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If I offended you by the title let me first of all apologize but once you listen to the below podcast you will 100% understand what I am talking about.

As you may recall, last week I mentioned about an interview I was going to do today… well I did it a few hours ago, I know you are going to love it and one of the things that really stuck out to me was the “Fat & Lazy” comment.

Now, I know that is not politically correct but the concept of what was being talked to in the podcast is an important one. The idea of people wanting you to do everything for them is so true and it is such a powerful revenue model. Look at Home Depot, they have such an amazing business model… they give you the tools, they give you the training but if you have the money they will also do 100% of the work for you to.

I have incorporated this in my business because there are people that love the tools and or training but there are others that want it all and they want you to do it for them and most important of all…

They Will Pay For It!

As you listen to this interview, ask yourself these questions…

• 1. What problems are people in my niche complaining about?
• 2. What solution to those problems can I provide those that have more time than money?
• 3. What solution to those problems can I provide those that have more money than time?

This is a great conversation with someone that has transformed their business and if you can not get some fantastic ideas from this then you are not listening. There is advice and ideas that can be applied to every niche there is.

Now for those of you that are subscribed readers of Johncow.com via email, I will be sending you the written transcript in PDF format as soon as it is completed (which is about 50% done as I write this post). If you would like to receive the transcript then opt in and you will also get a free copy of my “How to Build a Business Not Just a Blog”.

• Right Click Here and select “Save As” to Download the Audio and listen to it in your favorite MP3 player (download is in Zip format)

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REMINDER: There is absolutely nothing to up sell or buy with this podcast… this is just 100% good content.

Make sure to also check out Timothy Sykes site at http://www.timothysykes.com/

So, what is your feedback on this interview… did you like it.. did you learn something?

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I’m up to my ears in email from last week, but I had a great time down in Los Angeles and at SIGGRAPH:

I’ll try to write up a little bit about the trip, but for now I’m gearing up for SES San Jose. Places to find me:

- I’ll be on a keynote panel on Tuesday. By the way, I don’t know who put my title as “Software Engineer Guru,” but it wasn’t me.
- I’ll be at the Google Dance on Tuesday night.
- I’ll be roaming the halls and attending sessions, especially on Tuesday and Wednesday.

If you see me, please walk up and say hello! I’d love to hear your thoughts about things that Google should be doing.

By the way, the LED cube in this image is this project.

With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable “dot zero” bugs into your hands without a long wait.  If you’re happy with 2.6, however, keep on using it.  You need not upgrade to 2.6.1 if 2.6 is getting the job done.

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I need to be completely honest here and I am just going to say it like it is. If you are just starting out online and want to create a blog and choose to create a ‘Make Money Online’ blog… you are missing the BIG PICTURE!

When I started online I did absolutely nothing in the “Online Business” niche… instead I had websites on health, parenting and so on. The reason I got into this business (Make Money Online) is because 3 years ago we were able to take what we were successfully doing with our business and teach others how to do it successfully… and we made a lot of money doing that. It was also what made me realize that I LOVE to teach people about running a business online –> “It is my passion”. This is why I jumped at the opportunity to buy JohnCow… i wanted to have a blog like this for over 2 years now.

So, when I see someone that is working for minimum wage and has no clue about Making Money Online and wants to start a blog and immediately jump on the bandwagon because they see that some others are making money here it frustrates me to absolutely no end.

If you want to make money online then you need to get this through your head right now…

“FOCUS ON WHAT YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE WITH”

Since i have taken over ownership of JohnCow, I have walked through building two blogs with you and I hope you notice that neither of them had anything to do with the MMO (Make Money Online) niche.

OK, now I do not want to sound like a hypocrite but Yes there is money to be made in practically any niche.. including the MMO niche but it is a lot harder if you are not passionate about it.

Want proof… well I will show you proof.

I just got off the phone with a guy whose name I will with-hold until a little later (just because I want to make this fun and interesting), but I called him because I recieved an email from a reader of JohnCow who wanted me to check something out… and DAMN am I ever glad I did. This is exactly the type of stories I love because it backs up exactly what I want people to understand.

You see this guy (lets call him Mr X for even more fun) tried doing this the way others were doing it… not following his passion but following what looked to be working for others.

Well guess what???

That was going no where!

Then suddenly he decided to follow something that I preach over and over again…

“Make a plan and MAKE IT YOUR OWN PLAN”

Mr X decided that he was going to follow his passion and put a plan together that was modified to be completely his own plan.

NOTE –> This is so important to understand that it is not that he did not listen to others but he took from others what he wanted to and made it into his own plan. Do not take anything I give you here at Johncow as the one and only way… you need to look at it as a guideline and modify it to be your own personal plan.

So how has this worked out for Mr X?

Well 4 months ago he made $9,000 in one month, then the next month $15,000, then last month $45,000 and with less then half of this month gone through he is already at $30,000 (looks like a $60,000 + month for him)

Want to know how he did it and how you can do it?

Well I am going to be doing a podcast with Mr X on Monday and I will reveal all about it them. His name, website and everything. I promise, there is nothing to buy, nothing to opt in for or anything. This is purely 100% content and I am doing it to prove to you that following your ‘passion’ and making your ‘own’ plan works!

So, What Questions Do You Got for Mr. X?

(the call will not be live but will be recorded and uploaded this coming Monday… so please ask away)

Oh there is one catch… I m going to be getting a written transcript of the call but that will only be made available to those that are subscribed to JohnCow via email and I promise you this is going to be KICK BUTT content!

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In the previous post Planning Our Subscriber Traffic Strategy I talked about planning out our strategy for growing subscribers and today I want to talk about a fantastic method that works very well for not only growing subscribers but also getting lots of buzz and activity going about your blog.

Before I get into this however, I want to bring up an important point that I really want to set straight. Your job with your blog is not about trying to sell things to your visitors and you need to remember that. No one likes being sold to and what you need to do is look at it like a Doctor or Teacher. The good doctors and the good teachers are the ones that truly care about helping other people, they genuinely care about the people they interact with. Yes many of them… well in fact I am sure 99% of them would not be there if it was not for money but the point is they do not look at their patients and students as money. Focus on being a trustworthy resource to your site visitors that truly wants to provide value and they will trust you and come back again and again.

A Contest or Giveaway?

Contests and giveaways are very different from one another, a contest is a competition where a winner will be chosen because they have acheived the best results. Giveaways on the other hand are open to anyone that wants the participate and everyone has an equal chance of winning.

Contests (competitions) are great but I do not recommend them for a blog that is just starting out and the reason is it can limit the amount of people that may participate based on feeling unqualified to participate… but this of course is just my opinion.

What Does Your Audience Want?

I feel like I am beating this to death but this is another reason blogging about something you are passionate about it so much easier. If you do not really understand the market, if you do not understand the needs and wants and desires of the market then it is hard to understand what types of things would be of most interest to them. When having a contest/giveaway on your site you want to offer something that your audience would appreciate and you would be surpirsed to know that money is not the usual #1 choice.

Funny thing about money is that we all want it but it is not as big of an incentive as you would think. Offering $150 in cash will 90% of the time be less effective compared to a physical product of equal value. I am by know means certain as to why but my best guess is getting money is usually put directly to paying a bill or an expense of some sort and getting a prize… well that is different. For example, I would never buy a MacBook Air… yes they are cool and fun but they are just not very functional and practical but I would absolutely love to win one.

So the very first part is to understand what you are going to give away. You will need to come up with the initial prize because for a new blog the chances are you are not going to have people jumping at the opportunity to sponsor your site.

Remember that you look at the investment it is costing for the contest as advertising and you could blast through $100+ pretty darn quick with adwords, sponsored banners and numerous other strategies that would disappear as soon as the money stopped. The cool thing with contests is if you do it right the initial expense will be paid back over and over again for the long term through backlinks and subscribers.

This is why i mentioned in a previous post about understanding your resources available and you will want to be able to budget money towards this. What you need to do is figure out what you can afford and be careful not to stretch yourself thin… do not think that going into debt for a super prize will be much more effective then a less expensive prize.

Target Your Audience!

Over the past few months I have recieved a lot of sponsor requests and what I have found absolutely surprising is the markets some of these sites are in. Having a blog on gardening that is giving away a banner ad on a “make money online” blog is not what I would call ‘Targeting Your Audience’.

I think part of the problem is that people see what appears to be working on JohnCow.com and try to mimic it but fail because they are net stepping back and focusing on providing value to their readers, instead they are focused on marketing. You need to be sure that the prizes you are giving are prizes that your target audience is interested in.

The other reason for this is return on investment. Lets say you have a gardening blog that offers a grandprize of a sponsor ad on Johncow. This may be attractive to some gardeners that run a website but I would guess that 95% of the gardenign market does not own a website or need advertising.

Summary:

• 1. Decide if you want to do a contest or a giveaway

• 2. Understand what types of things your audience want (for example with An Aud Life, “Pain Relief” is what the majority of people in this market desire, so our prizes will focus on that).

• 3. Know how much you can afford to invest.

• 4. Put together a package that targets your market.

In the next post on this series I am going to talk about how to plan the criteria of your contest/giveaway so that it encourages people to spread the word and also helps promote your blog to various locations. It wil be a couple more posts about the contest side of things and then I will move on to the search engine part of promotions.

So what are your thoughts on this post… got anything to add?

• Part 1 - Planning Your Promotion Strategy
• Part 2 - Understanting the How and Where of Your Promotion Strategy
• Part 3 - Planning the Subscriber Traffic Strategy
• Part 4 - Planning a Contest to Get the Buzz Going

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If you are thinking of all inclusive resorts in terms of an adult vacations tours, here are some ways you can explore hedonism resorts and decide if they are right for you.

Sometime getting away from the stress of your work mean going somewhere and cutting loose. That is what happens at a hedonism resort. The order of the day is pleasure, and plenty of it. If you have been curious about hedonism resorts and want to learn a little more before you actually book a stay, here are some ideas of how to go about educating yourself.

One of the most discreet ways of learning about the hedonism resort is to go online and do some research. You will find there is plenty of information available. Web sites that provide lots of information about the facilities of world famous hedonism resorts can easily be accessed. You can find out about the Hedonism resort in negril jamaica, read plenty of resort stories, and just in general learn about the facilities and opportunities to enjoy what you like at the Hedonism Resort in Jamaica. The Hedonism resort in Jamaica will offer something for both men and women.

Once you have reviewed several sites and read several hedonism resort stories, you may want to give resort hedonism a try.

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Well today I am taking an opportunity to vent about something that drives me absolutely insane… but before that I want to take an opportunity to let you know about a fantastic “Give Away” that is starting tomorrow and is being 100% sponsored by the guys behind StoreStacker.

You may recognize this as the store I put into the back-end of the GamerzReviewz blog I did for the COWPetition. Well the owner, Scott, came in contact with me a few months ago and asked about holding a contest here at JohnCow and since we were already booked up for contest, I had to wait and schedule it for August. Well when you see the prizes, you will agree with me that this is worth the wait. Scott has put together a fantastic list of prizes and I am going to make this very easy for everyone to get involved.

Here is what Scott is offering…

I will have all the details of the contest posted tomorrow so stay tuned!

I also want to thank http://www.storestacker.com for putting such a fantastic package together for us.

Now it is time for me to do a little venting!!

I have been in this business for a while now and if there is one thing that i absolutely know, it is there are some people who just thrive on being complete and “udder” A-Holes! (Yes I am sure you know what the A stands for there).

Well I am used to this, I have had thousands of customers and out of that you will always get the people that think everyone is out to screw them and take advantage of them. These people tend to never become successful because they are always blaming everyone else for their situation in life.

There are also the other people that just have too much time on their hands and make a point of researching and putting together bullcrap in order to make someone look bad and make themselves feel somehow like a better person.

In the internet marketing world, we have a bad reputation. People that do not understand our business immediately categorize us as spammers and or scammers. One of the wonderful things about owning this blog is it is free to come here and I am free to post and comment as I wish and this is often a great stress relief. Overall however I am pretty good at taking things with a grain of salt, I have come to realize that there are just jerks in this world who will always be out to blame and or hurt others to justify their existence.

What I can not take however and frankly pisses me off to no extent is when someone makes outlandish accusations without any justification at all.

OK, so now you are probably wondering… what the heck are you talking about here?

Well, as you know, I am helping my wife with a blog on Arthritis and the reason she picked this topic is because she has suffered from the condition for over 3 years now and is something she is very passionate about. Well one of the things I mentioned for her to do when she started this was to get involved in a couple forums and the reason is because she really should get involved in the community to understand it. Well over the past month, she has gotten very attached to two particular forums and absolutely loves them. She has been able to share things and learn things and it is a fantastic experience for her… or I should say it was.

Yesterday I saw a link from one of the forums that my wife is involved with and this individual started spouting off that my wife was the worst kind of spammer and scammer and should be put in jail, he started venting about using the forum for the wrong purpose and how she does not belong there. Now, he came to this conclusion not from anything my wife posted about, he could not use those since the 50 some odd posts she has made have all been sincere and heartfelt. Where he came to this conclusion was because he came to this blog and saw me mention forums for traffic and immediately ASSumed that this meant spamming.

The comments he made were completely ridiculous and it was in my opinion the most immature and outlandish reaction i have yet seen… and I honestly thought I have saw it all.

The individual is claiming because I am teaching my wife on how to get traffic that this must somehow mean she is scamming or spamming, which goes back to people not understanding what we do.

BUT then I need to ask myself…

Can You Blame Them???

I have never once condoned or suggested that anyone spam or scam anyone and in fact I say that if you want to build a long term business, doing such a thing is suicide. This however is not what lots of people that are in this business are doing. As I started looking at this, a lot of supporters started coming out in the forum saying that the guy that made the accusations is an idiot and has done this before, which then made my wife and I think… he is not really trying to be an ass (even though he is very good at it) but he is reacting to a situation that from his experience has been very negative.

Now do not get me wrong, I have no patience for these type of ignorant people, that no matter what anyone else says, will always feel that they are right and are advocates of “Guilty until you prove me your innocent”. But what I do understand from this and what we all need to learn from this, is these communities are passionate about their topics and extremely protective. The reason they are protective is because they are constantly having people sign-up for them and do nothing but spam the living crap out of them. This causes for some to be extremely paranoid and it reality many black hatters have given justification to this.

Now, I do not get into the topic of forums and communities for another few days but I want to take this opportunity now to set the record straight. If you are looking for a shortcut to traffic and want to learn how to take “negative advantage” of places like forums, this is not the place to learn. What I am going to teach you is the absolute importance of being open and honest in these communities and how you use them to learn, share and grow. If you goal is to “market” in these forums, you WILL fail.

Forums are only effective if you truly want to become a part of the community and be a resource to others. If your only goal is to make a buck, then do not waste one second of your time with forums.

When I showed Audrey the concept of forums, she had no idea these places even existed to the degree that they do and now she is addicted. She is learning more then ever before and is making friendships and is also feeling that she is helping others.

If you are in a community with nothing but the intention of marketing, then you really need to reevaluate what you are doing. Not everyone in this business is in this to ruin it for others, some of us actually want to offer value and help make places like forums better.

Now for the biggest lesson in all of this: Do not let people stop you from what you are doing. There will always be A-holes like Levlarry, in the world who think that they know you, that everyone is trying to scam them. These are people that do this to justify some inner sense of importance and what you and I need to understand is that there is nothing we can do about these type of people. We can not make them go away, we can not make them stop BUT what we can do is not give them the justification they are looking for. These people will not listen to what you say and you could spend hours wasting your valuable time trying to defend yourself when in fact there is nothing to prove because there is nothing to back up their accusations.

In summary however, I just want to say that “levlarry”, you are in fact an idiot, just like the others in that forum say about you and you are way of line with your retarded claims. bobotheASS (aka bobthegeek), you are simply just an ass. (I address bobo from a comment he made on this blog).

Me, this is my blog and so I can say what ever I please and this is what I wanted to talk about

PS - blogging is great therapy

So, you got any opinions on this extremely far too long ramble or about the up and coming giveaway?

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OK, so its Sunday and I felt like doing something a little differnt here.

Have we ever sat back and thought about when the first ‘blog’ started?

Do we know much about the History of Blogging?

I love history (history channel is great) and so I felt the urge to do a little “History of Blogging” and see what I could find, that I already didn’t know.

Let’s go all the way back to 1992 to start.

• March 18^th 1992 – Windows 3.1 Was Released.

• May 25^th 1992 – Jay Leno becomes the new host of NBC’s Tonight Show after Johnny Carson retires. (Jay Leno’s last video taping of the Tonight Show will be May 29^th 2009.)

• September 12^th 1992 – Dr Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel into space on the Space Shuttle Endeavour.

• Tim Berners-Lee begins to keep a list of all of the new websites as they hit the World Wide Web.

Let’s take a look at some things that happened in 1993 as well.

• April 30^th 1993 – The World Wide Web is Born at CERN.

• July 27^th 1993 – Windows NT 3.1 is the first version of Microsoft’s line of Windows NT OS that’s released to manufacturing.

• August 17^th 1993 – For the first time ever, the public is allowed into Buckingham Palace.

• November 11^th 1993 – Microsoft Releases Windows 3.11 for Workgroups to Manufacturing.

So, want to know what else happened in June of 1993? NCSA started a new “What’s New!” List of websites AND do we all remember Netscape? Well they began running the “What’s New!” List of sites.

Okay so now we are going to take a look into 1994.

• January 26^th 1994 – A Man Fires 2 Blank Shots at Prince Charles while in Sydney Australia.

• April 8^th 1994 – Lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain is found dead in his home in Seattle, Washington.

• December 15^th – The very first version of Netscape Navigator is released.

Do you know who Justin Hall is? Well he launched a website called “Justin’s Home Page”. The site had links to reviews of other sites and would later actually become Links from the Underground.

Let’s now skip ahead a few years and head into 1997. Let’s see a bit of what happened in ‘97.

• June 7^th 1997 – A user known as “_eci” publishes his code on Win 95 and Win NT which would later become WinNuke. Due to this distribution, Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.

• August 6^th 1997 – Microsoft buys $150 million share of financially troubled Apple.

• August 31^st 1997 - After a car accident that happened shorty after midnight in the Pont De L’Alma road tunnel in Paris, Diana, Princess of Wales was pronounced dead at 04:00.

• September 5^th 1997 – Mother Theresa passes away due to heart failure in Kolkata, India.

Have you ever heard of Frontier Software or Scripting News? In 1997 the company that Dave Winer heads, releases Radio Userland known as one of the very first blogging software tools. Also in 1997, SlashDot launches news for nerds and Jorn Barger introduced the term ‘weblog’ and blogging continued to develop.

Lets look into 1998.

• February 10^th 1998 – A college dropout becomes the first person convicted of a hate crime that was comitted in cyberspace.

• May 18^th 1998 – Microsoft has an antitrust case filed against them from The United States Department Of Justice and 20 U.S. States.

• June 25^th 1998 – Microsoft officially releases the first edition of Windows 98

What also happened was that the first list of blogsites we’re plublished on CamWorld by Cameron Barrett.

What about 1999:

• June 1^st 1999 – Napster Debuts

• June 21^st 1999 – Apple releases their first iBook (We gotta be honest, it was ugly!)

• July 22^nd 1999 – MSN’s first version is released by Microsoft.

• August 31^st – Apple releases the Power Macintosh G4

In the blogging world, it was announced by Peter Merholz that he would pronounce web blogs as ‘Wee-blog’. The first portal that was devoted to blogs began with about 50 listings by Brigitte Eaton. Hey do we remember Pitas? Some of us might, well it was launched as the first free ‘build your own blog’ web tool.

And last but not least in August of 1999 (We hope you all know this one) Pyra, releases blogger which still popularizes blogging with mainstream web users and went on to become the most popular (but certainly not the best) web based blogging tool to date.

So do you find this stuff interesting like I do?

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