time for a change.</p>
<p>It has become discouraging when I bust my ass off to provide good content and I read a comment from someone that says this blog is just a mockery of someone else, that it is riding on the shirt tales of someone else or when people call me John&#8230; my name is Jason <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>In fact I was talking with Carl over at <a href="http://www.carlocab.com/">http://www.carlocab.com/</a> (aka the kidblogger) and he agreed with me, its time for a change.</p>
<p>So over the next month we will be transitioning Johncow.com to a new domain and a new look and a new goal&#8230; and I am going to be giving away some amazing stuff.</p>
<p>Now for an important statement&#8230;</p>
<p>I will NOT be selling johncow.com!</p>
<p>It is going to redirect to my new blog, so sorry for anyone wanting it (if any of you would want it anyway)</p>
<p>Over the next few weeks I have some excellent content that i am going to be adding here and got some cool things we are going to be doing. One of which is a final KICK ASS competition with some KICK ASS PRIZES.</p>
<p>So we can look at this as kind of a farewell party of the Cow and a grand opening celebration for my new blog.</p>
<p>Oh and no i am not telling you the new domain yet&#8230; but will very soon.</p>
<p>So with that said&#8230; what&#8217;s your thoughts?
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		<title>Kill&#8217;Em with Kindness&#8230; Well Not This Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>OK, if there is one rule of thumb you should follow with customer support it is the you want to <strong>&#8220;Kill&#8217;Em with Kindness&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>What this means is be nice and even when you want to scream&#8230; still, just be nice.</p>
<p>I however do not practice that in all circumstances&#8230; and the reason is because some people are just ignorant&#8230; and so I like to be ignorant back.</p>
<p>Oh and YES.. I have a lesson in this.</p>
<p>First of all, I am not asking whether I am right or wrong here&#8230; I don’t care. This person pissed me off and well&#8230; I will explain how it is stupid to act that way.</p>
<p>So, I was cleaning out my emails and found a few that I missed. Because of the launch of the Web2Mayhem I got swamped with emails. Anyway one that I missed was this one&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>On 09-12-25 2:47 PM, &#8220;C Cam” wrote:</p>
<p>This is the third time I&#8217;ve tried to download a &#8216;free&#8217; product from your site<br />
and have never received any of them. This is why I would NEVER order from your<br />
site.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, I could not find any other emails asking for help from her but anyway I went and got the direct link and sent it to her. I was a little pissed at what I thought was a very negative and ignorant comment but instead of deleting I just sent the link anyway.</p>
<p>Alas&#8230; I messed up and the link had a w missing. So in response the email I got was this&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Thanks Jason (for trying),<br />
A link to the same download that still doesn&#8217;t work&#8230;hmmmm.<br />
This does not instill any more confidence in your site for me.<br />
Thanks anyway,<br />
C Cam</p></blockquote>
<p>OK, now I want to stop before I move on. First of all the person said they would never order from me, so in the first place I knew I was wasting my time with this person because I am in this to make money (oh big surprise there) and this person admitted they would never buy anything from me&#8230; but I sent the link anyway but yes the link had an error in it&#8230; but hey I am a human.</p>
<p>So the next email she decides to add even more ignorance by saying &#8220;This does not instill any more confidence in your site for me.&#8221;</p>
<p>OK now why does that bother me so much?</p>
<p>Well for the simple reason is that people like that frustrate the hell out of me. People that sit there and immediately judge and criticize people or products without having a clue are in my opinion a waste of everyone&#8217;s energy and in my honest opinion&#8230; DO NOT WASTE A MINUTE OF YOUR DAY ON THEM!</p>
<p>I have been doing this full time online for a while now and every so often I get someone who is just plain and simply an asshole and it used to get under my skin a lot. I would do everything I could to try and make that person happy&#8230; but you know what&#8230; I have never made a single one of them happy. And you know what else&#8230; NOT ONE OF THEM is successful today that I know of&#8230;. NOT ONE!</p>
<p>OK&#8230; so I have more to this&#8230; this is where it got fun for me.</p>
<p>SIDE NOTE: I do not send the johncow contact form to my support team because I want to personally handle them and my support team is already busy enough&#8230; so that is why this email was missed, but hey even in support systems these get missed occasionally.</p>
<p>OK, so after the second email reply I was just going to delete it&#8230; after all she said she was never going to buy from me and sorry but I am not in this for charity. So I decided to be ignorant back&#8230; cause sometimes it is just fun.</p>
<p>So this was my reply&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Re: No download Lol, well people like you are usually those that never amount to success anyway and are huge support burdens who feel the world owes them everything. Personally I see the energy you waste on comments like that a joke cause they offer nothing positive to this world and act like you never make a mistake. The link I sent you was missing a w and it is the Christmas season so support is slow&#8230; But hey good luck with your attitude in the New Year.. Hope it makes you feel like a better person anyway.</p></blockquote>
<p>Did I think this would cause a discussion&#8230; 100% yes and I did it on purpose cause with these kind of people it is funny&#8230; and as you keep reading you will see why.</p>
<p>This is the response I got back&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>I was not rude to you&#8230; but rest assured I will certainly post your arrogant reply to me on my websites and twitter. May you business accounts reflect you low level of customer satisfaction. Scam websites like yours fall by the wayside on a daily basis. Your link was broken&#8230; and that is my fault how?</p>
<p>Thank you for your time and lack of customer service. I will be sure to pass along the wonders of John Cow.</p></blockquote>
<p>OK so first of all&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was not a rude person&#8221;</p>
<p>Uhmm&#8230;. did you read your emails to me.. LMAO</p>
<p>Second of all&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Scam websites like yours fall by the wayside on a daily basis.&#8221;</p>
<p>I love comments like that&#8230; ok, I have 33000+ readers on this blog, offer free content and how am I scamming again&#8230; sorry but I am missing that.</p>
<p>Now the lack of customer support&#8230; ya I accept that, maybe I just need to let go of handling the emails for JC but I like it.</p>
<p>Believe me this is drama I know&#8230; and blown out of proportion&#8230; 100% yes but it is so fun sometimes!</p>
<p>So I think to myself&#8230; do I waste anytime responding?</p>
<p>Heck yes, this is going on johncow and is fun and will make a great post <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>So I respond with this&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Re: No download Lol&#8230; Scam websites&#8230; I have been online doing legitimate business for years. Actually after today’s already scheduled post I had planned, don’t worry I was going to post about your email anyway, cause I want to show people how people that are negative expect the world to fall at their feet and treat people with no respect and as a result get no respect back.</p>
<p>You see I have over 200 000 double opt in subscribers that trust me and many who have been my paying customers (some paying $300 a month for me for over 4 years now). I have worked my ass off helping people that has helped me to have a healthy 7 figure a year income. So fall by the way side&#8230; Ya ok.. Sorry I am already successful and established because I work my ass off to help people.. You might want to read comments on the johncow.com blog before you make an ass of yourself.</p>
<p>Not trying to be conceded but yes you were immediately accusing me of being something I wasn’t and if you think you were not rude in your email&#8230; Well then maybe that is not what you consider rude but I think it was ignorant and I can guarantee you are not making a healthy living online with that attitude.</p>
<p>Oh and I live for this kind of stuff, so post as much about me as you want&#8230; People like you make me laugh&#8230; I will continue instead to focus on my business.</p>
<p>Do me a favor too.. When you are done supposedly revealing the truth about me, send me the link, I will even post a link to it on my blog for you&#8230; I have 33000+ readers just on my blog, so I will send loads of traffic to you.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now you may be asking yourself&#8230; What the heck are you wasting your time doing this for?</p>
<p>Well 99% of these kinds of emails get deleted usually but as I said before, I just wanted to and I guess I am in one of those moods.</p>
<p>So, waiting impatiently for a reply, I finally got one&#8230; it was kind of lame though&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Nice to see such a fast reply from someone so busy. I feel so honored. Back to passing these around to my followers. Keep &#8216;em coming. I too teach customer service and you are giving me several posts of how not to handle it. So I guess you are helpful!</p>
<p>Thanks again,<br />
C Cam</p></blockquote>
<p>I love how she says that she too teaches customer service&#8230; sorry I have to stop for a second, I am laughing too hard.</p>
<p>Anyway, I am sure some of you will disagree with this and how I handled it&#8230; but I don&#8217;t care lol&#8230; like I said 99% of complainers don’t get handled like this but she got me on the right day.</p>
<p>Now I also loved how she said she is passing this around to her followers. Help me understand how that is a bad thing&#8230; I laugh whenever anyone says they are going to slam me in a forum or somewhere. Give me a break, my paying customers know I work my ass off for them and I could care less about people bitching in forums and to their &#8220;followers&#8221;&#8230; in fact I like it when people like this do that&#8230; it makes me smile.</p>
<p>Oh and I am not at the best part yet.</p>
<p>Feeling a little bored I decided to send her my phone number and I encouraged her to call so I could record the conversation&#8230; I really wanted too&#8230; so she could hear herself. Well&#8230; there was kind of sarcasm in it too&#8230; but this was the response I got to that&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>See, now had you replied to my first email in this manner we would not have an issue. Instead you sent me ZERO text, no &#8220;sorry about that&#8221;, no &#8220;we&#8217;re a little short on tech help&#8221;, nothing but a link&#8230; that did not work. This is the down fall of your customer service. You then followed with nasty remarks (I was more abrupt in my second response, but let&#8217;s face it I appeared to be talking to a bot).</p>
<p>Thanks again, I think I have all the quotes I need for a full interview,<br />
C Cam</p></blockquote>
<p>LMAO&#8230; first of all I am impressed you are still reading this post <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Chris&#8230; did you forget your ignorant initial comment about &#8220;never buying from me&#8221; cause a download did not work&#8230; that was your first and only email to me. This download is for a free product that I have gotten hundreds of thank you&#8217;s and testimonials for and people say all the time I should charge for&#8230; but oh ya, Chris it is a scam (cause you say so), I am giving you exceptional value for your email.. what a bad scam that is.</p>
<p>OK, so I have not received a link to anything from her yet cause I can’t wait to read it&#8230; but anyway&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>WHAT THE HECK IS THE LESSON HERE</strong></p>
<p>1. Do not waste your time on people like this&#8230; if someone tells you that they are never going to buy from you&#8230; why waste energy on them&#8230; unless you can get something out of it like a worthwhile post to your worthwhile blog <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>2. Do not do what I did&#8230; unless you can benefit from it. I am not wasting time here cause I am getting my post out of this and I am having fun&#8230; I love this kind of stuff for my blog posts.</p>
<p>3. Always try to be nice to the product owner at first. I have created three of my most profitable relationships in my business that have helped me create several million dollars in revenue because of the respect and help I gave a few product owners. I was wanting a service from them&#8230; I did not take the attitude I am your customer so I can treat you like shit and you better bend over backwards for me&#8230;</p>
<p>NO WAY</p>
<p>&#8230; instead I looked at it like, what can I do to help both of us&#8230; how can we make this product better so we both benefit.</p>
<p>4. Last but not least&#8230; have fun with life. Enjoy it&#8230; this is the only one you have and if you can either be a miserable SOB or happy&#8230; I prefer to be happy <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>There you go&#8230; one of the weirdest posts I have made on what Chris says is a &#8220;Scam websites that will fall by the wayside&#8221;&#8230; LMAO&#8230; thanks for the fun Chris&#8230; seriously thank you.
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		<title>Liar Liar, Pants on Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>We just couldn&#8217;t help ourselves, after seeing how Mr NETGURU2525 (aka NETGURU on Digital point) is trying to lie his way out of the scam he pulled, by selling us a useless PR9 link, we just had to post this <a href="http://www.johncow.com/free-pr9-links-seriously/">follow-up</a>. The damage control isn&#8217;t working, in fact, we think he&#8217;s just getting himself deeper and deeper into the cow shit.</p>
<p>One of the threads on DP is about how <a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=697775&#038;page=8">people got scammed</a> by him, and because he&#8217;s got a slightly different handle on there, he thinks he can lie his way out of this one. Unfortunately for him, we found more evidence, showing this liar for what he really is.</p>
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<p>Have a look at the following screenshot, in particular the links in the thief&#8217;s signature. When we paid for the crap link via paypal, we paid to a certain admin@double-down.co.uk. So surfing to http://www.double-down.co.uk, we found this site: </p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/liar3.jpg' alt='liar3.jpg' /></p>
<p>Three of the links in the liar&#8217;s signature are exactly the same as on the double-down.co.uk website. Tsk Tsk, guess he thought everyone was as stupid as him and that nobody would see the connection.</p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/liar5.jpg' alt='liar5.jpg' /></p>
<p>And what an astonishing coincidence that Google knows you live in Edinburgh, UK. Same location as what the DP forum screen shots say about yourself!</p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/liar.jpg' alt='liar.jpg' /></p>
<p>Then someone finds a link on eBay, where Mr NETGURU happily continues to <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1-in-GOOGLE-Page-Rank-9-EDU-Link_W0QQitemZ110227044322QQihZ001QQcategoryZ46689QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem">scam people</a> out of their money &#8211; after all, he&#8217;s been outed on the Digital Point and Sitepoint forums, it was time for him to find new sources of trusting people to scam. Even though he &#8220;promised&#8221; to sell just a handfull of links on the forums, to prevent the PR9 forum from getting spammed and thus rendering it&#8217;s value wortless, he&#8217;s now put 20 for sale on eBay. And it looks like he&#8217;s already stole money from 4 new people.</p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/liar2.jpg' alt='liar2.jpg' /></p>
<p>Yes NETGURU, you do make us sick. And dear readers, feel free to stumble, Digg, Reddit, whatever this post, so we can warn more people about this scammer&#8217;s work.</p>
<p><strong>*Update*</strong> Here&#8217;s the <a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=6675870#post6675870">ultimate confession</a>, he&#8217;s admitting to knowing that the link he sold was crap. Even trying to pretend to be helpful by warning others that the link was a fake!</p>
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		<title>Free PR9 Links, Seriously.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>We ran into a deal that sounded too good to be true on <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=532608">Sitepoint</a> a few days ago. Some naughty person was selling information for an &#8220;exclusive&#8221; PR9 .EDU forum he had found online for &#8220;just&#8221; $50. We took the bait and figured we&#8217;d have a look at this deal.<br />
Guess what? When we said too good to be true, we we&#8217;re right. Sure, the main URL might be a PR9 (although showing up as a PR8 in SEO for Firefox), but all the threads are way lower in PR, pretty much useless.</p>
<p>We kindly asked for a refund because we couldn&#8217;t and haven&#8217;t used this info, and the naughty seller, Mr <strong>NETGURU2525</strong> keeps coming up with excuses NOT to pay us back our $50. Sigh, guess he must have really needed it, poor guy. We do feel a little sorry for him &#8211; having to resort to petty theft online to improve his undoubtedly miserable quality of life. Probably <a href="http://www.sharkscope.com/SharkScope/UserLookUp?UserNamesCategory=N%7C%3D%3D%7CNE%7C%3D%3D%7CNET|==|NETG&#038;ShowUserNames=false|==|false|==|false|==|true#">lost all his money gambling</a>.</p>
<p>To make a long story short, after us having requested for a refund 3 times via PM on Sitepoint, Mr NETGURU2525 decided to start ignoring us, probably too busy enjoying semi-<a href="http://www.gt7.pl/szukaj.php?yid=3pHnqmw9QRM">naked Take That clips</a>, but he does have time to reply in the original sales thread to new buyers. However, after we left a comment, again asking for a refund, he all over sudden decided it was time to close the thread. What a ch<strike>u</strike>amp!</p>
<p>Anyway, even though we didn&#8217;t find this link particular useful, we&#8217;re sure we can make a few of you happy with it. So without further ado, here&#8217;s a <a href="https://alum.mit.edu/discuss/">free pagerank 9 .EDU forum link</a> for you guys. Enjoy!</p>
<p><strong>*Update*</strong></p>
<p>We figured we might as well save other people the trouble in the sales thread and went ahead to publish this post so they too could &#8220;benefit&#8221; from this fantastic offer &#8211; for free! Guess our naughty seller isn&#8217;t too happy and here&#8217;s what he had to say&#8230;looks like we&#8217;re going to court over $50! <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif' alt=':twisted:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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So he admits in the first comment that he has already refunded two people, but then calls us a &#8220;True Idiot&#8221; because now he says we&#8217;re the only ones that asked for a refund?! And we&#8217;ve used Google to see if he&#8217;s been pulling stunts like this before &#8211; all over sudden we&#8217;ve been breaking data protection rules? Geewhiz, we&#8217;d better delete Google from our hard drives! Wonder what he&#8217;ll think of next, our poor, defamed soul.</p>
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		<title>SeoBook Discontinued! Get Your Copy While You Still Can</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t read this SEO Bible yet, you must be a newbie. This is probably the most popular book when it comes to SEO. Aaron wall is a SEO rockstar who will explain in depth how you can get your sites ranked high in Google, which will increase your organic growth rapidly. A must [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you haven’t read this SEO Bible yet, you must be a newbie. This is probably the most popular book when it comes to SEO. Aaron wall is a SEO rockstar who will explain in depth how you can get your sites ranked high in Google, which will increase your organic growth rapidly. A must have if you’re serious about making money online.</p>
<p>Perhaps the most recognized name in the SEO industry, Aaron Wall is the author of, what might just be, the best SEO book out there. Conveniently named The SEO Book, this is absolutely a must have for those of you who really want to get some Search Engine love. Besides its precious contents, the Seo Book is also well known for the fantastic high-payout affiliate program they had. We say had because we&#8217;ve just received an email from Aaron, in which he explains when and why he&#8217;s going to discontinue the distribution of this amazing SEO book.</p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/seobook.jpg' alt='seobook.jpg' /> </p>
<p><strong>So how long have you got to buy the SEObook? NOT LONG!</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I already have affiliate tracking in place for the new affiliate program. On February 20th at midnight I am going to shift the default affiliate traffic location to pointing at the new landing page instead of the old landing page, as we have no further plans to sell the SEO Book ebook.</p></blockquote>
<p>We shouldn&#8217;t even have to say this, but this really looks like it&#8217;s your last chance to grab this 350 page ebook. Endorsed by the big names in the game like Chow, Shoemoney, Rowse, you can be sure you&#8217;re making <a href="http://www.seobook.com/2480.html">a wise investment</a>.</p>
<p>Be nice and make sure everyone can grab a copy before its too late. <a href="http://sphinn.com/story/29525">Sphinn this post</a>.</p>
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		<title>Back To Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re baaaaaaack! Hi kids, did you miss us? Its been nearly a month and we can&#8217;t wait to get started again. We&#8217;ve really enjoyed our stay down under in Western Australia, with temperatures up to 42 degrees Celsius, some great parties and weddings, excellent fast food and tons of cold beers. We arrived back in [...]]]></description>
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<p>We&#8217;re baaaaaaack! Hi kids, did you miss us? Its been nearly a month and we can&#8217;t wait to get started again. We&#8217;ve really enjoyed our stay down under in Western Australia, with temperatures up to 42 degrees Celsius, some great parties and weddings, excellent fast food and tons of cold beers. We arrived back in cold Dublin yesterday after traveling for over 32 hours and got a fright when we saw over 4000 emails in our inboxes&#8230;looks like we&#8217;ve got some catching up to do. Good thing we just had a 16 hour powernap, we&#8217;ll be needing some extra energy to work away the backlog.</p>
<p>We&#8217;d like to thank all those that stepped up and registered with our blog to contribute with some excellent guest posts! You&#8217;ve kept the farm running and it seems we&#8217;ve gained over 200 new RSS subscribers too. We&#8217;ve just closed the guestpost registration, but there are still about 15 posts in draft which we will publish during the next few weeks. Hope that the published posts had a positive traffic effect on the guest posters blogs. Thanks again, we really appreciate your efforts!</p>
<p>Because we had extremely limited Internet access, business has obviously slowed down a bit. We found a few emails of angry advertisers that had ordered ad spots and felt they were waiting too long to get approved by us. Some even mailed us 6 times in one day, getting nastier by the email. &#8220;I&#8217;ve just paid for the adspot 2 hours ago and it&#8217;s still not live! I&#8217;ve requested a refund via PayPal and am very disappointed that you didn&#8217;t reply to my first three emails!&#8221; Errr&#8230;well, there&#8217;s really not much we can say about that. We apologize for enjoying our time off and not franticly checking our emails every 30 minutes.</p>
<p>Also, if someone has emailed us with an important request of whatever, make sure you mail us again, just to make sure we didn&#8217;t accidentally delete your message when going through the pile of mails.</p>
<p>Thanks for sticking around folks, it&#8217;s good to see you&#8217;re all still here <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' />
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		<title>We&#8217;re Packing Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just have a few minutes to cram this post in before time&#8217;s up, so we&#8217;ll cut to the chase. We&#8217;re tired, worn out after the evil entrecard hordes mobbed and clobbered our hides. Who would have known we&#8217;d get such an ass-whooping just for dropping a widget! Its time to pack our bags and leave. [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just have a few minutes to cram this post in before time&#8217;s up, so we&#8217;ll cut to the chase. We&#8217;re tired, worn out after the <a href="http://www.johncow.com/they-are-killing-entrecard/">evil entrecard hordes</a> mobbed and clobbered our hides. Who would have known we&#8217;d get such an ass-whooping just for dropping a widget!  <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_eek.gif' alt=':shock:' class='wp-smiley' />  Its time to pack our bags and leave. Its time for a holiday!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve got tickets to go visit the beautiful pastures down <strike>udder</strike> under, in the land of the Problogger. With limited Internet access, a nearly empty drafts section and a lazy attitude, we won&#8217;t be around much and you boys and girls will be asked to entertain yourselves for a little while. We&#8217;ve done it before and we&#8217;re doing it again. As of now anyone can <a href="http://www.johncow.com/wp-register.php">register on the blog</a> and become a guest poster. You won&#8217;t be able to actually publish a post &#8211; or do much else besides writing one &#8211; but we will be checking the drafts section from time to time to accept posts we like.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll accept anything that&#8217;s related to Internet marketing, <a href="http://www.johncow.com">making money online</a>, web 2.0, web design, blogging&#8230; you get the idea. It doesn&#8217;t matter who you are, where you are, how small or big your blog is &#8211; all we want is a post that&#8217;s been spellchecked, consists of a few paragraphs, preferably of ~500 words, SFW (suitable for work) images and, in English. If you think you can do all that, your post will most likely be published during our absence. Obviously you&#8217;re free to linkback to yourself, but try not to make it too spammy. 1-2 links should be enough.</p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/cow-s.jpg' alt='cow-s.jpg' align="left" />We&#8217;re expecting to return in even better form next month, after replenishing our vitamin D levels with some sun from Down Under, something we don&#8217;t get too much of here in Ireland.  <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt=':cool:' class='wp-smiley' />   It&#8217;d be nice to see the RSS subscribers doubled when we get back, so lets see how well you all can manage the farm while the cows are out.</p>
<p>By the way, we&#8217;re currently featured in the <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/bloggers-face-off-david-peralty-vs-john-cow/">DailyBlogTips Bloggers Face-Off</a>. Our &#8216;opponent&#8217; is Dave Peralty, who besides being the author of <a href="http://www.xfep.com">XFEP.com</a>, is also the marketing director for SplashPress Media, owner of Performancing. Seems he&#8217;s up on the poll after he posted about it too! It makes for an interesting read, especially since we seem to have roughly the same ideas about things. Dave is just better at being serious than us. Oh, and we removed the top ad bar because after this week&#8217;s testrun, we&#8217;ve had nothing but complaints about it. Some people even reported errors.</p>
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		<title>The Last Drop For Entrecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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<p>We&#8217;ve had the entrecard (EC) widget on our blog for a while now and never really actively participated in their booming community. If you&#8217;re familiar with their <a href="http://entrecard.com/forums/">forums</a>, you&#8217;ll know there&#8217;s a select group of EC power-users. They seem to wake up, and go to bed with nothing but EC on their mind. Their blog&#8217;s are filled with post after post on <a href="http://controversialmarketing.blogspot.com/">how to increase your EC traffic</a>, how to optimize it for your blog, how to network with the community,<a href="http://www.yimto.com/the-entrecard-top-10-card-droppers-meme">Top droppers MeMes</a>, etc etc. That&#8217;s all great, but we think some are getting a little carried away with it all, unknowingly destroying the system.</p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/saphrym.jpg' alt='saphrym.jpg' align='left' />Here&#8217;s the thing: The whole purpose behind EC is to get noticed in the blogosphere because your 125&#215;125 ad gets displayed on other blogs that have signed up with EC. Obviously if your card is featured on a huge blog like Problogger (who gets <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/10/interview-with-entrecards-graham-langdon/">sponsored by EC</a>) or JohnChow, you&#8217;re bound get get a nice bump in traffic for those 24 hours. Currently the cost for these two blogs is 330 and 260. So why on earth would someone <strong>waste</strong> over 400 credits to get featured on <a href="http://saphrym.com/blog/">a blog</a> that has <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/Saphrym">21 RSS subscribers</a>? You wouldn&#8217;t if you have your head screwed on the right way! </p>
<p>We&#8217;re not saying your blog is bad or crap, we&#8217;re just saying there&#8217;s no justification for such a high price, having compared the stats with the other blogs. It&#8217;s like us starting to ask $900 for a review, while you can go and get one for half that amount on JohnChow.com. We&#8217;d set ourselves up the bomb!</p>
<p>Now this is where the problem lies. The EC powerusers are so keen on getting becoming popular within the ranks of the community, that they are working hard in chain dropping their cards on all EC blogs each day, just to accumulate more credits and inflating their own advertising prices. Emails keep getting send around, asking for drops, reccomendations and whatever else it is that will get you popular on the categories pages.<br />
Its really not doing any good for anyone. The blogs that get their cards dropped on are experiencing an increase in bounce rates. The bloggers that stops dropping quickly <a href="http://entrecard.com/forums/1/926/#p=17">vanish into thin air</a>. The bloggers that keep dropping, is happily inflating their own advertising cost. And for what? Just to get featured in the top 3 on their respective categories? </p>
<p>Bouncerates through the roof.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately the current system &#8220;Effort=Reward&#8221; has become unusable since it has been encouraging this form of &#8216;gaming the system&#8217; and the end result causes a distorted view of how popular a blog really is on the outside world. If you think you&#8217;re paying 400 credits to get featured on a popular blog, therefor getting high exposure to the blogosphere and receiving a bump in traffic, think again. You&#8217;ve just wasted your hard earned credits on a blog that might look popular inside the EC community, but isn&#8217;t all that popular outside the community &#8211; where it matters if you&#8217;re looking for traffic.</p>
<p>The only way to stop this is to alter the script so it won&#8217;t add to your &#8216;popularity&#8217; when you&#8217;re dropping cards. Getting more popular because cards are getting dropped on your blog is a natural and organic type of growth, which would be a more accurate reflection of the popularity of a blog in the place where it really matters &#8211; the blogosphere. Until the EC team can find a way to prevent blog inflation from happening, we&#8217;re dropping EC.</p>
<p>(PS We&#8217;re waiting for Becky&#8217;s &#8216;<a href="http://www.preblogging.com">told you so</a>!&#8217; comment).
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		<title>We Won! Obviously..</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So says Ryan Caldwell from Performancing.com! The polls are closed, the votes have been counted and nobody has demanded for a recount, even though the Big Beef has won in his category as most controversial blog of 2007 with a manipulated massive 98% of the votes (!) Its official, our humble selves have been bestowed [...]]]></description>
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<p>So says Ryan Caldwell from <a href="http://performancing.com">Performancing.com</a>! The polls are closed, the votes have been counted and nobody has demanded for a recount, even though the Big Beef has won in his category as most controversial blog of 2007 with a <strike>manipulated</strike> massive 98% of the votes (!) Its official, our humble selves have been bestowed with the honorable title of ;&#8221;Best Blog Name in 2007&#8243; by you, the devoted readers of JohnCow.com, who happen to be sincere voters (and freeloaders that really wanted to win the entrecard credits and WordPress hoodies and tshirts <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif' alt=':twisted:' class='wp-smiley' />  ). If we had written a speech to use after we received the awards, we would have certainly posted it right now. Guess its too bad we didn&#8217;t, but thanks to everyone that voted anyway! We simply couldn&#8217;t have done it without you. Special thanks to <a href="http://XFEP.com">XFEP.com</a>, who nominated us in the first place!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the rest of the categories and their respective winners:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://zenhabits.net/">The Best Overall Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Zen Habits</li>
<li><a href="http://www.problogger.net/">The Most Influential Blogger of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Darren Rowse (ProBlogger)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/">The Best Blog Design of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Copyblogger (designed by Chris Pearson)</li>
<li><a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/">The Best Blog Typography of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Freelance Switch</li>
<li><a href="http://www.johncow.com/">The Best Blog Name of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: <strong>John Cow</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/">The Best New Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Freelance Switch</li>
<li><a href="http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com/">The Best Blog Community of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Freelance Writing Jobs</li>
<li><a href="http://mashable.com/">The Most Improved Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Mashable</li>
<li><a href="http://lordlikely.co.uk/">The Best Blogs You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.prosper.com/">The Best Use of a Corporate Blog in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Prosper&#8217;s Official Blog</li>
<li><a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/podcasts">The Best Blog Podcast in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Freelance Switch</li>
<li><a href="http://dailyidea.tv/">The Best Video Blog in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Daily Idea</li>
<li><a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/">The Best Writing/Blogging Blog in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Copyblogger</li>
<li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/">The Best Science/Technology Blog in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Pharyngula</li>
<li><a href="http://www.johnchow.com/">The Most Controversial Blog in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: John Chow</li>
<li><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog">The Best SEO Blog in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: SEOmoz Blog</li>
<li><a href="http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/">The Best Celeb/Style Blog in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Go Fug Yourself</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/">The Best Business/Money Blogs in 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: The Simple Dollar</li>
<li><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/">The Best Photo Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: I Can Has Cheezburger?</li>
<li><a href="http://myespn.go.com/nba/truehoop">The Best Sports Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: True Hoop</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.com/">The Best Blog WebHost of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: WordPress.com </li>
<li><a href="http://www.parenthacks.com/">Best Family and Parenting Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Parent Hacks </li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/">The Best Political Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Daily Kos </li>
<li>Best Food/Health Blog of 2007<br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: <a href="http://www.roboppy.net/food/">The Girl Who Ate Everything</a> &#038; <a href="http://www.101cookbooks.com/">101 Cookbooks</a> (tie)</li>
<li><a href="http://thesneeze.com/">The Funniest Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: The Sneeze</li>
<li><a href="http://crankyflier.com/">The Best Travel Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: The Cranky Flier</li>
<li><a href="http://calnewport.com/blog/">The Best Education Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: Study Hacks</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/">The Best Entertainment Blog of 2007</a><br />
Readers&#8217; Choice: /film</li>
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<p>Congratulations to all, and may the best cow win next year.</p>
<p>Right, back to business. We know you&#8217;re still reading just to see if you won one of the <a href="http://www.johncow.com/were-nominees-win-a-wp-hoodie-and-750-entrecard-credits/">goodies we&#8217;ve bribed you with</a> if you&#8217;d vote for us. Well here&#8217;s the winners of our little cowpetition™.</p>
<p><em>2&#215;750 Entrecard winners are:</em></p>
<p>The first <strong>750</strong> Entrecard Credits go to &#8211; <a href="http://www.affiliateconfession.com/">Affiliate Confession</a>.<br />
The second batch of <strong>750</strong> credits goes to &#8211; <a href="http://www.nierva.com/">Charles from Nierva.com</a>.</p>
<p><em>The three winners of either a WordPress T-shirt or a WordPress Hoodie are:</em></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.kiwipulse.com/">KiwiPulse</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.inspiredepiphany.com/blog/">Epiphany</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.movie-cat.com/">RobG</a></li>
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<p>If you&#8217;ve won, drop us an email with your size and preference for a tee or hoodie and we&#8217;ll have the wordpress shop ship one off right away! And EC winners, give us the link to your profile page on entrecard so we can drop the credits in your accounts.</p>
<p>That concludes this important announcement, you can all get back to work now. Thank you.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just imagine getting linked by one of the biggest blogs around. With a potential of 619,000 RSS readers and most likely even more regular traffic, you&#8217;d be wetting your pants! Now it takes some work to get featured on a massive scale like that, or simply a quick email where you let them know what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p>Just imagine getting linked by one of the biggest blogs around. With a potential of 619,000 RSS readers and most likely even more regular traffic, you&#8217;d be wetting your pants! Now it takes some work to get featured on a massive scale like that, or simply a quick email where you let them know what&#8217;s up with company xyz. That&#8217;s why the big boys always have the news first, because their readers keep an eye out for them and tip them off as soon as something happens. Remember a few days ago when <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/06/adverlets-joins-the-deadpool-or-maybe-just-forgets-to-renew-their-domain-name/">Advertlets went belly up</a>? Silly buggers forgot to renew their domain!</p>
<p><img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/techcrunch.jpg' alt='techcrunch.jpg' align='left' />Edward Khoo emailed us about it, to see if it was worth a mention, but we had never even heard about Advertlets previously so we kindly declined Eddie&#8217;s &#8216;scoop&#8217;.</p>
<p>TechCrunch was another recipient of Edward&#8217;s email (wonder which one of us he mailed first) and they jumped on the news right away. Go Ed! You&#8217;ve just been linked by TechCrunch, get ready for some pants wetting &#8211; or not. Unfortunately as you can see in the article, TechCrunch editors made a boo-boo and <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/06/adverlets-joins-the-deadpool-or-maybe-just-forgets-to-renew-their-domain-name/EdwardKhoo.com/">broke the linkback</a> to poor Ed. Does that suck or what?!</p>
<p>Anyway, we know it&#8217;s not of a TechCrunch magnitude, but <a href="http://edwardkhoo.com/">here&#8217;s a (working) link</a> from us Ed, we hope it takes away the pain of not being featured by TC.</p>
<p>In other news, as you can see we&#8217;ve added <a href="http://twitter.com/johncow">our twitter updates</a> to the sidebar. Just having signed up for an account a few hours go, it&#8217;s not a very interesting read yet, and it might probably never ever be interesting, but you&#8217;re free to follow us on twitter!</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>! <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/11/problogger-hq-20/">Mr Problogger</a> is doing another &#8216;Show off your workplace&#8217; post, so here&#8217;s our entry. We&#8217;ve moved stuff around a bit since last time so we figured we&#8217;d enter again. (click to enlarge)</p>
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		<title>Another Free 750 Entrecard Credits Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Katzenback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These darn things just don&#8217;t stop! Just when we gave out 750 entrecard credits twice, we&#8217;ve got another 750 sitting in our account again&#8230;sigh. Ok, guess we&#8217;ll be making someone happy again with them. If you&#8217;d like to win the 750 credits, all you need to do is drop your card here and leave a [...]]]></description>
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<p>These darn things just don&#8217;t stop! Just when we gave out 750 entrecard credits twice, we&#8217;ve got another 750 sitting in our account again&#8230;sigh. Ok, guess we&#8217;ll be making someone happy again with them. If you&#8217;d like to win the 750 credits, all you need to do is drop your card here and leave a comment that you did. We&#8217;re good for the credits, check with our previous winners, <a href="http://www.johncow.com/john-chow-beaten-by-girl/">Cigar Jack</a> and <a href="http://www.johncow.com/we-found-out-who-ruined-christmas/">Cyber Street Report</a>. Your chances of winning this random draw could possibly be slightly influenced if someone would leave a <a href="http://entrecard.com/user/148/recommendation?for_user_id=148">recommendation</a> for us perhaps <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif' alt=':twisted:' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>In other &#8216;exciting&#8217; bovine news; we&#8217;ve replaced the ten links of <a href="http://www.johncow.com/over-1000-subscribers-under-6-months-it-can-be-done/">previous random winners</a> of our <a href="http://www.johncow.com/60-free-ads/">free RSS advertising</a> campaign (more free crap and we&#8217;ll be filing for bankruptcy soon  <img src='http://www.johncow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif' alt=':???:' class='wp-smiley' />  ) So to all that have been added to the RSS post footer as sponsors, congratulations!</p>
<p>We hope that all of you will have a great new year ahead of you, and that we may all be millionaire moo-guls at the end of 2008! </p>
<p>(PS Be careful with the fireworks later today kids! We like your comments, and its so much easier to type if you still have all your fingers!)
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