John Chow, Shoemoney, Super Affiliate Mindset Camels

This has got to be the funniest rants I’ve read for a while… probably made funnier because I share ’some’ of the same views.

Link to Wicked Fire Post: John Chow, Shoemoney, Super Affiliate Mindset Camels

I don’t visit WickedFire much so I don’t know who this Jon guy is but it seems he is an admin so he could possibly be the owner of WickedFire which makes the post / views even more worth reading.

All of these *** guys are NOT experts at anything, except for marketing their blogs and convincing the world that they matter in the industry. I am so tired of people talking about them, like what they blog about or say on their over-exaggerated radio shows/podcasts/vlogs is the most amazing thing in the world, aahhhhhhh!!

This is a bit of the tall poppy syndrome where some of us are just a little bit jealous of how successful these guys have become. You’ve got to give credit where credit is due - even if they faked it before they made it, they’re still way more popular than what 99.999% of us will ever be. That’s some hard work there!

None of them are “super affiliates”. I promise. They aren’t. Never have been, and never will be. Well, that is unless Photoshop crumbles and dies.

I never thought John was a super affiliate, in fact from following his posts very early on, he hardly knew what blogging was. Amit looks so obviously faking it. If he made so much money, why is he still so fobby (F.O.B = Fresh Off the Boat). Shoemoney on the other hand, looks legit to me… until I read this…

Aside for getting caught lying about Dmoz banning him (when Shawn Collins - a former Dmoz Editor proved right here on WickedFire, that Shoemoney did in fact offer a BRIBE to Dmoz.org only to be banned for doing so),

wow.. come to think of it, this guy pushes ringtones like there’s no tomorrow. Ringtone offers are being regulated by the industry because they trick young people into signing up for what they thought were ‘free’ ringtones, only to have their unsuspecting parents fork out expensive monthly bills. Any one with half a conscious would stay out of ringtones.

or that with AuctionAds he magically lost all of the revenues from referrals (we had over 100 here, and then one day, poof, gone and never to return!).

I didn’t know about this one. That’s huge. I’m surprised there was not much more uproar about this! Lucky for me I never gave his auctionAds much more than a few days run.

No wonder Yahoo banned him from sending over what had to have been the SHITTIEST traffic, EVER! Doesn’t anyone even realize that if that were to happen to me, that last thing I would do is blog about it, because he was pretty much announcing that he had the scammiest traffic ever because they were all REFUNDS AND CHARGEBACKS!!!

yeah. I read about this one to. And the guy posts about it like it’s Yahoo’s fault. In case you missed it, yahoo banned him because…

The results showed that 65% of your traffic is signing up for YSM with stolen or unauthorized credit cards.

You’ve got to wonder… dodgy..! This is more dodgy than the stumble & digg exchanges, the click my adsense ad groupies, but coming from the ringtone king himself, did you expect anything less?

Ahh… now for the John Chow rant… we know he “really is a nice guy. He doesn’t lie. He’s well mannered” but really he is just a newb with an evil eye for taking full advantage of opportunities.

Since when does someone like John Chow, who asked me about a year ago on AIM, of “what exactly is affiliate marketing”!!!!!!!!!!

That just about kills it. The truth is though, it doesn’t take a genius to read about all the concepts of affiliate marketing, seo, adsense, sem, whatever. The beauty of the internet age is that you can become an expert in anything you want to read about. John doesn’t pretend to be better than everyone else but he does take advantage of his massive reader base and flaunt his limited knowledge. At the end of the day John’s a nice guy trying to make a quid online, abeit with some hype and ego inflation.

The funniest part of the rant goes to …

This Super Affiliate Mindset from India. Where the hell did this douche come from? I mean, aside for OBVIOUSLY having the greatest fashion sense in the entire industry, not to mention, he is definitely an expert in picking the gayest photos of himself on his own blog… oh no, you’re married to a woman, of course you are Amit, no one would ever think otherwise…

Bam! Does this guy have an eye for really expensive art pieces for his wall or what!

Hahaha.. pictures speak a thousand words. I bet people just visit his blog to have a laugh - I know I do :)

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