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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 | Announcements with 4 Comments

So, I just got off work.

Earlier I had sent a letter to John Chow to let him know about my plight. I sent some letters to a few other big time bloggers as well, like Darren Rowse, and Shoemoney. John was the first to jump on the bandwagon, and he jumped big!

John Chow said:

“OK Patrick, you got a deal! I’ll give you $1 per pound for the first 100lbs, $2 per pound for the second 100lbs and $3 per pound for the third 100lbs. Payment will be made in 100lb increments. Once you get to 455lbs, I’ll send you the first payment. Good luck!”

All I can say is that I’m truly greatful, for this opportunity. I’m also totally excited and dedicated to seeing it through. I hope others take the step John has to help me out. I have so far: $7 from family + the $1-3 from John. Puts me at almost $10. So far I am 10% of the way to my goal!

Moreover it puts me at: $3,000 when I reach 255 lbs.

Read the full post: “Trading pounds for dollars.“

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Building my network and Getting some Publicity.

Monday, January 21st, 2008 | Marketing with 2 Comments

This blog isn’t just about me losing weight - it is also a marketing experiment, as well as a blogging experiment, I used to blog about making money online, or blog promotions, but ironically never made money doing this, mostly because the ‘make money’ blogging niche is the most saturated niche. How many bloggers, can say they weigh 555 lbs, and lose 300 lbs while everyone watches.

I’m working right now on building an infrastructure.

Currently, I’ve got a page for xanga, myspace, facebook, etc.. However for some reason Blog Catalog, doesn’t think this is a blog, yet why else would I have a domain name, and a wordpress install?

I’m hoping they change their mind because I always liked that site.

Mybloglog, on the other hand had no issues. Neither did Technorati.

I’ll be adding even more - My goal is to get networked up the wazoo — and one great way to help me out - is to tell all your friends to bookmark my pages, and tell everyone they know, and maybe a few people will have the means to help me out. That’s all I ask, or want.

Lets see how far this project can spread.

My goal after this is to pick 5-10 people who weigh have a BMI of 50 or greater, and help change their lives as well.

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