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The $10,000 Blog Post

written by John Chow on June 22, 2008

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

Back in April, I made a blog post about Brian Campbell and his quest to make $10,000 in 37 days from Facebook. I’m still wondering why Brian felt he needed 37 days instead of 30 but that doesn’t matter since he did it in 16 days.

Anyways, Brian felt that my blog post was the catalyst that enable him to make $10,000 from Facebook and because I “paid it forward” by featuring him without expecting anything in return, Brian decided to pay it forward again and give me the $10,000!

Brain Campbell

When Brian emailed me to say he had made the $10K and wanted to give it to me, I was more than a little shocked. I’ve never received $10,000 for making a blog post before. Brian will be flying to Vancouver this week to present me with the check.

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If you wish to meet up with myself and Brian for the check presentation and maybe learn how you too can make $10,000 from Facebook, we’ll be meeting up this Tuesday at Starbucks. Here’s the meet up information:

Date: Tuesday June 24, 2008
Time: 1PM – 2PM
Place: Starbucks inside the Chapters bookstore.
Address: 8171 Ackroyd Road, Richmond BC, V6X 3K1 (Google map).
RSVP Here

I look forward to meeting Brian and some of my local readers. Coffee is on me so please come out. We would love to meet you.

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That shows you right there...if you do something good for someone without asking for return something good will happen to you, and this is a good example.

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That was very nice of him. The followers of his cult still wreak havok on facebook and annoy the holy crap out of me. Basically he used all of them like puppets. Sad part is, majority of them are trying to duplicate what he did. It is obvious guys, you won't succeed at what he did with out the publicity.

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Looks good :) A Post worth $10K hehe :roll:

And one more thing, I must say Brian is so generous.

Wow, that's a nice amount of money even when you did not expect to get it. I think recieving 10000$ like that is much better than recieving 15000$ from Adsense.

Wow! Double WOW!!! This is the best paid review ever :shock: . Brian has been very generous giving you the check. Incredible, I have no words...

Dear John and Sarah,

I was so honored by your graciousness to be your guest at dinner. John, you made the evening extra special with your excellent reviews and explanations as we where served a delightful eight course meal at WEST the finest restaurant in Vancouver.

Again thank you so much for making my stay in Vancouver a most memorable one...!

Please make sure when you are coming to Chicago you let me know. It would be an honor to host your family.

--
Barry Alexander, President
Global Trade Ltd.
Direct Phone: 1(773) 649-6195 ext. 101
Direct Mobile: 1(773) 710-8474
Direct Faxline:1(773) 938-1926

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It's show biz, you give me this, i give you that, buzz talk... But congrats on 10k$ :)

I think it all sounds suspect. The whole thing is plastered over on his facebook page and $10,000 for something he could have paid John $400.00 for an article to get more traffic.

If it is true that he gave $10,000 I am sure he is expecting John to give him more publicity that what he already has given.

Maybe you could post on your blog how he made the 10k so those of us who are not close to you can read how to do it?

Good ploy there. I'm sure it works for your fans and noobs!

Unbelivable!!!! That´s crazy awesome.

That;s interesting, funny how he gives it to you, you already have plenty of money...I asked one of my friends in Vancouver if he would like to meet you, he might but for him it is a bit of a long drive especially with a car uninsured. Forgot to tell him you would buy the coffee, but oh well.
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Man how can you get this money ?

I smell a linkbait coming on....
anyone else smell it?

give it to charity you greedy bastard, all you ever post on this blog is your fine dining and personal crap. :twisted:

Yeah why don't you give it to the charity you make hell lot of money man can't you just giveaway the money to charity :evil:

Please capture the event on your flip .... PLEASE :!: :!: :!:

Brian, I mean.

Biggest. Publicity. Whore. Ever.

I'd like to go to have a look but it takes me few thousand bucks to get there... :neutral:
it's best if u will show it thru youtube... :mrgreen:

Thanks for the great Pay it Forward story! A true inspiration for all!

Hi John,
Brian was the one who turned me onto your blog and I must say I am very impressed. I have been looking at how you structure things to see if I can pick up tips to improve my Blog. I have been closely involved with Brian right from the start and so I guess I need to thank you for helping make Brian successful which in turn has passed down to me. Maybe you are my success grandpa of something like that. I will be checking out your blog regularly in future and hope one day to achieve what you have done. Iwould love to fly over to meet you guys but its a long way from Denmark.

Ian Chapman :wink:

why don't brendan use the same method to earn his MBA fee instead of asking ppl to donate...sichuan and other less fortune people need donation more...

Brian Campbell looks like he's on the can in that video still with his elementary school comb over.

Some of my best thinking is done in the can with bed head :D

Is facebook a money machiner?

Wow...US$10000,depending on my current online earning speed,it will take me hundred years. :shock:

Wow! That is crazy awesome.

Not sure if my http://ww2db.com will ever make so much in 37 days (not even mentioning 16)...

John, if you want to say...what do you plan on doing with the money?

US$ 10.000 is a bit of money. I wonder what you invest all this online income on ! This month will be around 40,000 $. Will it be real-estates? I would do so..

:grin:

Brian, you can write on my blog anytime bud :mrgreen:

That's awesome!
But I do hope the money ends up going to charity or something, that would really take this whole thing to the next level :smile:

why don't you give those $10000 to a charity institution?

The HTML title for this page says: "The ,000 Blog Post"
You might want to change this John!

I think that's a glitch in the All In One SEO plugin.

I have not seen this program, but it sounds like typical too good to be true internet deal. carlton sheets on the internet....

John and other Mac users:

I've just switched to Mac and trying write some posts.

I've noticed that the "Add media" function in Wordpress's editor won't upload properly. It works fine with PC, just it won't upload with Mac.

Any advice how to fix this?

have you tried firefox? firefox should get it done for you. safari just does not work great with wordpress IMO. you might want to also try this plugin for firefox. you might like it: http://www.scribefire.com/

I can't even get JohnChow.com to load in Firefox on my Mac. Don't know what the deal is.

Ditto. I always have to boot into VMWare and run IE to look at this blog. It always hangs on those TTZMedia ads.

Yes I am using Firefox.
After I've selected the file, it does nothing.
Usually it starts "crunching" after I've selected a file on PC.

No problem for me. v2 or v3. Try to upgrade if you haven't. Maybe that would fix it.

We're talking about on your Mac, I assume?

Will get into the program

good post

What don't you, or the guy giving you the money, donate it to a worthy local charity? That'd be impressive.

I'd come up to see you, but unless you were giving me the check...flying from the San Francisco bay area to Vancouver ain't cheap.