John Chow Dot Com Pho

As part of my “do something that scares you daily” campaign for personal greatness I decided that I would attend one of John Chow’s Dot Com Pho Meet/Tweet-ups. This week was the Dot Com Pho Epic Sweats edition — in reference to the promo sweatpants that Epic Advertising sent to John, not anything weird or food related. This week’s edition of the Pho meet-up was held at Pho Vancouver aka Happy Pho at 4136 Main Street at King Edward.

For anyone not familiar John Chow is a blogger and internet marketer well known as a guru of making money online. His blog chronicles his journey from the beginning of his blog to the present where he now makes a very significant income that has afforded him a nice lifestyle in West Vancouver.

I didn’t really know what to expect, and to be honest was a bit intimidated, but I have to say that John is a very friendly and nice guy. It’s easy to want to discredit someone who writes about making money, but it’s clear to me after meeting him that John is not just writing about money he’s writing about his passion, which happens to be money. He has created his own rags to riches tail, so it is fitting that he is proud.

I think that the common perception of generating an income through affiliate marketing and blogging is that it is somehow easy, but I can assure you from my own ventures and knowing how much time it takes to update and write articles, that it is no cakewalk. Maintaining a website, particularly one that generates revenue, is as much a job as anything else. It just happens in a way that most people don’t understand.

Going to the Dot Com Pho was a great chance to meet John Chow in person, but also to meet a bunch of other really interesting people involved in the social media scene. If any of you are reading this it was a real pleasure to meet all of you and I hope to see all of you again sometime in the near future!