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The Deal Fell Through

written by John Chow on April 1, 2007

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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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Daniel April 1, 2007 at 3:05 pm

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. :oops:

Church of Jacin April 1, 2007 at 3:09 pm

Fabulous!

Dave April 2, 2007 at 8:28 am

I bet it was one of those giant novelty cheques :)

Alex April 1, 2007 at 3:10 pm

April Fool jokes work better on those who don’t know about it :twisted:

Alex April 1, 2007 at 6:46 pm

I’ve been preparing for it for the last 10 days. No one fooled me, haha :twisted:

lyndonmaxewell April 2, 2007 at 12:08 am

Well, not many people do not know about April Fool’s though. :D It’s a matter of whether you realize it.

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:22 am

Hahaahahah nice one alex!

Stuart Hannig April 1, 2007 at 9:16 pm

Hey John, I’m never visiting your blog again…

You think that’s an April Fools?

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:24 am

I was fooled by this and unsubscribe from john.. too bad

Dave April 2, 2007 at 8:28 am

I am sure it is an april fools :D

derrich April 1, 2007 at 3:10 pm

You evil sonuvab……………. :evil: :lol:

Marc April 1, 2007 at 5:29 pm

Yeah, he completely had me until I started reading the comments.

My New Choice April 1, 2007 at 9:37 pm

And to think I was looking forward to more posts from Michael and Mitch! :lol:

derrich April 2, 2007 at 8:29 am

They have blogs too. Who’s coming with me? Guys? Hello? Hey, I was just kidding!

Dave April 2, 2007 at 8:31 am

I’m sure you will see more posts from Michael and Mitch :)

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:25 am

Me too.. I was fooled but upon reading the comments.. hahahahah I just laughed, I was fooled 2 times by google and john

Daniele Salatti April 1, 2007 at 3:14 pm

:mrgreen:
Good joke, evil John… :lol:

Stephanie April 1, 2007 at 3:19 pm

You only fooled me for a minute :wink:

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:26 am

YEA! me too john! :evil: evil you! hahahaha :twisted:

John April 1, 2007 at 3:20 pm

Just wanted to drop by and say great blog John! I hope those figures come in high for your this month! :grin:

OhCash April 1, 2007 at 3:21 pm

actually i was stunned to see the number of people who believed this without even a second thought. :???:

Alex April 1, 2007 at 6:21 pm

Yeah, a lot of naive people fell for it :mrgreen:

derrich April 1, 2007 at 7:09 pm

:shock:

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:27 am

gosh

Alex April 2, 2007 at 6:03 am

What? :neutral:

Dave April 2, 2007 at 8:33 am

Yeah, it was pretty obvious that it was a joke :)

Alex April 2, 2007 at 8:51 am

I knew it before it appeared in my browser.. too obvious :!:

Submit2SearchEngine April 1, 2007 at 3:28 pm

hehe…i knew it…happy april fools day :razz:

James April 1, 2007 at 3:38 pm

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. :mrgreen:

Anyway John, I think we are all glad you’re still here with your advice for others.

StormVideographer April 1, 2007 at 3:41 pm

Glad to see we all will get our daily dish of of the Mr Evil John Chow. Great joke.

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:28 am

and his miscellaneous ramblings!

Spencer April 1, 2007 at 3:42 pm

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

mubin April 1, 2007 at 3:44 pm

You had me for a bit.

Spencer April 1, 2007 at 3:45 pm

Hey John,

Great joke. I am looking forward to learning from your and your awesome blog!

Spencer
http://www.yourperfectlife.com

Jeremy Steele April 1, 2007 at 3:46 pm

How do we know you aren’t fooling us now?

Alex April 1, 2007 at 6:49 pm

Two April Fools jokes in a row are to much even for an evil guy like John…

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:29 am

we don’t know… john is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo evil! :twisted:

Daniele Salatti April 2, 2007 at 2:36 pm

Good question… :???:

The Man of Silver April 1, 2007 at 3:46 pm

Didn’t believe it for a second … but then I’m cynical :wink:

Shawn Knight April 1, 2007 at 3:46 pm

Good stuff heheh

Chris M April 1, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Hehe, was wondering whether you would admit it or not ;)

TJP April 1, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Haha. Good one. I bet you broke the $10k mark.

StormVideographer April 1, 2007 at 3:56 pm

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! :cry:

Alex April 1, 2007 at 7:35 pm

I’d say it’s a little less than 10k :twisted:

Alex April 2, 2007 at 2:18 am

Update: I was right – $8,500

Dave April 2, 2007 at 8:35 am

It’ll be a few more months before he hits 10k I’m sure.

Todd April 1, 2007 at 3:54 pm

Ahh – more evil link baiting. Let us know how your traffic spiked for this post.

Todd

Peter April 1, 2007 at 4:01 pm

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
:mrgreen:

Nate W. April 1, 2007 at 4:06 pm

Chow you crazy maniac! :D

Webmaster Labor April 1, 2007 at 4:14 pm

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.)

Chris Hope April 1, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Good joke! I think you caught out quite a number of us for at least a few minutes there :)

Webmaster Labor April 1, 2007 at 4:17 pm

April Fools or not, that post probably got a TON of trackbacks :) A couple of forums even featured threads about it hehehehe :twisted: :mrgreen:

Marc April 1, 2007 at 5:26 pm

Yep, especially evil, exploiting a deeply meaningful holiday for his own purposes :twisted:

Dave April 1, 2007 at 9:02 pm

Deeply meaningful? I beg to differ :o

Mitchell Harper April 1, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Damn it, does that mean the cheque you sent me for $50,000 for guest posting wont clear?!!! :lol:

Alex April 1, 2007 at 6:28 pm

I’ll give you $70,000 to post in mine!!

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:30 am

MAybe that’s just part of his trick!! hhahaha

golgi April 1, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Hey John, I gess this mont you got to 12,000

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:31 am

he’s got 8k!!!

Alex April 2, 2007 at 2:34 am

$8,5

Tim Ukaj April 1, 2007 at 5:22 pm

I can barely wait :mrgreen:

Juan Francisco Diez April 1, 2007 at 5:29 pm

Good try :mrgreen:

Jennifer Lynn April 1, 2007 at 5:59 pm

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.

=^..^=

Dave April 1, 2007 at 9:03 pm

It was too unbelievable. As soon as I read he had sold it, I realized it was a joke.

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:32 am

as long as I have seen the word “premanent” I said that a-ha!

Ronaldo April 1, 2007 at 6:23 pm

Well, after these posts by Shoemoney and John Chow we might as well start celebrating April Fool’s Day on March 31st… :smile:

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:35 am

yea! shoemoney sold his blog to a foundation.. what a joke!

Jorge April 1, 2007 at 6:26 pm

Great joke! In Spain fool day is December 28th.

Alex April 1, 2007 at 7:41 pm

I’ll keep that in mind, right between Xmas and NY..

Sean April 1, 2007 at 6:26 pm

Interesting…..VERY interesting….lol.

Happy April Fools!

Miriguy April 1, 2007 at 6:38 pm

lol.. ouch. Actually, when I saw that entry, it’s already 2nd of April here. Oh well…
Blame the timezone :evil:

Alex April 1, 2007 at 7:32 pm

Timezone is really messing things up :neutral:

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:39 am

Hahahaha.. go to philippines! it’s great! +8 timezone LOL

Sonia April 1, 2007 at 8:05 pm

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?

Fervor Singles April 1, 2007 at 8:21 pm

haaa! Good one.

Congrats on the sale John!

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:41 am

john is soo mean! :evil:

Mosley April 1, 2007 at 8:27 pm

haha… so :evil:

Dave April 1, 2007 at 9:05 pm

Happy April Fools to you John :)

Stuart Hannig April 1, 2007 at 9:14 pm

Could’ve smelled this April Fools a mile away

Piggy April 1, 2007 at 9:19 pm

haha :P

Jauhari April 1, 2007 at 10:05 pm

TTz Media… phenomenon :D

dc April 1, 2007 at 10:27 pm

Very funny! Glad you didn’t actually leave us.

Scot April 2, 2007 at 12:38 am

You silly pranksters!! You’ll never get me, though.

- S

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:44 am

but he gets me~!

Alex April 2, 2007 at 2:20 am

I would be quite surprised if you hadn’t posted an April Fools joke..

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:42 am

All I can say is hahaha for now!

keytruekong April 2, 2007 at 9:30 am

:shock: John you are so evil on April Fool’s Day. :lol:

glitter April 2, 2007 at 9:35 pm

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

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.

Amanda April 3, 2007 at 6:40 am

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 :(

Article Checker April 4, 2007 at 8:45 am

I still can’t get over it — I was this close to getting beached on Gullible’s Island LOL.

TeamTutorials April 11, 2007 at 9:51 am

That was very evil

blabWire April 13, 2007 at 8:42 am

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

Mr. Red April 14, 2007 at 3:00 am

Sorry to hear that, well congrats on the 7k a month

Paul. April 20, 2007 at 4:29 pm

I was happy for you. Who doesn’t want to make so much money that you don’t have to work anymore.

Russell Wagner April 21, 2007 at 12:53 pm

nice 7k for a month, and nice april fools joke lol

Alex April 1, 2007 at 6:25 pm

I would like to set people on fire too.. :twisted:

Alex April 1, 2007 at 6:26 pm

Actually I did that once.. It didn’t turn out to be a good idea :sad:

Tyler April 1, 2007 at 6:34 pm

Yea people burn kinda quickly eh?

Alex April 2, 2007 at 2:19 am

Faster than wood :twisted:

KidBlogger April 2, 2007 at 2:31 am

haahahaahha