John Chow dot Com Online Investment Review - Make Money Online Investing in Businesses
 

Miscellaneous Ramblings – 3/8/2008

written by John Chow on March 8, 2008

How to make $593 in less than one hour

In The Sunday Province

I will be in tomorrow’s edition of the Vancouver Province newspaper. Along with the Vancouver Sun, the Province is the city’s other major newspaper and the Sunday edition is their biggest issue with a readership of over 400,000.

Getting old world media coverage is one of the best way to increase readership and expand your brand. You really can not go “mainstream” without it. I wrote a post on how to get coverage by newspaper and magazines back on November. You should check it out if you haven’t done so.

Matt Mullenweg To Speak At Elite Retreat 2008

Shoemoney has announced that Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Automattic fame will be attending and speaking at this year’s Elite Retreat. In addition, Shoe has an incredible dinner booked for the first night and fully stocked H2 limos take all attendees and speakers around. The Retreat is almost sold out. Better reserve your spot if you want to go.

UberAffiliate Gets a Makeover

Paul over at UberAffiliate went under the Unique Blog Designs knife to get a makeover. I like it! Nice and clean.

Looking At Breast The Same As a 30 Minute Workout?

This video answers the age old question: will looking at women’s breast give you the same results as doing a 30 minute workout? Let’s hope so!

Source: the.[ED]ition

Did you enjoy this post? Get John Chow Dot Com updates via email...

Stay up to date with all of John Chow’s tips for making money online and blog posts by subscribing via email. Your email will be kept private and never shared with anyone.

{ 38 comments }

Ashwin kandoi March 8, 2008 at 11:36 am

Wow, that what I call a work out

Hustle Strategy March 8, 2008 at 11:43 am

Time to change focus as the gym. :twisted:

ViralKing March 8, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Sexual Intercourse for 30 mins would be the same as a 30min workout (I suppose it is a workout),

Looking at a Rack whilst sitting in a chair will never do much

Mayank Rocks March 8, 2008 at 11:51 am

Looking At Breast The Same As a 30 Minute Workout?

this made me laugh loud :mrgreen:

RacerX March 8, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Same here..unfortunately I was taking a drink at the time…soda through the nose!

Jim March 8, 2008 at 11:53 am

Haha, that was a pretty creative video there John. Definitely a well run experiement :cool: I am going to take a look into that post about getting media coverage, it seems like a winning idea ;)

Joe March 8, 2008 at 12:04 pm

The results of the experiment are shocking. :shock:

Make Money Talks March 8, 2008 at 12:06 pm

I like Uberaffiliate new design touch! :wink:

Affiliate Toolbox March 9, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Yeah, I agree. He did a good job there. You should all go buy ad space now.

Hondo March 8, 2008 at 12:48 pm

Congrats on the newspaper coverage, John!

Affiliate Confession March 8, 2008 at 1:10 pm

John is gatting real famous, pretty soon he’ll appear on 20/20 or Dateline and that will send his rss readers past Problogger’s.

Syed Balkhi March 9, 2008 at 1:48 am

i don’t doubt that at all ….

Affiliate Toolbox March 9, 2008 at 11:26 pm

It will be this year – mark my words!
$30k/month from a $%!#ing blog? C’mon.. give the guy a friggin award or *something*.

RacerX March 8, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Congrats on the coverage John…well deserves..as is going over the 20K reader mark!

Blog Badly March 8, 2008 at 1:01 pm

I love Brainiac – thanks for finding that clip!
It doesn’t air on any channels I know of now here…

Affiliate Confession March 8, 2008 at 1:05 pm

It seems like Unique Blog Designs has about 1 design they keep modifying for every new blog they redesign…Yawn…

Syed Balkhi March 9, 2008 at 1:49 am

yeah same footer and everything … not so unique now days … but i would definately like to know which mybloglog plugin they are using that lets them remove the footer credentials … or is it just use of padding to hide the the footer text

Matt March 8, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Automattic is spelt with two t’s.

Richard March 8, 2008 at 1:43 pm

… I think the experiment for “Looking At Breast The Same As a 30 Minute Workout” is a very new idea indeed! Wonder what would they come up with next?.. well, those probably would be rated: 18 and Above Only!

Jake Cohen March 8, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Press is great, I got some a year ago in my local newspaper for one of my previous sites. The video was also very funny, to bad it didn’t work.

http://www.TalkPrice.net

Oliver Morris March 8, 2008 at 3:02 pm

I like uberaffiliates new design. It’s slick and non invasive. Congrats on the newspaper coverage too. I know I still read the paper, seeing articles on internet moguls always catches my attention.

BuxRightNow March 8, 2008 at 3:09 pm

I had the smile of my life reading the title “Looking At Breast The Same As a 30 Minute Workout?”

MR. NICE GUY March 8, 2008 at 3:29 pm

Wow! that must a success story interview John. I would love to read it.

Start Blogging March 8, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Congrats on more additional press for ya!

Tim March 8, 2008 at 4:19 pm

Funny links/videos for a boring saturday night –
TIMOTHY SYKES

Robert March 8, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Unique Blog Designs is an excellent source for blog templates. They work real well with you to design the theme you need for your site and the one that best maximizes what you want to do.

Robert March 8, 2008 at 5:34 pm

I wish working out was that easy.

3magin8 March 8, 2008 at 5:38 pm

I sure wish that I could go to the elite retreat! Hopefully sometime in the not too distant future.
I hear they’re giving away MacBook airs!
http://3magin8.com

Terry Tay March 8, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Congrats on the newspaper coverage John. You’re going to definitely get a bunch of new visitors to the site and it’s well deserved.

That breast workout is too funny and I something I didn’t expect to see here. It gave me a good laugh none the less. Thanks!
~Terry

Syed Balkhi March 9, 2008 at 1:47 am

cool for Matt he would be one of those speakers who will be recieveing a Mac Air .. the thinnest notebook in the world. :evil:

Simon Lau March 9, 2008 at 9:43 am

congrats on getting additional exposure john!
funny video, would be great if it were true

Robert March 9, 2008 at 10:53 am

H2 limos are the bomb.

eMarketing Chat March 10, 2008 at 5:20 am

I might try Unique Blog Designs for my blog in near future, though there are plenty of other talented designers around as well. It’s just matter of finding the right designer with lots of blog, web 2.0, etc. experience.

natespost March 10, 2008 at 7:26 am

the trick woul dbe to wait until you have enough traffic that a designer would do it for free just to have his/her link at the bottom.

watercarving March 11, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Who here uses Unique Blog Designs?

Chip March 13, 2008 at 1:07 am

No way! I’ll never do this. I’d rather look at women’s breasts for hours (only my wife’s actually :oops: ), than working out. In fact, she always gives me the working out I need.

Affiliate Confession March 8, 2008 at 6:11 pm

I hope UberAfffiliate didn’t spend $750 or more on it.

Syed Balkhi March 9, 2008 at 1:51 am

yeah i hope so too … i think my portfolio at Uzzz is more unique then their recent ones.