I’m extremely proud to announce that TUK will be taking the sponsorship even further. They’ve now agreed to sponsor any new website I create for $100, and that will have a similar setup to TUK now. With the launch of their latest product, they are really going towards new breaking boundaries in the blogosphere, and I trust this partnership will be very fruitful for both of us 
As for the decision – I felt worried about making it after a few comments yesterday, but as I’m growing to not mind the look I do think it was a good decision. Just like Namepros, in a few days you will get used to it – did you complain much when Wordpress upgraded? It adds a colourful look to the website, and I think it is a lot better than the dull grey background I had before.
Last but not least, Fruitful Time have taken such an active interest in me that they will be sponsoring my University education, in exchange for a banner on my forehead. This banner will take advantage of new revolutionary technology and beam out positive thoughts to all onlookers. I will also be required to wear a Fruitful Time shirt whenever I go out, use Fruitful Time flavoured shower gel when I have a bath, and last but not least they will also be sponsoring my dog. I don’t have a dog right now, but should I get one in the future I will be required to have the Fruitful Time logo shaved into its fur. I thought Fruitful Time were against animal cruelty, but I guess not. However, as the dog has no say, I do not believe he will mind (much).
You guys embarrass me.
Well, those of you that believe this whole sponsorship deal was real… I think you need to keep taking that medication. 
$1,000 for lifetime sponsorship is insanely low – especially for a blog that is growing like this one is, and if I had truly agreed to such a deal, I’d fully welcome all the abuse (that I received through instant messenger, as most of it is too vulgar to share here ) and confusion.
However much I like Fruitful Time, that kind of deal was not something I’d accept – they never made it, though. Gaetano approached me earlier asking for some buzz for Fruitful Time’s Electro (for all of you that didn’t download it, shame on you ) and I worked this into the post – a multi-hundred dollar sponsorship deal 
. I kept the price high enough to be somewhat (alright, minimally) believable, yet low enough for the questions of insanity to start.
Do you see how ugly Namepros looks now? I will probably never be visiting the website again.
Lifetime deals are always a bad idea, as you never know how a website will grow – if you don’t think it will grow, you shouldn’t have started it. Even if your website is pulling in just two visitors a day, you should never go for the lump sum, unless it’s too big to turn down ($1,000 a month or $12,000 per year, for example is something I would have seriously considered).
I would like to thank some of you that knew about the prank but created drama in the comments just for the heck of it, and Jay over at Datmoney who even dedicated a post to the cause. I do not think he knew that it was a joke, but whether he did or not, I’d like to thank him for further increasing the exposure
The hints
Come on guys – I did give you hints. Talking about how Gaetano was looking at sponsoring the new Blogger’s Energy Drink would have clued anyone in that actually took a look at what that energy drink was, and anyone that actually went to the FTTM Electro page and tried to download it would have realised it was a joke too. It’s not my fault that none of you looked into it though, and I feel pretty smug at all the debate that was drummed up 
The actual decision, were it a real offer
I have not really disclosed how much this blog makes at the moment, but I will say it is around the $500/month mark right now – I’ll cover the break down in a few days. A figure that will only grow, and one that values this blog at around $5,000 (not including the user base, established traffic and backlinks, etc). Something that makes me believe that I was right to turn down that $6,000 offer a while ago. Personally, the hardest part of a blog is the beginning – getting those first (repeat) visitors to your blog, putting up somewhat interesting content, tricking getting people to signup for your RSS feed . Once that is done, I can foresee some decent growth, especially that I’m now on a swanky dedicated server
Alright, that’s done. Now, for some other news…
Sponsored Message By Fruitful Time
Naah, I’m joking.
Blog Premiere Forum Launches
I got up the Blog Premiere Forum yesterday and it will (hopefully) slowly grow – I’d like to ask anyone that is interested in the subject, or just wants a place to hang out to join. The first thing that I got around to doing was enabling email verification – those of you on here that remember the EXP Forum debacle that I tried to start and all the porn spammers should be grateful for that. At the moment, there are a few established blog forums in the industry, however I feel this can break into that space, especially as I already have a sold platform to launch off – TUK, and with the right amount of marketing this can go well.
I’m working on getting a custom design created – I’ve seen $250 coded, which is fairly decent I think. I’ll also be creating a Bloggers Chat Room, just for fun; it won’t be a large part of the blogging magazine, but it will be there soon enough for anyone that wants to talk.
Hope you guys didn’t have a too terrifying April Fools Day. I’m off to restore the background now, let’s hope I don’t break anything 
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:44 am
lol.
we know that – no need for explanation.
Happy Fools month
will be joining the forum soon.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 6:50 am
i believed u there. i thought the price was low, but it could be possible, if you’re looking for a few bucks to launch your other site. it would be awesome to sign a 1000 dollar/year ad. i was hoping that i would receive an email with that type of inquiry. nuts. damn april fools! damn u tuk!
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April 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
I was waiting just for this post of yours
i already hoped that this would be an april fool’s day.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 8:33 am
I thought it was somewhat low for your tastes, Jason
:O:O you turned down $6k? :O
xD
Nice joke though
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April 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
Too bad namepros current theme isn’t a April Fools joke as well. Read a few threads on the site and it seems that ricklatona has bought the advertising space for a short time. A few reputable members actually said they won’t be back until it is over!!
Anyway the kicker for me was Jason stating that he had sold a lifetime spot for $1000. No freakin way that is believable with the way this blog has grown (and is growing).
Will be signing up at the forums shortly, however I will probably only be one of those people that are “hanging out”, as I am too lazy to actually put together a blog.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
Srsly? ON YOUR FORHEAD?
Well played.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
500 $/month is not bad. It will change on 1000 $/month soon enough. And then……
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April 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Good work on that prank
I was laughing at people who actually thought you were going to have the fruitful-time logo as a wallpaper for the rest of your life
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April 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I was waiting for this post too saying it was a joke…I knew you were smarter than that…and you even had a lesson in it for everyone. You ARE a smarty…HA HA!! I still wasn’t sorry for what I said though.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
You had me at first read, and then as I really analyzed the post I realized it was a prank, but at the same time I thought maybe Fruitful Time’s Electro was real and that I was missing out on a great piece of motivational technology
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April 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
LOL! Come on Jason, you knew I knew it was a joke. Especially when you left me a comment saying “where’s your ****** April Fool’s joke?!” lol!
But hey, your April fool’s joke was good publicity for the both of us! Plus, I was too lazy to come up with my own so I figured I’d tag along with your prank! LOL!
Jay
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April 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Jason, out of curiosity, did you loose any subscribers due to yesterday’s prank? I saw a lot of comments yesterday that were along the lines like this one:
“And with the way things are going with this sell-out sponsorship deal, I for one don’t see myself coming back here anyway.”
I just wondered if you experienced a substantial loss in RSS subscribers or if you gained..or what?
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April 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
some of the april fools jokes went way too far, there was one by Infoworld which could have actually lost people a lot of money..
this one was OK, and for anyone who believed it, that’s just embarassing!
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April 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Joined your blog premiere forum as redbaron.
Really sad to see EXPforums go the way it did.
Well long live the blog premiere.
Forehead duh? Thats the part thats always covered or what am I thinking?
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April 2nd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Honestly, I was like with Jason’s business mind-set there’s no possible way he’d accept $1,000 for that.
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April 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Congrats on getting the forum up, can’t wait to see that custom theme. On another note, is it going to integrate with the regular design? Or will you not be able to go from page to page. Also, are you going to integrate the forum and the blog user bases?
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April 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Asshole
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April 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 am
@ living on adsense, i too feel that Jason might have lost a few subscribers atleast due to that post
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April 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 am
Wow. I’m glad it wasn’t a real deal.
And yeah, Namepros looks really bad. Should be normal in a few days though, I think.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 am
@ LoA, my subscribers tend to fluctuate a lot day after day… I will admit, yesterday the fluctuation was downwards. Today will see whether they are happy enough to come back, eh?
@ ChiQ, how rude!
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April 3rd, 2008 at 7:25 am
Haha. Shame on me.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 am
But yours too was a post of link bait lol
you made it into many blogs with your fake deal lol 
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April 3rd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Interesting stuff, combining Aprils day and link bait. There you go inspiration for a new post.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
That actually was a pretty darn good Joke
I almost believed you for like 30 seconds until I realized, “Ok, if he won’t SELL the blog for 6k, he would never sell his readers out for 1k! 
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April 3rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
@Jason: Those people that left: they were sissies anyways. You don’t need them.
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April 4th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
People are coming and going, nothing serious
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April 5th, 2008 at 7:03 am
The tide always ebb’s and flows with those seeking the promise of freebies and trying to be part of the next big thing. I emplore everyone to learn from all of this, a little riding of coat tails is ok, but to just be a vampire is ridiculous, whatever works I suppose right?
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April 7th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Here to claim the prize. Please contact me directly via my contact form, thanks.
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