Why Pay Per Post When You Can Beg
written by John Chow
Let’s face it, many sites and blog would love to get reviewed by John Chow dot Com. However, not all can afford the $300 price tag. This is where Beg For Post comes in. Instead of paying for a post, you get down on your knees and beg for it.
You’ve worked for months building a startup on a boostrap budget and the launch is near. How will you get an initial influx of traffic to propel your product/service into viral bliss? Don’t pay off bloggers to promote your startup, beg! Getting started is quick and easy. Fill out the form below, sit back, and wait for Internet stardom. You’re almost there!
- Completely free
- No chicken hats
- No conflicts of interest
- No annoying reality show
- No direct deployments to production
- No premature acquisition announcements
The first beg that was addressed to me came from Scott Dawson of Mac Support. Scott writes:
Now that your site is so popular I don’t have enough money to order a ReviewMe review from your blog.
How about doing the review for free and any revenue I make that day I will give it to you or a charity of your choice?
Very nice Scott. However, you need to work on that begging skills. I expected much better begging from an Apple user. I figure you guys are used to begging for everything. 
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Looks interesting at least. Will check it out!
Looks VERY interesting. The guy who have the idea is a genious and a bit of a joker. But this idea is really good.
John, one warning, the MyAvatars plugin is given an error, images of the avatars are not showing.
It’s interesting, but it’s bound to fail.. No one’s gonna give free things for nothing!
Hmmm…lyndonmaxewell, i doubt a bit of that. People in this world are very strange. Sometimes you get suprised.
Only time will say.
Made me laugh at least!
By the way, could anyone spare a dollar?
Thanks,
Wesley…
http://DVDRentalForums.com
Personally I think this will open a market for exchanges of services.
Say someone sends me a request for a free review, I might want to do it for free, but only if they link to me, or provide me with something else, like write an article for my blog.
That’s actually a good point DanyO. While I suspect the beg per post idea is funny, but doomed to utter failure, an exchange could be viable.
He does have a sense of humor
Yeah I’m checking it too
we gonna try
thanks
We gonna try also
*wink
Let us all know how it works out.
But I like chicken hats…
What is chicken hats?
It’s what they give to the programmer who’s made a really bade mistake. Also shows p on their 500 code page.
Probaremos a ver que tal
uhh, one muchacho, bien venido siñor
Hola!
That’s pretty funny. Wonder how long they’re going to stay online before PPP hits them with a C/D.
Yeah, probably not too long
Hopefully PPP has a sense of humor about this, nowdays it seems all problems on the internet are resolved by CD letters or lawsuits…
They’ve had so much bad press that I doubt they want to try and strong-arm anyone who’s playing a gag like this. If they started making money off it somehow then I can see them wanting to put a stop to it.
Well in some cases the C&D is required. If you have a mark, you are obligated to protect it. If you don’t purse people using your mark, you can loose it
Awesome!!! I shall try to make use of it, i mean beg as much as possible..
so john have you decided to write a review for them..
asusual evil john has a rude comment.. how do u want him to beg more
I begged for post earlier this morning. I got nothing.
I guess I didn’t beg hard enough.
heh… You won’t get any from him unless it’s good for him.
it’s like the word say: “beg”…beg again and again, improve the beg thing.
Maybe you’ll improve and win a beg answer.
Good idea. I’ll try again.
How to be a beggar.. learn from the streets!
Please Please Please I’m down on my knees.
Pretty Please with sugar on top?
some how I don’t think that’s going to cut it either Scott
Look on the bright side, you got a link
Nice try Scott.
That last paragraph made me laugh.
The evil thing
I read a post about it on techcrunch yesterday,very interesting site.
I just noticed you have nearly 3k readers.Congrats,John!
Half of it is “fake” readers because Google counts theirs twice..
Ahaha! Nice finding.. John, I did one request over there. hehe
This one looks cool :p
John Chow, I love you. Your blog that is. Very funny.I notice I have almost half as many subscribers as you. Not bad for 4 months.
what king of “love” are you talking about?
Get yourself another mogul Wesley.. Chow is my love!
(how difficult is it to write a comment when referencing two different people with the same first names
)
Hey guys settle down, there’s plenty of John to go around
I can’t wait to see the first video post of someone on his knees begging for a post . . . . the thought came across my mind, but i rather get a net and scrape a fountain for loose change to come up with the $300 =)
video is much better
Begging is not my style. I guess I have no choice but work for it.
Great idea!
Oh.. that would be pretty good begging. Who wants to go first?
Me, me, me…pick me. Wait…
Hey, nice find! I’ve been doing PPC for a website (www.buddystumbler.com). We’ve recently stopped advertising because we’re low on funds! Hope we get posted,thanks John!
the site’s pretty funny but not really organized. but i guess it doesn’t matter bc scott dawson got his free link out of it.
I think it’s fine organization for a start.. thought later he might want to categorize all the “targets”
I think it is hard to get a post from popular bloggers ( e.g. JohnChow.com ). We get the post, what does John Chow get? Unless we give him some incentives ( other than money like Wii )
haha…
Yeah.. I’ve been begging John for years now
unless exchange with something worth $300 …
I think he is getting a linkback everytime some1 begs him there..