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Gifts From The Mad Cow

written by John Chow on September 29, 2007

How to make $593 in less than one hour

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I have to admit it, that cow is one sneaky animal. He knew that if he were to sent me a gift, I wouldn’t blog about it. So what does he do? He gets in via the back door by sending my daughter some birthday presents. He didn’t sent any normal gifts either. No, that grass eating mooer sent two I Love John Cow baby shirts and a bib!

My wife thought they were awesome and made sure Sally wore it for today’s Dot Com Pho. Everyone at Pho gave the cow props for coming up with the evil marketing idea.

The cow’s Million Euro Wiki is doing pretty good too. It has sold 53 pages so far and will be rewarding another iPod Touch to a page owner (I won the first one).

I noticed that my wiki page is the second most popular page after the main page. So far the page has produced one sign up for Text Link Ads and made $25. Three more sign ups and I’ll break even. Well, I don’t even need three more since I used my own JohnChow coupon code to buy the page for $90. I am pretty sure I will be giving my iPod touch to someone who purchased a page using the JohnChow coupon code.

Anyway, thanks for the birthday gift cow! Here’s a picture of Sally wearing the bib.

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{ 86 comments }

Shawn Knight September 29, 2007 at 4:09 pm

When you sent me this link, I was hoping he sent over a bundle of delicious steaks and some A1 to match, but hey, this is just as cool hah

Seopher September 29, 2007 at 4:34 pm

That’s actually very clever; and sally looks very cute in her John Cow gear. Good work cow!

Blogging The Movie September 29, 2007 at 5:15 pm

you sneaky bastard… John Cow.. haha.

Danny @ Blogs For Money September 30, 2007 at 3:46 am

LOL! Nice gifts :-)

Kanute September 30, 2007 at 6:01 am

Its all about the marketing….

Liberty and New Creation September 30, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Yes, so now we know how to get into John Chow’s head…through the love of his daughter! :twisted:

awflasher September 30, 2007 at 7:02 am

I am sure john will receive tons of gifts after this post …..

Travis Chan October 5, 2007 at 4:41 am

Haha true that.

Ricardo September 29, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Nice gifts, John.

PS: Your PR just dropped!

Steven September 29, 2007 at 5:23 pm

Dropped is an understatement. My toolbar won’t even show any PR rating for him saying it’s unavailable.

GPT Sites September 30, 2007 at 1:28 am

Your toolbar must be out of date … it’s a PR 5.

Making The Money September 30, 2007 at 1:41 am

Is that because you’re looking at the PR for this last post only?

Eric September 29, 2007 at 5:39 pm

Yeah – I am seeing the blog at PR5

Israel September 29, 2007 at 10:49 pm

thats what i see too.

Danny @ Blogs For Money September 30, 2007 at 3:55 am

Looks like a PR update might finally be on the way – people have been reporting updates from some Google IPs but now they’ve all been switched off/firewalled…

Ritu September 29, 2007 at 4:34 pm

Nice gift Cow, you know how to sell yourself

Vik Dulat - Making Money the Easy Way September 29, 2007 at 4:37 pm

She’s looking very cute John :)

Gdog September 29, 2007 at 4:50 pm

That bib is cute on Sally…pretty cool gifts! I’ll try to meet up with you guys for pho in a couple of weeks. ;)

Chris Jacobson September 29, 2007 at 4:51 pm

That’s great! lol :mrgreen:

SEO Optimization September 29, 2007 at 4:52 pm

Thats a one damn sneaky cow, you are right on it John. And Sally sure does look adorable on that baby moo shirt ;)

Shaun Carter September 29, 2007 at 5:14 pm

The cow never ceases to amaze me…. pure marketing genius!

Michael @ tech September 29, 2007 at 9:04 pm

I agree

Webmaster Money September 29, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Evil marketing… nice doughter in nice dress. :razz:

Colin Klinkert September 29, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Wow, the designs and thought was very cool, great job!

CatherineL September 29, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Well Sally looks really cute in those. I bet those evil cows could make quite a bit of milk money if they started selling those bibs.

Bob September 29, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Sally makes that bib look good!

Making The Money September 30, 2007 at 1:42 am

But how did you know when her birthday was/is? Is there some evil cow stalking going on?

SEO Optimization September 30, 2007 at 1:52 pm

Nice question Paul, I don’t remember either John blogging about her Bday (maybe on the really old posts..? haven’t went that back tho).

KingJacob September 29, 2007 at 5:35 pm

They look really good, what printer’d you use Senor Cow?

goldfries September 29, 2007 at 6:21 pm

Get a few more kids to dorn those cute outfits! :) It’ll be very sweet!

Dan September 29, 2007 at 6:39 pm

The cow got in via John’s backdoor?
Too much information

Word Hugger September 29, 2007 at 6:50 pm

haha, you dirty minded person.

David Beroff September 29, 2007 at 7:12 pm

Cute kid, John! Though I’m very surprised you didn’t link to http://SallyChow.com … (there, I just did so for you); never too young to start building PageRank! :-)

Or someone could even set up http://SallyCow.com :twisted:

jeanzei September 29, 2007 at 7:13 pm

:arrow: i sooo thought you said Mancow! dang. looking for news here! hi johnchow!

KCLau September 29, 2007 at 7:28 pm

Anymore book offer?

Webworm September 29, 2007 at 8:06 pm

This Cow is not a bad “cow”… :wink:

Six sense feeling…some relation between Chow & Cow :mrgreen:

Neil September 29, 2007 at 8:13 pm

Vey cute, i`m guessing Cows selling these from his site …. better get over there for a look.

Million$Dig - Free to Join, Build Links, Increase Traffic September 29, 2007 at 8:21 pm

I think cow is up to something. The euro and dollar wikis show the same reach in Alexa

browie September 29, 2007 at 9:34 pm

I have a family photo on my girls blog of my shirts and we just marker’d a white one for her. isabellejohnson.com

mariam September 29, 2007 at 10:01 pm

Heh, that’s cute. I like how John Cow does it with humor. However, before I jump on the bandwagon with MEW, I want to know how he’s going to help the page owners. From my experience with the MDW, just because you get the JC effect, doesn’t mean visitors will necessarily visit other pages. What plans does the Cow have for deep interlinking and SEO development?

Michael @ tech September 30, 2007 at 2:42 am

Although John Cow is sort of a copy-cat but he does it so well. If some cases, I have to say that he is better than the real John. Sorry John Chow (not John Cow),

mariam September 30, 2007 at 7:09 am

I really don’t mind that he’s a copy cat. I have seen other copy cat sites but he does it with style so I know he knows how to market. But that only lines his pocket with money. Does he have something ingenious for the page owners after he’s taken their money?

Blog Contests September 29, 2007 at 10:38 pm

Holy crap – that is sneaky!

Israel September 29, 2007 at 10:46 pm

your baby looks adorable. would you put some shirts on of my site if i sent them? seriously. shoot me a mail with your address.

the cow isnt sneaky at all. its all part of john and his partnership.

Secret Place September 29, 2007 at 11:19 pm

Your daughter so cute! :smile:

Ginene September 29, 2007 at 11:22 pm

She is sooo cute! That was a clever idea. He knew you couldn’t resist if he did something nice for your babygirl. :smile:

lyricsreg September 29, 2007 at 11:32 pm

now that’s advertising. In a few years, many kindergarten’ers will visit the site :)

Wayne Liew September 30, 2007 at 12:29 am

The scenario where making friends with your competitor. Lesson learnt! :twisted:

Make Money Online September 30, 2007 at 12:34 am

Your daughter looks very lovely! Happy Birthday!

Wahlau.NET September 30, 2007 at 12:45 am

it is just much cheaper compare to a $400 review me…haha

Googlelady September 30, 2007 at 3:06 am

But is nice technique…Chow I am sure you will get more clothes LOL

3cpxbro September 30, 2007 at 1:40 am

has anyone set up a johncow clone site?

Making The Money September 30, 2007 at 1:45 am

Cute, I mean both your daughter and the Cow’s marketing prowess!

Etienne Teo September 30, 2007 at 2:18 am

That was some sneaky marketing from the cow.. :mrgreen:

Michael @ tech September 30, 2007 at 2:39 am

You’ve got to admit that the clothing were pretty good looking. It was very well designed.

Michael @ tech September 30, 2007 at 2:46 am

Try and take this in:
John Chow is not John Cow
A Cow is not a Mr. Chow
And a cow is cow
who is John Cow
but no John Chow
:mrgreen:

Googlelady September 30, 2007 at 3:05 am

Michael, nice COWem

Michael @ tech September 30, 2007 at 5:11 pm

Thanks :grin:

Googlelady September 30, 2007 at 3:03 am

Nice marketing the cow hitted again! :roll:

Kemal Inanc September 30, 2007 at 3:07 am

Nice gifts, i have get one for my baby :mrgreen:

Zeila Rich September 30, 2007 at 4:54 am

I think it’s just a waste of money to send john chow the johncow.com branded apparel. all readers of JohnChow knows about JohnCow already.

JohnCow should try other big bloggers like ShoeMoney.

He has the T-Shirt friday I think

My 2 Cents Worth

Klaudio September 30, 2007 at 4:57 am

Haha :grin: nice gifts

Jeff Quipp September 30, 2007 at 5:14 am

Way to think outside the box cow! This is marketing at its finest!

Kanute September 30, 2007 at 6:00 am

What a nice “griffe”. Cow could put it on the market. Wicked.

esofthub September 30, 2007 at 6:06 am

I had to chuckle about that maneuver. The Cow took a page out of JC’s innovative marketing toolkit.

Cash Quests September 30, 2007 at 6:36 am

I hope Sally is ready for the amount of clothes people are about to send her! Every item with a nice little “.com” label.

Zeila Rich September 30, 2007 at 8:21 am

what happened to your website, kumiko?

John Cow September 30, 2007 at 6:39 am

If you want your own cool cow goodies, we’ve opened up a shop: http://www.cafepress.com/johncow

Rohan Kulkarni September 30, 2007 at 6:57 am

Hats off to the champion of internet parody comedy! Long live John Cow!

McBilly September 30, 2007 at 3:27 pm

Haha. Yeah. Great marketing Cow! :twisted: You never cease to amaze me. Also, great choice for a model!

BlogsTheme.com September 30, 2007 at 7:32 am

You could never turn down baby gifts, especially when they are so great.
Nice kid you’ve got there John! Congrats!

Blog Earners September 30, 2007 at 8:08 am

haha.. pvery good marketing…
actually this is something our company does too when one of our clients gets a little one ;)
http://www.BlogEarners.com

boring bro September 30, 2007 at 8:38 am

I just like cow..
He is such an Evil…
GOod marketing…

MK September 30, 2007 at 8:58 am

Nice :grin:

catnapping September 30, 2007 at 9:08 am

:grin: adorable. the oxytocin is flowing, guys. i get all squeaky when you folks put up pictures of your babies. mine are all grown!

cat

Liberty and New Creation September 30, 2007 at 12:39 pm

Cute baby pictures on John Chow? What’s the world coming to!

Collin September 30, 2007 at 1:08 pm

OMG thats so cute, haha I think he may be out smarting the great John Chow

krillz September 30, 2007 at 1:19 pm

haha yeah, their final move will be one of them marrying her in a couple of years, that will be their ultimate and final move.

Ow crap I have to hide now, this secret wasn’t supposed to come out :P

elgUU September 30, 2007 at 1:15 pm

Nice shirt…john rocks

GREETINGS FROM elgUU
:mrgreen:
http://www.elguu.com

Andrew September 30, 2007 at 1:17 pm

Aww, lol.

Thats pretty cool. :smile:

ThienLee September 30, 2007 at 2:53 pm

lol dats cool .. hehehe

Henrik Blunck September 30, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Congratulations. Cute gifts and certainly wise marketing decision from Mad Cow…. :-)
Being creative is indeed knowing when and how to get around – even if you bend a rule or two on the way….. :-D

Crenk October 1, 2007 at 1:54 pm

How cool is the Cow!!

Aditya Kumar Singh October 4, 2007 at 11:05 am

Gift for your daughter …. wow . :) mad COW

Popular Bookmarks October 5, 2007 at 12:47 am

Evil COW :twisted:

Celebrities & Blog Tips October 14, 2007 at 12:50 am

An excellent ROI by the Cow!! (lol)