Case Study – John Chow Effect

It is not true right? Hahahaha

I wanna taste to

I do believe it is worth $500 to get it reviewed here. It is a good deal.

First, $500 for a single review is impressive (I don't even have enough traffic yet to sign up!). Second, that's an impressive response from your review - I'd say his $500 was money very well spent.

That was awesome.. $500 for a single review.. ;D

nobody can question "john chow" effect. the results have proven many times already. how i wish also that i'm one of the recipients :)

After the slashdotting and the digg effect ,the "johnchowing" ? :-)

120 members isn't bad really. It's not that easy to get people to subscribe AND to keep them.

I want a Free review :) , I want to check its effectiveness and then post an article on your site about its effectiveness :)

Amazing case..geniously made viral marketing.

I would also recommend writing a nice press release and submiting it e.g. to PRWeb. Some time ago we have spent $300 for a release that really nicely propagated through a web and got us ~1000 new registered users from the release alone, we got picked by local media and after that things rolled easier. Nice thing for a launching service.

I admire your "effect":) seems like one post last for a week (Judge from the Google Analytic..not very clear)!

Hey John...got any discount? :P

I think the $500 is nothing to worry about depending on how much money you receive. If you can break-even, the review is probably worth a couple thousand because you're reaching people you'd probably never be able to reach. John also has given reviews on bad products before with appropriate feedback so it's all good.

it is all down to the exposure, what i really like about John's site is the members are active and thus we know that they are not just mere figures, some may exaggerate that they get thousand of views.

Some of these comments are hilarious! In my first month of blogging I worked my ass off and ended up getting 1800 visits to my blog, 1600 of which were unique. But I worked about 8 hours a day to get this.

I think a wam bam thank you ma'am review for that 267 new visitors in 2 days would be great. And he's not showing how many visitors come from that link in 2 weeks.

Not everyone visits John's blog everyday. I'd be interested in seeing a follow up post on this in 2 weeks time.

Colin: "Thank you John Chow for the review."
John: "No, thank you for the $500 dollars sucka!"

J/k,

great video though. Awesome idea to follow up and actually analyze where you get the traffic from.

john chow effect, just like beckham effect for pepsi..haha
make sense?
"people one advice - use john chow review rather than smorty or payperpost"

What's bigger, the Shoemoney Effect or the John Chow Effect?

Hey as long as he's happy with the results I guess that is all that matters.

Personally I'd think the "John Chow effect" would have been a little greater than just 267 hits over 2 days. It doesn't look like there was much residual effect there. The initial load of hits looked promising with a high number of page views and time spent. But that is likely due to the contest and the initial "walk through" and checking out the contest info.

Since he only shows the initial hit load its hard to gauge the actual affect the review had. It looks like it was a one hit and done type thing.

120 members is fairly impressive, but again that could be more of the contest than the "John Chow effect". I mean they go hand in hand but I'd guess more readers from here joined just to have a chance at the contest and won't return. In fact I think I joined, didn't like it and never returned, but I can't find a log in so maybe not.

This is not as much as I would have expected to be honest but I guess the goal was to get the product out and have people talk about it. I would be curious to get some stats about paid services.

I think the main issue atm is that johnchow.com is mainly a paid for review site and ultimately people will get bored of reading commercials. I appreciate you're cashing in but it's short term cash vs longevity?

I guess he got the jump-start he wanted, he seems very happy and at the end of the day, that is really all that matters.

Jon
http://woodmarvels.com - Create Unique Memories

Let me get this again, for a $500 post, you get 72 comments & 82 members to a free service.
You got 267 visits for a free sign up service?
That's almost $2 just for a click!
Do you really think that is worth the money?
I'd hate to see the John Chow effect on a paid for sign up service...
No, actually, I'd love it, will we see the John Chow effect for the sleep aid pills, PPC Marketing, blog flipping reviews and so on?

interesting
suprisingly reviewme said my site is a suspected fake...smh

VirlalNetworks got a review from you and then he returned the favor. He got two reviews for the price of one because he gave back in a form of a video thankyou. Good going chow. To think about it, you did the same thing with some companies at blogworld. You gave them a chance to tell a little about themselves without any cost to them other than the time limit.

I think if you make the most out of the viewers and exposure you get from a john chow review, a reviewed post would be a great way to get your name out there. But i'd have to be darn sure for $500. Nice post, if only you could get this from every reviewed site.

Even if I could afford to have my site reviewed, I would be way too embarrassed to admit it was mine...lol

great post....i wish i got $500 for a review.

You got the big name for a reason.

Interesting. The John Chow Effect is apparently king.