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Top Affiliate Challenge Contestants Selected

written by John Chow on June 16th, 2008

Congratulations to the following 12 Top Affiliate Challenge contestants. After months of hard work and campaigning, these 12 beat out hundreds of other contestants to make it to the show.

  • Ty Hurd
  • Big Jason Henderson
  • Jonathan Van Clute
  • Devin Hunter
  • Tom “the Furry Hat Guy”
  • Jani Gaffor
  • Jonathan Ryan
  • Carl Zetterlund
  • Chad Van Norman
  • Ronda Del Boccio
  • Collin Lahay
  • Ian Fernando

Now that the contestants have been selected, the fun can really begin. The 12 contestants will be flown to Lincoln, Nebraska at the end of the month to begin their two week challenge to see who will be the Top Affiliate. The contestants will be divided into three teams. Each team will be lead by either myself, Shoemoney or Ken McArthur.

I’m really looking forward to this competition. I’ve reviewed the audition videos of all the contestants and I would be happy to have anyone of them on my team. The first episode of Top Affiliate Challenge will air in the first week of July. Make sure you tune in and cheer for my team!

Other than filming the show and punching a cow, I wonder what else is there to do in Lincoln, Nebraska?

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  1. Looks like Ian Fernando made it in 12th place, congratulations.

  2. Congratulations to Collin Lahay for making it as well. Very informative blog Colln has there.

  3. I’m sure a couple of them were on Joel Comm’s version of the Apprentice on the web last summer.

  4. Hey John, what sort of contest is this. I mean, do you lead a team and try to make the most affiliate sales?

  5. i’m actually looking forward to tipping some cows and eating a lot of creamed corn john! ;) see you soon
    big jason

  6. Congratulations to all the contestants! I’m sure they are all going to learn heaps!

    • Well the idea is for the viewers to learn heaps as well, but there is no doubt in anyones mind that we will all learn a lot.

      Hope you learn something yourself Tom. :-)

  7. Congrats Ian and all the contestants.. Should be a good Competition.. :razz:

  8. CooL! I hope Ian will win, we’ll see… hehe :wink:

  9. I’m a huge fan of The Apprentice, so I’ll have to stay tuned for this exciting contest. Hmm. Lots of interesting stuff going on here!

  10. Tom

    One word… “waverly” it’s about 20 min outside of Lincoln. It will be time well spent :) .

  11. Seriously it’s in Nebraska?

  12. bob

    Thought I would let you know Mr. Chow. Some one is going around trying to pretend hes you. I believe he may be trying to scam people. Hes using the Email “webmaster@johnchow.com”. I have screenies up on a blog http://www.onetweak.com. I would try taking over that email so no one else gets scammed.

  13. Tom

    for the record… Nebraska does have cities, the cows are just between the cities :)

  14. Hi John & company! Jonathan here… looking forward to meeting everyone in Lincoln. I can’t believe it’s coming up so soon, SOOOO much to do before I leave!! Ack!!

    Jonathan

    http://www.ToolTrainer.com
    http://www.LPGen.com

  15. THe only flaw that I see in this challenge is that a lot of the contestants had paid “super votes” to get their rank. I believe that voting should be done fairly, but a person with money could just win the ranks on voting lol

    -Mike

  16. yep. while people were complaining, gaj, jonathan van clute and myself were kicking some serious ass seperating people from $5 and more at a time with marketing. just think if thor had made it posible to enter the amount you wanted to pay or a dropdown of multiples of $5. ;)

  17. Just wanted to say Good Luck to all of the Contestants. I hope you all enjoy yourselves, have fun, nextwork with each other, partnership, and prosper. :wink:

    Yours Truely,
    Juan

  18. Sounds exciting! I’m glad Ty Hurd made it, he’s been working hard to get votes! :P

    • Hey SB - thanks for the support! I’m looking forward to the show TONS, can’t wait to learn from the masters! This is gonna be a wild ride…

  19. Hey this is funny I just found Ian’s site for the first time a couple of nights ago and had a great time looking at his skill. Such a young guy!

    But from what I can tell Collin has a lot of know-how so that’s going to be tough to beat (although I never could get that Hugger thing to work).

    • Thanks Dave, Yeah both of those sites had a few bugs in them, as well as being too optimized for tech-savvy people that I could have lost a lot of potential customers. It was a great learning experience however for my upcoming projects.

  20. Thanks for the post

    Chad Van Norman

  21. Good luck to everyone involved! I will be keeping up to see how the contest goes.

  22. This looks to be a good learning experience for us watchers too.

  23. Good luck everyone, I am sure you will learn loads and have a blast. make sure that you keep us up to date with how it all goes and any secrets anyone can pass on will be much appreciated!

  24. Hi John,

    I’m probably biased on who I’d like to win The Top Affiliate Challenge.

    As I live in London UK my I’m backing Jani (also from the UK :wink: ) who I also know from his online marketing businesses.

    Just my 2 cents.

    let the best man or woman win! :wink:

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