Miscellaneous Ramblings - 3/15/2008
written by John Chow
Where Are All The Generous People?
A few days ago, I asked readers to help me raise money for the Union Gospel Mission Easter meal drive. The response so far haven’t came close to matching the Thanksgiving or Christmas drives I did last year. I realized that people are in a more giving mood during Thanksgiving and Christmas but people go hungry everyday, not just on holidays.
To give you a bigger incentive to help, I will now match you donations at 2 to 1. You donate $1, I’ll give $2. That’s 200% return on your money! Simply make a donation at UGM’s online donation page, then email me a copy of the email receipt. Remember, whatever you’re donating, I’ll double it!
All readers making donations will be recognized in a blog post on Monday. If you have a website or blog, I will link to it. The meals and other services we provide can be the start of a new life and new beginning for those in need.
The true measure of success is not how much you make, but how much you give.
The Chow Chow Train
The Social Millionaire has been up for 15 days and wasn’t going anywhere until he decided to order a review from John Chow dot Com. Twenty four hours later, sales rocketed passed $1,000. While this is normally call The John Chow Effect, the Social Millionaire decided to be cute and called it The Chow Chow Train.
Winning The Web Contest Passes $9,000 In Prizes
What started off as a contest with $5,348 of prizes has turned into a mega event as more and more sponsors pony up prizes for the Winning The Web “Win Everything Under The Sun” Contest. If you haven’t entered, then you better get in on it before the month is over. If I win anything, I’ll give it away to a reader.
OCIA.net Forum Grand Re-Opening Giveaway
My friend Shawn Knight is holding a grand re-opening of his OCIA.net forums. They’ve have teamed up with several of their sponsors and put together a prize package worth over $1,300.
Entering is simple. First, you must be a registered member in the OCIA.net Forums. Once registered, hit their front page and sign up the upcoming OCIA.net Newsletter. After that, post a reply to this thread letting them know that you want to be entered and you are all set.
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I thought higher donations this time as you have more readers now compare to last year. Thats great you decided to double up to reader contribution.
I’d like to contribute to this 2:1 donations thing. I just installed the “Buy me a beer” plugin on my blog and I’m testing it. As soon as it’s done, you’re on!
Great - I am in…
done and done! Good luck everyone on those contests and open up your wallets if you’ve made any money from John’s site!
I need to think of a way to make 1 million dollars online.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Go rob a bank?
j/k
I got FiveDollarWiki.com for sale if you want to try to market it a little. I just don’t have time to do all the wikis…
WIKI(s)…. ohhh they are of no use now…… ( Sorry this was my personal opinion) you may have better marketing skills to make it useful.
Check out this article and see if you’d like to try any methods… http://andrewpavelski.com/archives/87
very easy! You can DONATE 500.000$ and than John will pay you
1.000.000$
Don’t do it online. Just do it offline by buying real estate and renting it out for cash flow. In about ten years, you’ll have around $1 million in passive income.
No body suggests such things. They try them themselves and become a millionaire
You can try to sell things online or create a company that sell things.
Thanks for the mention on your blog John. I have donated to the Union Gospel Mission enough for 10 families. I hope others on the blog will do the same!
You are so generous Pat, Yeah all the best for your Social Millionaire mission, John chow train don’t halt on small stations.
This is great, I think you are very right. People are much more generous during the holiday seasons. I think it is very important for us all to remember how blessed we are and give what we can all year long. People are counting on us. Anything helps…and I will be donating for sure! Thanks John ; )
~Mom~
Hey I am broke, can you give me some money?
Anything helps~
Its not hard to make money online though really…just look at John’s ebook and do a couple of services to build up a few dollars and your off
It’s not hard if it’s done right. If you set up a blog and just put ads up all over the place, it won’t work. You have to put something on there that is valuable and that people will come back for.
You really should work hard rather than asking for money lol
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2 for 1 on my donation? Awesome, I’m in….
Very generous of you John! I hope this helps increase donations for sure!
I was interested in seeing how much The Social Millionaire would earn after the review.
The John Chow effect is undeniable. The exposure that one review (whether positive or negative) brings has a lasting effect.
That’s very generous of you John and I hope it brings in a lot of donations for The Union Gospel Mission.
It’s great that the review helped out the Social Millionaire site, it’s also great that he took some of that to “Pay It Forward” to the Union Gospel Mission, as he commented above.
Great job everyone!
~Terry
I wish I could afford a review to get on your train.
I don’t think affording it should be an issue. It’s actually an investment. If you have an online business or a blog, $500 is nothing compared to what that kind of attention will produce in sales. The Social Millionaire made $1000 right away after John’s review. He made back his $500 and made a tidy $500 profit as a result. Great investment.
He’s up to $1500+ already so his investment has given him a 200% profit so far. Not bad if I do say so myself.
~Terry
Thanks for the plug. The contest at Winning the Web is getting huge attention and should be a great success. Everyone check it out - there are tons of prizes - now at $9,191.
Hey Gyutae, I sent you an email, I will sponsor some OneBuckWiki pages. Greatest contest btw, defnitely check it out if you haven’t.
Yes its an interesting contest…i’m unable to offer something to this contest (due to the service i’ve created still being not completely ready for relaunch) but on the next contest I will be able to offer a nice prize
I was definitely interested to see what sort of effect your review had on The Social Millionaire’s website. It definitely paid itself off quickly… The Chow Chow train comes through
It seems like you’ve taken my advice from your other post and you’re giving 200%
-Mike
Unfortunately I just don’t hve the money to donate or get reviewed at the moment.
Count me in. And thanks for the reminder…
I just sponsored 10 people for Easter dinner and sent you the receipt John. Great charity!
Hey John… great stuff.. just did a donation to support too
What if somebody donates $10,000?
Go ahead and donate $10k and let us know what happens.
I don’t think earning money on web is easy.
It most certainly IS easy. It simply takes (1) passion for whatever business or topic you choose, and (2) dedication to it. In time, the money will be made.
Simple Mathematics
If you ‘ll donate 10K he will donate 20K, he has gain plenty of money all these months to do the social cause like this
An earlier post capped the limit to 1K by John, not sure if that is still the case. However, I’m sure UGM would love you if you donated 10K and you should if you can!
Then obviously John is goig to do his 2 for 1 offer
just on a larger scale then the other donations
Then somebody donates 10K to a great cause
Great Stuff John. The Chow Chow train also seems like a good thing. Considering…
Chow Chow Train is a good name for a blog.
Earn on web is very difficult as my opinion….
It’s not that difficult. Like anything else, however, it simply takes time, dedication, effort, and passion. The same ingredients that breed success in any endeavor.
I’ve made a contribution.
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John
What the point of giving away double of money to donors??
Coz you can always donate charity the money you are paying to donors
I need an answer
The double the money is not going to the donor. It is going to the UGM as well. You give $1 to the UGM, I’ll give $2.
Two to one!? Wow. Thanks John.
…it’s time to take out a loan
I guess you might have to quadruple up on your donation to make up for the people who had not donated
Wish I had money to donate.