Blog guru John Chow installed a “buy me a beer plugin” at his blog. I saw him linking to the first persons that were buying beers for him. Than I came up with a evil plan to. I was thinking on starting a new webmaster forum (9mb). With the start of a new forum you need a thing that attract visitors. I decided to go with a contest. Last week I started to buy John some beers (pitchers), and hoped that when I started the contest he would link to me.
3 days ago I started the contest and mailed John about it. I didn’t ask if he would mention it on the blog, but I asked if he would be interested in the $ 200 + free advertisting. Ofcourse he is not very interested in 3 weeks of posting for only $ 200 while he is making $ 10,000 + a month from his blog. Today he posted about it and even a cool backlink to my blog.
This proves that beer is not always bad. It was very good this time (i know other times hehe 
). I am also the one that drunk the most beer with him. I will give some link love back 
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June 14th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Now that is what I would call a fine example of Buzz Marketing my friend. You get back what you send out. You got him buzzed and he returned the favor. I am looking forward to the success you receive from his notable mention!
June 15th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Haha yeh I read that post by john. I hope that will help your forum get a nice little boost from john’s traffic.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Nice plan! Hope it sends you some nice traffic!
June 16th, 2007 at 3:29 am
That’s awesome, it’s always good when someone with a big name helps others out. I may have to get John sauced up myself
June 23rd, 2007 at 6:04 pm
its always good to give..