Do You Want to Know Who John Cow is?

Written by John Cow on July 22nd, 2008

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Well the day is finally here… and I think about 3, maybe 4 people have been anxiously waiting for us to let the cow out of the bag. Before we get into that however, we have some winners to announce :)

Congratulations to the WINNERS! You should have received an email from us and if not, contact us via our contact form on this page and we will set you up.

Now that this contest is over we have another good one lined up for you… and this one is 100% sponsored by us the new owners and there is a good reason for this. You see we are darn proud of this here blog and the response from you our fantastic readers is amazing. We love getting emails and seeing posts on other sites mentioning how this is a true MMO blog now!

Of course we realize that there are a few of you, who probably are not reading this right now, that do not care for the change. We have not heard as of why but we accept that we can not be liked by everyone… we do not like it.. but we accept it :)

Now, as for us telling you who we are, we want you to know that this is a huge relief for us to be able to finally do this. We have loads of things planned for JohnCow dot Com and by having to hide our face was making a few things a little difficult.

Ok… so are you sick of me talking yet.. well too bad :)

With us coming out there will be a few obvious changes right away, like the fact that I am done using “we” and “us”… this was fun at first but is now a pain in the cow pie hole. So if that is something you are going to miss.. sorry.

Another thing is we are getting a lot more stirct on our paid reviews and please stop requesting us to review your site and not mention it is a review (sorry that is a pet peave).

We also have planned to come out with some cool new toys for the John Cow readers exclusively. We are almost finished a really cool one that will help your keyword research, if you follow along the strategies I taught.

OK OK OK.. sheesh… i can hear you yelling already.

This is too fun… but I have just a couple little bits of info still to share.

  • 1. We did not spend $50 000 on this blog… so those rumors can stop right now. A good rule of thumb is to pay 10x’s the monthly rev a site creates and Bob was not earning 5 grand a month.
  • 2. We are not Garry Conn, John Chow, Shawn Casey, Bob Jones or someone Bob hired (that one was actually insulting)
  • 3. We are actually 3 people that own JohnCow but it is only one of the owners that is the voice of JohnCow

OK, so who is it…….

ARCHON MEDIA from Houston TX

There it is, that is who it is behind JohnCow!

But wait… am I not going to reveal who the actual name is of the owners and who the one owner that is the writer is?

YUP.. but not today…. (oh how i wish you could hear my laugh right now)

But before you get all pissy on me and say that is not fair, we are going to make it very much worth your while.

First of all, for any of you who are our current customers of one of our products or memberships, you just need to look at your email and you could figure this out pretty quick. This was how Andy Beard did it and I was a little surprised more of you did not pick up on this. Of course maybe you did but since there are only 3 or 4 of you that even care about this, you probably just did not get around to saying anything ;)

Here is what is going to happen though.

On Thursday July 24th we are going to mention the names (no tricks this time either) of who the three owners of Archon Media are and who the voice of John Cow is and we are also going to be kicking off our new contest that is focused on our new ebook “How to build a Business not Just a Blog” and the winner will win a free copy of every product we reference in this ebook that we use, which includes…

  • 1. A FREE Copy of the brand new version of TrafficTravis (it is totally improved and being released next week)

PLUS –> To show we really do want you to succeed, we are also including…

  • 4. A one hour One on One phone call with just you and me to review your current business and brain storm ways to improve it.
  • 5. A contest on JohnCow that will include YOUR SITE as the main registration criteria for entering (lots of traffic to you)

We will be announcing the new ownership to our business mailing list (which is pretty darn big) and plan to see lots of traffic pounding on these pastures and so this should be fun.

How this is going to work is Thursday we will be making the announcement and then on the following Thursday (one week from then) we are going to be making the draw. The ONLY criteria to be entered into the draw is that you have downloaded the ebook and have an active subscription… there are no other criteria needed.

If you can figure out who we are from the hints I gave, go ahead and comment on it, we will not respond to them though and any of you that know because I have talked to you… would be cool if you could just comment a hint instead of saying who it is.

So there you go.. now lets hear your comments :twisted:

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64 Comments »

Comment by Hugo Santos
2008-07-22 19:05:20

3 to 4 people anxious to know who john cow is? Wow! you are a true believer man!!! lol kidding

Ok. The question is still in the air: who is behind John Cow! :p

 
Comment by JK Swopes
2008-07-22 19:26:30

Haahahahahahaha…….DANG! And the plot thickens!

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Comment by Ralph
2008-07-22 19:27:23

Man, that was an information packed post, it was alot of fun to read too, lol. Keep up the epic work.

 
Comment by Jacky Supit
2008-07-22 19:34:19

do you feel like orgasm guys?

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Comment by Erik
2008-07-22 19:34:33

Not sure who it is but I can’t wait to find out!

..in the mean time I’m going to go write some articles to announce to the world who I am…aka The Big Kahuna…then, I’m going to take my nephew down to the port and feed the seagulls and look at the seals…maybe I can get a good Deal on some Dippin’ Dots if I compose a good line or comment to tell the employee behind the counter. Let’s just hope I don’t get stuck in rush hour traffic. :evil: :twisted:

Comment by John Cow
2008-07-22 20:09:14

ohh lots of hints there

 
 
Comment by Germz
2008-07-22 19:35:29

“Anxiously” waiting? Don’t they have lives lol?

Pretty cool post. I always knew it was a company behind this.

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Comment by Woobie Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-22 20:05:55

Wow, a custom banner + adspace sounds great! Thanks!

Now on to brainstorming which of my sites to feature. :D
Thanks again John Cow!

-Woobie

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Comment by EmmaB
2008-07-22 20:12:14

Lol, the suspense just got higher! At least now I know the company name!

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Comment by Marc
2008-07-22 20:35:19

Hey John Cow… are you Jason Potash?

Or maybe Jason Katzenback?

(Portal feeder guys, Article announcer guys, Orwell guys.)

 
Comment by Debbie Spurlock
2008-07-22 20:54:23

I’ve been pretty sure of 2 of the 3 members of John Cow’s identity for a while now. I believe it’s Jason Katzenback and Jason Potash, of Portal Feeder (and all the Kahuna products) fame. I think the third name is Marc Quarles, although I’ve got less “Archon Media” email from him.

Comment by Jen
2008-07-23 18:08:39

Yeh. I got their emails and they put that name on their signatures so not really good at ‘hiding’.

 
 
Comment by Forest Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-22 20:54:25

Oh you teasing herd!!!

Well done Woobie, just send me an email forest.parks@gmail.com and we can get the custom banner rolling and create something that will look cool on this site.

 
Comment by Matthew
2008-07-22 21:01:28

Interesting… interesting.

Can’t wait to know who is the real boss is!

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Comment by Green & Clean Mom
2008-07-22 21:29:09

First time commenting, lots o’ times reading! Just want to say, thanks. Love the e-book and love the suspense. It has me guessing and wondering!

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Comment by Will
2008-07-22 21:45:58

What was the exact date that you took over the blog?

It would be funny if you changed the illustration to include the 3 of you on the day that you announce your identities. That would definitely create some bait.

Probably isn’t worth the money though. So Bob’s income on this blog really had slipped below 5K a month?

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Comment by Jaseem Umer
2008-07-22 21:57:16

Are you those guys at Portal Feeder? You have been promoting mutually and JohnCow has interest in portal feeder’s products which many other popular bloggers haven’t even mentioned and I am in the mailing list of portal feeder and got a hint from the last mail. So, I am right?

 
Comment by Dane Morgan
2008-07-22 22:00:55

Well, I had been thinking Jason Potash, but he’s in MI (I think), not TX, so now I’m completely lost on who the new John Cow is.

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Comment by narendra.s.v
2008-07-22 22:08:52

you made me sleepy :roll: anyways got to know you guys soon :grin:

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Comment by russkampmann
2008-07-22 22:50:19

The question is:

Who is Jason Potash?

The answer is:

The man behind John Cow

 
Comment by Eric
2008-07-22 23:40:50

Here a cow, there a cow, every where a cow cow. It does not really matter who is the voice of John Cow. It is all about quality content and you deliver.

 
Comment by Jalaj
2008-07-22 23:55:59

Some sites don’t remove contact informations from press releases as this one did on 8th July which already mentioned “Archon Media” in contact information. So isn’t this revelation a stale one.

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Comment by Kalpesh Ajugia Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-22 23:58:42

:cool: Congratulations to all the winners!! Looking forward to participate in the new contest soon!!!!

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Comment by Koka
2008-07-23 00:04:36

Will the man behind the curtain please step out?

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Comment by revenue
2008-07-23 01:15:42

Who Is the Big Man Behind The Cow ???? i can not wait to hear this soon :grin:

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Comment by Pat Ryan
2008-07-23 01:29:54

Interesting. Archon Media owns sportingreece.com. I’m pretty sure you re not two greek sports writers but you never know - http://www.sportingreece.com/about.asp.

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Comment by Mr. Javo
2008-07-23 01:41:00

Hey 3 persons? Well let’s see who you are, I would like to win some of those prizes :twisted:

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Comment by Vicki Flaugher
2008-07-23 02:30:41

I can hint that one of the John Cow trio’s last name can be discovered by going to Saskatchewan because this is the largest producer of __________ in the world. The other two I can deduce from some of the clues above, but none that I came up with on my own. What fun!!

Together, we are stronger.

Vicki Flaugher

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Comment by Gert Hough
2008-07-23 02:51:01

Do not tell me. Is the name Jeremy?

 
Comment by Ruchir Chawdhry
2008-07-23 03:00:05

I think it’s Jason Potash. Just do a Google search for Archon media (with quotes) and you’ll find a couple sites that belong to Archon media namely traffic kahuna, videopostrobot and dealdotcom.com which all belong to Jason. So the man is Jason Potash.

 
Comment by Vince Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-23 03:24:25

Hmm… I posted earlier and didn’t realize that you were looking for all three names so I only listed Jason Potash. After realizing you were looking for the names of all three owners I wanted to come back with a revision.

I believe the three owners are Jason Potash, Jason Katzenback, and Marc Quarles.

Maybe luck will be with me!

 
Comment by The Dude
2008-07-23 04:32:06

oooh you are a tease! lol. Congrats to all the winners! Looking forward to the new contest - and more quality content from the pastures!

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Comment by Chan Sui
2008-07-23 05:09:57

OK, I’ll wait. Who is Johncow.

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Comment by junior
2008-07-23 05:24:18

congrats … to all the winners ,anyway… I really like this blog,it has a very nice design compared to johchow

 
Comment by Make Money Talks
2008-07-23 05:52:45

You are doing great job here!

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Comment by Johny
2008-07-23 05:54:59

I would be really surprised if you are not either of Jason Katzenback and Jason Potash.

Though I would place my bid on Jason Katzenback because he is the one who paid world vision and owns email id johncowdocom@gmail.com.. :idea:

Anyways jason try having a contest to guess the right name. It would be fun…. :lol:

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Comment by Chip
2008-07-23 06:46:56

Well, this means I’ll have to wait and read more until John Cow reveals his identity.

 
Comment by Liam
2008-07-23 06:48:01

Hmmm, a long (and irrelevant) shot in the dark here but I’m curious to know. Since at least one of you are keen gamers, any chance you named yourselves after the classic 80s Atari game ‘Archon’? :smile:

 
Comment by Dude World Order
2008-07-23 07:57:51

Kick ass! I won!

Thanks Cow.

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2008-07-23 08:23:19

Great to know about you after a long time!

 
2008-07-23 09:49:58

The cow is outta the bag.

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Comment by The Dude
2008-07-23 10:30:53

Mr Cow(s),

You are all quite clearly Legends! Gonna be doing a site review about John Cow tomorrow to show my gratitude :)

U guys rock!

The Dude

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Comment by Richard Perez
2008-07-23 10:46:57

I agree with the answers from a couple of poster here that the three owners are Jason Potash, Jason Katzenback, and Marc Quarles. But I my vote goes to Jason Potash to be the real identity of John Cow.

 
Comment by Alan
2008-07-23 10:49:55

Hi Silla:

Congratulations on winning the free WhyPark account. Please send an email to Craig (@) WhyPark (dot) com and you’ll be set-up with your free account.

Alan

 
Comment by Daniel Felice
2008-07-23 11:06:20

guess im going to have to wait…

 
Comment by Dulce
2008-07-23 11:52:27

Will the real “John Cow” please stand up? I repeat, will the real “John Cow” please stand up? We’re gonna have a problem here. :)

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2008-07-23 13:15:15

I am guessing the three owners are Jason Potash, Jason Katzenback and Marc Quarles.

Since the katz in the back, I assume the dog is in the front, so Jason Katzenback must be John Cow.

 
Comment by Owen
2008-07-23 13:55:18

Do cows like the Bearkats!

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Comment by EmmaB
2008-07-23 14:13:45

I just remembered something. A support member of traffic Travus said that this “new, improved” version would be free.

Or do you think he meant a free version and a paid version?

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Comment by Mike
2008-07-23 14:49:31

Aww…and now you are editing any honesty. Wait until THAT gets publicity.

Comment by John Cow
2008-07-23 15:20:09

huh… sorry but not sure what you are talking about Mike? Is there something that we did to piss you off?

 
Comment by John Cow
2008-07-23 15:24:25

Oh wait, you were the Mike whose comment was a complete bullcrap excuse for you not being able to use our system and training. Sorry but that is not something that we like to publish when someone tries to blame our other tools for them not being successful, people are making money using our procedures but not you.. thats not our fault.. especially when i know you never even tried them. We do not moderate things unless it is blatant spam or someone just being an idiot… guess which one you were.

We honor all refunds and I hope you were able to get one… wish we could make everyone happy but some people just never are.

Maybe you can read the past 3 months of posts here and actually learn something.

As for moving on… nope still involved and loving it in everything else.

Oh and if you want to spread some bull crap around elsewhere… go ahead and spend you time doing that.. bugs me not. We would rather spend time on building our business so don’t expect us to get involved..

 
 
Comment by Archit Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-24 00:47:04

Are you guys Barney Spender & Nick Malkoutzis?

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Comment by Archit Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-24 00:49:20

Oh no wait it must be Jason Potash (John Cow), Jason Katzenback and Marc Quarles..

Am I right?? Am I right?? :smile: :cool:

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Comment by Moneybites
2008-07-24 09:35:15

I know the truth but I’ve sworn to never tell :evil:

Comment by Archit Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-24 11:18:37

:sad:

 
 
Comment by Travel blog
2008-07-24 11:16:53

What will happen once people know who is John Cow?… you will have to come up with another hunt.. :cool:

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Comment by ron ripple
2008-07-25 10:19:16

Who is this bob guy I emailed for the last 6 months?

that an alias of jason?

Comment by John Cow
2008-07-25 11:16:04

lol… nope that is the old owner

 
 
Comment by Vladinati
2008-07-30 17:45:10

Ok im new here what is going on :shock: and when does the contest starts.

 
Comment by Silla