Well, it looks like you’re stuck with me after all. My deal to sell TTZ Media fell through. It turns out that company in Toronto wasn’t as rich as I thought. Their check bounced. Oh well. I didn’t really want to travel around the world anyway.
I guess I should round up all the numbers and post my March blog income results. I bet you’re wondering if I beat last month’s $7,011.05 figure. You’ll find out in a few hours.
Happy April Fool’s day everyone!
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I could have bought that since I’m Israeli and we don’t have this April’s fool tradition. I was actually about to go ordering Google’s new broadband technology.
Fabulous!
I bet it was one of those giant novelty cheques
April Fool jokes work better on those who don’t know about it
I’ve been preparing for it for the last 10 days. No one fooled me, haha
Well, not many people do not know about April Fool’s though.
It’s a matter of whether you realize it.
Hahaahahah nice one alex!
Hey John, I’m never visiting your blog again…
You think that’s an April Fools?
I was fooled by this and unsubscribe from john.. too bad
I am sure it is an april fools
You evil sonuvab…………….
Yeah, he completely had me until I started reading the comments.
And to think I was looking forward to more posts from Michael and Mitch!
They have blogs too. Who’s coming with me? Guys? Hello? Hey, I was just kidding!
I’m sure you will see more posts from Michael and Mitch
Me too.. I was fooled but upon reading the comments.. hahahahah I just laughed, I was fooled 2 times by google and john
Good joke, evil John…
You only fooled me for a minute
YEA! me too john!
evil you! hahahaha 
Just wanted to drop by and say great blog John! I hope those figures come in high for your this month!
actually i was stunned to see the number of people who believed this without even a second thought.
Yeah, a lot of naive people fell for it
gosh
What?
Yeah, it was pretty obvious that it was a joke
I knew it before it appeared in my browser.. too obvious
hehe…i knew it…happy april fools day
It’s all about timing. At 12:01 it is obvious.
The guy dragging cans behind his car at 3:00 in the afternoon had no expectation.
Anyway John, I think we are all glad you’re still here with your advice for others.
Glad to see we all will get our daily dish of of the Mr Evil John Chow. Great joke.
and his miscellaneous ramblings!
Hey John,
Excellent joke. I am a new reader to your blog and will be back. Looking for ideas to build my own blog and make cash just like you. Any ideas?
Spencer
http://www.yourperfectlife.com
You had me for a bit.
Hey John,
Great joke. I am looking forward to learning from your and your awesome blog!
Spencer
http://www.yourperfectlife.com
How do we know you aren’t fooling us now?
Two April Fools jokes in a row are to much even for an evil guy like John…
we don’t know… john is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo evil!
Good question…
Didn’t believe it for a second … but then I’m cynical
Good stuff heheh
Hehe, was wondering whether you would admit it or not
Haha. Good one. I bet you broke the $10k mark.
Yeah I’m pretty sure he did break the 10k mark. I have been waiting since last week for April 1st to find out. Oh the agony!
I’d say it’s a little less than 10k
Update: I was right – $8,500
It’ll be a few more months before he hits 10k I’m sure.
Ahh – more evil link baiting. Let us know how your traffic spiked for this post.
Todd
It was close enough to be believable except for your evil reputation.
good one
http://www.johnchow.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif
Chow you crazy maniac!
Happy April Fool’s too, John. Part of me WANTED it to be true (I had one company back in the Dot Bomb days that was almost bought out. I also almost sold my friend’s music media site to a conglomerate for $1M in stock but that fell through.)
Good joke! I think you caught out quite a number of us for at least a few minutes there
April Fools or not, that post probably got a TON of trackbacks
A couple of forums even featured threads about it hehehehe 
Yep, especially evil, exploiting a deeply meaningful holiday for his own purposes
Deeply meaningful? I beg to differ
Damn it, does that mean the cheque you sent me for $50,000 for guest posting wont clear?!!!
I’ll give you $70,000 to post in mine!!
MAybe that’s just part of his trick!! hhahaha
Hey John, I gess this mont you got to 12,000
he’s got 8k!!!
$8,5
I can barely wait
Good try
I almost believed it too … then it occurred to me, “Wait a minute, this is John Chow. If he took off for around the world, there’s no way he’d give up the spotlight. He’d probably hire a camera crew to create his own reality show.”
It was one of those splendid a-ha moments.
=^..^=
It was too unbelievable. As soon as I read he had sold it, I realized it was a joke.
as long as I have seen the word “premanent” I said that a-ha!
Well, after these posts by Shoemoney and John Chow we might as well start celebrating April Fool’s Day on March 31st…
yea! shoemoney sold his blog to a foundation.. what a joke!
Great joke! In Spain fool day is December 28th.
I’ll keep that in mind, right between Xmas and NY..
Interesting…..VERY interesting….lol.
Happy April Fools!
lol.. ouch. Actually, when I saw that entry, it’s already 2nd of April here. Oh well…
Blame the timezone
Timezone is really messing things up
Hahahaha.. go to philippines! it’s great! +8 timezone LOL
Actually, I really wanted to get that one deal done for you. I am sorry it did not work out well. Your blog was OK. It was good while it lasted , right?
haaa! Good one.
Congrats on the sale John!
john is soo mean!
haha… so
Happy April Fools to you John
Could’ve smelled this April Fools a mile away
haha
TTz Media… phenomenon
Very funny! Glad you didn’t actually leave us.
You silly pranksters!! You’ll never get me, though.
- S
but he gets me~!
I would be quite surprised if you hadn’t posted an April Fools joke..
All I can say is hahaha for now!
great joke- while I do hope you realize your dreams-and I have only digested 3% of the things I am learning from you-i am selfishly glad its not yet.
And by the way- I am Julie N Adams-nice to meet you.
Your quoted liberally down here in sunny florida, even my elderly parents know all about your blog.You have opened my eyes to the possibility of being successful. I can DO this!! Thankyou for the inspirations.
In a way I’m glad it fell through because of the resources that are on this site. but I’m sorry that you lost it
I still can’t get over it — I was this close to getting beached on Gullible’s Island LOL.
That was very evil
When I saw this post last week, I told my girlfriend about it, and her response was “Mike, it’s April Fools”. She’s a reader also.
blabEditor
Sorry to hear that, well congrats on the 7k a month
I was happy for you. Who doesn’t want to make so much money that you don’t have to work anymore.
nice 7k for a month, and nice april fools joke lol
I would like to set people on fire too..
Actually I did that once.. It didn’t turn out to be a good idea
Yea people burn kinda quickly eh?
Faster than wood
haahahaahha