UberAffiliate Reveals PPC Secrets

written by John Chow on April 1st, 2008

Paul Bourque of UberAffiliate has started a new site and ordered up a review so I can tell you all about it. While it was nice of Paul to order the review, he really didn’t have to do it. The new site is so good, I would have wrote it about whether he sent the review request or not.

Free PPC Secrets

Paul’s new site is call Free PPC Secrets and it is going to piss off A LOT of people in the industry. You see, the affiliate marketing industry is by its very nature a secret society. An affiliate who is making money is never going to tell you what offers or keywords he is running because he doesn’t want competition. It’s because of this that all affiliate marketing blogs are filled with just general information with no real world examples. That is, until now.

With Free PPC Secrets, not only is the UberAffiliate revealing for the first time, all his money making affiliate offers, Paul is also showing what keywords he is using to generate over $200,000 a month affiliate income! It’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen! I told Paul I think he is crazy to show this much information on the site for free. Then again, Paul did hinted that he would be doing such a site in this Tracking202 interview during the Affiliate Summit.

I recommend you head on over to Free PPC Secrets and copy and paste every posts to your desktop because my feeling is Paul will realize what a dumb ass move it was to reveal all his secrets and will remove the site.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some Google AdWords campaigns to buy!

logosamurai said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:10 am

Should´ve thought about this! -______________-
Happy April Fool´s Day, John! & Everybody!!!!!!!!!!! hehehehe

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MR. NICE GUY said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:53 am

Great post John. Yes, Paul could be so crazy about this revelation but I think the top most secret is still kept in the gold box. :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz: :razz:

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Terra Andersen said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am

I almost never click on the links too! ahhh!

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Best joke of the day!

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Blogglebox said on April 1st, 2008 at 1:38 pm

Thanks for sharing that link. Wow, I already made enough money to buy you Chinese food. We can take pictures of it and post them on your website.

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louie said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:08 pm

This is an amazing site!!!

I just signed up and I made over 2k in just hours today!

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Dave from Welcome Back Rosenthal said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:15 am

Now that’s what I’m talking about! Finally some nuts and bolts real world info. I spent a good deal of this year combing the web to try and see how this “making money” thing worked. And after reading thousands of web pages I was able to boil some of that down to 5-8 core elements.

But what I ALSO learned was that there were a giant number of cloudy, vague, hinting allusions to what is effective. With everybody promising if you buy their secrets to success all will be revealed! And that’s why I respect John so much, he put it out there for free and it’s valid. So Free PPC’s attitude and strategy sound good to me.

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The Little League Coach said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:19 am

I was asked by SmartMoney Magazine last week “if everyone is playing travel all, then doesn’t the talent level come down and make travel ball less attractive”?

This kind of applies here doesn’t it? If we saturate all the great keywords, are they really still great or have we just priced each other out of the game?

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Tyson Williams said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:29 am
Dom said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:30 am

Taking over people’s browsers isn’t even remotely funny. Time to hit the ‘unsubscribe’ button I think.

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Joseph said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:28 am

I agree, that’s bull crap.

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whatever said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:31 am

yeah, that was my very first reaction.

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Michael said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:52 am

How Lame, Unsubscibed….

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Nick said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:38 pm

LOL you guys make me laugh even more.

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Too Much Vodka said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Kinda funny. So many people saying they’ll unsubscribe but his RSS feed reader count goes up :twisted:

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Goat said on April 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm

yea thats sure so damn funny…hahahahah i love it when people say that!

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Adam Burton said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:32 am

John, you’ve been made the subject of an April fools joke,
http://www.upstartblogger.com/pro-blogger-exposed-as-google-android

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Jay Francis Hunter said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:38 am
dean said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:40 am

I agree, when using firefox I have multiple tabs open, have to forefully close down firefox just looses me work.
what the point?

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Michael Kwan said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:31 am

“Never gonna give you up….”

You don’t have to forcefully close Firefox. If you go to the tab with the Rick Astley video, you can click on the button for closing the tab. It’ll pop up a series of dialog windows and just “OK” through them all.

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James Pong said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:45 am

I agree with Dom, it’s not hilarious at all. This will only encourage people to unsubscribe your feed.

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Blogging Experiment said on April 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 am

It’s called a sense of humor… go buy one! :roll:

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joshuaun said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:57 am

Secret???Oh….I like secret very much!especially,googls’s secret=)

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joshuaun said on April 1st, 2008 at 6:59 am

Secret?Oh my………I really like secret……especially,google’s secret=) :twisted:

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Steve McGrath said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:04 am

Funny for the first popup :twisted: but then taking over the browser in plain stupid. :mad:

People may be entering data on one site and may lose it because they think they are in loop and must close it a la “control alt delete”

Jonn: Just change it for one popup

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Affiliate Confession said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:10 am
Make Money Talks said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:11 am

Buzz my april page :)

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Allison said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:11 am

That sucked so bad. I lost valuable work in another tab. You are such a damn jerk. I’d say I’d unsubscribe but I did that ages ago because you are so full of yourself. Why am I here then, you ask? Because I’m an idiot, that’s why. Have fun making more enemies today, asshole.

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NextInstinct said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:13 am

Grow Up You retard. Do you not realize how you’re perceived?

Yeah, I know the attitude of the week ” I don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks”

You have no idea what you just cost yourself.
Now, go ask mommy to change your diaper.

Oh, and why am I so pissed? Because you just caused a 12 year old to lose a month’s worth of science report.
I hope you get crabs again.

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Blogging Experiment said on April 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 am

You really should be pissed at yourself. All you had to do was click through the lyrics and it closed… :lol: :lol: Besides, why the hell wouldn’t you have saved over the course of a month?

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Not John Chow said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:15 am

I thought your were dead! I read just today that you were run over by a Panda! –> http://www.notjohnchow.com/john-chow-killed-by-panda/

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Big Cajun Man said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:17 am

EVIL!!!! EVIL!

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Web Goodies 411 said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:18 am

:lol: Hilarious! Loved it! I see some are upset that you took over their browsers but that was the funniest part. :lol: Your great!

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NextInstinct said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:19 am

Wow, you nuked my comment? What a coward.

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Paul said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:30 am

Thats not funny. Im pissed!

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Joseph said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:33 am

You know that was just stupid, I am so pissed off right now I don’t even want to visit this blog for a while now. First with the shitty video and now this pop up thing. What’s going on with this blog.

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Paul said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:36 am

lol you guys are dumb, just let the song playout and it stops jumping around. Sheesh.

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SEO Optimization said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:55 am

We are dumb? Sheesh and I thought who wasted time to make such thing was dumb, okey then I apologize in that case…not.

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Chris Jacobson said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:44 am

Hey John, go f*ck yourself. You just caused me to lose my work in one of my other tabs by crashing my browser. Not cool man.

The Coca Cola April Fools was funny, but this was just crap. Time to unsubscribe as said above.

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SEO Optimization said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am

Have to agree with Chris, this was pretty dumb. Okey my firefox didn’t crashed but I hate seeing the browser dancing over my screen and clicking on 100’s of OK messages. It is pretty much childish from whoever made this site, and it was pretty distasteful joke from your side not letting us know what actually is going to happen.

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Blogging Experiment said on April 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 am

Lighten up! There’s a reason people call it April Fools! :lol: :lol:

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Tyler Ingram said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:01 am

Ugh I was like WTF? ctrl-alt-del close FF down. It is pretty shitty to manipulate people’s browsers especially those who are working on other tabs. At least he didn’t run the hamster dance and then every time you close the window, a new one pops up.

Or have it pop up the animated gif that says you’re looking at gay porn with cranking your volume up to max….

It could of been worse :)

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Tyler Ingram said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:04 am

Though how many people are going to be a bit more reluctant to click links on here now ;)

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JGirl4You said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:05 am

damn I got RICK ROLLED :(

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crash said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:06 am

Disable Javascript so you can close the browser window. If you get stuck in the loop with the little javascript pop ups, press and hold escape a bunch of times.

Jokes are funny, but not when it holds your browser hostage and potentially causes a memory leak or crash.

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Jon said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:11 am

Will he tell us the really secrets of PPC?? I am not sure :neutral:

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Alex Le said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:17 am

Freaking onbeforeunload shit. I have to modify the freaking page using Firebug to be able to exit out the page.

You really DID piss me off for a moment. This is how a joke turns bad and get extremely annoying.

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Chris De La Rosa said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am

Chow, HYMC!!

See if you can unlock that.

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coolguy said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:22 am

Yea thats hilarious. Except when your browser crashes and you lose a campaign of 2000 keywords you just hand generated.
then its not funny any more. But I guess you don’t really have any campaigns john, and almost all your blog posts are the same shit on a different day so I guess you just wouldn’t understand.

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PT said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:42 am

…wow, tell him how you really feel! :lol:

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Chris Jacobson said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:34 am

John deleted my comment calling him out about how pissed I was that I lost my work because of that. He truly is evil! lol :twisted:

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John Chow said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:20 am

I didn’t delete your comment. For some reason, it was held for moderation. It’s there now.

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Chris Jacobson said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Yay for free speech! :mrgreen:

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will said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:36 am

Yeah, another unsubscribe. The joke is tired.

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Joseph said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am

It was just not funny that’s all.

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PT said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am

Dang, John. I thought you were better than this. I’d expect this from a teenager (hint,hint), but c’mon bro! I feel bad for people who opened this at work! This was funny like 3 or 4 years ago…

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Ruck said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:48 am

I smelled bullshit the moment I saw the title. Glad I seen the comments first.

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Goat said on April 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm

hahaha yea me too smelled BEEshit when i saw the title and then i was like check out the comments first! hahahahaha good joke cos many people are so damn pissed…if that happens to me my computer will just crash! Then i go to the cafe or get ready to buy a new better computer! hahahahaha :D

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Blogging Experiment said on April 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 am

Hey congrats, now go learn to speak English properly! Saying “I seen” makes you sound like a barely literate hick.

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Gordon said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:53 am

Doesn’t anyone realize that all this “Affiliate Marketing” is just spam.. who in their right mind DOESNT use an ad blocker to block ads? I don’t get it.. affiliate marketing and SEO ruins search engine results….

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InvestorBlogger said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:01 am

Well, I’m glad I didn’t click any links there… John… care to respond? :?:

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InvestorBlogger said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:07 am

Wow! That is bad… I should say ‘really bad!’

Fortunately, I tried it in my standalone browser after I read the comments. It is annoying.

Kenneth

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Aj said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:10 am

Yeah he does have some pretty good secrets revealed there, but not as good as http://www.makemoniesonline.com where there are actual case studies provided for anyone wanting to start in ppc and IM.

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samyeap said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am

Very annoying! :mad:
I didn’t expect this at all…gosh

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Eric said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:27 am

so wrong… :twisted:

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Matthew Blancarte said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:42 am

That was awesome LOL. Old school h4x pwned everyone, including myself. :cool:

I love how many people are genuinely offended on this thread… I came here LOOKING for the april fools post! :roll: I’m triple subscribing.

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eathan said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:42 am

:shock: I knew better!

Nicely done!

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Stephan Miller said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:44 am

Ok, I understand April Fool’s. But that was akin to spyware. Not cool. Flock crashed or I clicked something chasing it and lost my work. Crap. That sucks.
Another April Fool’s joke that would fit: My car blows up in the parking lot from a pipe bomb. I go out. Yes, it is my real car.

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Keith Lock said on April 1st, 2008 at 9:51 am

Annoying, not funny…unsubscribed…peace

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Ruthie said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am

You mother effer!! LOL

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Julien Brault said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:10 am

I also unsuscribed… I lost all my Firefox windows and was stock in this not at all funny prank…

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Ruthie said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:17 am

oh yeah, i’m unsubscribing too btw, fortunately didn’t lose anything, but, this was totally wrong. I’m sick of trying to involve myself with all of you conceited money hungry, attention seeking whores!! I’m going back to my little happy mommy blogging world, c ya, I’m out!!!

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Deelip K said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:27 am

F**k man.
I lost something important.
I’m not gonna unsubscribe but that was not cool man. That was more than just a april fool joke, I’m sure I’m not the only one who lost some works.

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Gabriel said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:34 am

I can’t seems to enter the page: http://www.freeppcsecrects.com
has been shutdown already?

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Alex said on April 1st, 2008 at 10:46 am

It’s a fucking joke people, lighten up. You should have known better anyway. :roll:

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Mixed Drink World said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:05 am

That is crap, here i am thinking… cool some real reading material for lunch and I click the link and I have stop the process on IE because i dont know if this site has been hacked or if this is a April fools think. Either way that sucks. Funny is on thing but this is to far.

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Stephane Grenier said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:23 am

I have to admit that was annoying. Working in FF with multiple tabs I had to forcefully close down my browser and lost some of my work. If it wasn’t for that it would be funny, but losing work is not pleasant…

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Affiliate Confession said on April 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pm

Luckily I didn’t lose any work, but it was a big pain. Ho-hum, I’m over it now though. I just wonder how it will affect John’s advertising clickthroughs. I imagine a few people won’t be buying reviews for awhile because of this stunt.

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Tommy said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:24 am

sO FAR, This takes the crown
Kudos

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team ray said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am

i had no greed so i didnt click link :razz:

so no april fools here

200000 a month that should have been a dead give away imho

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Peter said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:36 am

Any site that attacks me with a bunch of JavaScript messages isn’t worthy of being on my NoScript whitelist.
/Forbid johnchow.com
Bye bye, you won’t be seeing me again. Not that I’m losing much, this blog is nothing but ads lately anyway.

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Xyz said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:54 am

Either go poke your eyes out, or give me my lost work back! asshole.

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bk said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Funny
Everyone else is just jelous

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Bandile said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:31 pm

You’ve just lost a reader. What a stupid post.

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JGirl4You said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pm

you guys are overreacting…

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Alex said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:55 pm

When it comes to time invested in work, I think everyone has the right to overreact. A joke is a joke until it costs me. Fortunately I didn’t lose anything.

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Nick said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Note: To all those who are unsubscribing, it will no longer be necessary to let me, John Chow, or half the others know because we don’t care. :wink:

P.S. http://nicklarson.com/images/roflcopter.gif

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Shawn Knight said on April 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm

For the people that are complaining… if you lost so much previous work, why are you in another tab, surfing a blog? That isn’t work!

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Steve McGrath said on April 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Some might wanted to take a small break for one minute.

And no, I did not lost work. Like I said, one popup would had been okay and funny.

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ALN said on April 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pm

That’s a good point.

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raluca said on April 1st, 2008 at 1:17 pm

not funny! I lost $356,443 dolars in a company transaction because your joke! how can I recover now all those money????!!!!??? :mad:
PS: it is just a joke. i don’t lose money :grin:
anyway is not a good joke, I mean your joke.

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Carl - Thatblogsite.com said on April 1st, 2008 at 1:18 pm

Thanks for interrupting my music John. :roll:

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Internetsalsa said on April 1st, 2008 at 1:24 pm

isn’t it like spamming?

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Wade said on April 1st, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Seems cool, I doubt he reveals his most treasured secrets, but any more insight than the general info we get is great. Looks like I will be beefing up my affiliate programs.

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Jacob Bager said on April 1st, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Hrmm isn’t it the 1th of April :razz:

Somebody sieged the moment

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Rebecca - ExpressCliawaived.com said on April 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Annoying, true….
But damn great tune…..

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Mike said on April 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm

That was the final straw. First that stupid “shitty” viral video, and now this. You’ve lost one loyal reader.

To borrow a line “we are all now dumber for having come to this site”

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ALN said on April 1st, 2008 at 2:48 pm

All joking aside, I’ve been reading your e-book and I found it very informative. I been writing for some time now and have just recently decided to start blogging for the purpose of informing people and finding out whats on everybodys mind. I have not had many readers yet, but at the same time I’ve done very little to get my page out there, because I’m not sure if I’m writing according to a traditional blog. If you could check out my page and point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. Again, thanks for the info, keep doin what your doin.

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Teasas Tips said on April 1st, 2008 at 2:50 pm

I’m not only unsubscribing, but pissed off and writing a post about it.

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David said on April 1st, 2008 at 3:48 pm

apparently you get pissed off way to easily… sucks to be you…

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james said on April 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm

John are you going to post you March earnings? I bet its going to be lower than last month.

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John Chow said on April 1st, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Yes, I will be posting my March earnings tomorrow.

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do1t said on April 1st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Baton Rouge Information said on April 1st, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Wow. Why the heck did he reveal that much? Hmmm… Thanks for the tips. I can use a few of these.

:grin:

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Hannah said on April 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm

It’s comments like these that go to show just how many people tell you they read the post, and, well, didn’t!

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Alex said on April 1st, 2008 at 8:12 pm

I guess some people don’t understand when somebody is joking.

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Greenman said on April 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Bad publicity is still good publicity…right. Still made me mad.
:mrgreen:

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Living Off Dividends & Passive Income said on April 1st, 2008 at 3:51 pm

that was pretty stupid.

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