John Chow . . . dot.com mogul or dang-good promoter?
December 22nd, 2006 | by Ryan Stewart |
Though I can’t remember when I first heard of “dot.com mogul” John Chow, I know that I started reading his blog regularly last September when he posted the beautiful piece of digg bait, The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores. I found it like thousands of other people, through del.icio.us, which commonly has spillover from digg.
It wasn’t until early November, however that I added JohnChow.com to my feedreader - most likely brought about by my switch to Google Reader from Bloglines. While I don’t plan on removing John’s feed from my list, I must say that the experience hasn’t been what I expected. During the months of September and October, among the sporadic posts I read was the Making Money from a Blog series. Combine that with the “Google Whores” article I mentioned above and it’s safe to say that I expected the blog to be about the ways folks with blogs could, themselves become whores er…wealthy earners of Google cash.
It turns out that John is both a fantastically curious scientist and a masterful promoter. These two things seems to form the perfect storm that has made John a “dot.com mogul.”
Contrary to my preconceived expectations, nearly every post on JohnChow.com is a well-thought out experiment on backlinks, downlines (AGLOCO), paid reviews, page rank, content or adsense optimization, or more digg bait. As a trained chemist and nerd of the 3rd order, I can certainly respect a good experiment. As a full time non-profit fundraiser, John also scored major points in my book by giving away much of the money his site earned over the course of 2006.
John exemplifies what it takes to make money online. Too many folks think that 15 minutes of writing a day will do it - that’s just not the case. Making money with a blog takes dedication - lots of it. It takes time to research monetization methods, link and traffic building take more time than most people could ever imagine, and quality content itself isn’t easy to come by - even if you are a good writer. If you’re interested in making money online, JohnChow.com will not disappoint. Just add it to your feed reader for a 30 day trial run. It’s nice!
Gotta go, my feed reader just showed another post from John Chow dot com.
- iPaperCraft.com where you can create free, custom iPod covers
- Cornell-Notes.com where you can create custom note taking pages and get smarter (like John Chow)
- The free Amazon Bargain Link Generator
- TheFlyerMan.com
2 Responses to “John Chow . . . dot.com mogul or dang-good promoter?”
By Joshua Dorkin on May 11, 2007 | Reply
He is a remarkable promoter. People just can’t get enough! He is also really good at blogging about blogging and affiliate programs, so you can’t hate him too much.