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Since We’re In A Free Hugging Mood

Long before the Free Hugs Campaign started, I did a little experiment on the streets of Vancouver call National Hug Holiday. This was about ten years ago and my friends and I wanted to see how many people we can get to give us a hug. I would stand at the corner of the very busy Robson and Burrard and […]

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rssHugger Giving Out Free Hugs

rssHugger has decided to take the advice I gave in my review and changed their business model. Instead of charging $10 and a blog post to be listed on the site, all you have to do now is blog about it. The community has spoken, and we have listened! We have removed the $10 registration fee. Write a blog post […]

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Happy Black Friday – Please Don’t Trample Me

One of the things I hate doing is waiting in line. To me, time is money and time spent waiting in line is time wasted that could be going to generating income or spending with family members. It truly amazes me that people would line up for hours on end to save a few bucks on some DVDs or trample […]

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Apple May Suck But They Have Cool Ads

Apple has taken their “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” TV commercial online with a new campaign that combines the fun of the original TV ads with a creative use of site ad space. Instead of simply using a video ad, the campaign utilizes a right hand box and a top leaderboard ad with both characters appearing to look […]

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Happy Thankgiving – What I’m Thankful For

I like to wish all John Chow dot Com readers a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is not only a time to spend with family and enjoy a nice turkey dinner, it’s also a time to reflect on the things that we are thankful for. With that in mind, I would like to share some of things I’m thankful […]

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rssHugger Wants to Share a Little Love

Your RSS Needs a Hug rssHugger is a new website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in. Through the power of the internet, viral marketing and this ReviewMe review, rssHugger looks to bring blog writers and blog readers closer together. If you own […]

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How To Get Old World Media Coverage

I just completed an interview with Entrepreneur magazine. The piece will be in the February issue, which will be available on newsstand around the middle of January 2008. The article will also be online at Entrepreneur.com. Read by 2.4 million people every month, Entrepreneur is one of the biggest business magazines in the world and being featured by them can […]

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